Posted on 01/30/2006 5:14:01 PM PST by LdSentinal
I'll keep this short and bitter. Every god damned blue state senator who failed to sign on to the Alito filibuster MUST be fought in the primaries and replaced. The Democratic party has failed the rank and file members.
It is time to take back the Democratic party from the right wing, loser hacks who have been fumblingly, failingly controlling it and the candidates put forward. I can't believe how many people tell me that they believe the DLC and right wing democrats are really Republican operators.
IN the OpEdNews.com/Zogby people's poll I just ran in Pennsylvania, about 29% of the respondents were liberals or progressives. With 51 percent of the respondents being democrats, that means that 58% of the democrats are liberal or Progressive. We ARE the majority.
If a stab-us-in-the-back senator in a blue state failed to suppor the filibuster we MUST find strong, tough candidates to run against and BEAT them. We must raise money for candidates, even if they are not running in our states.
We, the Progressives and liberals must define the issues. We must tell our elected officials what to do. This was the last straw. We need to draw up a list of these traitors to democracy and take them out of the political arena. I bet they'll end up on some corporation's payroll.
We need leaders who will go to congress and not be cowed by the seniority system. They represent constitituents who are just as important as the senior members. So F**K the seniority system. F**k Barack Obama for selling out the people who put their trust in him.
Here's the list of the "Democratic" senators who betrayed us.
Akaka (HI), Baucus (MT), Bingaman (NM), Byrd (WV), Cantwell (WA), Carper (DE), Dorgan (ND), Inouye (HI), Johnson (SD), Kohl (WI), Landrieu (LA), Lieberman (CT), Lincoln (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Pryor (AR), Rockefeller (WV), Salazar (CO)
Ad Bob Fertik, of Democrats.com, said, "There was no reason for this betrayal. We only needed 40 of the 45 Democrats to sustain a filibuster."
Some of them hail from solid Red states. We can't blame them. But the ones from blue states and purple states should be treated like wanted criminals and removed from their positions of trust and power. It's not having people who call themselves democrats when they fail us when it matters most. These lowly cowards should have treated this fight like a war and supported the filibuster even if it meant taking an election bullet. I believe the action would have gained them votes. It would have forced Bush to submit a candidate who would actually be good for the US, unlike the unworthy liar he's appointed.
I would say that we are now in a state of war, but the right wing has been at war with the american people for a long time. Today, we learned of the traitors in our midst. We know what to do with traitors. And we need to act fast.
Weicker has said that if he does run, it'll be as an Independent. I hope he does.
Another reason to repeal the 17th amendment.
Do you really want these angry people from New York, Massachusetts, and California messing with the selection of Senators in Hawaii, West Virginia, the Dakotas, and Delaware?
-PJ
Go look in the comments on that site. Trolling is fun. >8^)>~
51% of the respondents were democrats.
29% of those democrats were liberal/progressives.
29% = 58% of the 51%, thus the liberal/progressives are the majority of those democrats polled.
i.e. .58 x 51 = 29.58 or 29 1/2%. That's how he got his figures.
It's accurate as far as it goes. How he judges that 29% of those democrats polled are liberal/progressive must have something to do with how the poll was constructed.
Yeaaaaaarrrggggggh!!!!!!
Everyone of them has to be replaced!
That's how we keep 'em from crawling up our legs.
See post #49
Our enemies are eating their own. We must not disturb them.
See post #49
See post #49
Yeah, and that's before you factor in the differntial of actual voting propensity, which is positively correlated to other attributes such as knowledge, self-discipline, attention-span, and remembering to pre-validate your voter registration.
We only needed 40 of the 45 Democrats to sustain a filibuster."
There are only 44 democrats in the Senate not 45.
But they're only 14.8% of the electorate. Unfit to rule, unable to think, the hell with them.
Beautiful last few days for us:
1. Alito confirmation assured
2. Dean bankrupts the DNC...seriously damaging their 2006 prospects
3. Senate minority leader Dingy Harry took $60K from Abramoff
LOL
Actually a rather large number of us are hoping for it. We will not initiate but will be more then happy to respond to it. These scum owe the country a blood debt for what they did some 35 years ago. Only by staying within the law do they avoid being called to account. They can take the gloves off any time. We wish they would.
ROTFLMAO!
They're insane and I love it.
Yes indeed! We need more of this! MUCH more!
Oh wow. I like the way you think.
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