Have the Democrats learned anything from 2004?
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Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, now wishes President Bush �success� for his
war in Iraq.
"Now that we're there, we're there and we can't get
out," Dean told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the
Minneapolis Convention Center on April 20, 2005. "The
president has created an enormous security problem for
the United States where none existed before,� Dean
said. �But I hope the president is incredibly
successful with his policy now that he's there.�
Two months earlier, Bush's CIA Director, Porter J.
Goss, told the Senate that the U.S. occupation has
become a potent recruitment tool for more terrorists
from Iraq and other countries.
The military/industrialist Senator from New York,
Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for her party�s 2008
Presidential nomination, continues to support the war
in Iraq.
And now she is supporting International Paper�s plan
to test burn used automobile tires at its Ticonderoga,
New York facility � making the Republican Governor of
Vermont � across the waters of Lake Champlain � look
like an environmentalist for opposing the burn.
The test burn is the company�s first step in a plan to
burn 72 tons of tires a day at the facility.
Vermont PIRG points out that the company�s boiler is
not properly equipped to catch the highly toxic
pollutants that are coming out of the plant right now,
yet alone the witches brew of heavy metals and cancer
causing chemicals released from burning tires.
Two years ago this week, President Bush, standing
under a �Mission Accomplished� banner aboard the USS
Lincoln, proclaimed the end of major combat operations
in Iraq.
Since then, more than 1,400 Americans and more than
100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq.
And the Democrats can�t muster a single member of
Congress to formally call for the impeachment of Bush
for his ongoing illegal war.
Democrats as an opposition party?
The Democrats want you to believe that they are the
only game in town.
They don�t need to lie to do this.
They can bullshit their way.
"On Bullshit" is the title of New York Times' best
selling book (number four and climbing) by retired
Princeton University philosophy professor Harry G.
Frankfurt.
�Since bullshit need not be false, it differs from
lies in its mis-representational intent,� Professor
Frankfurt writes. �The bullshitter may not deceive us,
or even intend to do so, either about the facts or
about what he takes the facts to be. What he does
necessarily attempt to deceive us about is his
enterprise. His only indispensably distinctive
characteristic is that in a certain way he
misrepresents what he is up to.�
Perfect description of the Democrats.
No lies needed.
And what exactly is their enterprise?
To make us believe that they are a true opposition
party.
Yet the Democrats in Congress can�t find the internal
fortitude to stop Bush�s legislative agenda on
bankruptcy, tort deform, repeal of the estate tax, and
the energy bill, much less to vigorously propose a
worthy agenda of their own.
The reality is that there is no opposition party in
the United States.
The Democrats and Republicans are two heads of the
same mega corporate machine.
And the only opposition is going to come from the
people, steeped in the history of resistance to
corporate power, and equipped with the tools to change
from within.
We�ve recently returned from a two week anti-war tour
of Arizona, California and upstate New York.
To all of you who came out to listen, learn, react and
activate � it was great meeting with you and
discussing with you the state of our political
economy.
To those of you who chipped in to help us drive down
our 2004 civil liberties debt � incurred fighting off
the corporate Democrats driving to push us off the
ballot in many states � we say, thank you.
We have raised over $500,000 since the election and
now are looking at $95,000 that we must pay off over
the course of the next few months.
To both help move our campaign into the black, and to
gain more of an understanding of the current political
dilemma facing our nation, we make you this offer: For
a donation of $100 to our campaign, we will mail to
you a copy of Professor Frankfurt�s best-selling book,
"On Bullshit", (Princeton University Press, 2005).
In addition, I will send you a copy of "Civics for
Democracy", a 338-page history of major citizen
movements and a detailed guide to social change.
This book has become a perfect teaching manual for all
people � it will help identify the bullshitters that
dominate our political arena � and forge alliances
with your fellow citizen activists to organize for
lasting social justice.
That�s Professor Frankfurt�s best-selling "On
Bullshit", and the classic "Civics for Democracy" �
all for a contribution of $100 to our campaign.
If out of our tens of thousands of supporters, only
950 of you act now, we will be freed from this imposed
civil liberties debt so that we can move aggressively
to challenge the political duopoly that plagues this
great land of ours.
Purchase them both for yourself, or give them to a
friend or someone you love.
And please let your friends and family know about this
invitation by forwarding this letter to your e-mail
address book.
Thank you for your generous support and bright
horizons.
Sincerely,
Ralph Nader
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