Murtha's right, Rove's wrong

We all should be questioning the ability of those who got us into this mess to get us out of it.

In what other field of endeavor would we continually go back to the “professionals” who had failed so dramatically? Would we let someone continue to build a house for us who hadn’t laid a foundation? Would we let them finish a bridge that went nowhere? (Oops, sorry ... maybe some of us would do that!) I mean, my god! We should be laughing these clowns off the stage of power. Cheney gave us the iconic event for their efforts, “The gang who couldn’t shoot straight”. (Some of us STILL didn’t get it.)

The mess? As I have stated before, no one has to document it for any of us any more: A quagmire of an insurgent war in Iraq with no viable exit strategy that restores stability to the Middle East, paying for this war by expanding the deficit, failing to adequately respond to Katrina and its aftermath, ... and those are three of the most obvious examples, any one of which leads to the rational assumption that someone has failed miserably ... and that assumption would have been made WITH Congressional investigations, I suggest, at almost any other time in our national history.

Have we exchanged our capacity for critical thinking for loyalty to “King” George? “Unimpeded executive authority” ... are they (we) nuts?!

Of course Murtha’s right.

If we kowtow to Karl Rove’s bully tactics instead of listening to Congressman John Murtha, we might as well kiss our future goodby. It is hard to believe it is even an issue ... and yet it is.

Murtha is a hero and a man. Rove is the junior high schoolyard bully who kisses up to the rich kid to be able to ride in the limo to the graduation party.

Get real, America!

Note: Written as a comment in response to the truthdig.com report, "Truthdigger of the Week: John Murtha".