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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 09:51 PM
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Boy wow, sometimes it sure seems like the Dems are complicit
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 09:53 PM by Jackpine Radical
in the destruction of America. They put up no fight over ANYTHING. I've always tried to make excuses for them, tried to rationalize their inaction. Maybe they're waiting for the right occasion or something.

Yeah, right.

I'm beginning to feel like the abused, codependent spouse who's finally running out of patience with the jerk.

Feingold, Kucinich, Conyers, McKinney, Dean, lately Gore and a few others excepted, I'm getting pretty sick of the whole damn bunch.


Edited to add--BTW immediately after I wrote this I saw the latest from Queen Molly. Right on, Dear.
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 09:55 PM
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1. You're not alone
I am getting so depressed and disgusted at the roll-over mentality of these Vichy Dems.

You'd think that as the outrages mount, so would the resistance. Instead, they just get more and more limp.

They're either all bought and sold, or they're scared to death.
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colorado thinker Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:06 PM
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3. Dammit, what is there to be scared of?
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 10:07 PM by colorado thinker
That if they do something, the military will fail, the economy will fail, the environment will fail? Oh, wait! That's already happening!

(fixed my bad typing/spelling)
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 09:59 PM
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2. Or they don't get adequate coverage of the work they are doing -
just as corporate media has intended.


http://www.returningsoldiers.us/whatskerrydoing.htm
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:09 PM
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4. For whatever reason, the Dems have acheieved G. Gordon Liddy's
visoon for them when the Watergate Conspirators plotted the eventual rise of the One-Party Bushevik State.

Did they follow through on Liddy's "hookers and booze" plan?
Was it the fear of being Wellstoned or Anthraxed, knowing you could die and the perps would get away with it easily, since they would be "investigating" themselves?

It no longer matter why G. Gordon's visionhas come to pass almost exactly as he envisioned it 30+ years ago.

But it has.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:22 PM
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5. I've worn a bald spot scratching my head about this for the last 5 years.
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 10:23 PM by hootinholler
Right on! I wish I knew!

10 nay vote on the POS PA. F me harder!

-Hoot
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mandyky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:25 PM
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6. Since I heard Pelosi and Reid called Dean on the carpet
the other day, and all this Hillary talk, I'm pretty disappointed.

If McCain gets the GOP nod, I could just stay home if this crap keeps up.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:26 PM
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7. I forgot what the bill was about, but on CSPAN @ 6:30PM CST,
EVERY repub was unanimous... 19 Dems had defected on the issue. More repubs than dems not voting...

It was about something regarding nutritional labels... but then they had 2 captions and then the guy in the video talking about something the UAE ports deal, it could have been any of those 3 issues...
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:31 PM
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8. Vichy Dems? THAT is a great label
Whoever came up with that should get a prize.

Maybe we could get teeshirts made up using it, sort of "Fed Up With Vichy Dems" with a montage of our alleged leadership.

Again and again it becomes obvious that the Beltway is the dividing line between the powers-that-be and the rest of us, and again and again it remains obvious that most of our "leaders" are Beltway Dems even if they are presently in statehouses or other local offices.

There is a incredible divide between "us" and "them" and it isn't getting smaller.
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feistydem Donating Member (994 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:42 PM
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9. I'm with you! Most of the Dems in office now are HUGELY disappointing!
Maybe Bush's wiretapping has made blackmailing the members of Congress a Rovian board game.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:47 PM
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10.  "What is there to be scared of?"
The NSA dosiers?
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 04:13 AM
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11. Well, 2/3 of the Dems are on our side about the Constitution-
--as opposed to 5% of Repubs. That's enough difference for me.
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:01 AM
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12. Then why
did most of them vote-- again-- for the Patriot Act?
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 04:57 PM
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14. Most of them voted AGAINST the Patriot Act
124 against, 66 for. That means 65% of Dems are on our side.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 05:33 PM
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17. Woo Hoo--We have 65% of a minority party on our side.
Hot Damn, just when I thought things were kinda dismal.
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-10-06 06:07 AM
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21. 65% is still opposition
We need to get Rethugs out as well as to make that last 35% of ours shape up.
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:21 PM
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18. Not in the Senate!
Kerry, Clinton, Biden, Lautenberg, even Kennedy and Boxer all voted for it-- only 10 of them voted against it, I believe.
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-10-06 06:06 AM
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20. Nine more than last time n/t
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-10-06 02:42 PM
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22. As a Feingold constituent & supporter, I can't help but wonder
WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH THE REST OF THEM?

ok--only 90 of them now.
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converted_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:04 AM
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13. I don't know what the problem is, but it's pissing me off.. The Bankruptcy
Bill got my panties in a knot, and I'm still not comfortable with what's happening..
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 05:00 PM
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15. Keep the few that are working for us and vote out the rest n/t
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 05:01 PM
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16. Welcome to our two party/same corporate master
System of government. Bipartisan screwing of the people a specialty.

It is because of this very fact that we desperately need to enact nationwide publicly financed elections. Take the money out of the equation and give the government back to the people.
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 07:46 PM
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19. Why can't they "just say no"? Or better yet, Hell, No.
No need to argue, just state a position and firmly stick to it.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-10-06 02:46 PM
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23. The Republican Party and the Not as Republican Party.
Two wings of the same Nationalist/Capitalist Oligarchy.
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foreverdem Donating Member (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-10-06 02:52 PM
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24. What ARE they scared of?
It's like if they keep playing nice nice, the repukes will be good and throw them a bone every now and then. These repukes are ruthless and will steamroll over anyone in their way, and you'd think the Dems would realize this by now. Geez, don't they ever get tired of being maligned, kicked in the head and slapped in the face? Then thanking the repukes for it?
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