Keep Your Powder Dry

Ok, we've heard this phrase a zillion times by Democrats the last few years. What on Earth they are actually keeping their powder dry for, we'll never know, because they can't seem to pull the trigger on any one thing that this President is doing that warrants a trip to the powdercache.

Well, here's a list:

• Because President Bush authorizes spying on Americans without a warrant.
• Because President Bush authorized torture by Americans and through renditioning.
• Because President Bush detains people without charge for an indefinite period.
• Because President Bush ignores whatever laws he wants, even if he signs them.
• Because President Bush lied about Iraq to get us into the war.
• Because the Army is stretched "to the breaking point."
• Because the reconstruction of Iraq is being fucked up, too.
• Because President Bush refuses to acknowledge what it's gonna take to help the people of the Gulf Coast.
• Because Ford is getting rid of 30,000 employees.
• Because Karl Rove still has a job.
• Because President Bush and the Republicans fail to fully fund the bullshit "No Child Left Behind" program.
• Because President Bush denies the existence of global warming.
• Because the Medicare prescription drug program is a clusterfuck that will end up in people dying because of its existence.
• Because President Bush denies any connection to Jack Abramoff.
• Because President Bush refuses to speak before any audience that doesn't adore him.
• Because Dick Cheney exists.
• Because Osama Bin Laden is either living free or died free.
• Because Donald Rumsfeld still has a job.
• Because the White House has stymied every investigation into its fuck-ups.
• Because President Bush calls spying "terrorist surveillance" and pollution "Clean Skies" and money to churches "Faith-Based Initiatives."
• Because Richard Scaife doesn't need another tax cut.
• Because there has to be a line in the sand, somewhere; otherwise, it's just one long desert until who-knows-when.

Is that enough? Have they been so cowed by the Right, by the biased media, by Karl Rove's smear maching that they can't muster up some cojones to fight this garbage? I'm afraid so.