Ben Affleck's not that bad

Ben Affleck’s not that bad

Hear me out. I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher, and if you saw the last show before his hiatus, you saw Affleck get pissed at the Democrats for caving to Bush’s demands. I’m a Liberal first and a Democrat second and the Iraq spending bill is one of the reasons. Why the F@#k didn’t the Democrats just send back the same damn bill and play chicken with the President until he blinked. He only has a 33% approval rating! Who did the Democrats think they were going to piss off! Over 63% of the country actually say they DISAPPROVE of him. (if the numbers don’t add up to 100 it’s because I’m using average polling and around 2-5% of people actually have no opinion. NO OPINION! We’re living during an administration that makes Grant’s look like Camelot and you have NO OPINION! Ugh. Humans!)

The Democrats were elected because of the mishandling of the Iraq war (amongst many other things). They were elected so we’d finally have a check on his power. Rubber stamp days over! My ass! Ben’s point was that the Democrats are so scared of being called Pussies that they will do anything to avoid that. I agree! It takes courage to stand up to the bully and say, “No, you get out of the way.” The rule during the Clinton (Bill) campaign was “if you hit me, I’ll hit you back.” Apparently the rule for most Democrats is, “If you try to hit me, I’ll get out of your way.”

I remember watching the Democrats signing the bill and thinking how weak they looked. I know that’s not nice, but they did. They just looked frail. Then they proved me right when they backed down. It’s not like they didn’t know he was going to veto it. He was saying he was going to do that before they ever sent it to him. DID THEY THINK HE WAS KIDDING!? They had no back up plan? There was no huddle where they planned on what they were going to do when he sends the bill back, LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD!? Fuck! Eric Cartman said it best: “I hate you guys.”

So I agree with Ben Affleck… and Bill Maher, of course, in saying that the Democrats need to grow a pair.