Just Shut Up

Bayh said there are legitimate grounds to criticize
President Bush’s approach to fighting terrorism, but until Democrats establish more credibility on the issue, many voters won’t listen.

“Many Americans wonder if we’re willing to use force to defend the country even under the most compelling of circumstances,” Bayh said. “The majority of Democrats would answer that question that, yes, there is a right place and a right time. We don’t get to have that discussion because many people don’t think we have the backbone.”

And the best way to deal with that is to vigorously endorse whatever insane, bullshit war the Republicans want to wage. Because it’s worked out so well so far.

In a major victory for the White House, the Senate early Friday voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to give up weapons of mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions.

The president praised the congressional action, declaring “America speaks with one voice.”

I guess even though more than half the Democrats signed on to that cock-up, we still should have been even more enthusiastically running off the cliff with old George. What utter nonsense. If DLCer Evan Bayh thinks that we’ll build credibility on national security by screaming “War On Terror” louder and shriller than the Republicans, he’s nuts. Even they know that slogan has outlived its usefulness.

Might I suggest that the reason Democrats have no credibility on national security is not because we allegedly refuse to defend the country, but because bedwetters like Evan Bayh run all over the country validating the Republican’s patented talking points that Democrats refuse to defend the country?

It’s true that the American people think we have no backbone. But let’s just say the reasons have less to do with our national security policy and more to do with our leadership. We will have credibility on national security when we have a credible national security policy — and when we show the country that we aren’t so afraid of Tom DeLay and Karl Rove that we’ll scurry to the front of the line to sign up every time they say boo.

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