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This is it, Dems. You’ve had since the beginning of the year to do the one thing the American populace that put you in power clearly wanted: end the war. You haven’t done it. You caved in May. You caved last month when you allowed Bush to fuck the FISA provisions. You cave once more and there won’t be a fourth time. Why should we keep you in power if all you do is show us that you’re powerless? You can bitch and whine all you want about how you don’t have the sixty votes you need in the Senate but you could continue to stall, continue to make the President look bad, could make an effort to define yourself rather than get spun by the right-wing spin machine. But you cave. You stand down every time it counts.

Well this is it. The last strike you have. Either get a hit or go home. Some Democrats may laugh at this ultimatum. “Who else are you gonna vote for? We’re the best you have!” I can always vote for a third party or, although I hate to do it, I could not vote at all. I absolutely hate doing that but I shouldn’t have to pick between the lesser of two evils. All you’re doing is showing the failings of a two-party system so why should I acknowledge you as a legitimate power when all you do is play Republican lite? If a Republican gets your seat, that definitely sucks, but at least you don’t get it the seat at all, and I take comfort in that. And maybe, just maybe, if you lose enough and often enough, you’ll get it through your thick fucking skulls that you will always lose chasing the middle. I feel for the moderates, but they’re not winning either when conservative politics continues to get its way. They have a better chance having their interests represented with two sides representing extremes and forced to come together and compromise.

But right now, America needs you to stand up. The majority of Americans oppose this war and favor a withdrawl. Bush’s new plan is not a withdrawl but him presenting an inevitability as if it were progress. Even if he wanted to sustain the surge till next summer, he couldn’t. The military can’t sustain that level of troops for that amount of time. We’ve made no progress in Iraq. He’s just buying time because if he can make it to Summer 2008, then it’s really not his problem anymore. It’s the problem of his successor and when that successor is forced to finally pull out of Iraq (and I don’t care if it’s a Democrat or a Republican; we’re leaving and it’s only a matter of “When,”) and he can avoid taking the blame for this massive clusterfuck he and his administration created.

This is it, Dems. This is your last chance.

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