My email to Anna Eshoo tonight.

[Sapphocrat]

The first one in which I've ever been even remotely critical, inspired after reading her statement on her "yes" vote -- which she seems to have scraped out of the same barrel of Democratic Excuses For Caving as Al Franken did ("I had to!"):

I cannot begin to express my disappointment with your 'yes' vote on the debt ceiling.

As Mahatma Gandhi said: "All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on fundamentals is a surrender, for it is all give and no take."

With this vote, you have just surrendered -- surrendered Democratic Party principles. Your vote emboldens the radical right wing to gut Social Security and Medicare as soon as the so-called "bipartisan" super-Congress convenes to make its recommendations.

If you didn't cut them off today, then how far will they go?

Rhetorical question -- they'll go as far as you let them.

No, I really don't feel like discussing the whole bloody mess, so don't get your feelings hurt when I don't reply. I just wanted to get this off my chest to a wider audience, and add:

See, queers aren't all one-issue voters. We get the joy of dealing with blatant hatred on a daily basis, and worrying about our retirement (which we can't even share with our spouses/partners).

Ain't life just FUCKING GRAND?

[mikeburetta]

1. when yes should be no

The problem is now that tea party repubs have core values they will die for while Dem's say they are for things yet if repubs threaten Dem's cave on there so called core principals. Time to stand or why bother going through the motions!
This whole stupid fight on the republicans battlefield is nuts! Its like going to the used car sales guy and saying yea ill give you all you want and then being surprised he was going to soak ya for another 50 percent cuz ya were a sucker ready to pluck your pocket. Negotiating does mean compromise but you don't start at everything the other guy wants for starters!