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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 11:58 AM Original message |
There are those celebrating what they call a victory over the left wing of the democratic party |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm surprised they'd put their turkey legs down long enough. |
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AVID (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. where are these celebrations? Please provide (non-DU) links. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. sure. |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 07:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
62. How is this statement a declaration of victory over the left? |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. I can't decide whether I should be happier about the defeat of the Left (of which I'm a part) |
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wolfgangmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. smoke and mirrors |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:54 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Are you one of those 30 million? |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:52 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. I am....and the previous poster is essentially correct. |
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Desertrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 06:40 PM Response to Reply #33 |
60. Couldn't have said it better!! |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #33 |
64. Nicely stated!! |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #22 |
48. I am, my wife is. And I have absolutely no faith that we'll get decent health care |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 05:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
56. Yep. |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. What straw man are you creating. "There are those"??? Who are those? There is a |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. Thank you for your concern. |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
6. When the self titled left started ATTACKING the Democratic Party and the Democratic President |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Thanks for defending the corporations NJ |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I am always happy to remind those that stray that PEOPLE are what really matters |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. you left out "haters" |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
42. our side? |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. soon you'll be able to add public school teachers to that list. nt |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:09 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Well they can move over with organized labor, environmentalist, fair trade advocates, |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:42 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Hey.... |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. My Bad |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:03 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Thanks..... |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
10. Because the left still remembers what the Democratic Party says it stands for |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. +1 ... accurate and succinct |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
12. I'd say the left wing won a victory over the FAR left wing |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. So would that be the far right in our party attacking the middle? |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 02:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
39. Well put. Keep in mind, though that people rarely surrender their Belief Systems |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. Then you would be one very confused puppy regarding ideology. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:37 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. A straw man arguement. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 02:13 PM Response to Reply #28 |
40. Uh what? |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 03:42 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. What party, if any, is identified in that statement? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #44 |
51. This is called a thread. There is a chain of statements |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
30. You'd say it, but you don't even know what 'left' looks like. n/t |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 07:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
63. There is no "far left" wing in the Democratic caucus in Congress. |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. the Republicans/Conservatives now run both Parties |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:56 PM Response to Reply #14 |
35. That is close to happening now. |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #35 |
53. because they are trolls not only on DU |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 05:36 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. Absolutely Agree. |
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MissDeeds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 05:54 PM Response to Reply #53 |
58. Well said |
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GreenTea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
16. As I always say, fuck the moderates! Window dressing, fence sitting, which ever way |
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kctim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
17. I am a moderate Democrat |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:28 PM Response to Reply #17 |
27. lots of moderates I have talked to feel the same way |
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
23. Check out the Greatest Page and Home page. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
29. The authoritarian streak, so prevalent in America, is easily swayed |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
31. I am pretty far Left and I am celebrating. I'm not a fool and recognize progress when it happens. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #31 |
61. Didn't you read upthread? You've been scammed! |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
32. They put down those who questioned as irrelevant, irrational. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. 'This became about more than the health care bill long ago.' |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
34. They celebrated the defeat of the left after Chicago in '68. How did that work out? |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 03:54 PM Response to Reply #34 |
45. I remember '68 well |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #45 |
52. I vote Peace & Freedom in '68. My first presidential vote. |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 05:00 PM Response to Reply #52 |
55. getting to look that way |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
36. If it had not been for the left complaining loudly about this bill, there would |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
38. When the authoritarian wing of the Democratic party wakes up |
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TheWebHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
41. well, if the senate and house voted down the line with the Dennis Kucinich wing |
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shadesofgray (350 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
43. I wonder why OBAMA does, when he wouldn't have won without us. |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
46. It's pretty fucking sad. The big tent just got real small. |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-25-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #46 |
65. But in 2010 & 2012, they will sternly inform us that we better |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
47. what "left wing"? |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
49. Yeah, some victory. |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
50. Well, Obama has lost my vote in 2012 |
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Generator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
54. Well I have once again learned the endless value of conformity |
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Blasphemer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-24-09 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
59. It certainly seems that way these days |
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