Marshall Wittmann, wanker of the day

Yes, the wanker of the day is the DLC's own Marshall Wittmann. Can their be any doubt that the democrats should distance themselves from the Republican Lite mentality of the DLC. Although the WAPO's Richard Cohen certainly deserves honorable mention it has to go to the Bull Moose for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Congressional Democrats are settling on a "narrative" and a "frame" for the Iraq War. In essence, their argument is that the President and his Administration practiced massive deceit to lead the nation to war - that they manufactured and manipulated intelligence. In other words, the narrative goes, the President knew there were no weapons of mass destruction and deliberately lied to the Congress and the American people on the road to war. Or as the anti-war movement inelegantly frames it, "Bush lied and Americans died."

The logical extension of this argument is that its advocates should call for impeachment of the President. If there was ever a "high crime and misdemeanor" it is deliberate deceit to lead the country to war. Some of the outer reaches of the left have already reached this conclusion. Is this where the leaders of the party are headed? It sure seems so by the argument that they are now employing.

And now Wittmann proves he is more bull than moose.

But, the Congressional Democrats are not pursuing the Administration's mishandling of the war and the failure to achieve victory. No, they are now headed for Michael Moore territory with the argument that a vast conspiracy concocted a war base on lies. These Democratic leaders should be aware of the path on which they have embarked.

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This Administration should be held accountable for its grave errors and incompetence without opening a wound in our political life that will be very difficult to close.

There are so many things wrong with the two paragraphs above I don't know where to start. So how about "they are now headed for Michael Moore territory with the argument that a vast conspiracy concocted a war base on lies." I have to ask how much evidence do we need before it can be labeled a conspiracy? Even Richard Cohen was honest enough to admit they lied, he just thought it would have been OK if they hadn't fucked it up so bad. And then there is this "opening a wound in our political life that will be very difficult to close". Sorry Marshall, that wound was opened when the bastards lied to us to begin with. We don't want you or your DLC Marshall and take Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman with you when you walk out the door.

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