Steven Ybarra: Time For The Yellow Dogs To Bite The Blue Dogs

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September 20, 2009 at 16:28:20

Time for the Yellow Dogs to Bite the Blue Dogs

By Steven J. Ybarra, J.D., Posted by Douglas Drenkow

I am tired of watching the spineless so-called Blue Dog Democrats bending over for Glenn Beck and the right wingnuts (like Limbost).

I want to know what the hell the Yellow Dogs are doing to put the pressure on the Blue Dogs. I am a member of a union, and have been all my employed life; I want to know why the Unions and the rest of us who fought for health care as a worker's right are not in the streets and in the face of every Blue Dog to tell them to get on the train. Let's face it: The Republicants have never, never, never done anything on a bipartisan basis (for all their bitching and moaning right now and all their high-pressured demands for what they want rammed through the U.S. House and Senate).

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When I look at the silence of the AFL-CIO on this issue, I wonder why they are not in the streets. The hypocrisy of "I got mine" is something that we as Yellow Dog Democrats should not be putting up with. The so-called Progressives need to remember that progress is the main part of the word.

I have always asked the question, "Where are the spines of our leaders?" Now I have to ask, "Where is the spine of the rank and file?" When I see ten thousand crazy fascists in the streets in D.C. with our President demeaned as Adolf Hitler, I get angry at the silence of our so-called leadership. (The idiots with the signs, of course, have two signs, one calling the Big O Hitler and another with him as Che Guevara. Of course what they do not understand is that fascists hate communists -- so make up your minds, dummies, which is he?)

Here is my thought on the matter. It is our fight not just the Big O's. If we leave it to him alone and the few in the House and the Senate with spine, it will be another hundred years of Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the pharmaceuticals making money and screwing the working class. So my union brothers and sisters mail a copy of your health care coverage to the Blue Dogs and ask them why they will not cover all workers.

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[notadmblnd]

1. didn't some popular athletic figure just get in trouble for dog fighting?

[MisterP]

2. to them, spinelessness is a VIRTUE: they think the Commies gave us Hitler,

and the AFL-CIO the 1994 Republican Revolution
you're supposed to pay your dues, not look at how the sausage is made, and surrender your votes: then you return home, keep your head down, don't rock the boat, and work for a pittance until you die
very Boss Tweed

[damntexdem]

3. If the Yellow Dogs are going to bite the Blue Dogs anyway, then

they should bring up some Green issues! ;-)