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.
THat's why they want socialized medicine and why M Moore is making his film about pharmaceutical companies - they want free drugs!
Oh, REALLY? David Souter?
Ok, math is always something that makes my head hurt, but this just sounds screwy to me.
The last two Presidential elections and their aftermath?
It is such fun watching the DUmmies heads explode!
Oh my, the demofreaks are really all wadded up in a bad funky donkey. These leftists freaks really want to push their political party into a black hole with their time warped thinking. I say go for it and have a nice trip lefties. Sayonara.
Oh yes. The Dummies are already fund-raising to oust their traitors in the primaries: TAKE ACTION!!! Take the pledge: $25 for the 25! (who voted NO on cloture) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=275748&mesg_id=275748
The more credible buzz is it will be Stevens.
There is some internet buzz about Souter retiring, though.
29 / 51 = 56.86%
He's saying 51% of respondents are Democrats (which probably means it's the usual slanted poll, even for PA), and 29% of the respondents classify themselves as liberal or progressive, so the % of Democrats in PA who the author claims are "liberal or progressive" should be 57%.....
By the way, today has been almost as good as election 2004 or me, hearing all the rants from "the other side"!
But that is unlikely, they are just ranting.
What ever became of Gary Franks? Could he be competetive against Lieberman?
Idiots. 29% divided by 51% is 58%. (.29 / .51 = .58)
But they effed up. The correct math is that you take 29% of 51% that is (.29 x .51) or .1479, hence 14.79%.
No wonder they're Democrats, they're incapable of simple math. This is why the federal budget never adds up when they are in charge.
There will be a SCOTUS version of "Weekend at Bernie's" with both Stevens and Ginzburg until a dem comes back into office.
Finally the scum sucking left wing radical loons are so pissed they are creeping out from under their rocks and revealing themselves for the moon bats they really are.
They are the hidden socialist and Marxist vermin that are the dying maggots of a corrupt and evil political ideology that needs to be put to death once and for all.
The democratic party has been harboring these maggots for too long and need to purge them and regain their sanity to be an honest opposition party which is healthy for our republic and government
I read on another thread that Justice Stevens was born in 1920......so that means he's pushing 86....maybe he's about ready for a little rest?
Let's hear it for Janice Rogers Brown......
They can bring it any time, any day! And somehow I doubt I'd have any guilt disposing of any "peace-loving" commie that comes to my door. Or my neighborhood.
John Paul Stevens can't stand Bush. If he's really thinking of retiring, his health must be worse than anyone is aware of.
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