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Edited on Tue Jan-31-06 01:55 AM by Zodiak Ironfist
I have been at this a long time, and you know what? It is the same voice that suddenly gets loudest in the Democratic party at the most opportune time. The voice that says "well, this looks like a defeat, but the REAL strategy is...", or "we are a big tent, so it is okay that a few Demcorats vote with Republicans on this issue...think of their red state", or "sure our candidate is a suck-up to the corporation, but would you rather have someone causcus with the Republicans?".
5 years we have been listening to this same voice within the party, always promising a better tomorrow while we crap on our own principles. No more. They are silent to me now...there is no negotiation. Machiavellis within our own party have trangulated us into irrelevance, and they counsel us now to put up with Alito because elections have consequences.
The DINOs in the party are easy to spot, if we bother to look. All one had to do to find out who was going to betray us is look at the Democratic roster according to how they vote foir Bushco.
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR LIBERAL INDEX ------------------------------------------- Harkin (Iowa) 89.2 Boxer (California) 85.7 Lautenberg (New Jersey) 85.7 Akaka (Hawaii) 78.6 Durbin (Illinois) 78.6 Kennedy (Massacheusetts) 78.6 Kerry (Massacheusetts) - DLC 78.6 Corzine (New Jersey) 71.4 Dayton (Minnesota) 71.4 Feingold (Wisconsin) 71.4 Levin (Michigan) 71.4 Mikulski (Maryland) 71.4 Reed (Rhode Island) 71.4 Sarbanes (Maryland) 71.4 Obama (Illinois) 67.9 Dodd (Connecticut) - DLC 64.3 Leahy (Vermont) 64.3 Shumer (New York) 64.3 Wyden (Oregon) 64.3 Bayh (Indiana) - DLC 64.3 Biden (Deleware) 64.3 Clinton (New York) - DLC 60.7 Dorgan (North Dakota) - DLC 57.1 Stabenow (Michigan) - DLC 57.1 Inouye (Hawaii) 57.1 Reid (Nevada) 57.1 Byrd (West Virginia) 50 Murray (Washington) 50 Rockefeller (West Virgnia) 50 Bingaman (New Mexico) 42.9 Cantwell (Washington) - DLC 42.9 Johnson (South Dakota) - DLC 42.9 Kohl (Wisconsin) - DLC 42.9 Baucus (Montana) - DLC 39.3 Conrad (North Dakota) - DLC 39.3 Feinstein (California) 39.3 Leiberman (Connecticut) - DLC 35.7 Carper (Deleware) - DLC 28.6 Lincoln (Arkansas) - DLC 21.4 Nelson (Florida) - DLC 21.4 Salazar (Colorado) - DLC 21.4 Pryor (Arkansas) - DLC 17.9 Landrieu (Louisianna) - DLC 14.3 Nelson (Nebraska) - DLC 0.0
Now tell me if we cannot identify who is the worst in our party. By my analysis, 14 of 19 were DLCers of the worst sort (not in the same vein as Kerry, and they are known to vote in a bloc) and 16 of 19 of them vote with their party LESS THAN 50% of the time. This makes them ALL moderate-right by todays right-wing bizarro world standards. Is this acceptable in the party to us..is the right wing the side of the "big tent" we should let in? Can we expect these people to play ball if we had a majority? (I think not)
Then let's get their asses out of office.....take them down in the primary and make them write about the upheaval in the history books. I don't care when the last time a seated Democrat was defeated in the primary (1974)...the ripe time to do it is NOW. At least let these turncoats know they are held accountable to the People and make them fear US for a change!!
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