It seems the Democratic party is in full spiral, not knowing left from right , public option from insurance company control, wall street bailouts from main street job creations, and fighting from conceding & throwing in the towel.
It seems the democrats are not ready, willing or able to take on the fight to stand by any of their convictions in order to do the work of the people. We have seen it with the public option & every other option close to giving the people a hand up instead of giving insurance companies more money or more control shot down with negotiations & concessions within their own party of majority control, we have seen it with the messy confusion of so called “too big to fail” banks & wall street needing taxpayer bailouts, while unemployment continues to rise & now we are seeing it in the battle over how to go about securing our homeland from terrorist threats. Attorney general, Eric Holder is now having to concede from his convictions because of lack of support within his own party, while many high profile Democrats decide to jump ship because they do not believe there’s any hope in being able to do the people’s work. So much for team work & bringing change we can believe in to Washington!

“The political attacks over terrorism cases were “starting to constrain my ability to function as attorney general,” he said in an interview last week. “I have to do a better job in explaining the decisions that I have made,” Mr. Holder also said, adding, “I have to be more forceful in advocating for why I believe these are trials that should be held on the civilian side.”

Isn’t this pretty much what Obama said about his part in the healthcare bill not passing, during the state of the union address? There seems to be a hint of puppeteering going on & it’s becoming obvious that Rahm Emanuel is the puppet master, basically Dick Cheney in democrats clothing who is being given way too much power in calling the shots. I don’t know Rahm Emanuel personally, but if he’s anything like his brother, Ari Emanuel,the Hollywood talent agent portrayed as Ari Gold on HBO’s hit show Entourage, then we should all be really scared because this character’s need for power & to have things his way comes by any means necessary, whether it’s “hugging it out” or the most cut throat , move out of my way , I will sell out my own mother if need be type of means. A type of zealousness for power that is beyond our fears of the grumpy old man stuck in his ways type of power that Dick Cheney wielded.

This is a new era of drunken power that is young, flashy, technologically viral & savvy with a wall street type of greed is good, go big or go home type of edge, even if it means breaking the bank & the system while leaving the lowly people with the pieces to pick up. Basically business as usual in Washington with a younger face & mindset that does not obey the rules of the old boys club, where at least you had some limits based in respect within your own Entourage. What ever happened to fighting for & standing steadfast in one’s beliefs? How do we get change in Washington if we concede to everything the Republicans want & do everything the Bush/Cheney way.

Erroll Southers’ resignation fell by the waist side with out the president or the Democrats going to bat for him or finding a replacement- leaving the US with no TSA head- when homeland security is supposed to be top priority. Look at the fight that the Bush/Cheney administration put up for Harriet Miers, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld , Karl Rove & so many others who had questionable actions & dealings as government officials that were no where close to the actions & dealings of Erroll Southers, Van Jones or Eric Holder to not go to bat for them or to force them to concede in their convictions & expected duties of their jobs. I guess fighting for what you believe in is just not the way of the Democrats. Compromise, yield, concede & lost of dignity maybe the way of the cowardly lion, but in Washington we can rightfully call them Democrats!

“He arrived determined to assert the Justice Department’s independence. A self-described “student of history,” he outfitted his conference room with reminders of what it takes to join the ranks of the most respected attorneys general: portraits of lionized predecessors, including some who defied their presidents or restored the Justice Department after scandal.”

I guess Eric holder has to rethink his high expectations of “Change” in Washington & returning any kind of dignity & glory to the attorney general’s office after the scandals of his predecessors from Bush administration. How do the Democrats, Rahm Emanuel & President Obama justify going to bat for United States Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, who was riddled with tax problems & was a direct player from the same wall street that needed tax payer bailouts after collapsing the global economy, the same wall street which he is now supposed to oversee & keep in check. If they could find good reasons to fight for & stand by someone like Tim Geithner by seeing his tax evasion & other issues as “honest mistakes” , then surely they can find reasons to fight for & not throw others on their own team under the bus during critical times when the democrats must show a united force to do the work of the people.

It is no wonder why many democrats are jumping ship & using the explanation that senator Evan Bayh of Indiana gave:
“There is too much partisanship and not enough progress – too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving. Even at a time of enormous challenge, the peoples’ business is not being done”

I am starting to believe that perhaps President Obama should be more worried about the Democrats who are pushing him toward failure instead of the Republicans wanting him to fail because at least with the Republicans, they publicly put their agenda out there & do not try to hide it, so the president clearly knows what he is dealing with with them. These senate democrats jumping ship, like Evan Bayh & Patrick Kennedy seem to know something that is not privy to the public because if you have an unprecedented majority strong hold in congress, personal high approval ratings, plus a global superstar president with high approval ratings & you still can not get the people’s work done, then there is something fundamentally wrong in the overall leadership of the Democratic party. As the president constantly says, “the buck stops with me”, so I guess it’s time to start counting those bucks & make appropriate adjustments before we all get buried under them.