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Clintonista urges Dems to use caution …
August 23, 2006 |
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Of all of Clinton's myriad advisors and former Secretaries of This and That running around telling progressives what they should be doing, my favorite is former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
Over at TomPaine yesterday, he had a column urging democrats -- should they take the House this November -- to move with caution in dealing with our Imperial president and his enablers. He's half right:
[Dems will] be sorely tempted to showcase the Bush administration in all its lurid awfulness. Imagine an endless parade of witnesses offering shocking details of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, torture camps, payoffs to Halliburton, Defense Department usurpations, Iraq's descent into civil war, and other cover-ups, deceptions, data manipulations, suppressions of science, crass incompetencies, and outright corruption…
Joshua Holland is a staff writer at Alternet and a regular contributor to The Gadflyer.
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