Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic "leadership" are fools. Look at this utter self-blindness, captured in an AP article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6521583,00.html
"Pelosi's spokesman Brendan Daly said the speaker was reluctant to weigh in on the incident... [snip]
"The leadership discussed it and agreed that inserting Congress into an international crisis while ongoing would not be helpful," Daly said.
Can someone please tell me, what is passing a resolution against involvement in Iraq but "inserting Congress into an international crisis while ongoing"?
Passage from an excellent article by Frank Furedi on the radicalness of being conservative (though he doesn't call it that) in Spiked! --
... There was a time when criticising the status quo was considered radical. Throughout history, refusing to accept the world as it existed has been looked upon as a form of rebellion. Those who did not ‘much care for contemporary life’ were very often inspired by the conviction that human life and culture could be – and must be – improved upon. Today, such an aspiring outlook is seen as a social faux pas, something that can earn you the label of grumpy old man or woman. This suggests that there is a fairly formidable mood of cultural conformism today. Labelling objections to today’s institutional practices as a ‘grumble’ or a ‘moan’ is not only a way of dismissing these objections; it is also a way of defending and even justifying the world as it exists against what is viewed as an army of bad-tempered, fussy, ill-natured, irritable emotional cripples.
Read the rest: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2962/
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