Can DU come up with a list of D.C. dem politicians we agree are

[cali]

OK or better? I often see people here saying that Dennis is the only worthy dem politician there is on that level. I disagree. And because he caucuses with the dems, I include Bernie. I'll start:

Barbara Lee
Bernie
Sheldon Whitehouse
Pat Leahy
John Kerry
Barbara Boxer
Peter Welch
Barney Frank
Russ Feingold
Keith Ellison
Maurice Hinchey
Jim McGovern

[MannyGoldstein]

1. How About My Senior Senator, Ted Kennedy?

also Henry Waxman.

[cali]

2. Of course Teddy. I feel awful that I left him out.

Sadly, I know why I did. It wasn't conscious, but I already think of him as no longer a member of the Senate.

[MNDemNY]

3. We? you got a mouse in your pocket? this is DU not FR.

[cali]

6. thanks for the gratuitous and deeply stupid freeper comparison, genius.

[MNDemNY]

11. "we", when applied to DU, is just silly, yes, almost freeperish.

feed your mouse.

[Burma Jones]

4. Barbara Mikulski

[katandmoon]

7. I wouldn't put her on that list

[LynneSin]

5. Yeah right

First, everyone will have their own defining list of who is and isn't acceptable based on each person's individual yardstick as to what they feel is 'democratic'

I still believe in the big tent theory. Sure there are democrats that piss me off like my own Tom Carper. But I still would rather have a democratic party that allows for opionions (even if I thinks some of them are wrong) as oppose to having a senator forced to think exactly like the rest of their party else being punished by loss of seniority or earmarks.

[John Q. Citizen]

8. I agree that we as citizens must hold all our representatives accountable. I often see

people confusing liking a politician with accountability.

They aren't the same thing.

i can't name one politician that shouldn't be held accountable. Not one.


Agreeing on a list of who you like seems rather silly.

[notesdev]

9. Kucinich is good

and Frank has to be taken off that list, he's just a banksters' pawn.

[prostomulgus]

10. I would certainly include Barak Obama

as a "DC dem politician" who is "OK or better".

[Forkboy]

12. That's a good list.

I'd include Sherrod Brown off the top of my head as well.

[JohnnyLib2]

13. My response to the question in your first sentence:

No. We'll see how the attempt works out, though. :evilgrin: