An outraged world watches George Bush again show his contempt and scorn for our voters, commanders and standards as a Nation and our answer should be this:
Dont get angry, take action. Go to actblue and answer his surge for war, with our surge of support for the Democrats in the Senate who are waging a historic battle to end this travesty.
We the people of the United States are not Tony Blair-like Poodles who will be mocked and scorned by a President who says "kiss my ass" to those who voted in the 2006 election.
Every single one of us, can have our own vote in the United States Senate with donations large or small in our Lexington and Concord answer to the President's escalation.
This is a President whose idea of bipartisanship is to demean George Washington through the torture that Washington opposed; to disrespect Abe Lincoln by taking every opportunity to tear open our wounds and divide our country; to mock Jefferson and Madison with signing statements to break the law and violate the Constitution.
Even after the resounding election, he claims the power to open our mail in violation of law. He does the impossible: turning the Butcher of Baghdad into a martyr, with a hanging done by taunting death squad supporters, protected by liars who tried to cover it up.
This President has learned nothing from experience. He treats bipartisanship as a means to again disrespect military advice, to again divide our country, and to again escalate the mistakes that have caused this carnage.
Don't get angry; get active. Go to actblue and stand up for our democracy. This is what will happen:
In 2008 there are 21 Senate Republicans up for re-election, an unusually high number that creates a historic opportunity for Democrats. Many of them are older, and may retire. Many have low popularity, and may well be defeated. Many have very prominent Democrats deciding whether to run.
Senate Republicans know that it is not out of the question that they lose as many as ten seats in 2008. I reviewed them all last night and Senate Republicans face a very dangerous position.
For them, George W. Bush wants to escalate a war they know is catastrophic; and expand a policy they know is failed and dramatically unpopular. Senate Republicans know the President want to dump this mess on his successor in 2-3 years. They might as well hold the 2008 Republican Convention in Baghdad.
George Bush is their Herbert Hoover.
Now he wants them to escalate a policy that they privately oppose, that military leaders advise against, that their constituents widely despise.
If we answer the Bush drive to escalate and surge this war, with our drive to escalate and surge our support for Democrats, we fire a cannon that will be heard across the bow of official Washington.
Let Republicans do the right thing, or remember the fate of George Allen and Rick Santorum.
It is high time for Senate Republicans to vote their conscience on this war. If they do, they will be applauded by a grateful nation. If they do not, they will answer to the people.
Do not underestimate our power. We have the high moral ground, the high military ground, the high political ground.
We speak for the overwhelming majority of the American people. We will answer his cynicism with our patriotism. We will answer his arrogance with our idealism.
We have won a great election and the will of the people must be honored.
Last November we took our case to the people and emerged victorious.
We are not poodles, we are patriots. We have not yet begun to fight.
We are going fight, and fight, and fight again, every hour of every day, until the country we love has a President who stands for the values we share.
He has his surge, we have ours.
Dont be angry, take action. Go to actblue and answer the president's speech with our passion and we will fire a cannon that will ultimately he heard around the world.
