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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:07 AM Original message |
Remember when everyone said that the Stupak compromise didn't change anything? |
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Nite Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
1. Damn |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. Rec nt |
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tmyers09 (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'm just waiting for the apologists... |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. We are a big tent party!! If coat hanger abortions is the price we pay to win! |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. You nailed it.Winning is everything to them. And women are among the most expendable. |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. +10,000 |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:32 AM Response to Reply #14 |
31. a "Win," no matter how hollow the victory, or at what cost |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:38 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. Maybe we should bring back |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 03:38 AM Response to Reply #36 |
43. Actually that sort of proves the point.But then choice isn't important to some. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:50 PM Response to Reply #43 |
63. Yeah, choice isn't important to Howard Dean. It's his comment. n/t |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 04:49 PM Response to Reply #14 |
51. We poor folk will fight you for that "most expendable" category. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 06:20 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Many of the poor are also women Bobbolink. And it is the poor woman |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:15 PM Response to Reply #52 |
57. Of course, and you are right that poor women suffer the most. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:56 PM Response to Reply #51 |
71. And the disabled! |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 07:27 PM Response to Reply #71 |
73. Over 50% of people on disability receive SSI. It amounts to $4.21 an hour. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 07:47 PM Response to Reply #73 |
75. Nope! It's sickening! |
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BlancheSplanchnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 07:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
53. yep...the hierarchy of importance. When men here make talking point lists, |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:23 PM Response to Reply #53 |
58. Neither are we poor folk on the lists of priorities. |
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BlancheSplanchnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:33 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. true.....I'm sorry that it IS true |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:55 PM Response to Reply #59 |
64. Thank you, Blanche. I very much appreciate what you have written. |
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BlancheSplanchnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 09:47 AM Response to Reply #64 |
81. I so wish I could change institutions and human dynamics and the whole culture |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
70. Yep, many posters have stated that they are just fine with date rape. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:17 AM Response to Reply #6 |
38. All we have to do to win is abandon women, gays, the working class, and the environment... |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
41. She quit |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 03:02 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. Your argument is disingenuous and you know it. |
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olegramps (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 10:18 AM Response to Reply #41 |
83. You don't actually believe what your are saying do you? |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
4. That happened in Minnesota when both the national & state party leadership |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. its a democracy |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
23. You should know that's not true |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:35 AM Response to Reply #23 |
34. +10,000 |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:52 AM Response to Reply #23 |
42. perhaps she should raise money from the grass roots instead |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 05:28 AM Response to Reply #42 |
46. You're running for office??? |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
7. To say I am appalled is just not even coming close to what I feel right now!!! |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:34 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. +1 |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. Wrong. Not as bad as you want to characterize it. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:43 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. How does this make Saltonstall's being abandoned by the state party any more palatable? |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
40. All politics are local |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 02:59 AM Response to Reply #10 |
89. How can one be abandoned by those who never supported her in the first place? |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:48 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. And I suppose that "justifies " all this? Not to me it doesn't and the HCR |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. not "how many Democrats wanted to vote for" HCR, but how many were pressured by DLC strong-arming |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:14 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Babylonsister, your argument makes no sense. Not "as bad" because of a health insurance mandate? |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 11:27 AM Response to Reply #19 |
84. That's all they have, nothing but |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:25 AM Response to Reply #9 |
26. We didn't GET Health Care Reform. We got |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:28 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. +10,000 |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:07 AM Response to Reply #30 |
37. Yes that's true and I wish people would at least respect |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:49 PM Response to Reply #37 |
47. Interesting link. |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
11. Yeah in Arizona we have an openly Pro-Life female candidate |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
13. "after the party establishment closed ranks around another candidate." Same thing happened to Sestak |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:11 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:13 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Did Sestak quit? n/t |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:14 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:15 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. ? |
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tmyers09 (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:20 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I think it's because the Specter/Sestak situation is different. |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:27 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. The perception is that Specter was given a freebie to switch parties |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:27 AM Response to Reply #21 |
29. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:43 PM Response to Reply #29 |
61. +1000000000 |
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tmyers09 (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:17 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. Pretty sure it was the same thing in Ohio with Jennifer Brunner and Lee Fisher. |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:22 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. He's a sitting Congressman |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:27 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Well, Bennett wasn't a Democrat, but he was a sitting Senator. |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:33 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:37 AM Response to Reply #27 |
35. But she's not a sitting member of Congress |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 01:34 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. Yes he is. And that's a huge difference. |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 02:34 AM Response to Original message |
39. WTF does the stupak deal have to do with this? |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 04:40 AM Response to Original message |
44. please Democrats, my RNC party already does "coronations" and it totally sucks. don't follow suit! |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 05:06 AM Response to Original message |
45. I screamed bloody murder about it. nt |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
49. The "Centrist" Democatic Party Leadership.... |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 08:33 PM Response to Reply #49 |
55. God Blesses Ronald Reagan for Showing Us the Light! nt |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
50. Yep. It's all over. Vote republican. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 08:39 PM Response to Reply #50 |
56. That's your only solution to ridding the Democratic Party |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #56 |
67. I know you're not that dumb. But just in case, let's review... |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:32 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Okay, sorry if I misinterpreted your post. |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
54. Worse than jumped the shark. |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #54 |
65. Maybe so. |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
60. Democrats HAVE jumped the shark |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
62. 'after the party establishment closed ranks around another candidate' |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-15-10 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
66. Who could have seen that coming? |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 08:03 PM Response to Reply #66 |
77. Uh... yeah |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 08:08 PM Response to Reply #77 |
78. Yes, but we sure go out of our way to make it worse than it needs to be. |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 09:28 PM Response to Reply #78 |
79. ? |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 10:03 PM Response to Reply #79 |
80. ? |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 02:18 PM Response to Reply #80 |
85. ?? |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 08:45 PM Response to Reply #85 |
86. +1 |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 09:24 PM Response to Reply #86 |
87. + :) |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
69. tell me DLC apologists, what is the difference between you idiots and the Pukes? |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
72. How is this democracy when party establisment tells us whom we can vote for? |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 07:29 PM Response to Reply #72 |
74. Exactly. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-17-10 09:49 AM Response to Reply #72 |
82. Which is why I say FUCK "party establisment." |
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inna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-16-10 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
76. K&R |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
88. Stupak's retirement sealed Connie's fate |
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dbmk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 04:08 AM Response to Reply #88 |
91. You just say that because she is a woman |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 04:04 AM Response to Original message |
90. Connie entered the race knowing the MDP didn't support her. |
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