Can anyone remind me why we voted in 2006

[blues90]

If I recall it was to end the Iraq occupation wasn't it.

What have we got for all the hope we had back then , a min wage increase and countless investigations .

It's still quite ok to torture people and now there are these 6 people tortured for 6 years and we really expect that even if they got a fair trial that they would even remember their own names now .

Now we are looking down the barrel of freedom to be wire tapped or taken away for any number of so called reasons .

I remember the day the 110th congress had their day with all the children and grand children which I thought at the time was a bit lame in light of all the horrors we have been though .

I recall 6 for 06 , the slogan of hope as it soon washed away and has become nothing but a bad memory .

There were the hearings with the three vets from Walter Reed , where are they now ?

I remember all the protests people put so much time and effort into and what was it for ?

I can't even figure out now which is worse when I look at the time before 2006 midterms and today .

It seems now that I do realize that the joke was on us . All the talk about hearings saving us , Waxman the pitbull , Harry Reid the fighter , Nancy Pelosi the organizer elite .

I went to a CSN&Y concert with the theme impeach the president and it now seems like a life time ago as it whithered in the wind and is now a distant memory of hope .

Is it just me who can't quite seem to find the hope anylonger ?

They have gotten away with everything .

[leftofthedial]

1. to play our parts in the ongoing masquerade

that this country is still a democratic republic

now watch TV and go buy some Chinese shit until it's time to "vote" again.

[SteppingRazor]

2. In terms of impeachment, I never had any hope to begin with.

That always seemed like a pipe dream. I'm disappointed more hasn't been done to end the war, but I'm convinced hat with a Democrat in the White House and a broader Democratic majority in Congress, the Iraq War will be brought to a swift conclusion.

[blues90]

9. I think the fix is in .

I thought for some insane reason that getting Dems in the majority was finally a sign of hope but then I was a fool buying into the hype out of desperation I suppose .

Now that I have seen how lame the Dems have been I cannot believe that even with more Dems in the majority it will make any difference , You don't know how they will vote and what drives them .

DC is just a big private club and the people pay their wages .

[Medusa]

3. To watch our elected "leaders" lie to us, betray us, and otherwise ignore us?

Because that's exactly what they've done.

[Jacobin]

4. The voters forgot to send enough of this to their 'representatives'

Until middle class voters can come up with a way of bribing congress in massive enough amounts to out bid the corporations, we are fucked.

Its just that simple

[walldude]

5. You forgot about Fitzmas.

Seems like we get the rug pulled out from under us every time we get our hopes up. I have to admit though things are looking up. Depending on which way you are looking. I think the Dems can pretty easily get control of everything this year, the question is will they continue to let the Republicans walk all over them and set the agenda or are they going to grow a spine and stand up for the people...

[EFerrari]

6. Because our collaborators are better than their criminals?

There's a part of me that thinks the Democrats' caution will pay off in the longer term.

I just don't know if it's the idiot part of me or not.

[Hissyspit]

11. So if we end up with President McCain in November, what then?

Which is a real possibility no matter what anyone says.

[blues90]

12. I know it is possible

And to be quite honest right now as I sit here I feel the difference will be america will either die in 5 years instead of 7 years .

[EFerrari]

13. It is a real possibility which is why my hair has been on fire

about all the vote caging and the manipulation of voter registration -- because we all know they have to steal what they can't win.

I believe the Democrats are making a mistake not to vigorously push their base's agenda. It makes them look weak and when the election theft is tried, it will look all that much more plausible. :shrug:

[Olney Blue]

7. Wasn't it for change? I feel sold out.

[TechBear_Seattle]

8. Because anyone with a (D) after their name would save America, of course!

Just ask the "Screw values: Vote Democrat!" crowd.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. To buttress the illusion that the people have a say in governement.

A pleasant, but obviously ridiculous, notion foisted upon the citizenry to keep them quiet and perpetuate a corrupt system of bosses and the rest of humanity.


"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine

"Freedom is the absolute right of all adult men and women to seek permission for their actions only from their own conscience and reason, and to be determined in their actions only by their own will, and consequently to be responsible only to themselves, and then to the society to which the belong, but only insofar as they have made a free decision to belong to it." Mikhail Bakunin

[Igel]

14. For change. For hope.

But it certainly wasn't a false hope, I guess, after all, the hope wasn't false, just the implementation of the process that would realize the hope.

Oh. Wait. That's not really what "false hope" means, is it?

[blues90]

15. False hope ?

All that means to me is being promised something enough times and lied to an equal number of times is where one realizes the hope was false .

[Anarcho-Socialist]

16. Congress was only half of the equation

I think expectations of a Democratic Congress was too-high considering there remained a hostile executive branch. We didn't have the numbers to override a Presidential veto or filibuster.