Nancy and Harry's pre-Iraq Moratorium Checklist:
Impeachment off the table? Check. Iraq withdrawal off the table? Check. Immunity handed out like candy? Check. Supporting the troops until they're all dead? Check. Kissing Joe Lieberman's ass every day of the week and twice on Sunday? CHECK.
Nancy and Harry's post-Iraq Moratorium Checklist:
Impeachment on every table in Congress? Check. Iraq withdrawal in 6 months? Check. Criminal indictments handed out like candy? Check. Actually supporting the troops so they won't be dead? Check. KICKING Joe Lieberman's warmongering ass every day of the week and twice on Sundays? CHECK.
That, my friends, is INCENTIVE . . .
500 dead American soldiers ago, Madame Speaker held up this plastic facsimile of a real Speaker's gavel and has wielded it with such ferocity that Bush and Rove are paralyzed with fear. She has demanded withdrawal from Iraq with such fiery determination that Bush is backing down and seriously considering a compromise withdrawal date of April 1, 2057.
This chickenshit Democratic posturing is going to be brought to a screeching halt. It's achieved NOTHING.
Can you spell M-O-R-A-T-O-R-I-U-M yet Madame Speaker? No? Well help is on the way. 500,000 Americans are going to spell it out for you in the streets of San Francisco on September 21, 2007. Between now and then, progressives all across America are going to take the initiative and plan events in their towns and cities. They are going to network with each other, they are going to reach out to friends and neighbors, they are going to contact local media and write LTE's and touch the hearts of Americans everywhere. THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE HISTORY.
We can DO THIS. We have to stop telling ourselves not enough people will show up for demonstrations. Too many of us say that and then nod knowingly when not enough people show up. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We have enough obstacles to overcome, we don't need to create our own obstacles by perpetuating self-defeating "conventional wisdom" like that.
Stopping Bush's occupation of Iraq is NOT rocket science. Congress just thinks it is. We are NOT going to be helpless onlookers while Bush’s idiocy turns the entire Middle East into a flaming wasteland of corpses from the Euphrates to the Nile. Blogging alone is not going to prevent this. But blogging and Moratorium activism across this awakening country and lighting up the phone lines of Congress will.
How many more times are we going to watch Democrats kiss Joe Lieberman's warmongering ass before we DO something about it? How many more times are we going to watch them cower and mumble and crawl away from confrontations with Bush before we DO something about it? How much longer before we figure out that a Moratorium is the only realistic option we have left, and DO something about it? How many more young American soldiers are going to come home in coffins before we figure out that this occupation is only going to end if WE END IT?
It's time to end the ass kissing.
It's time to end the cowering and mumbling and crawling away.
It's time to end the surge to the cemeteries.
It's WAY past time.
Moratorium organizers are getting great feedback and a main Moratorium website will be up within a few days. Moratorium diarists are standing up and speaking out and breaking the sound barrier to end this occupation because as Buhdy observes, WE NEED TO MAKE SOME NOISE!
Can you hear us yet Sleeping Beauty?
You WILL.
I corresponded politely with you a few weeks ago, but I can see you've been busy telling America how many bills of yours The Decider has signed into law, so I'll inquire of you again: which part of, "Kiss my ass, I’m the Unitary Executive Commander Guy" haven’t you and Harry Reid figured out yet?
If you and your friend aren't going to end his occupation of Iraq, then get the hell out of our way so we can end it for you. We're going to end this bloody fiasco. We're going to end it because THIS keeps happening and THIS is useless and THIS is never going to end unless WE END IT because the 110th Congress just bleats like sheep every time the Commander Guy of the War Profiteers tells them to bleat like sheep.
We are going to wipe that smirk off your face Commander Guy. Go dig a spider hole in Utah, you're going to need it.
Thelma and Louise, if you're so damn bound and determined to hurtle yourselves and what used to be the Democratic Party right off a cliff and into terminal oblivion at terminal velocity, then get it over with and good riddance.
WTF, progressives afflicted with 600 Days Left Syndrome? DO YOU THINK YOU CAN SUPPORT AN IRAQ MORATORIUM? Or would that be silly and unsophisticated? We sure wouldn't want to waste time and effort and money on an Iraq Moratorium when all that time and effort and money could be used so much more effectively to elect more of these so they can go on supporting these guys right into one of these so these warriors for freedom can keep pocketing this for another year and then another year and then another and another and another.
FUCK.
THAT.
This 110th Congress is dead in the water.
IT'S UP TO US TO END THE COMMANDER GUY'S BLOODY OCCUPATION OF IRAQ.
THE BOSS WANTS US TO
BRING EM HOME
SO LET'S DO THAT.