It's about MORE than Competence

Frank Rich hits both Bush and, importantly, the pusillanimous Democrats who, unlike the blogosphere, are unable to publicly step forth and strongly announce a plan for "Operation Get us the Fuck outta There!"

Man do I miss Wellstone, you know he would have been out with one months ago, if not years. Russ Feingold is virtually alone in this.

But it is not enough to just watch Bush go up in smoke, it is time to show responsibility and come up with a plan. Stop being, as Digby accurately pointed out, trapped by Vietnam. We fuckin' lost that war and the "DOVES" were fucking right. It has been the stabbing in the back of those who cannot admit they are wrong that remain the problem even today. The DLC "Republican Lite" chorus.

The Democrats are hoping that if they do nothing, they might inherit the earth as the Bush administration goes down the tubes. Whatever the dubious merits of this Kerryesque course as a political strategy, as a moral strategy it's unpatriotic. The earth may not be worth inheriting if Iraq continues to sabotage America's ability to take on Iran and North Korea, let alone Al Qaeda.

As another politician from the Vietnam era, Gary Hart, observed last week, the Democrats are too cowardly to admit they made a mistake three years ago, when fear of midterm elections drove them to surrender to the administration's rushed and manipulative Iraq-war sales pitch. So now they are compounding the original error as the same hucksters frantically try to repackage the old damaged goods.

Well, fuck 'em!