It’s time for the Democrats to change their congressional leadership

It may already be too late. Even though they have had power only 10 weeks, they may have already changed enough voters to ensure they are voted out in 2008. The raw arithmetic seems obvious to many. They got control in Congress in 2006, albeit barely, by the voters who voted “in” more “blue-dog” type congressmen and congresswomen. People wanted change in D.C. As low as the hyped approval ratings of the President are, those of Congress are even lower. And it appears the present Congressional leaders still believe their multiple campaign plans of obstruction and manufactured corruptions of the week worked as evidenced by the continued practices today. But what is happening is that voters are switching opinions quickly, and even beginning to laugh at the haphazardness of the Congressional Democrats’ conduct given the serious problems our Nation does have. What’s next on their part … pitchforks and torches in the streets? Actually, vandalism and office invasions are already beginning as a political tactic. Pardon me, but this looks Nazi-like to many.

In a most simple arithmetic, the anti-war (any war not just Iraq) types in the House add up to 70, or 16% of the House. Not only should any minority not dominate a party or either house of Congress, they certainly should not have the literally billions of dollars of public monies offered as bribes to gain their vote on the Iraq war funding. Where are the Congressional leaders who look out for the majority’s interests, the National interests, the interests for the common good, the articulation of policy alternatives. These types of national leaders are certainly not the ones filling the leadership positions at this time. The voters sent enough of these types of people to Congress. The Democrats just have not elected them to positions of leadership.

The present Democratic leaders seem especially good at producing rhetoric, obstruction, crises of the week, and other such ineffectual masquerades for governing. Nothing substantial has been accomplished, not does it seem likely in the future leading up to 2008. Yet Congress is a co-equal branch of government that has serious responsibilities in governing our Nation. Yet the present leaders seem stuck in the past, as if for not knowing what to do, they do what they know, which is not substantially much. And even if a third of our voters are silly enough to allow all this, the other two-thirds won’t keep allowing this most transparent type of behavior and governance to continue.