Reply #3: Because the Democrats are almost as complicit in this matter as the 'Pugs

[MadHound]

Bill Clinton started this off by continuing to rev up the War on Drugs, slowly but surely eroding out civil rights. The Congressional Dems have been extending this by voting in favor of such things as the Patriot Act, the Dept. of Homeland Security, the IWR(which is what Bush is basing this travesty on), the nominations of Roberts and Alito, and just yesterday, the renewal of the Patriot Act, whom Bill's wife voted in favor of.

They are also complicit by their continuing silence. While a few brave souls scream to high heaven about this, Kennedy and Feingold being the most notable, the rest remain disturbingly quiet on these matters. Rather than taking to the bully pulpit and beating the President over the head with club after club that this misadministration has handed them, they remain silent.

This is just one more example of the two party/same corporate master system of government that we live under now. The opposition is but a token, and fades quickly into the background. These so called leaders of ours have enough money and power that the measures they pass will not effect them. But sadly, we are left to bear the full brunt of the consequences, whether it is domestic spying, decreased freedom of speech, or a woman's right to choose being taken away.

The reason that the Dems aren't speaking out is because they are bought and paid for poltical whores, whose silence and complicity has been paid for with corporate lucre.

Just one more reason we need a real opposition party in this country, not the token we have now.