Tipping Again

At CounterPunch Ralph Nader tells us we're at the "tipping point" :

"There comes a tipping point, however, when the opposition of the establishment, the public opinion of the citizenry, the disgust of the soldiers--their spreading casualties, diseases and mental traumas - and the corruption of the large corporate contractors to whom much of the military's functions have been outsourced, all congeal and overcome the cowardliness of most members of Congress. Then a surge of Congressional followers and allies of Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), war veteran and leading voice against the Bush Iraq policies, will come to the forefront."

Lemme see, didn't I write something about a "tipping point" a while back? Oh yes, last September when the last "tipping point" was tipping around : "In the past several weeks some on the left claim the press is waking up, the press is finally doing it's job, the media is finally asking the tough questions. Suddenly the press has testicles. Sure. Almost overnight the press tell us polls have turned against Bush. We've reached a "tipping point." This near instant "tipping point" began to emerge around May, picked up speed with the Sheehan coverage, and Katrina definitely put Bush down the Zogby. Another term coined for the peons, "tipping point" and almost as useful as urban legends of "cow tipping."

Nader says now comes "400,000 lawyers--whose House of Delegates has overwhelmingly approved a task force report accusing President Bush, in polite legal language, of violating both the Constitution and federal law."

Wow, wish they had been around 3 years ago. Lawyers. And all those "former" high level officials coming out now. The best and the brightest took 3 years to recognize a "foreign disaster" when they see one? And then they are polite about it.

But wait, "task force." Is that not like investigation, commissions, hearings, panel, etc. and did I not write something about that last June, and said : "The time is upon us for hearings, bipartisan congressional bills, homeboy Acts named to induce a warm fuzzy and insinuate the end is near. We're at the political stage of not questioning the justification for our engagement in the War or hold anyone accountable, but the years of debating military withdrawal strategy, aka carrying water for the warmongers."

How many, raise your hands, knew when Election 2000 went down like it did that we would be at war very soon under Bush? Too many to count. See, we're smarter than 400,000 lawyers and former high levelers.

But maybe the "tipping point" will really really "congeal" this time and Congress will ride to the rescue with John "Defense Porker" Murtha leading the cavalry to shitcan the neocons and put the good, but cowardly and slow to come out, congress critters in charge.