Madame Speaker and Senator Reid,
While you are still in search of an effective strategy, Republicans have already found one. They have vowed to obstruct your every effort.
What, if anything, are you going to do?
How can this president demand an amendment to FISA and at the same time claim the authority to deny its oversight by Congress?
Madame Speaker and Senator Reid, when will you say ENOUGH?
What manner of disrespect and contempt reaches your threshold for rebuke?
I watch in disbelief as subpoenas are ignored and questions go unanswered. Repeatedly. Your challenges are met with scorn and then waived off by the President, Attorney General, and Republican Members of Congress.
What we are witnessing in Washington borders on the absurd. How is it that Representative Conyers and Senator Leahy can't even get witnesses to show up for hearings? These are no longer rhetorical questions.
The majority of this country voted for Congress to take back the reins of government. We voted for Congress to renounce the lawlessness of this president and reject the Republican initiative to vest even more power in the executive branch.
It is unacceptable that Democratic leadership is still capitulating to the demands of a contemptuous president and an obstructionist Congressional minority.
Is there a Democratic strategy beyond winning the next election cycle? What is the point of winning an election if you cannot further a legislative agenda?
Maybe a better question is, why should we vote for legislators who cannot further an agenda?
It is already evident that the Republican Party cannot be trusted to handle the awesome responsibility of running this country. They have bullied, lied, and stolen almost everything of value during their tenure.
Your short tenure, has not provided much comfort to those of us who elected you. We did not vote for Democratic capitulation until the next election.
Someone once said, "there is no 'try', there is only 'do'". Trying to reverse the lawlessness and obstructionism is not acceptable. Nothing short of results is acceptable.
Please move beyond the platitudes and niceties and take back the workings of government.
We are watching.