On a night when we just saw Stephen Colbert clowning with and being mobbed by thousands of troops in Camp Victory, Iraq, let's recall how important it was to the 2006 campaign to have soldiers like Joe Sestak and Patrick Murphy and Eric Massa running as Democrats. After the Republicans successfully trashed the military career two years earlier of John Kerry, it was important to see soldiers coming on board to lead the Democratic Party. It was not too many years ago Washington DC was apoplectic having experienced Stephen Colbert's the emperor has no clothes moment at the correspondent's dinner. However, self preservation is the highest calling of the venal bunch in Washington DC who still call themselves our leaders. 2006 and 2008 were just the start of the multi year effort to getting these leaders to either lead America forward or just get out of the way.
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Now that the President is getting push back from Republicans and Blue Dogs for a sensible reform of healthcare that must include a public component, it it imperative to give to Joe Sestak. Remind Washington that the Democratic majority in Washington DC is both truly Democratic and a Majority.
Now that the politics of hate and division, the new Republican southern strategy, are being directed against one of our finest jurists who happens to have grown up humble and Puerto Rican (which means being American for more than 100 years, slightly arriviste compared to some Latinos in California, Texas and New Mexico), it is time to show support for Joe Sestak. Who can forget the fecklessness and utter deceit of Arlen Specter as he trashed Anita Hill, lauded Clarence Thomas, kissed Alberto Gonzalez' ass and worshipped at the altar of the results oriented jurists Roberts, Alito and Roberts? Time to send Specter a rain check. He has no business being on the judiciary committee. It's hard to think he is a lawyer, let a lone a former prosecutor. Time so support Joe Specter to show what core American values are.
And then there is Specter's equivocation on the Employee Free Choice Act. No equivocation allowed if you want a country that rewards hard work and levels the playing field between the individual worker and the corporate elites and the multinational money supporting them. Time to support Joe Sestak.
I gave my first contribution to Joe Sestak when I read on the web that his Republican opponent was attacking Sestak for sending his very ill daughter to a Washington DC hospital for treatment. That was a have you no decency moment for me - the kind of moments we are experiencing every day now in light of the Newt-Rush-Palin-Huckabee-Liz-Dick attacks on our country and the receptive echo chamber they have on the Republican side of the Senate.
My ardor cooled in 2008 when Joe Sestak was a strident supporter of Hillary Clinton. But now that we see how effective and excellent and progressive Hillary Clinton is as Secretary of State and as a national leader, that moment for me is a definite bygone.
Support Joe Sestak now if you want to accomplish anything legislatively important in Washington DC this year. Act Blue