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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 10:56 PM Original message |
Why are some Democrats so unhappy with their Party ? |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. it's not the "party", just some politicians elected under the party's name nt |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. - |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
3. Immaturity, lack of foresight, and laziness nt |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. On the part some of our party leaders? |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 01:00 AM Response to Reply #26 |
42. Hey, looks like you're asking questions, and then answering them yourself |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. Because they do not understand the difference between campaigning and governing. |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. There should be no difference. Obama should be making himself more popular by giving everyone HC |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. There may be some progressive pages & office assistants in the White House, |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
6. Actions speak louder than supposed intelligence or majorities. nt |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. some people would never ever ever ever ever ever had been happy now matter who won. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. Unless it was politicians who weren't right-wing, or cowards, or |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. and the system is rigged such that these people have a significant advantage... |
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pokercat999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:06 AM Response to Reply #27 |
50. The system IS rigged. Your "choice" is between two |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. You're right but on the matter of single payer. |
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pokercat999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 06:10 AM Response to Reply #54 |
59. Maybe not, but my point was his priority is not healthcare. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
8. this is sarcasm, right? |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. right. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Sorry ..... but that label seems a necessity |
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Toasterlad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
52. Definitely. I Unrecced This Before I Realized the OP Was Sarcasm. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. hard to tell around here, kentuck |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. I know. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
35. Need that label up there . . . |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
9. Because the tools in Washington are more concerned about the party than they are with the issues |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
12. Because they'd rather be Republicans? |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
14. You'd think they can pass at least some of what we wanted them to pass |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. Snarkasm DU style |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
16. It's an infuriating lost opportunity |
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JohnnyLib2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
17. You're a sly one. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Whatever gets us to look in the mirror... |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. That whole 5 time deployment soldiers with PTSD, do-nothing congress thing |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. They'll cheer up after the midterms |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
23. We are certainly encouraged to be unhappy |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. And what do we hope to accomplish with this moderate majority? |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:30 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Useless to us; to their corporate paymasters, not so much. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:32 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. Give money to banks and insurance companies? |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
28. Dissatisfied lefties should simply abandon those messy principles |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:32 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Or we can face the reality... |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
30. "Some" . . .? Yes, we all want ponies -- !!! |
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liberal_at_heart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
33. I will not be happy with the democrat party until they support |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. I don't undersatnd.... |
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liberal_at_heart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:35 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. well said |
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StarfarerBill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #34 |
49. Exactly. Having power is one thing; |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-05-09 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
37. Most of the dis-satisfaction comes from our equivalent to |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
38. Seen it submitted as a reversal: that the new DU pipers are piping to the new Obama Hamlin |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
39. They dumped the working class and the poor two decades ago. |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
40. Because it isn't doing shit so far and it is being blocked by a bunch of DINOs |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
41. A majority doesn't exist just to be a majority. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 01:07 AM Response to Original message |
43. Because a lot of dems weren't listening last year & not paying attention this year.... |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
44. In a sincere response to your sarcasm |
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Flubadubya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:41 AM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Well said... hear, hear!! |
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JustAnotherGen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
45. I'm a Democratic and unapologetic about it |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
47. Yup! |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
48. Because the party has become just another corporately controlled party |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
51. I suppose it's not so important to me what numbers we hold in the house and Senate or who occupies |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
53. We do not have a progressive in the White House |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
55. "Just what do you expect the Democratic Party to do?" |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
56. I like what you did there. |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
57. I'm a liberal . The Dems are the other side of the same coin |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-07-09 06:13 AM Response to Reply #57 |
60. I'm sorry, but in what poll was Kucinich leading in the primary? |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-06-09 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
58. Because it is nothing more than the party of Wall Street. |
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