WTF Is It Now?!?

"Anyone seen any Democrats lately?"
Whines Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times.

Well, excuse me, you obsequious asshole. You must have been in an undisclosed location swilling gin with Lucy the Bat when Al Gore, in two powerful speeches, ripped the Bush misadminstration a new cornchute. Oh, but wait, you and your pals have dismissed as being "irrelevant."

Perhaps you were sleeping during Sen Robert Byrd's impassioned speeches on the Senate floor in the past week where he out and out called the Iraq war a bald-faced attempt to divert the public's attention from domestic ills. Maybe you missed Byrd's appearance on Donahue when he railed on the un-Constitutional actions of the court-appointed administration, and accused Congressmen of abdicating their Constitutional DUTIES by passing bunnypants' ill-intended resolution.

And maybe you had your head up your ass during Bill Clinton's kick-ass speech to the British Labour Party, where he wowed everybody with his vision, statesmanship, intelligence and compassion.

Perhaps you were looking the other way during Rep. Dennis Kucinich's news conference in Washington, his visionary speech on the House floor, or his probing questioning in House hearings on Iraq.

And I guess you slept through Dave Bonior and Jim McDermott's impassioned attempts to find a way to keep us from starting a war with Iraq.

When Sen. Tom Daschle, a veteran, speaks out against having his patriotism questioned by people like GW Bush and Tom Delay who avoided military combat themselves, Maureen Dowd and others write columns making it seem like he merely had a hissy fit.

When Paul Krugman accurately speaks of the huge conflict of interest and criminal activities of Army Secretary and former Enron executive Thomas White, the NY Times editorial board demands an inordinately high level of fact confirmation, and even when he meets that standard, is still forced to print a retraction.

Perhaps you can't even be bothered to get your information by watching Crossfire where Dems Carville and Begala - as well as their many Democratic guests - rail against an unelected misadministration and their disastrous policies on a nightly basis. Nah. You'd much rather just sit back and get your talking points handed to you by Karl, or Rush the Pigboy, or the propaganda ministry at Faux Nooze. Where are the Democrats, you ask? Right where they have been placed: in the center of an open field with everyone shooting at them, and decried whenever they try to fire back. And the national media, for whatever reasons, has helped put them in that position.
- - - Thanks to SmirkingChimp.com, Joseph Vecchio, and stopbush.