No Filibuster, No Re-Election for Blue State Senators

OpEdNews.com ^ | 1/30/06 | Rob Kall

[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.

[gooper]

I just wish that the Democrats had convinced 40 members to vote against cloture, just to see those DUmmies and Kossites celebrate, only to realize that it takes 60 votes for cloture, and 100-40=60, so they actually needed 41 votes for cloture. Actually, Bob Fertik's quote was correct. They only needed 40 Democrats to vote against cloture since the Senate's lone (I) also voted against. The point is moot, of course, since 15 or 16 Democrats voted for Alito before they voted against him.

[dirtboy]

Please, please, PLEASE follow this course of action to make sure that the Dems in 2007 will be unable to mount a filibuster of any kind.

[badgerlandjim]

Slug 'em again Rob! Kick 'em again Bob! YEEHAW!! Pass me the popcorn!

[AuH2ORepublican]

I doubt that Fertik was counting Jeffords as anything but a Democrat. The guy truly thought that 40 votes could sustain a filibuster. (Of course, since 3 members were absent when they voted for cloture, as few as 38 votes to continue debate would have carried the day, since 60 Senators, not 60% of Senators present, must vote for cloture.)