Why have the Democrats Failed?

Question

Democrat Congress Has Failed




San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Epstein writing: "Senate Democrats, increasingly restive over the war in Iraq, plan to force a series of votes starting today aimed at either changing the course of President Bush's policy or embarrassing Republican members over their continued support for a war the public has soured on." They've done this over and over and over again, but, "This time, Reid said, things will be different. 'We want there to be change and it should not be a fig leaf,' he said." These things are going to be different this time. "A draft of the interim report," whether the Iraqi government has reached its benchmarks, "circulated Monday among government agencies, concludes that the government in Iraq has met none of its targets for political, economic and other reform, an official who asked not to be identified told the Associated Press. Another report, this one from Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker on how Bush's troop-increase strategy is working, is due by Sept. 15. But," as I told you yesterday, Dingy Harry "Reid and the Republican Senate defectors said they don't want to wait until then to change Iraq policy." They don't want to wait until General Petreaus reports in September, for all the obvious reasons. "The strategy of the Republican Senate leadership as Democrats seek votes on anti-war amendments is still not clear." Of course it's not clear because they're undecided what their strategy ought to be.

But let me give you a couple realities here, folks, and listen to me on this. Reality number one is that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are running Congress and they have been running Congress twice as long as the General Petraeus plan has been in place. Reality number two is that public support for Congress has collapsed. Have you seen the latest polls? I don't care what the president's numbers are. They are what they are. The congressional numbers are even worse.

Do we not think, ladies and gentlemen, that it may be time for new leadership in Congress? Perhaps maybe Senator Reid should be replaced and Speaker Pelosi should resign. Congress needs a new direction. Take every argument they're using to get us out of Iraq -- ignore Petraeus, deny his plan, the time to work and so forth -- and turn it around against them. The current leadership of Congress has failed. They've failed to deliver on their promises. They failed to set the country on the right course! They've failed to gain the support of the American people. They're a total political failure. As a matter of fact, during their leadership, Reid and Pelosi, the American people have rejected, overwhelmingly rejected their leadership. Anybody who has lost faith with General Petraeus has to be disgusted with Reid and Pelosi. If the Petraeus leadership can be judged in, what is it, two or three months now, the Reid and Pelosi leadership's had two or three times as much time and has clearly accomplished zilch, zero, nada, nothing, except a whole bunch of political stunts: Armani suits, grandchildren on the knee, a big mallet, 100 hours on the road to nowhere, secondhand smoke legislation, secondhand mirrors, minimum wage, a bunch of chicanery supposedly getting rid of earmarks but not really doing it -- and America gets it. Disapproval of the Reid-Pelosi Congress has collapsed, 37% to 24% after only six months. Well, if we're not even going to give Petraeus the full length of time he was promised and assured, and we're going to pronounce it a failure already and "a collapse of leadership" and there's no political will and support, the Iraqi people haven't met their benchmarks, well, neither the hell have Reid or Pelosi. They haven't met one benchmark. They haven't done one thing. The support for the US Congress in this country has not just plummeted. It has totally collapsed. So using their line of reasoning and thinking, we need new leaders in Congress, and we need them now. The Democrats are the ones that need the new plan and they need the new plan now, folks.





http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/10/MNGRJQTJLQ1.DTL

Answer 1

I'm sorry, what was your question?

Answer 2

Considering that this article comes from Epstein and was posted in the San Fransisco Chronicle pretty much prooves that Reid and Pelosi have alienated their party base. They are starting to make Bush look good. Congress approval rates are at an ALLTIME low. Bush ratings are nearly twice as good.

The message that is being sent by the public in my opinion is that we are tired of politics as usual. We tossed the Republicans out of the majority but the Democrats aren't looking any better. Most Americans I know are tired of the whole Democrap and Republicant thing. We want real change and real leadership in the Congress and in the White House.

The Democrats have failed everybody but the special interests that they support. They are corporate whores. How else can anyone explain them trying to pass the recent amnesty bill? The majority of Democrats do not want amnesty.

They can't even pass legislation with bipartisan support.

As for the war they voted for putting the troops there. They saw the evidence just like everyone else. Now they want to pull out before the generals assess how the war is going? Do you remember hearing Murtha and Pelosi announcing the plan? They didn't even get the date right. They changed their minds SIX TIMES in the space of two minutes!

Reid and Pelosi do not have a clue. Thank you voters in California and Nevada for putting these jackasses in charge of our country. Feel free to break off the Union at any time!

Answer 3

What a silly little rant as poster above asserts they're not far in and still working on a huge number of issues that the Bushies have created, one of the best things they're doing is investigating how this Administration has conducted the Nations business so we the people get a reality based answer to many of this country's far reaching problems, let's just wait, watch, and see, I'm sure this congress is going to make the country better, even if only incrementally than the republican lead one did in it's 6 years of power

Answer 4

I do not think you understand how the U.S. government works. Even with a majority,it is not enough to have everything under their control. So why did they fail only after two months, and the iraq war(4.5 years) has not failed?

Answer 5

Aren't you happy the Democrats won congress, now you can blame the mistakes of the last 6 years on them.

Answer 6

Jeez, how about your logic?

You give Dems a few months, but you give Bush what? 5 years of failure and HE STILL DOESN'T GET IT?

Stop being a baby. Repubs are on their way out, being led by the idiot you guys call , hahhhhhah "leader" HA HAHA!

Answer 7

the democrats have not failed because in this country there r a lot of uneducated people. Since the democrats always take the easy way out and give everything free they are supported by all these people who dont know the issues they just support them for all the frebees(in other words).There are also a lot of gulliable people in america who believe everything they hear so naturally the democrats have support.In the future they will not fail either because of the people here.Nomatter how stupid and idiotic they become they will have support.In my opinion they should fail because all they do is corrupt our society,nation,and world more!!!Democrats SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

The democrats have only failed mostly due to the GOP blocking them and Bush vetoing them.

So if you think the Dems are in trouble cause they have failed, imagine how the voting public will view the GOP. lol

Answer 9

recycling the same stuff, eh?

maybe i should type more slowly:

congress has always been the lowest rated branch of government.

it has a lot of republicans in it. there's a reason its approval rating is so low.

what you really need to show is that congress under democrats is so much worse than congress under republicans (which, by the way, you haven't presented).

*yawn*

Answer 10

So, five months into their two-year term they've already failed.

But five years into the Iraq war, we've only just started.....

Somehow the level of double standard keeps getting more and more irrational as times goes on.

Answer 11

I totally lost interest about a quarter of the way down this mass of text.