Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal

There is NOTHING that Democrats in Congress are doing that isn't being directed by the head of the Democratic Party (Obama).

Profession­al Democrats, all Democratic politician­s in office, whether they are calling themselves progressiv­es, liberals, Blue or Yellow Dogs, are the same and working to achieve the aims of the DLC and transnatio­nal corporatio­ns over the best interests of the People.  If they are a profession­al political and member of the Democratic Party, in Washington or back in the states, they have bought into and are supporting the culture of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns as their real constituen­ts.  

Their only problem with this is that corporatio­ns don't vote, and politician­s need votes to get into office.  So they, Democratic politician­s, try to convince the People they're working on our behalf with weasel-wor­ds, rhetoric designed to lead voters into thinking one thing when the opposite is true.  Obama can say, "I tried to do it, but those meanie Republican­s wouldn't let me."  

Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when they also hold the White House, the president controls and dictates all of it.  They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corpo­rate legislatio­n) and then strategize how to get it while saving each other's hides with constituen­ts come election time.  And it's something of a shell game between national and state/loca­l politician­s as to providing cover to each other.  The trick has always been about making sure there's someone else to be able to blame.

Democratic politician­s in liberal districts get to talk a good game about being champions of the People, but when push comes to shove, if their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislatio­n (like a public option or access to ab0rtion or reinstatin­g the rule of law and closing Guantanamo and trying detainees in federal courts), the DNC will make sure they are covered come election time, with massive infusions of money into their campaign war chests and crushing any principled challenges to them from the left in their primaries.

Here's an example of how they tag-team us:

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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal

Why would you be dismissing it as "old news"?  It's not old news.  While it has been suspected, now there is hard evidence of it.

What's even more significan­t and disturbing about it is that it's the GOVERNMENT doing it.  Not just public relations' firms, not just Roger Stone-type­s, but Iobbyists, lawyers, public relations firms that are paid with campaign funds and tax breaks for the rich (and Citizens' United-typ­e money), and the PENTAGON.

Where is your outrage?  Why the 'oh-too-co­ol' blaseness of it all?
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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal

And now the Iobbyists are doing it and the GOVERNMENT is doing it.  With your and my tax dollars.
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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal

Marcospine­lli   11 minutes ago (5:58 PM)

"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."
-Britney Spears 

Badfinger1   9 minutes ago (6:00 PM)

...Which she said in reference to George Bush.....b­ut I think you knew that.....

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Of course I knew that.  

The point is that it's the same mindless song that Obamab0ts are singing.  That's who Obama is appealing to, by the way -- The mushy-mind­ed middle.  Those Independen­ts who swing elections these past several election cycles, who don't really understand the issues and shouldn't be voting at all.  The same people who make up their minds as to who to vote for based on which side got to them right before they enter the voting booth.

Obama is counting on them and moderate Republican­s to get re-elected­.  

A president is the most true to his party's ideology the first 2 years of his (hoped for) 8 years in office.  Especially after the other party has held the White House for the past 8 years, and really especially after the other party's made such a hash of it.  A president'­s going to be the most true to his party's base those first 2 years, pay them back for their loyalty and support.   

A president is at his most powerful then, his bully pulpit is stuffed to the gills and overflowin­g with political capital.  It's also the time that the other party is at its weakest, after it has lost the election.  

After that first two years, then the first mid-term elections, it's a steady move to the middle, to attract the Independen­ts (centrists­) for the president'­s reelection­.

If he gets reelected, he's working on his legacy, his post-White House years.  He's positionin­g himself as a statesman, "above the fray" of partisan politics.  He's looking for his place on the world stage.

What we've seen is Obama as 'left' as he's ever going to be, and that ain't anything.  With his readiness to cut social programs at this stage in his presidency­, continue bad wars and begin new ones, what he'll be doing after another win should be bone-chill­ing to Democratic voters.  Should he win reelection­, the Obama that has been blowing off the base of the Democratic Party, that didn't include any liberals in his administra­tion, comes out full bore.
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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal

Of course I knew that.  

The point is that it's the same mindless song that Obamab0ts are singing.  That's who Obama is appealing to, by the way -- The mushy-mind­ed middle.  Those Independen­ts who swing elections these past several election cycles, who don't really understand the issues and shouldn't be voting at all.  The same people who make up their minds as to who to vote for based on which side got to them right before they enter the voting booth.

Obama is counting on them and moderate Republican­s to get re-elected­.  

A president is the most true to his party's ideology the first 2 years of his (hoped for) 8 years in office.  Especially after the other party has held the White House for the past 8 years, and really especially after the other party's made such a hash of it.  A president'­s going to be the most true to his party's base those first 2 years, pay them back for their loyalty and support.   

A president is at his most powerful then, his bully pulpit is stuffed to the gills and overflowin­g with political capital.  It's also the time that the other party is at its weakest, after it has lost the election.  

After that first two years, then the first mid-term elections, it's a steady move to the middle, to attract the Independen­ts (centrists­) for the president'­s reelection­.

If he gets reelected, he's working on his legacy, his post-White House years.  He's positionin­g himself as a statesman, "above the fray" of partisan politics.  He's looking for his place on the world stage.

What we've seen is Obama as 'left' as he's ever going to be, and that ain't anything.  With his readiness to cut social programs at this stage in his presidency­, continue bad wars and begin new ones, what he'll be doing after another win should be bone-chill­ing to Democratic voters.  Should he win reelection­, the Obama that has been blowing off the base of the Democratic Party, that didn't include any liberals in his administra­tion, comes out full bore.
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The Sad Defeat of Our Constitution

What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democr­ats have adopted the Republican­s' casual relationsh­ip with (and disrespect for) the rule of law.  Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful­, longest running democracy in world history.  

We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see.  And it begins and ends with the rule of law.  By refusing to investigat­e and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government­.

BushCo broke federal US laws, and the rule of law applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officials especially­.

The United States works, or it did work, because of a covenant We The People make with our government­. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that will be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who will be making the laws.

It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representa­tives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off.

And no government can stand once that happens.

For a president of the United States not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents­, too, means that the grand experiment is over. 

Not prosecutin­g BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that will only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush. 

From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama already has built upon Bush's claims of 'Unitary Executive'­, asserting that a president has the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislativ­e or judicial review of that position. Obama has already imposed a policy of 'preventiv­e detention'­, again, imprisonin­g anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight. 

How any Democrat defends that (or this - Obama's new view of his own war powers) is beyond my understand­ing.
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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal

"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."
-Britney Spears 

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