Stop Apologizing!

Nancy Pelosi did it again. One more apology on a stack of endless apologies from Democrats. Please stop being so damn weak. It's embarrassing to look at.

This time it was a rebuke of Pete Stark (D-CA) for saying the president is getting kids killed for his own amusement in Iraq. Amusement, ego, whatever. The kids are dying and it is all because of the president's vainglory. Pete Stark shouldn't be apologizing for that, Nancy Pelosi shouldn't be apologizing on his behalf or rebuking him, it should be the president who is apologizing!

Read this. It is the first article I ever wrote on Huffington Post. It's called the "Seven Step Plan for Media Domination and Opponent Destruction" and it's just as true today as it was over two years ago. The Republicans have done this countless more times since I originally wrote this article. The Democrats are apparently never going to catch on to this shell game.

But I'm long past waiting for the Democratic leaders to do the right thing or realize how badly they're being outplayed at every turn. It's time to start rooting for a new generation of Democratic leaders like Pete Stark and Chris Dodd. If they're ready to do the fighting, I'm ready to stand behind them.

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[VideoRadio]

Obviously, Pete Start doesn't read the Huffyton Post.

Another Democrat apology. The jackass party sure does live up to it's reputation.

[NoTimeToBeNice]

Enough already about Democrats' "fear" to act! Can we stop making excuses? And if so, when? A sholdier in battle who fails to act or who runs away, leaving his comrades, is branded a deserter, a coward, or even a traitor. These people who sought the office have sworn to do their duty, to uphold the laws and constitution and should be no less accountable!

Nancy Pelosi: How dare you apologize for Rep. Stark! Go home Nancy! Let a real American do the job you are obviously unwilling and therefore unfit to do. Impeachment "Off the table"? How dare you deny the very constitutional process you are sworn to uphold and support?

Remember Nancy knew about illegal warrentless wiretapping long before it was exposed in the Times. Does that not make her complicit to an impeachable felony?

Ms. Pelosi:
You should be ashamed of yourself for the disgraceful, unrepentant, and UN-American abetting of the Iraqi war and occupation, your failure to support the troops by supporting the continued occupation, war profiteering, undermining the rule of law and the Constitution, and most specifically, the illegal, warrentless wiretapping of US citizens which you early on knew about yet supported, at the very least, by your silence and therefore complicity.

The wiretapping is as actionable as it is illegal, reprehensible, and un-constitutional and therefore you should, along with your defacto co-conspirators in the regime, resign or be impeached then prosecuted to the full extent of U.S. law as well as internationally as an accomplice to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in the World Court in the Hague.

Before you dare to apologize again for a true American patriot like Rep. Pete Stark, I suggest you instead apologize for your own actions and lack of conscience and good judgment and resign immediately.

This country sorely needs more true American patriots like Pete Stark and not another neo-fascis­m-supporti­ng, sock puppet, blindly and dutifully supporting, thereby advancing, the nefarious goals of the current, increasingly authoritarian, insatiably power-hungry, war-mongering regime.

Resign now Nancy! Pete Stark for Speaker!

[CTGJR]

The Dems need to study the behavior of McHenry, Putnam, Cantor and Boehner and use them as a model on how to throw bombs and not apologize. Sometimes you have to lose control, let it rip and not be apologetic.

[avergejoe]

I like Pelosi, if she wasnt being held in a straightjacket, she could do a lot of good.
Is she weak, or controlled? (is there a difference?)
e.g.
From HumanEvents 03/20/07:
For it was Pelosi who quietly agreed to strip out of the $100 billion funding bill for Iraq a provision that would have required President Bush to seek congressional approval before launching any new war on Iran.
Why did Pelosi capitulate? Answer: She was "under pressure from some conservative members of her caucus, and from lobbyists associated with neoconservative groups that want war with Iran and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),"
"Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received a smattering of boos when she bad-mouthed the war effort during a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and the Democratic leadership, responding to concerns from pro-Israel lawmakers, was forced to strip from a military appropriations measure a provision meant to weaken President Bush's ability to respond to threats from Iran."

[JimR]

"Democratic leadership"

Now there's an oxymoron.

[swift goat pet for truth]

Pelosi's correct statement in regards to Rep Stark's comment should have been along the lines of, "You don't like it, well, boo hoo hoo."

[Nonamnesiac]

You should apologize for your post. Just because Nancy has chosen to take truth off the table in condemning Pete Stark's accurate, proper remarks doesn't give you the right to challenge her apology. Nancy needs to maintain the high ground -- talking against the war while making certain it continues to be prosecuted. Murderers like her have a strong need to apologize to cleanse their souls. You are trying to stop her from cleansing her soul.

