The country does NOT need yet another demonstration of the gutlessness of "liberal democrats." Your people are now controlling congress, controlling the committees, controlling the purse strings. So they need to end the wars, as they promised they would. The voice of a constituent is heard more clearly than the voice of one who does not live in the district, so it is up to the people who got democrats into office to hold them accountable. I keep in touch with my rep, and you need to keep in touch with yours. The dems promised to end the wars. Make them do it.
"All these legislative initiatives deal with Iraq, with only one – House Joint Resolution 14 – confronting the key issue on the war-and-peace front: Iran. This is a binding resolution that forbids the President from ordering an attack on Iran absent military action against U.S. forces, or a demonstrably imminent threat of attack...."
My representative is Ron Paul (or he was until his own party redistricted him to try to get him out of office this last election), and here's the type of thing HE talks about in congress:
"...We should remember that Iran, like Iraq, is a third-world nation without a significant military. Nothing in history hints that she is likely to invade a neighboring country, let alone do anything to America or Israel. I am concerned, however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin-type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran.
Even if such an attack is carried out by Israel over U.S. objections, we will be politically and morally culpable since we provided the weapons and dollars to make it possible...."
I don't know if Paul walks the walk because of conscience or constituent input, but he's walking the walk. In this speech, on the floor of the House, he cautioned the nation that we are at a point where a phony "Gulf of Tonkin" incident might be used to start WW3. Why the fuck aren't the Democrats talking like that? Paul's a Republican bucking his own party. Where the hell are the Democrats? No impeachment, no investigation of 9/11, no investigation of hundreds of massive financial crimes, no pull-out of the wars...why aren't you people screaming about this? Where's your decency? Where's your plan of action? What about recall votes? Are any of you working on that? What promises did your candidates make? Have you called to see what progress they've made toward fulfilling those promises? Do something.