Our Republic needs more and better Democrats. Americans have decided that the conservative government of George W. Bush needs to be forcefully opposed.

Yet, most of the Democratic Party leadership has managed to ignore the mandate for change which the public gave to them. These cowards capitulate pointlessly to a loathed President and allow a criminally corrupted Republican Party to continue to call the shots in Washington.

Their continued failure to fight, truly fight for liberal principles will result in worse anger at their betrayal, worse apathy in our Democratic process, and another 8 years of Republican corruption.

For this reason, I've decided to document their atrocities. In 1776 I said, "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way." In 2008 we don't need anymore followers. Lead boldly, or, for the sake of our great Nation, please get the hell out of the way.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Whitehouse: In the Way

Submitted by Joshua Wyeth on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 04:41.

Hilzoy of Obsidian Wings, one of the blogosphere's most eloquent writers, recently wrote this in support of keeping civil liberties protections in FISA:

But there is nothing inevitable about this. The Constitution is, after all, just a piece of paper. It cannot stick up for itself. It needs defenders. It has put in place a structure that makes it more likely that it will find some: when one branch of government exceeds its limits, another acquires an interest in checking it; when all branches conspire together, the people can demand that their rights be respected. No Constitution can do more than this. And this cannot possibly be enough if the people who should defend the Constitution are unwilling to do so.

Sheldon Whitehouse, one of the ostensibly more liberal new senators of the class of 2006, is apparently "unwilling to do so."

Get back to where you on December 7, 2007 or get out of the way, Sheldon.