But we can not look away..
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.
Projecting again, Rob ?
You needed 41.
Rob Kall - looks like the text version of Ted Rall.
Yeah, what the Democratic Party needs is MORE Senators like Kerry and Kennedy!!!!!!
I guess some of them are finally starting to get it. If the situations were reversed, not one of us would tolerate a republican senator who "voted for a guy we hated before they voted against them". Of course, that's why the Dems lose. They mostly elect politicians instead of patriots, so when push comes to shove, about half of them can be expected to cave on a given issue because they are more afraid of us than they are of the people who got them elected. I'd have been more impressed with Kerry and Kennedy if they hadn't waited until they knew they didn't have the votes to launch the filibuster.
I read that Weicker is supporting the guy running against Joementum in the primary and has reserved the option (if this is possible in CT law) to run as an Independent (spoiler) if Lieberman wins his primary.
I never thought California and Connecticut could carry us to 60 but right now things are interesting.
It would be sad if it weren't so good for us conservatives.
Why do all these left wing blogs think it is necessary to use foul language?
translation: We Dems need more extremists.
Can we say melt down????
Ironically, he's the "...organizer of several conferences, including ... The Winter Brain Meeting on ... Positive Psychology."
and your point is???
... then the GOP would own 2/3's of BOTH the Senate and House seats, and we wouldn't see another Democrat in the White House in my lifetime.
By ALL MEANS, DEMOCRATS, PLEASE FILIBUSTER! When the GOP changes Senate rules to conform with the Constitution, there'll be no filibuster next year when Bush nominates a Bork-Republican to fill the next empty USSC seat.
Is there a place we can sent money to help out these poor, discouraged, empty-headed Democrats?
SFS
"Hey fellow Democrats, we don't have enough of us in office to block these radical nominees, so let's burn some of the ones we do have at the stake." Sounds logical to me.
Gee whiz, guess we gotta' encourage some of the Dem Senators to run a filibuster anyway before their anarchist and syndicalist supporters start throwing bombs again ~ just like the 1920s!
But we can not look away..
If the "progressives" would get half as mad at our real enemies like bin Laden and Zarqawi as they do at their own politicians like Nelson or Lieberman, the war on terror would be won a lot quicker.
But that would be expecting them to act sane once in awhile.
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