Yes indeed

I'm getting really tired of being told by so-called progressives that I should stop saying mean things about the Democrats, because I should be fighting the BushCo fascist agenda instead by supporting my party.

Except that my party refuses to fight the BushCo fascist agenda, so on what basis should they get my support? Because they'll sell me down the river for corporate cash more slowly than BushCo will?

Buzzflash has an editorial today calling for the Vichy Democrat the party put up in 2004 to come forward to the service of his nation again. Even they've had enough of this so-called opposition party refusing to oppose:

Now, John Kerry is contemplating a second run for the Presidency. He has strategically criticized the Bush Administration and worked on building up a list of supporters and contributors, employing, among other tools, an aggressive Internet strategy.

Most recently, he posted a "petition" that asked people to support him in getting other senators to oppose Alito. The petition concludes, "I am honored to join John Kerry by putting my name in the Congressional Record against Judge Alito. I call on you to do the same with your vote."

So here's the Kerry trade-off, you give him your name and e-mail address and it is added to his list of potential campaign contributors and supporters. In return, Kerry votes "No" against Alito (as if a Democratic Senator from Massachusetts could get away with voting "Yes"), knowing that it doesn't matter because there are 55 Republicans and they will all vote for Alito, unless there is a defector or two. The petition is meaningless, except as a way for Kerry to grow his campaign list. He knows that; we know that.

By now, it shouldn't be James Webb, a Bush Administration official, who should be expressing the outrage we all feel. It should be Kerry. He was vilified, slandered, and filleted by the Bush campaign thugs, and he is still pretending it is of value to lose, as long as you get a high vote count.

Meanwhile, the Busheviks are laughing all the way to the coronation. They rightfully disdain and deride "symbolic votes." They only are interested in victories. And they will get Sam Alito on the Supreme Court, because the Dems don't have the guts to filibuster him.

After awhile, people stop voting for Democrats for national office because they simply don't fight hard enough. And people don't define leadership by empty rhetoric that's not backed up by action and victories.

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John Kerry should stop with his meaningless petitions and do what he won't do because he doesn't have the passion to stand up for democracy.

He should chuck his campaign list ruse, rise to the Senate floor and begin a filibuster. He should stand up for democracy and the Constitution and stop his low-risk posturing.

We stood behind John Kerry even when he wouldn't stand up for himself.

The least he could do is rise from his Senate chair and begin the fight to restore our Constitutional system of checks and balances, beginning with the words: "This attack on our Constitution will not stand. Ladies and gentleman, I am not going to stop speaking until we get a Supreme Court nominee from the White House who will uphold our Constitution, our checks and balances, and apply the law to every citizen of America, even the President of the United States."

All you have to do is stand up to take a stand, John Kerry.

We don't need any ineffective petitions. We need to see the man who fought courageously in Vietnam, and then came back home to risk everything to ask, "who will be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Now we ask you this, John Kerry: Who will be the leader that stands up for the Constitution and leads 40 more senators to sustain a filibuster until we stop the betrayal of the American Revolution?