DLC’s Tom Vilsack Wimps Out
I could hardly believe my own ears.
Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, new head of the DLC, appeared with John King on CNN on Sunday afternoon and asked for Karl Rove to APOLOGIZE and said he expected we could “move on” with other issues.
APOLOGIZE?!?
What is WRONG with Tom Vilsack? Has he no courage or moral fortitude?
Rove should be kicked out of the White House - on his ass!
Vilsack’s leadership abilities should be scrutinized. He deserves to be thrashed for this wimpy performance.
He spells L-O-S-E-R for Democrats by taking such a weak position on behalf of the DLC.
July 17th, 2005 at 2:08 pm
Vilsack is saying, in effect, “Move along folks…nothing to see here …no constitutional crisis or anything.” Wimpy is not strong enough a word to describe such appeasement. Vilsack’s suggestion implies a profound moral collapse and a complicity with Bush’s war of choice, as well as with all the lies, betrayals, delusions, and character assassinations that originate in this White House.
Is this what the DLC stands for? Clearly, it is not the kind of leadership that Democrats need. There is a great deal at stake here in Fitzgerald’s pending case before the grand jury; the most important thing being whether this is still a nation of laws. This is a crisis; and it’s not an ordinary crisis. And any suggestion that we can just move along to other issues now, and drop these select injustices and crimes in the memory hole, is nothing less than depraved.
July 17th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
Don’t take it so hard. This IS the DLC, after all, Al From’s wannabee Republican facsimiles. They never achieved anything the ruling regimes hadn’t already decided to let them have. Investing them with any hopes for the future is a sucker’s bet.
July 17th, 2005 at 7:45 pm
Exactly correct….. the Repubs and Dems are two side of the same coin. They are run by and for the social and political elite. Any semblance of representation of the American people is strictly contrived.
July 18th, 2005 at 5:02 am
I think the Democrats should fire their nanny, Vilsack, for his excessive masturbation of Karl Rove.
July 18th, 2005 at 10:50 am
I’ll second the prevailing opinion in the commets. The DLC are collaborators. This, of all events, makes that crystal clear.
July 18th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Vilsack is uncomfortable talking about what Karl Rove means to American politics. He’d rather we “move on” to topics he is comfortable with.
Sorry Tom. When you are a candidate for President you don’t always get to chose what debate you are going to have (even Bush has not always succeeded in that area). You have to debate the issues as they come up.
Rove is the issue. The perfidity of the Bush administration is the issue. If you can’t talk about something that is at the core of the problems in America today then you are unqualified to be President, let alone be a CANDIDATE for President.
July 18th, 2005 at 10:11 pm
Lighten up. Vilsack said what he thought he should say to be serious and presidential. He’s wrong of course. But, hey, he has people on his payroll telling him he is Presidential material, so get in the game, Tom! So he has scrunched up his eyes, tugged down his eyeshade and played the hand he’s been dealt: supporter of the war, anti-Deaniac, comin’ out of Iowa, fer cryin’out loud, with a name like a pickle. And he doesn’t want to get Roved right out of the chute. Like I said, lighten up. Visack’s got nothing going for him; nobody heard or read his comments except us freakazoid politicos. Maybe saying something that sounds compassionate is an okay thing for a Dem to say. He’s not a player.