Quote of the Day
Here's a quote from Niranjan Ramakrishnan, as part of an article in today's Counterpunch, about the state of American politics:
The current strategy that the Democrats employing in the face of Republican self-destruction is to simply sit back and let the Republicans destroy themselves. This is perfectly consistent with the fact that the Democrats are themselves incapable of offering a principled opposition to the Republican Party. This scandal involving the CIA leaks and Valerie Plame ultimately involves the crime of Bush lying to the American people in order to justify his war in Iraq. And in this matter, the Democratic Party, which nominated for President last year a candidate who voted for that war, was utterly complicit.
The prosecutor's probe will not erase the fact of twenty nine Senate Democrats voting for the Iraq war resolution. It will not nullify presidential candidate John Kerry's sheepish reassertion of his vote two years later, long after it had become clear that the WMD claim was a lie. Nor will anyone with an IQ over 80 be persuaded, by the manner in which Democratic senators voted for Condoleezza Rice's promotion to Secretary of State, or their "I think you're the real deal" encomiums to Alberto "Torture Memo" Gonzales, that they have any sense of right and wrong. Nothing if not consistent, last Sunday found Charles Schumer saying he would still vote for the Iraq resolution, knowing everything he now knows, three years later. No prominent Democrat who voted for the War resolution has since said it was a mistake, or even that he was misled by the White House. The thunderclap of Democratic silence from Congress on Iraq (excepting perhaps Cynthia McKinney and a few others who have had the conscience to seek immediate withdrawal) speaks as loudly as anything Fitzgerald's indictments can proclaim about "Scooter" Libby or "Looter" Cheney.
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