Why do the democrats let the tail wag the dog?

It is, of course, the pursuit of political power.

The pollsters and professional tea leaf readers counsel and get paid, and the democratic politicians get played up to. Yet the tail of the dog is at best some combination of 70 pacifists, anti-war (all wars), and Iraq anti-war types out of 435 total House Representatives. Most add in the power of finances from organization, and the real fervor of these 70 types and all their influencing staffs, and there we have it. Their effort to take over and run the Congress and the country is failing mostly due to numbers … they can’t win any substantial vote because of the rest of us who elected the other 365 members of the House. And this discussion leaves out the Senate and the Presidential veto.

The exceedingly poor performance in prosecuting the war in Iraq by the President and his hired minions has created a frustration bordering on thinking we citizens are not respected enough. No one wants to lose a war, and more importantly, most citizens still believe we are under attack, and have to fight back somehow. If not now, later, and most likely at much greater cost to our Country. And most citizens now accept the regional concept of our frictions with Iran and Syria, and expect our government be doing subterfuge types of things. All this mixing of Iraq and a war on terror and executive poor performance in the last four years has opened a highway any competent enemy, foreign or domestic, has driven through.

That the democrats have chosen this highway is a serious mistake on their part. Our Nation is much more important than their political control of the federal government, and the vast national monies. We have many other serious problems that the old time democrats historically seemed suited to solve. Obvious examples today are Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. In the absence of initiatives in these areas, some smart Americans will take the initiative. Today, it doesn’t look like democrats are up to it; and the tail should never wag the dog.