Captain Future's Log

Memo to Dems: It's the Congress, O Wise Ones

Have fun, enjoy the indictments. Sit glued to the tube for every morsel about the fall of Bush.

But remember: Bush doesn't matter.

Congress matters.

While Bush fiddles, and Bush burns, the Republican Congress isn't slowing down. It hasn't seen the light of the burning Bush. It is busy worshipping down at the Golden Calf bar and grill with oil lobbyists and bankers, Halliburton and other mercenaries.

DeLay indicted, Dems delighted, and still the hammer pushes through legislation to enrich oil buddies at the expense of the American people, the environment and every child's future.

Dems can cry, Shame! Shame! but the Republicans don't care. Re-read Susanhu's frontpager at BooMan Tribune and weep. It's just going to keep happening. It's business as usual in Congress--on the backs of the poor. Bad today, worse tomorrow.

Bush may be toast, but Bush is history anyway. He and his downfall are important now only in how they affect the Congressional elections. Not even '08 matters as much.

Congress is doing the damage, and it's stopping them ASAP---in '06 if not sooner---that's vital. The Democratic version of the contract with America sounds like a promising start. Pay attention to it, debate it, hone it, insist on it. Don't play the Plame game too long.

The only thing Bush can do alone now is war and torture. He's self-destructing, and tragically killing so many people and so many hopes in the process. Get a Congress that will cut him off.

Things are going to get hot, no matter what anyone does. But we don't need a vicious Congress of cynical, corrupt, hypocritical pillagers and scavengers, to make things so much worse.

So rave over Rove, let your piggy come over. Liberate your inner Libby. But don't get distracted. Don't let the Democratic Party get distracted.

It's the Congress, O wise ones.