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Senate Democrats chose to make nice with Lieberman because they feared that if they marginalized him, then he would not support them with his vote on critical issues in the future. They effectively came to the conclusion that Lieberman is a selfish, petulant schmuck who would put his personal resentments above the best interests of the nation. And then they chose to reward him for being that kind of person.
Corporate rule as usual? Throw some more money at them...it will boomerang back.
It was about government working for the people, not the corportocracy.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has fallen further behind Democrat Mark Begich in his re-election bid.
The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trails the Anchorage mayor by 2,374 votes during Tuesday count of 24,000 absentee and other ballots.
All in good time(2010) Senator Dodd.
The Dems gave up any negotiating leverage they had by not even stripping him of one committee seat when he holds two. Now, he knows they'll never have the guts to do a damn thing to him, 60 seat majority or not. What's the difference who the hell holds a majority in Congress? The Democrats will always cower to the Republicans. Or should I say conspire with?
I haven't given a dime to the DNC since 2004 and this whole charade guarantees I never will again.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175001/no_breat...
"Political Washington is a conspiracy -- in the original sense of the word: "to breathe the same air." In that sense, there is no air in Washington that isn't stale enough to choke a president. Send Obama there alone, give him that "breathing space," don't start demanding the quick ending of wars or anything else, and you're not doing him, or the American people, any favors. Quite the opposite, you're consigning him to suffocation.
Leave Obama to them and he'll break your heart. If you do, then blame yourself, not him; but better than blaming anyone, pitch your own tent on the public commons and make some noise. Let him know that Washington's isn't the only consensus around, that Americans really do want our troops to come home, that we actually are looking for "change we can believe in," which would include a less weaponized, less imperial American world, based on a reinvigorated idea of defense, not aggression, and on the Constitution, not leftover Rumsfeld rules or a bogus Global War on Terror. "
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The thought of this doesn't offend me much. I just became a Democrat this cycle in order to vote for Obama in the Primary. Seasoned Democrats, however, looking for a spine or even payback could be very disappointed in Obama's vision of change.
If the opposite of pro is con
Then the opposite of progress
Is congress!
Bwahahahaha! Please. Play Three-card Monte much? What you've just seen is the political eqivalent of the Mexican turnover. If you missed it, don't worry. You'll get many more chances in the near future.
All of their calculating and triangulating does nothing but serve those on the far right... it actually has a lot to do with how the GOP gained and maintained power for so long... let's not forget that the GOP was able to push forward more of its agenda following eight years of Clinton and the DLC's influence than it EVER has, historically.
Each calculated move toward some pretend middle, each attempt to be everything to everyone, drags us down further into the muck.
This election only did half the job, in removing many Repukelickin's. Anybody who thought they could sit back for four years is clueless. The second half means removing entrenched DINOs, and dragging Washington out of the f*ckin' Bahble Belt. They tip the apparent political scale so far to the Right, the fulcrum seems to fall just short of outright Fascism. That's a false perception created by them and our corporatist media. The real center is right where it is in every other "civilized" country: Democratic Socialism. To be as far left of that as most Repukes are right of it, you'd have to be left of Mao, somewhere out in space.
Take over your local Democratic Party organization, and work your way up. Otherwise, the schmucks who did do that will continue to rule in our one-Party-at-a-time system. If you don't control a Party, you have no voice, once the election noise is over. Just do it. Bring ten friends: You'll outnumber the tired old bastards.
Otherwise, get ready for eight more years of Clintonism, possibly followed by Clinton herself, if Chelsea comes out as a 'Puke, when it's "their turn" again.
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Ask the Rethugs how that worked out.
How about providing some competent, responsible government for a change? You might be surprised how that works out.
The vote was secret right? Why? Because they're scared of what the Net can do to them.
From now on, all the major votes coming out of this congress won't be secret and that's how we'll know who to take out.