First I wish to start this column off by thanking everyone who sent emails telling me how much I was missed. I could never express how much it meant to me to know how many of you cared enough to take the time to write.Thank you Thank you Thank you.
Second, I have to come clean. I have been back at my desk for several weeks but find I am unable to write. And no, I did not fall and break my hand. I have not broken my back so I cannot sit in a chair. Nor have I been lying in a coma or fallen passionately in love with prince charming and hiding out in his castle.
I could not write because I have come to a terrible mindfulness and despondently realize from recent events that alas, the pen is no longer mightier than the sword. Even though I am cognizant of how slowly the political machine must grind, I truly believed back in November when the American people made their mandate reverberate loud and clear that the collective voice of a nation would stem the flow of our courageous men and women 's blood - but our administration and especially our president continues to wink at us and then turn a blind eye to our outrage and deaf ear to our voices.
This show of utter contempt for what the American public wants is what has made me stop and seriously consider asking what difference will my words, or the words of all the other billion bloggers and journalists and authors and news people embedded in Iraq accomplish when they are so boldly confronted and ignored by a despot?
Except for Chuck Hagel, the great senator from Nebraska, I don't hear any voices passionately raising hell in the senate chambers. Why is a republican telling it like it should be told? What happened to Jim Webb, the great hope from Virginia and all the other democratic voices that reassured us they were tired of it all and were not going to take it anymore?
What point to write? To activate? Activate what? To change and correct what is so terribly wrong? How can mere words help if our congress is wearing duck tape over their mouths and ear flaps over their ears? How did the words of one man set the entire world on fire? Congress did nothing four years ago to stop a madman and now a brand new set of mouthpieces have been just as muted out as their predecessors.
How can this be? How can that be happening in this once great country of check and balances? I don't have the answer except to say 9/11 happened.
Our president of scary faces and too scarce words invokes the terror of 9/11 in every single speech and every single state of the union spiel since 9/11. We lost thousands of lives and two mortar and brick icons and now it looks as if all the kings men and all the king's horses will never-ever be able to put our democracy back together again.
We need men and women with our forefather's vision and courage to emerge as a contemporary force of nature and stand up to King George all over again, demanding to take back our rights.
They must fight like their lives and our lives, and the constitution of this fine country all depend on it.
4 comments:
I recently found your blog. I am interested because of your reference to being "fair and balanced". I think in this day and age being fair and balanced is important. The American public does not want nor need to be continually bombarded with messages that are spun and slanted toward the political extremes. It is insulting - as if the average American adult cannot ferret out bias and cannot recognize when they are being had. It's time for our government to stop operating at the extremes and find the middle, where, by the way, the vast majority of hard working Americans live.
As far as the current article, I too am concerned that we are debating the escalation of force when the vast majority of Americans are opposed. Our elected officials need to start behaving as if what mainstream America thinks matters.
We have to always keep in mind that George W. is on his way out, and the field of Dems, For whatever reason are already running for president, and this has turned our attenetion away from what the current president is doing. We need limits on when the run for the oval office can begin. we are giving new cover to what the lame duck can, and in the case of out current president, will do.
But you are right, what are the elected doing in the congress, besides wasting time arguing issues that the American people have clearly, and loudly expressed their opinion on. So now we have a non-binding resolution, and a field of candidates afraid of alienating any vote they may get. I do fear for the future, and what it will mean when a country can so easily be diverted from what is truly going on in this country, but if it is Anna Nicole that interests us, then maybe we should be controlled by a despot!
I believe what you are missing here is that there was not a as large an "ultimatum" as you think. Why do you think the Dems in congress are not pushing hard. It is because they realize their constituents want the job finished. The Dem may have taken congress but that does not mean the American people want us to cut and run.
Msullivan is the only one of you who seems to know what they are talkin about. Not only does a good portion of congress want to see this war through, a good portion of the american public does also. The liberal media spins the whole situation to look like none of america is behind the cause but that is not the case at all. People seem to forget that most of our country is in fact just that country. We need to see this war through or we will loose some of our respect as a world power. We are not cowardly France this is the united states of a-fuckin-merica. We are strong and have always been strong. We will win this war. And as for The King George reference I for one am glad someone is finally taking charge and doing what needs to be done. We need to take the middle east end the conflict and confiscate the oil. Oil supplies are running out and if we don't flex our muscles gas will be rediculously priced in the upcoming years. Which would devistate our economy. The liberal mindset is destroying this country. Rome didn't fall until it was destroyed from the inside, and that is what the liberal agenda is doing now. I will close this by saying good luck.
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