To the Democrats...I say Bah!

[Codeblue]

This is directed at the Democrats who "represent" us in Congress. They dont represent us. I'll use Ken Salazar as an example.
Salazar is the recently elected Senator from Colorado. He is a Democrat. yet he has voted Republican more often than he has voted Democratic. He supports the flag burning amendment and other Republican sponsored endeavors to further invade our private lives.
Salazar believes that by voting in this way he will be able to secure a second term much easier because the Republicans wont have much to fault him with. He is too attached to his pathetic political career to actually represent the will of his constituents. This is the same problem for many of the Democrats. Too afraid of losing their jobs to represent the people who got them their jobs in the first place.
So instead of voting against the war in Iraq like all of their constituents wanted they voted with it to appease Republicans. They are too spineless to stand up in Congress and vote their hearts rather than to preserve their status.
I now find that Democrats and Republicans are essentially a growth of the same party with a few major differences they like to flaunt and throw around in the media. But when it comes down to it they vote the same way on almost every major issue. The Democrats aren't liberal and they dont represent liberals...they are simply more liberal than conservatives. To that my friends...I say BAH!!!

[Melodybe]

1. You'll get flamed for sure, but I am this close to writing my own the Dems

in Congress fucking SUCK posts. However their are a few dems that I actually do give enough of a shit about to stick around for a little while. Dean, Boxer, Kennedy, Kucinich, Conyers, a majority of the Congressional black caucus represent me. They vote well, they talk about things that matter, they put their money and time where their mouth is. Everyone else is this close to getting a big fuck off from me.

There is a scourge on both parties! I can't believe I am about to quote a fucktard like Zell Miller, but "DC stands for Doesn't Care."

Fucking bought off dems are the reason that repubs won't just join us. Sure their are a few repubs that will forever suck, but real people are so fucking sick of hearing the jargon about being tough on big business and then having every democrat, every politician screw them over.

If a few more of them would just not suck for two minutes then we would be so much better off, but no fucking DINO's like Diane Feinstien are so bought off that their is nothing we can do to convince her to care. ENRON DIANE YOU SLEEP WITH FUCKING ENRON!!!! BITCH!

I'm kicking and nominating this post, cause I'll be the first one to agree that the majority of elected Democrats are NO better than republicans.

[Wetzelbill]

3. you look cute when you're angry

:P

Sorry, that had to be said. You know, you are one of the most passionate people here on DU. Your posts, especially the one the other day that got me to commit to helping you with your protests next year, they really get me charged up. Honest.

I heard Paul Wellstone speak at the Key Arena in Seattle during the WTO, I've seen Howard Dean in person twice and John Kerry once, and you get me fired up to go make a difference as much as any of them did. Never lose the passion, don't ever. Because then you'll cease being you, and that won't be a good thing for the rest of us who need to be kicked in the ass from time to time.

:patriot:

[Melodybe]

5. Thank's I think that is the nicest thing that anyone on this board has

said to me.

:blush:

Here it's cute, my very liberal democratic sister just chased me out of her house, she got so irritated.

She lives across the street and will be over in about an hour, but hearing stuff like that all the time wears her a little thin.

[Codeblue]

8. Thanks

Thanks for the show of support. I still dont meet a lot of liberals who are liberal enough to see whats happening in the Senate. They still think they can rely on the 5 or 6 decent Dems in the Senate to stand up for what they believe. I agree that Kucinich and Kennedy and Dean are definetely what we need in the Senate. Too bad 5 or 6 isnt a majority...

[ClintonTyree]

2. The same could be said about Mary Landrieu....

Mary's a DINO and votes along Republican lines more often than not. Of course she's from Louisiana and a Dem down there is different from a Dem in the North.
However, it seems to me that she's more interested in protecting her position than furthering Democratic causes as well. I'm sure she'd say, "I'm representing my constituents", but if her constituents are that far right they should reconsider their party affiliation. The Democrats in Congress today are nothing more than Eisenhower Republicans. That's how far the pendulum has swung to the right. I think it's high time for the pendulum to swing the other way as this tack has not been working. The people have a choice between Republicans and Republican lite. Not a very good choice if you ask me.

[Wetzelbill]

4. part of the problem is the Senate looks like a millionaire club for white

males. Politics in our country doesn't go some much from Left to Right in political philosophy, but from top to bottom in economic staturs.

Now you have a guy like Ken Salazar, who thinks he got elected because of he was able to speak to voters as a Democrat, about values and other issues Republicans typically spin. Well, I got news for Ken, he was elected because he ran against a guy who was dumber than a box of rocks. From what I know, Pete Coors ran a stupid campaign, I heard him talking about family and moral values when he was getting ready to throw a Coors company party with a hedonistic type theme. Now, that's Pete Coor's business, and I don't mind it, but Conservative voters certainly mind that sort of duplicity. On, Meet The Press, Coors sounded worse than Dubya on many issues. Like he had no clue what was going on about anything. He couldn't articulate simple talking points. I watched that show and saw two of the most unimpressive candidates who were running for major office this last year. So Ken Salazar didn't exactly set the bar high, it was just that he didn't have much competition to beat in the first place.

I get sick of guys like that. Centrist milktoasts who sell out our party and our convictions on a regular basis. Why don't Ken Salazar stand up for people who need jobs, health care, quality education and a clean environment? Why don't he rail against injustice? Why doesn't he stand up for our troops dying in Afghanistan and Iraq? Because he's too busy trying to be everything to everybody, that's why. He's an opportunist and a weak one at that.

There are several key battles in this country today, all very important. The battle for Democrats to take back this country from the Republicans. The battle for true Republicans to take back their party from the far-right. And, the battle for progressive Democrats to take back their party from weak-willed Centrists. After that, then you might start seeing some valid progress, but I'm not sure just how attainable it all is. I guess in large portion it's up to people like us.

[Codeblue]

7. Pete Coors...

If I remember right, the major issue he ran on was lowering the drinking age to 18 in hopes of getting the youth votes. As far as I remember, thats the only thing I ever heard him say. Other than some BS about the family.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Got asbestos undies? *g*