"...however, when you're up to your ass in Alligators, it's hard to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp."
I tried an exercise earlier where I attempted to count all the scandals/issues going on with the Bush Administration. I came up with a list:
Dubai Ports Issue, NSA Wiretapping, Plame outing,Abramoff Scandal,Katrina Scandal, Delay Scandal, The Tillman coverup, "Torture-gate", illegal prisons/extra ordinary rendition, The Downing Street Memos, The WMD lies...it goes on and on because everytime I try to put a "period" at the end of it I think of another.
on edit: A friend from DU just posted a list for me. You can see it here.
But the point of this exercise isn't to catalogue all the shady things Bush has been involved in it's to sugget that there are far too many of them for us to keep up with and deal with in any kind of effective manner. He is throwing so much stuff at us so fast that we can't seem to fight it all off.
I'm suggesting that we have to have a separation of labor within the Democratic party. That is, we have to have some people address a single issue and move forward on it while others address another issue and bring that to a conclusion. We can't possibly keep up with all the scandals as a large, committee of the whole. We need to delegate our efforts and eventually coordinate activities of all groups.
Our national leadership hasn't picked up on this yet. But they had better do it soon because those gators are getting close....and they're mean.
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