War

Goodbye, Labor Day, hello all-out electoral war.

The Republicans have jettisoned any pretense of helping Americans and are instead planning their alternately do-nothing and U.S. Treasury-hijacking Congress to focus on "national security" in tandem with the campaign, since they can't run on anything but fear. Rather than helping Americans, they're working to protect the oligarchical leaders:

One of the principal instruments they intend to use to accomplish that goal begins this week -- with consideration of the bill proposed by Arlen Specter (and a similar one introduced in the House by Rep. Heather Wilson), which would "amend" FISA by making it optional (rather than mandatory) for the President to comply with it, thereby removing all limitations on his power to eavesdrop on the conversations of Americans.

Way back in March I questioned whether Bush/Cheney/Rove might have eavesdropped on political opponents. If the opposition is materially hindering the President's War of Terror by not supporting the Administration's policy, no matter how flawed or disastrous that policy might be, shouldn't they be under electronic surveillance for the safety of the country (as defined solely by the President and his Party)?

But just try getting a judge to give you the warrant for that. Why else would they need to break the law?

Might that be why El Presidente and cronies need exoneration, and might Spector have been cued to save the party this way?

Just askin'. Since I've heard no other logical explanation -- it's incredibly easy for Presidents to get a FISA wiretapping warrant, like just down the hall.

Meanwhile, sectarian assholes are killing with impugnity in Iraq. How about scattering 33 tortured, shot bodies around Baghdad to be found Monday morning and killing 7 of our servicemen later in the day?

So the war is enjoined now with loads of GOP money and the strongest get-out-the-vote organization known to man against change. They have the organs of government, and expect them to do anything and everything to try and preserve their hold.

Democrats are the only option for change, the GOP has proven it themselves these past four sycophantic Bushie years. So their strategy will be to try and de-nationalize the elections, per The New York Times via MyDD:

"Democrats are trying to indict an entire class of people, who happen to be called Republican candidates for Congress," said Glen Bolger, a Republican pollster handling dozens of House races. "We have to bring individual indictments with different cases and different pieces of evidence."

MyDD's Chris Bowers goes on to excoriate Democratic candidates who fail to identify themselves as such in their ads. The lesson of the past several elections is that Democrats lose as incrementalists, they lose running as Republican Lite.

If there was ever a time for partisanship, the time is now.