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September 25, 2005

GOP v. We The People

A meager 400 people showed up today in Washington D.C. to rally in support of Bush's Iraqi occupation. Yesterday 100,000 showed up at a rally in opposition to the continued occupation of Iraq.

Senator Jeff Sessions (AL-R) said:

"The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world," Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, told the crowd. "I frankly don't know what they represent, other than blaming America first."

With just a few words Sessions reveals his contempt for the very same America that he claims to support.

Recent polling shows that a majority of Americans both question the wisdom of invading Iraq in the first place and favor withdrawing some or all of our troops immediately.

President Abraham Lincoln famously defined both the point and the purpose of our existance as a nation as " government of the people, by the people, for the people," which was nothing more than a rephrasing of the Framer's preamble to the Constitution, "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union..."

It is Senator Sessions who is blaming America first, as the evidence shows. His rally was a minute fraction of the other rally's turnout, the polls back the first rally, and Lincoln and the Framers made it clear that the federal government is beholden' to the People, not the other way around.

Of course this latest outrage by a leading Republican is only another implimentation of the GOP's demonstrated agenda of saying whatever they think will dupe We The People into rubberstamping what they want to do. Their rabid dittoheads on the Right lap it up and regurgitate it mindlessly. I mean, has a single Republican explained why, contrary to Senator Hatch's assertions, the Iraqi insurgency has continued strong nearly a year after they were supposedly causing mayhem in order to help Kerry win? Of course not! And why? Because none of it matters to them. Whichever lie will work is the one that they will use. They're simply cycling thru the Rovian Rolodex of Lies trying to find something... anything that will stick.

Two years ago it was phantom WMD. Last year it was the sanctity of the election. This year it's the "you break it, you bought it" Pottery Barn rule. Notice how their premise has changed from preemptively acting to protect our security... to trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Ask yourself this: If those Republican sincerely believed their own rhetoric... why do they keep changing reasons???

Posted by Kevin at September 25, 2005 03:06 PM