Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Is Gannongate proof enough that we need a Shadow Government

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) Donate to DU
 
EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 12:44 PM
Original message
Is Gannongate proof enough that we need a Shadow Government
by the Democrats and Independents in Congress ? As Joseph Welch said during the Army-McCarthy hearings to McCarthy "Have you no shame ?" The MSM and Bush Co. are now shown to have no shame.

MSM gives cover and blowback protection and Dems are ridiculed on newly "leaked" tapes re drug use (all the while Bush never answers on his own coke problem from his addled youth) with Al Gore getting slammed !

Dems need to do the work of restoring trust again in our government. Operation Mockingbird media manipulation and military domestic psy-op disinformation/propaganda designed to shore up a flagging wartime policy, now a quagmire called Iraq, are eroding trust in government.

Accountability and common sense can restore Dems and honest Republicans trust again. Or we can keep going down the downhill road we are on.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 01:01 PM
Response to Original message
1. We need some way to have a nation-wide vote of no confidence.
Or something along similar lines. We have to show the world, the government, and the media that we know what is happening and that we won't abide it. I'm not sure how to go about this, but as a first step toward rebellion, it is a way to frame our opposition in a way that cannot be ignored and as a means of drawing the lines and setting things into motion.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 02:48 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. I keep thinking of that quote from Jos. Welch during the ArmyMcCarthy
hearings

""What else do you have to do to prove to people that the Administration lied its way into war? I mean, really, what do you have to do to wake people up? Doesn't anybody care? Is there no shame? Is there no one to ask the question of George Bush, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"""

taken from
http://www.stumax.com/archives/000199.php
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Sat May 04th 2024, 10:44 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC