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monied interests coupled with a total failure of nerve.
We helped them win in 2006, and we'll help them win in 2008. Unless we see a dramatic shift in their behavior, we won't be there for them in 2010.
I love the smell of impeachment in the morning!
by gabbardd on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:09:08 PM PDT
that kind of time. They need to stand up, NOW.
No more Republican rule.
by HarveyMilk on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:10:56 PM PDT
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this week, and they failed/refused.
We're on the same side here, but I just don't see them standing up any time soon, if ever. They've passed at every opportunity. Even the carnival with the candidates at the hearings this week. The candidates should have been barred from speaking altogether. Instead of standing up for the facts, they set themselves up to be smeared as partisans, which they clearly are. They favor their Party's power structure and their position within it far more than they favor the people of this country and its Constitution. Through their own inaction, they might as well have struck the matches themselves.
by gabbardd on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:23:06 PM PDT
What did the Dem prez candidates say? or - not say. They didn't stick with the facts??
Dems will not hold impeachment hearings while Bill is campaigning with Hillary.
by annefrank on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:28:38 PM PDT
She did bring up a few things to make him uncomfortable, but she never confronted him about the cooked books directly.
I'll try to find Biden and Obama and Dodd.
by gabbardd on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:37:00 PM PDT
http://www.mydd.com/...
by gabbardd on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:37:34 PM PDT
http://customwire.ap.org/...
Sorry, and I really am, but I'm too wiped out to synthesize for you. Overall, I'd say they raised a few issues with him, but they didn't ask him to account for the flaws in his "report."
For example, "How do you explain general, why your numbers on civilian violence in Iraq do not include car bombings? Aren't car bombs acts of violence?"
Nobody asked him that.
by gabbardd on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:42:41 PM PDT
Thanks for the links. :) Rest well.
by annefrank on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:48:16 PM PDT
they need to act.
by Horsefeathers on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:27:00 PM PDT
I voted for Democrats in 2006 even though I had already left the party and become an independent because of the capitulating and the transparent complicity. I will not be voting for any Democrats in 2008. Their performance since last January has been so egregiously awful that the very least I can do is to completely blackball them in the next election. I see no reason whatsoever, based on their performance, to trust them in any way, shape, or form, or to have any faith at all that they even WANT to end this war.
JUST SAY NO TO HILLIEBERMAN!!! "The truth is there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?" ---"V"---
by asskicking annie on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:35:28 PM PDT
And plenty of others are, too. If they keep it up, 2008 is not going to turn out at all like they expect.
by HarveyMilk on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:38:55 PM PDT
to see the light. Check this out via Howie Klein:
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) is encouraging anti-war activists to find challengers to centrist Democrats, with the aim of moving the party to the left and ramping up opposition to the war in Iraq, to the chagrin of top Democratic aides. "You folks should go after the Democrats," Woolsey said in response to a suggestion from an activist during a conference call last month organized by the Network of Spiritual Progressives. "I’d hate to lose the majority, but I’m telling you, if we don’t stand up to our responsibility, maybe that’s the lesson to be learned."
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) is encouraging anti-war activists to find challengers to centrist Democrats, with the aim of moving the party to the left and ramping up opposition to the war in Iraq, to the chagrin of top Democratic aides.
"You folks should go after the Democrats," Woolsey said in response to a suggestion from an activist during a conference call last month organized by the Network of Spiritual Progressives.
"I’d hate to lose the majority, but I’m telling you, if we don’t stand up to our responsibility, maybe that’s the lesson to be learned."
by asskicking annie on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 08:58:35 PM PDT
wide narrow
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