Fed up at Liberal Street Fighter
THIS is the supposed leader of the Democratic party?
“We’ve got to go out there and look for all the Republicans and all the independents who are troubled,” he said. “They know something is wrong, and they want to change.”
Clinton said Democrats should not blame the whole of the Republican Party for the problems of the country.
“The entire government of the United States — the Congress, the White House and increasingly the courts — for the last six years has been in the control not of the Republican Party but the most ideological, the most extreme, the most right-wing sliver of the Republican Party,” Clinton said at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, the Iowa Democratic Party’s biggest annual fundraising event.
He said Republicans have three governing priorities: concentration of wealth among the nation’s richest individuals and biggest corporations; unlimited and unaccountable executive power; and painting opponents of their agenda as morally and politically inferior.
While attacking the Republican record, Clinton stressed that Democrats “believe in evidence and argument, not assertion and attack.”
Hey, Mr. Philanderer, how about the damned party DO SOMETHING TO APPEAL TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS?!?!?
Mr. President, what about all of the minority’s votes that your friend George’s party suppresses and destroys? Did it occur to you that THEY may be “troubled”?
Mr. President, what about all of those women and their children that you and your buddy Newt kicked off the welfare rolls? Did it occur to you that THEY may be “troubled”?
Mr. President, what about the grieving wives, mothers, fathers, husbands and children who’s lives have been torn asunder by a criminal war? Did it occur to you that THEY may be “troubled”?
Mr. President, what about the increasing number of children suffering in poverty, without healthcare, confronting increasing incidences of asthma and autism? Did it occur to you that THEY may be “troubled”?
Mr. President, what about the American citizens, treated as refugees IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY, those people scattered to the winds by the Katrina Diaspora, did it occur to you that THEY may be “troubled”?
Mr. President, what about those proud men and women, who’ve worked their whole lives, who’ve followed the rules, who are having their rights to join and receive union representation taken away? Did it occur to you that THEY may be “troubled”?
Mr. President, what about those who’ve served this country with life and limb, those who receive little or nothing now that they’ve left limbs, minds and souls ripped apart on foreign sands? Did it occur to you that THEY may be “troubled”?
The Clintons and the Bushs, old money and nouveau riche, jovially striding across the greens of exclusive country clubs … the only people who matter to you people are the upper middle class and the rich in the suburbs and exurbs. Those are the only people who’s troubled brows seem to attract your attention. After all, they’re far more likely to dole out a few bucks to your vanity charity, isn’t that right, Mr. President?
There are a HUGE number of people who suffer without representation. You bitch and moan that they don’t go to the polls, but you do NOTHING to speak to their needs, address their concerns, offer solutions to their troubles. NO, you’d rather have your little tug-of-war over this one, small group, this population of the stressed but fairly comfortable, these overwhelmingly white, mega-church-going, self-satisfied, resentful class of ladder climbers, cubicle dwellers, minivan and SUV driving people. No doing the real, hard work of politics, the dirty work of going out and seeing what needs fixing, who really needs help. Nope, better to put on your nice suit and have a war of empty slogans and talking points, easy to sum up nostrums that can be “discussed” on talk radio and on Chris Matthews hour of group-masturbation-masquerading-as-debate.
Go away, please, and take your odious wife with you. I’m sad to say that I used to fall for your act, but enough is enough. I’m sure there are plenty of nice corporate boards and foundations that will keep you in expensive dinners and all-expenses-paid trips for years to come, or until that black hole you call a heart finally collapses in on itself.