Didn’t he also promise to launch an all-out blitz against the Democrats if they didn’t immediately bring every single American troop directly home from Iraq the next day after he made his announcement?

So where’s that? Did I miss that one?

That’s a damn good statement from Moore, the people should be the ones who hold politicians accountable. The left let some things slip for the sake of expediency, for that they deserve criticism.

The left let some things slip for the sake of expediency

Expediency? Expediency...?

Are you fucking serious?

The left let “some things slip” (those “some things” being legion.) because this is not, by a long shot, a serious intent on the left’s part (most especially Moore’s) to curb corruption.
Anyone who does not suffer from partisan brainwashing understands that this is nothing more than yet another disingenuous bit of partisan posturing, coupled with a witch hunt against anything or anyone conservative.

Your downplaying of it as an almost trivial matter
to be “criticized” is laughable, and right on par with the downplaying of the crimes committed by left-wing players like Jefferson, Murtha, et. al.

They should not be “criticized”.
They should be prosecuted.

Red Star, in their expediancy, what have the dems accomplished since taking over Congress?

Posted by crichton on 10/05/2007 at 01:28 PM (Link to this comment | )

“Red Star, in their expediancy, what have the dems accomplished since taking over Congress?”

They raised the min wage to help poor people and heads of families… even though all the data says poor people and heads of families don’t work for the min wage… young people and students do… Sooo, they did it* and demagogued it at the same time.

* and probably caused a little wage inflation bringing down the buying power of actual poor people and working poor families!

They rammed through a cigarette tax to fund another bloated entitlement, and did it in the name of “helping the children”.

Bush vetoed it, though, so I don’t know if it counts.

Oh, and they’ve held lots and lots of hearings.

The Democrats are not a party whose politics I am familiar with, I live in Australia remember,? however from what I do know of them, I think the distance between right and left in that particular party compares to the distance between my right and left arms, and I’m a skinny guy. As far as I’m concerned, Moore’s support of the Democrats, Ralph Nader or Donald Duck for that matter, means shit to me. Moore makes documentaries, entertaining, sometimes inspirational, but I don’t think he has done documentary making any big favours. He lost me when he started taking accolades, the Academy Award and so on, for his documentaries. As ‘Manufacturing Dissent’ points out, rather vindictively, the cause is not Moore. And the fact that Michael goes in for a bit of bullshitting doesn’t help either. Respectable documentary makers, John Pilger, Naomi Klein, Robert Greenwald and a few others have regrettably gone unnoticed, and that is a shame.