The Dems take turns selling out so no one can be blamed

[HomerRamone]

Patricia Goldsmith, 'Tipping point / Point of no return'
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=22914

A Pew study released in early September shows that for the first time, there is significant erosion in Bush's base. Progressives have been unable to capitalize on this fatal weakness because we have a Democratic Party that sells out. They take turns so that it looks random. This week it was Patrick Leahy and Russ Feingold. It was a big job -- insuring that John Roberts will be quietly confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States for possibly the next 30 years -- so they needed some heavy-hitters to take the heat. Leahy was a natural, given his "No Rubber Stamp" campaign to ensure the Democratic grassroots that there would be a thorough investigation into the good judge's background. Feingold is one of the handful of senators who voted against the war resolution, which gives him special credibility with many people -- in spite of his co-authorship of that god-awful campaign finance bill. Good choices.

[Mutley]

1. We need to blast our Democratic leaders

to grow some balls and monopolize this "erosion in Bush's base." If they don't DO something about this we still won't get anywhere in the elections.

[Silverhair]

2. Senators are only accountable to their HOME states. NT

[ClassWarrior]

3. Or, we're all unique individuals, and none of us will agree with ANYONE...

...all of the time.

Okay, okay, it doesn't involve hatefully demonizing someone. I guess it won't sell.

NGU.

[bemildred]

4. Yep. They are feeling the heat or they would not bother with this sham.

[soothsayer]

5. Yup. Just like they do 'opposing' congressional salary hikes.

They take turns.

[OneBlueSky]

6. kicked and recommended . . . this vote on Roberts has . . .

pushed me over the edge as far as the Democrats go . . . here's a vote that REALLY meant something, and yet again they acted as BushCo enablers rather than standing up for the people of this country . . . and now we have Roberts as Chief Justice for the next 30 years or so . . .

well, fuck 'em all . . . Leahy, Feingold, Byrd, the whole damned lot . . . if they can't do any better than this, we don't need their asses in Congress . . . vote 'em out! . . .

[ClassWarrior]

7. This thread reminds me of HeadRush Limbaugh saying...

...on the one hand that the Dems are a bunch of bumbling boobs stumbling around in a cloud, and on the other hand that they're running a vast, sinister, highly-coordinated Dem Party conspiracy.

MAKE UP YOUR FRICKIN' MIND! <LOL>

NGU.

[bloom]

8. Taking turns

that is how it seems.

I was thinking this morning how BushCo. has put all of these people in place who hate the organization they are leading - Bolton at the UN, etc. I expect that Roberts is exactly the same - just that he has been more careful with his words over the years than Bolton has.

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I don't agree with all of her points.

Like:

"The result is a Democratic Party and leadership that, no matter how well intentioned, is founded on a basic lie. They cannot serve the interests of both concentrated wealth and the common good. If that once seemed possible to many of us, myself included, it is clearly not going to happen while we're under the thumb of what Alan Simpson called the Hundred Percenters. They want it all."

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It seems better to try to represent both that to unabashedly solely represent the rich.

I hope the Democrats are not as evil as the Republicans - I wish the Democrats would stop helping the Republicans out, though.

And I do think that Bayh is just trying to look more like a Democrat now that he seems to have set his sights on running for POTUS.