Major Democrat Fundraiser Quits over Iraq War

  Yesterday John Morgan, who has given hundreds of thousands of his own money and raised millions more quit the Democrat party in a hissy fit over the Iraq war.

”I told Chuck Schumer, I’m through,” he said, referring to the New York senator who heads the Democratic Party’s fundraising arm for the Senate. “As a Democratic donor, I am going on strike.”

Morgan is considering full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today to encourage other donors to join his boycott, disgusted with the latest effort by Democratic senators to stop the war by pulling an all-nighter.

   I still am suprised by the number of people who believed that the Democrats would take control and immediately end the war. That would require a plan, and the Democrats have no plan for anything. Well, they have one plan, bash Bush. That is all they really know how to do. Ask them to govern and they are at a loss.

  The Democrats won a slim majority, not enough to pass any legislation without gaining the support of Republican lawmakers, how can people really expect them to deliver on their promises?

Morgan is considering full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today to encourage other donors to join his boycott, disgusted with the latest effort by Democratic senators to stop the war by pulling an all-nighter.

  This growing frustration with the Democrat party by what seems like more and more of their constituents coupled with major fundraisers looks like it puts the Democrats between a Iraq and a hard place. They are still going to try to make it look as though they are succeeding in slowly stopping the war, all the while funding it for fear of disaserous results in Iraq if funding is stopped. Democrats are beginning to see through this ruse. Just as they are seeing through the ruse of last week’s all-nighter.

 ”That was all publicity and hype,” Morgan said of the round-the-clock debate. “Come on. I can sleep sitting in a chair.”

The polls suggest that Morgan is not alone in his discontent. Public approval of Congress dropped to 24 percent in one recent survey, even lower than President Bush’s dismal ratings.

”If you’re lower than Bush,” you’re lower than low,” Morgan said. “They’re not doing what we sent them there to do.”

  The truth here probably that there is no way Morgan or any other contributor is going to boycott the party and risk handing control back over to the Republicans. This is also just a stunt by him to put more pressure on the Democrats to step up their efforts to end the war.

”People see that every day the Democrats in the Senate are trying to end this war,” said DSCC spokesman Matt Miller, speaking on behalf of Schumer. “The answer to ending the war is to do one of two things: convince Republican senators to switch their votes or elect more Democrats.”

  That really is the bottom line, the truth is Democrats need a larger majority in the senate to end the war. The fundraisers know this and will not back a boycott that could have the opposite results. Neither will the constituents.

  But, I have to admit, I am enjoying watching this semi-rebellion in the Democrat party.