Bench-Warmers
This is one of my favorite bits of anti-war political logic. I've seen it in various forms over the past year or so. Today, it turned up in the letters to the editor page where I work, toward the end of a temper tantrum about Bush:
Well, there you go, then. The Democrats have no interest in taking a hand at the tiller of the nation, now that George W. Bush has laid his gummy hands all over it. They don't want to lead. They don't want to touch any broken pottery, either. You might cut yourself on that stuff.
Thank you for taking yourselves out of the political equation and accepting permanent minoritarian status. Now can you tell the rest of us where to look for a viable second party that really has the desire and skills to govern, crisis or not, so we can begin to restore some balance to this political structure?
When will Democrats have the courage clearly to state the obvious? This war was ill-conceived, unnecessary and wrong. Why should they be asked to fix a piece of pottery the Republicans broke?
Well, there you go, then. The Democrats have no interest in taking a hand at the tiller of the nation, now that George W. Bush has laid his gummy hands all over it. They don't want to lead. They don't want to touch any broken pottery, either. You might cut yourself on that stuff.
Thank you for taking yourselves out of the political equation and accepting permanent minoritarian status. Now can you tell the rest of us where to look for a viable second party that really has the desire and skills to govern, crisis or not, so we can begin to restore some balance to this political structure?
