By Dean Showers

Either Congressional Democrats are pansies or they have made some deep, dark deal with the Bush family. They have abandoned citizens who incorrectly looked to them for leadership last November.

Democrats have let George W. Bush push them around, which reveals weaknesses:

When then-future Speaker Nancy Pelosi eliminated impeachment, she quashed a bargaining chip Democrats could have had over this failed presidency; imagine what they might have gotten for us had they held impeachment over Bush's head.

The Democrats in both houses still have a hammer over Bush and the Republicans, but they lack creative fortitude to use it. They let massive-spender-taxer Bush instead project them as big spenders-taxers. President Bush has spent middle-class dollars recklessly, given them to GOP war profiteers and to wealthy folks then calls them "tax cuts."

Where are the Democrats? This thief, who claims to be a Commander-in-Chief, has created the largest tax increase in this nation's history, placed it on the backs of future generations and calls it "tax cuts." Why won't Democrats make it clear this is a horrendous future tax burden; a huge tax increase?

The Democrats think their wimpy ways offend only the Far Left. They lack the vision to see that they are losing the moderates, fence-sitters and Republicans who converted them to majority status last November. They have abandoned a hopeful America and America may abandon them in 2008.

Where have all the flowers gone?