We might not be able to keep up with their rightward moves. If our Democrats keep reaching out to Bush's base and ignoring us, it is going to hurt us very much next year. They can not keep acting like that and expect to win. Not anymore.
Today I read this:
Democrats Shy Away From Emergency Contraception"On Wednesday, May 16, advocates were optimistic that legislation requiring emergency contraception to be stocked on all military bases would pass in the House. “We had the votes on Wednesday night. Things were looking good,” says Monica Castellanos, press secretary for Rep. Michael Michaud (D-Maine), one of the lead co-sponsors of the amendment that was scheduled for a vote the next day. But then, something mysterious happened.
For reasons that remain unclear, Michaud withdrew the legislation the
next morning. According to Castellanos, it was purely a logistical snafu: “Key supporters had to be in their districts.” But sources close to the issue tell a different story: The legislation, an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, with bipartisan support, was dropped by a Democratic leadership unwilling to go to bat for pro-choice issues. Despite Michaud’s confidence that the votes were there, Democratic leadership wasn’t so sure, and they didn’t want to hang around long enough to find out. The legislation might not have sunk, but they jumped ship anyway."
So, that makes us different from the right wing..how?
But there's more.
Democrats Increase Funding for Discredited Abstinence-Only Policy"The Democratic leadership of the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Service, and Education (LHHS) Sub-Committee set science and commonsense aside by increasing the funding for discredited abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. Despite a congressionally mandated report that found these programs do not work to help teens delay sexual initiation, House leadership allocated $141 million (an increase of $27.8 million) to continue feeding America's young people misinformation.
"Let's face it, with friends like these, who needs conservative Republicans?" said James Wagoner, President of Advocates for Youth. "By continuing to fund these ineffective programs, the House Democratic leadership has signaled that the health and well-being of America's teens are not their priority. Young people and their parents should be outraged"
I am not surprised to see this. A Florida Democrat who ran for Attorney General last year had an ad run against him for being too much against women's rights....the ad was by a Republican against a Democrat. The ad can be seen
here at You TubeMore:
It was a Democrat who first sponsored the Scarlet Letter law in Florida."The law became known for its most controversial element, which required women who wanted to put a child up for adoption to run detailed listings in newspapers with their names and descriptions and the names of potential fathers. It attracted national media attention and the Scarlet Letter moniker.
That part of the bill was eventually ruled unconstitutional and repealed in 2003. Campbell initially defended the provision."
And to make it worse, I believe all our major candidates are now saying we are going to have to leave a contingent in Iraq.....Harry Reid and Hillary have said it is to protect our interests. I can just see that working out so very well, can't you?
SO..we are going to stay in Iraq. That won't change even if a Democrat wins.
The free trade will continue, as they are already doing secret deals behind closed doors. And remember the famous words of Charlie Rangel about that trade deal?
Rangel..."bam, seal it and catch hell" ...about the trade deal"RANGEL BRAGS THAT DEALMAKERS PRIORITIZED GOP AND K STREET CONCERNS OVER DEM CAUCUS: CongressDaily reports that Rangel bragged to reporters that the reason dealmakers kept negotiations secret - and perhaps the reason why the legislative language remains secret - is because they feared rank-and-file Democrats would oppose the concessions that were needed to appease the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, GOP Sen. Charles Grassley (IA), GOP Rep. Jim McCrery (LA) and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who last year traveled to India to trumpet job outsourcing.
"Every time we had them all together, someone jumped off," Rangel told reporters after the meeting, referring to that group. "So we said, we can't wait for the Caucus. When we got everybody holding hands, bam! Seal it and catch hell. We did both." The fact that Rangel now admits the Chamber of Commerce was so intimately involved in the negotiations may explain why the Chamber continues to say it has received "assurances" that the much-touted labor provisions in the deal will be rendered unenforceable."
It really is coming down to privately done deals and the ignoring of the activists.
And to top off my week, the Florida state Democrats are thumbing their noses at the national party and laughing it up. They have dissed Howard Dean publicly
while he has been urging all of us to stay and work for the good of the party. They had the nerve to ask James Carville to be the keynote speaker at the JJ dinner last week-end, and it had to have been done with full knowledge of his recent and not so recent stunts.
Our state chair sent out a pump us up letter about the primary.The post shows how Carville previous actions had asked for Dean to be fired, how he had called Scooter Libby an honorable man by signing a letter that he be pardoned. Then at the dinner, he said either Hillary or Obama would win. That was a slap in the face to Kucinich who was present, and John Edwards who was not. How dare he presume like that?
I guess you might say I am on outrage overload.
The Democrats appear to be appealing to the 28% to 30% who are Bush's base, and leaving us behind. I think we must express our dissatisfaction with this.
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