Will Democrats stand up now that Bush is on the floor?

[yurbud]

[John Q. Citizen]

1. My question is will the people in this country stand up or are we

going to keep waiting for someone else to do it for us?

[yurbud]

4. people here are doing it. When will enough people get

together to fill the streets like in Bolivia or Russia after the coup against Gorbachev?

[RufusEarl]

10. Correct answer!

And i'm sure John is speaking of the majority of the citizens of the USA, not DU er's

[LoZoccolo]

2. I'll add a choice.

It's "no, people who sit around on message boards and complain about what they want other people to do will never be satisfied and thus will never say that the Democrats are fighting for them."

[yurbud]

6. some are, but not leaders and not critical mass

when you have shitbags like Lieberman and Biden going along with much of what the GOP does, that doesn't help.

If they are paying your salary, tell them to shit or get off the pot.

[KittyWampus]

32. and then you have DU'ers who start lame ass threads

:puke:

[Fridays Child]

3. If not, now, they never will. So, however it turns out...

...this is the one to watch.

[sandnsea]

5. Will DU ever notice Democrats standing up.

No. Except for the "they grew a spine" threads that we get every 2 weeks, for about 5 minutes until DU goes back to whining and bitching again.

The Dems were out in front on the port issue. Why isn't the media reporting the bills they've already introduced?? Hmmm.

[SoCalDem]

9. M E D I A

you said it yourself.. The public face of democrats is created iin the "media make-up chair". They are shown as what the media wants them to be seen as..

Watch the Dreyfuss Press Club event on cspan.. He summed it up brilliantly

[sandnsea]

27. Don't tell me

I've been harping about the media for years. Tell the ones who pop up once a week on the quest for the balls and spine, regardless of what's going on in the real world.

[yurbud]

15. one thing they need to learn from GOP is you don't "pick your

battles;" you fight every time and try to be on the right side of the issue every time.

Does that mean filibustering and throwing a monkeywrench in the gears every time? No. What it does mean is voting on the right side and calling a spade a spade every single time.

Grovelling, sniffing, apologizing and ignoring voters half the time isn't fighting and makes the times they do fight look like token gestures.

I can forgive some of that immediately after 9/11 and through maybe 2002, but after that, there was really no excuse for not consistently behaving as an opposition party.

[sandnsea]

28. bla bla bla bla bla

Congratulations on yet another Dem bashing thread, your known specialty.

[yurbud]

37. work thru your scripted list of stock replies

[SoCalDem]

7. The ones who are "allowed" on tv

will denounce Bush, and will be portrayed by the media as "being less than helpful, and obstructionist and devoid of any positive ideas"..

republicans who challenge Bush will be portrayed as BOLD, DECISIVE, PATRIOTIC and PRINCIPLED

same ole same ole

[yurbud]

17. the public isn't buying it, and cowardice in the face of unfriendly

media isn't very inspiring.

[SoCalDem]

18. I'm reserving judgement until after the election

:hi:

[yurbud]

36. in new Harpers, John Conyers says why he intro'd articles of impeachment

He said he didn't want people to be able to say in the future they didn't know what was going on now, they didn't know what Bush was doing to our democracy. Since it is on the record, they won't have that excuse. If the Democrats had taken this attitude throughout, Bush wouldn't have gotten this far.

[Cocoa]

8. yes, but some people will refuse to see it

and they will try, and fail, to distract other people from seeing it.

[KittyWampus]

31. Thank You, this thread makes me want to spit

[liberaltrucker]

11. What?

No "You gotta be fucking kidding" choice:banghead:

[upi402]

14. LOL

I'm wearing a Che shirt right now!
:toast:
Like your avatar.

[liberaltrucker]

20. TYVM

:toast:

[xchrom]

12. alito.

[upi402]

13. the SOS will result in the SOS

Same
Old
Shit

served on the same old shingle
VOTE THE IMPOSTERS OUT!

[yurbud]

16. I agree with your last line.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

19. How about when pigs fly?

:bounce: :nuke: :popcorn: :rofl: :spray: :beer:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Sure. Just like the courage shown in filibustering Alito..oh, wait.

[LSK]

24. more filibustered Alito than didnt

But lets have facts get in the way.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

26. They did? When was that?

Funny, I must have missed the endless speeches that make up a filibuster. Maybe I missed it because of the noise made by the bold senators voting for Alito or for cloture.

[LSK]

30. ummm

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00001

Who are those 25 Nays?

[LSK]

22. which ones???

25 of them tried to filibuster Alito.

They successfully filibustered ANWR.

Who EXACTLY are you talking about?

[Name removed]

25. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Jacobin]

23. Fuck No.

Dob Bole will hand out a few thousand bucks to each of the whores and they will say they examined the situation and it looks fine....I should say 75% of them anyway

[UTUSN]

29. Is this a trick question? n/t

[LSdemocrat]

33. If the Repugs wanna fight each other, don't get in the way

[mitchtv]

35. Wait and see, Let the pukes do the heavy lifting on this, help them

but you still gotta let the voters know this happened because they voted Repuke. Believe me they will use it against us if they could.

[yurbud]

38. Democrats often resist pointing out the obvious--GOP never does

[f-bush]

34. God I sure fucking hope so and...

the media and the American voting public!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!