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Look, I believe that Congress shouldn't be censuring anybody for exercising free speech, but the important thing to remember here is that Hodes and Shea-Porter don't care about the censure. It's a symbolic act and it's not related to a government official. They're just doing what they feel is politically prudent on an item of little to no consequence.
Meanwhile, MoveOn.org was wrong to run the ad. I was once a member, but after this, I canceled. It was the last straw. I'm sick of them acting like Democrats aren't on their side. If we had 60 votes in the Senate, the troops would be coming home, and the vast majority of Dems in Congress agree with MoveOn on 90% of what they want on Iraq, yet MoveOn keep attacking them. This is why Republicans win elections: because their interest groups know better than to eat their own.
When I was growing up, reasonable people agreed on the facts and disagreed on the solutions.
Yet now, and especially over the last six years, our political discourse has grown ever more shrill, especially on the Republican side, with name-calling, demonizing and attacking the messenger, personal insults - anything to draw attention from the truth.
What are the Bush/Cheney administration and their Republican apologists afraid of? What is the dirty and terrible secret they are apparently frantic to protect?
