This About Sums It Up...

[WillyT]

January 30, 2006

No Filibuster, No Re-Election for Blue State Senators

by Rob Kall

http://www.opednews.com

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I'll keep this short and bitter. Every god damned blue state senator who failed to sign on to the Alito filibuster MUST be fought in the primaries and replaced. The Democratic party has failed the rank and file members.

It is time to take back the Democratic party from the right wing, loser hacks who have been fumblingly, failingly controlling it and the candidates put forward. I can't believe how many people tell me that they believe the DLC and right wing democrats are really Republican operators.

IN the OpEdNews.com/Zogby people's poll I just ran in Pennsylvania, about 29% of the respondents were liberals or progressives. With 51 percent of the respondents being democrats, that means that 58% of the democrats are liberal or Progressive. We ARE the majority.

If a stab-us-in-the-back senator in a blue state failed to support the filibuster we MUST find strong, tough candidates to run against and BEAT them. We must raise money for candidates, even if they are not running in our states.

We, the Progressives and liberals must define the issues. We must tell our elected officials what to do. This was the last straw. We need to draw up a list of these traitors to democracy and take them out of the political arena. I bet they'll end up on some corporation's payroll.

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Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_060130_no_filibuster_2c_no_re.htm

Time to remind the political class who really runs the joint.

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[arcane1]

1. Amen, brother T, preach ON!

:toast:

[wtmusic]

2. Byrdie really hurts

his statements against the war were among the most eloquent.

[FormerRepublican]

3. I agree. I'm tired of our elected officials ignoring us to do whatever...

..the heck they want (and make corporate $$$)!

[Sydnie]

4. which blue state dems would that be?

That is an honest question ... not a bait. I am not sure that there were any, were there?

[EFerrari]

6. This is a good question. I want to look at who voted against

us but am much too dead tonight.

I want to see the Red/Blue break down. Who is up for re-election. That kind of thing. We may learn something for, gulp, next time. :)

[cry baby]

5. UnDems...

Akaka (HI), Baucus (MT), Bingaman (NM), Byrd (WV), Cantwell (WA), Carper (DE), Dorgan (ND), Inouye (HI), Johnson (SD), Kohl (WI), Landrieu (LA), Lieberman (CT), Lincoln (AR), Nelson (FL), Nelson (NE), Pryor (AR), Rockefeller (WV), Salazar (CO)

Blue state dems: Akaka, Cantwell, Carper (? blue state), Inouye, Kohl (?blue state), Lieberman...is that right?

[Sydnie]

7. Ok, I see them now

yep .. they need to go. Akaka was all for the ANWR drilling too.

I stand corrected ... there were some there.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Even though she supported it, can we run someone against Feinstein in....

the primaries on a matter of principle? ;)