Anti-war protests? Not with Dems in control, thanks.

Seen any stories about American anti-war protests recently?

No?

Remember all the stories--both network news and in print--about huge anti-war protests in American cities back when Bush was president ? ("Half a million people ...")

Did the war stop and we just didn't hear about it? No? Then what could have happened to all the anti-war folks?

Oh, dat's it: Da Booshies had 'em all rounded up and thrown in prison in...umm... was it Kazakhstan? Or was it Zimbabwe? Anyway, one of those two.

Or maybe not. Turns out that even the core anti-war protest organizers recognize there's a big diff in enthusiasm now that Democrats control both the White House and congress (by a huge and undefeatable majority).

“We don’t have a very vibrant anti-war movement anymore,” lamented Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink, one of the anti-war movement’s most visible organizations. “The issues have not changed very much. [you wouldn't think "the issues" had changed at all!] … Now we have a surge [in Afghanistan] that we would have been furious about under George Bush, yet it’s hard to mobilize people under Obama.

Gosh, I wonder why? Almost makes you think that 98 percent of those who were supposedly anti-war were actually mainly against Bush and the conservatives. Otherwise, you'd think that the pressure on Dem politicians to stop the fighting would constantly be increasing.

But it's all gone bye-bye. Go figure. Guess the motivation was mostly anti-conservative and anti-Bush after all.

h/t Weasel Zippers