Open Letter to 15 Democrats who handed Bush his CAFTA

[Kevin Spidel]

Your vote for CAFTA is a nail in the coffin of a party dying for lack of a distinct identity. You have helped not only to destroy jobs, workers' rights, fair pay, and environmental protections, but also to destroy hopes for the Democratic Party. You cannot win like the Republicans by pretending to be the Republicans. You can only win like the Republicans by doing what they do, remaining loyal to their identity. You have made it harder for the Democratic Party to have an identity. It is votes like this one you have just cast that keep the Democrats from gaining in popularity even as Republican popularity plummets. When neither party will speak clearly for those outside the plutocracy, many citizens simply grow cynical and turn away. Others grow angry and determined. And we are determined to drive you out of our House of Representatives. You do not represent us, and we have no further use for you. Take your overpaid corporate lobbyist job now. Do so voluntarily. Or we will humiliate you in the coming primary.

[BillZBubb]

1. I hope you are right.

Most of these traitors should be given the heave ho. I would make a minor exception for those in districts with a large hispanic population. I could see how the Repugs could spin an anti-CAFTA vote against them with a big budget attack campaign.

[Richard Steele]

2. That's very well-put Kevin. Nice work!

[redqueen]

3. Hear, hear!

And to you Texan Republicans who voted for it: the Texas GOP Platform shows that Republicans in Texas HATE NAFTA and all it's ill-conceived brethren.

Rest assured I will remind your constituents of your betrayal when it's time for them to NOT go vote for you.

[Cocoa]

4. it's the opposite

has any vote on major trade legislation been party-line to the degree the Cafta vote was?

In other words, have the dems ever been as united against globalization as they were last night?

In other words, has trade ever been as much of a defining issue for the dems as it is now?

by comparison:

Nafta:
Republican 132 43
Democratic 102 156
Independent 1
TOTALS 234 200

Cafta:
Republican 202 27 2
Democratic 15 187
Independent 1
TOTALS 217 215 2