Write another post apologizing to her for trying to stop her from apologizing to the animals who have given us this war.

[hip dibler]

people who still try to sway the dems are as delusional as republicans who still support the bush admin.

[joebaggadonuts]

Getting their heads blown off for the President's amusement. Sounds about right. What's not true about that? You think it's to bring freedom to the people of Iraq? The war was a huge cynical miscalculation. And now that we can't afford it, what are you going to do, Blame those who opposed the war in Iraq?

[iburl]

Here he is, being amused at the deaths of our soldiers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0TnqUlB4Gg

[SteveL]

Note to Nancy Pelosi: Remember Tom Foley? Doubt that many do.
Thomas Stephen "Tom" Foley 57th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
His thirty-year career in Congress was notable for its length and for his steady climb up the ranks of the Congressional and party leadership. However, his defeat in the 1994 Congressional elections made him the first sitting Speaker since 1860 not to win re-election to Congress.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

"It's time to start rooting for a new generation of Democratic leaders ..."

Absolutely right.

Here's where you can find an up-to-date list of Bush-Democrats who need to be replaced in the primaries:
http://www.democrats.com/primary-2008-list

[realitytrumpsbull]

Cenk, cenk, cenk...DNC/GOP doesn't mean anything anymore, it's the oil/war party vs.
everybody else...$$$­$$$$$$$$$$­$$$$$$$$$$­....
get some today! LOL

We haven't had good representation in years.
The closest we really saw to some bona-fide
fire on the anti-war side of things was
actually a republican, Chuck Hagel, but I
fail to believe that ANY of these people would
bite the hand that feeds with any real vigor,
especially not Nancy 'impeachment is off the
table' Pelosi. People went to the polls in 06
to flush the toilet, but somebody broke the
handle....

[southwerk]

The Democrats could win big in 2008. However, there is nothing in their performance thus far that would lead one to believe that they have any rationale for governing. There is no evidence that they have a strong commitment to the rule of law and the Constitution. There is no evidence that on countless issues there is any strong difference in opinion with what the Republicans did when they were in power. Beating the Republicans is not enough. Surely after all these years of Republican control often boiling down to little more than mendacity and stupidity, the Democrats have some ideas to off. We would hope.

[veracity]

The Democrats have mastered the COWARDLY BETRAYAL of EVERYTHING American.

They are too complicit, corrupted, or cowed to notice that the Right Wing agenda is synonymous with that of the Bible-thumpers who once ADVOCATED SLAVERY, or, more recently, segregation (and the lynch-mobs which accompanied segregation for almost 100 years: see, http://withoutsanctuary.org
The Dems have become slaves to the same lobbies that run the GOP: the war/defense industry, the oil/nuclea­r-energy/a­uto/highwa­y lobbies, Big Finance/credit (extortion) lobbies; big pharma, real-estat­e/construc­tion/build­ing, and of course AIPAC, the anti-abortion theocrats, and Big Media. While many of these industries employ millions of Americans, what is missing is a sense of perspective: that far from SOCIALIZED BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING being a DRAG on the American economy, it defines the rock-bottom bedrock of American culture: our interstate highways, roads, and public transportation system, which IS American society. (From "Route 66" and the interstate highway system in the 1950s, to today's suburbs and bedroom communities: none would be possible without public spending.)
Democrats are entirely unable to counter this Right-Wing propaganda, they don't even try. And, worse, they take our hard-earned campaign donations every 2 years, and HAND 'em RIGHT OVER to the very MEDIA ROBBER BARONS (to buy campaign TV ad time) whose agenda is so antithetical to genuine democracy!

[acespeed]

cenk, you're absolutely right. Stark's comments are on point. This war isn't helping anyone anywhere. And, Stark said what's on the mind of everyone who disagrees with the war and wants to bring the kids home. It's also completely disgraceful that the republicans won't give children health coverage. But, that doesn't surprise me.

I think when Pelosi became Speaker, everyone, including us progressives, expected a sea change of leadership, someone who would lead and make substantive changes. Clearly, that hasn't happened. I don't understand why the democratic leaders have to constantly apologize for everything. I thought their position in government is to be adversarial yet collegial. Clearly, they seems to be forgetting that adversarial component of their responsibilities.

[bertisbert]

Exactly why a vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008 is a vote for business as usual.

[NegSpin]

I don't think so. I think Hillary has it in her to gut and fry the Republicans. I would look for the vast right wing conspiracy to have a little less scrotal heft in its pants if Hillary is president.

[deminmo]

Pelosi is asking everyone to quit making waves
or swamp the boat. Sometime between becoming
the Speaker she was encouraged to speak softly
and forget the big stick attitude. Who did it
and when it happened.....but notice how quickly
people shut up in Washington?