The Deliverance wing of the Democratic Party voted to pass Senate Bill 403. Here's the Yea Dem vote.
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Not Voting (makes you want to say Hmmm)
Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Lieberman (D-CT), Nay (a running scared vote with the Democrats for once)
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Byrd (D-WV), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Many progressives have issues with this group and the way they vote. I certainly do. Witness Harry Reid's vote on the bankruptcy bill. Legislation that was bought and paid for by the big credit card companies. But the 403 issue is perhaps the most serious transgression on our civil rights so far. The Deliverance Democrats as I call them, are so out of step with the progressives that it is now time to do something about them.
This group is the epitomy of what Howard Dean calls republican lite Democrats. To vote in lockstep with the Deliverance wing of what I call the Rapeuglican Party, on such a regressive issue, reveals the sorry state that the Democratic Party is in and how far we must go to correct the situation.
I do not want Senator Reid, Dorgan or anyone else Democrat or Rapeuglican telling my daughter what she can and can not do with her body. Nor do I want these same plebeians telling me that I cannot help her seek medical assistance without "consent" from her mother to do so. Not to mention needing to cross a state line to get it. In a country where Roe Vs Wade is long settled legal president, I find myself tiring of the constant chipping away at our established rights. The Deliverance Dems are aiding and abetting the Deliverance Rapes on this issue. Still think Reid is doing a great job as our leader in the Senate?
I most assuredly do not.
These "Democrats" must be purged from our party at the very first opportunity. We now have a prime example of how to do it with the Lieberman Vs Lamont race. Real Democrats need only to go after the Deliverance Democrats with the same vigilance that Connecticut Democrats have gone after Lieberman (by getting the truth out about his regressive rapeuglican mindset to his constituency) We can do it so let's get started. Carpe Diem!