Democratic dereliction

Over at DailyKos, BarbinMD has the rant that I was planning to give. It begins as follows:

After nearly four years of a Republican-controlled Congress rubber stamping George Bush's Iraq war policy, a fed up American public voted for change. And today we learn that instead of legislating that change, it seems that our newly-elected Democratic majority is willing to continue the practice of looking the other way while George Bush stays the course in Iraq.

Exactly. They're about to enact another AUMF that says Bush can do anything he wants as long as he says he wants to do it.

What kind of fools are these?

It really is depressing to see the one party that might have been able to do something to save this country cave at the very hint of a threat from an already dead lame duck. It sure doesn't bode well for getting back Habeas Corpus, stopping torture, reclaiming the Constsitution, or any of the many other major tasks that are required to return America to the Americans.