Like a lot of you, I’m sure, I’m on a bunch of political e-mail lists (in fact, I’m on a bunch of them more than once, due to my multiple e-mail addresses and inability to remember what I’ve already signed up for). I get them from MoveOn and Chuck and Hillary, and the DFA. I even get them from someone named Sean Patrick Maloney, who’s running for NYS attorney general, and I don’t even know how I got on his list (but he sounds like a nice Irish boy, so my mother would have liked him). They’re generally full of fightin’ words, righteous indignation, and, more often than not, a request for money.

I got one yesterday from Democrats.com, with a big, bold “Demand an Investigation Now!” subject line. There was a litany of offenses perpetrated by this administration (which we’re all very familiar with here), and a plea to “Urge your Representative to join the 27 sponsors of House Resolution 635 for a Watergate-style investigation.”

Well, OK. That’s not a bad idea, I guess (never mind that my “Representative” is a Bush/DeLay/Republican asslicker who has never passed up an opportunity to vote the way’s been told). But, you know, there are 202 Democrats in the House (plus Bernie Sanders), and you fucking people can’t get even 15% of them to co-sponsor this resolution? Come on, you’ve gotta do better than that, folks, ‘cuz you’re gonna need every stinking Democrat, plus Bernie, plus another 15 Republicans. To be honest, you’ll never even get it up for a vote the way the House is run. Come back to me when you’ve at least gotten your so-called Democrats to stand up and speak with one voice, for a change.

Hey, I’m sorry, but I got the same e-mails form you over the Alito nomination, and I called, and I wrote, and I faxed, and, in the end, you spineless weasels sold us all out, as usual. Just like the Bankruptcy Bill, the Patriot Act, and Authorization to start a war that everybody knew was a load of crap from the beginning (yeah, everybody; I’m tired of your “we were miseld” bullshit. I figured it out, and you should have, too).

You think you can’t win, so you give up and go along.

When you know you can’t win, you’ve got nothing more to lose, so it’s the best time to vote your conscience. We all saw how you voted, and I think that gave us a pretty good idea of where your conscience lies. So, Democrats, go ahead and keep e-mailing me, but until I start to see some consequences for the DINO’s who stab our country in the back by selling out to these disgusting, shameless criminals, you’re gonna have a tough time getting me all excited.