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[KharmaTrain]

Seems few here understand the strategy and game being played here...and, yes they're games and it's games about torture of all things.

Democrats did't come up with this conveluted bill but were being put on the record to either support this "bill" or be slimed in their districts (most were in either red or purple ones) as being "unpatriotic" and so on. It's like the minimum wage bill with the poison pill. While we all wanted the wage to rise, but not if it meant giving billions in tax breaks to the rich and building a bigger defecit. Was being against that bill mean that Democrats sold out on the minimum wage? It's the game being played here and whose being played.

This game can change. Those 30 or 40 "fencesitters" will swing the other way when the power flows from another direction. In fact not only do I think many of those votes will "come home" (cause if not they'll lose $$$ and power), but we'll have 10 or 20 Repugnicans who will cross over to our side.

Winning the House means not only the ability to investigate, but to also set the agenda in the next Congress and with it the power to not only repeal this crap but then to put the brakes to this runaway regime in Washington and its rubber stamp lackeys. Now if you're pissed at Democrats who voted for this travesty (and it's been a sad day...Democratic votes wouldn't have stopped this bill from going forward) then lets win the House and then, after November 8th revisit who these people are and see if there are bona fide Progressives in those areas that we can help support in 2008.

The end game here is control of at least one house this fall...without it we're really screwed. Taking this one vote...which was framed by the corporate media in a way that would have allowed Repugnicans to bash vulnerable Democrats or create last minute issues that would take the focus off of our main issues...the corruption and ineptness of this regime.