Tie It All Together
LiberalOasis catches the Democrats wising up:
Wouldn’t ya just know it?
On the day LiberalOasis gets all mad at the Dems for not knowing how to fight, they go and do something smart.
[Sen.] Harry Reid said Monday his party will launch investigative hearings next year in response to what he said was the reluctance of Republicans to look into problems in the Bush administration.
“There are too many unasked and unanswered questions and the American public deserves better,” the Nevada senator said…
…Sen. Byron Dorgan…said the first hearing will be at the end of January and he suggested it might focus on contract abuse in Iraq…
They said issues that “cry out” for closer investigation…include the administration’s use of prewar intelligence and its reported effort to stifle information about the true cost of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Reid also mentioned global warming and the “No Child Left Behind” education program as topics that needed a closer look.
In all likelihood, they recognized the great success Rep. Henry Waxman and his staff had publishing their own report on federally funded abstinence-only programs.
That showed how a minority party can make news and put the majority party on the defensive.
Now the key is to tie all of this corruption, misdirection and ineptitude into Bush’s plan to destroy Social Security. I’m more and more convinced that this is not only necessary for its own sake, but will result in many other political rewards for the Democrats. Bush is a lame duck. He has far less political capital than he thinks he has. He’s fucked up the War on terror and he knows it and this is his last big chance for a “positive” long term legacy. If we are able to stop him we may just show the American people that we have some guts after all and position ourselves for a big come back in 06 and 08.
The alternative is to allow him to destroy the most succesful social program in the history of this country, an act that will affect real human beings in our towns, neighborhoods and families. If SS isn’t worth fighting for with everything we have then we truly are worthless.