The heart of the opposition party

[never_get_over_it]

The following Senators voted no on both IWR and Roberts in my mind they are the heart of the opposition party

Akaka (HI) N
Boxer (CA) N
Corzine (NJ) N
Dayton (MN) N
Durbin (IL) N
Inouye (HI) N
Kennedy (MA) N
Mikulski (MD) N
Reed, J. (RI) N
Sarbanes (MD) N
Stabenow (MI) N

Sarbanes, Corzine and Dayton aren't runnning again -

Lautenberg and Obama didn't have the opportunity to vote for or against IWR - I would love to belive they would have voted NO but I just can't be sure.....

[bemildred]

1. Yes. And a bunch of people we have not heard much of yet. nt

[valerief]

2. Seems like a list to pick a presidential candidate from

[WI_DEM]

3. I'm sorry but you can't dismiss people like Feingold, Byrd and

Leahy as simple as that when they have opposed the war vigorously from the start and opposed the Bush agenda on 99% of the time. Hell, Leahy is at the top of Dick Cheney's shit list.

[bemildred]

4. I can dismiss anybody I want. That's what democracy is all about. nt

[WI_DEM]

5. fine, you can

but in doing so you are dismissing alot of people who have done some great work. But as you say that is your option. I know I will be lucky to find a congressman or Senator or President, no matter how good he or she is who will vote the way I think 100% of the time.

[bemildred]

8. Thank you. nt

[never_get_over_it]

6. I'm just pointing out

those who voted the way I would have voted on the two most important votes IMHO. I think alot of Pat Leahy and truthfully am quite puzzled by his Roberts vote....

I don't want to dismiss anybody - I want all of them to be the opposition party....

[newswolf56]

7. Stabenow voted for the bankruptcy law, the most deliberately vicious...

legislation in U.S. history: it doubles minimum credit card payments (thereby flinging millions into bankruptcy) even as it condemns all but the lowest-income bankrupt to indentured servitude.

No law in U.S. history has ever been more savagely ruinous; no law has ever more blatantly served the oligarchic purposes of concentrating wealth and disempowering everyone who is not wealthy.

Any Democrat who voted for this law -- as did Stabenow and 13 other senators -- is a traitor to everything the Democratic Party claims to stand for. Their betrayal of these principles is willful and malicious. They should be driven from office in disgrace and prosecuted for fraud: seeking political office under false pretenses.

Here is a genuine roster of shame -- the names of all the Democratic senators who voted for the law:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-36.htm

[never_get_over_it]

11. I knew there was something recently that

Stabenow did that surprised me - thanks for reminding me - and whats up with that vote Senator Stabenow....

[Cocoa]

9. if it helps you to do excercises like this

more power to you.

Do you have any doubts about thinking this way?

[never_get_over_it]

10. Thinking what way

I don't really understand your question - the most important vote to me during this entire 5 year nightmare was IWR - the Robert's vote was almost as important....so I checked to see which Senatrors voted the way I would have - I wanted to know who to be most proud of - I'm not bashing anyone - I'm not dismissing anyone - what I said, to me, these folks are the heart of the opposition party - I want the others to please join them -

For example do I EVER have to worry or wonder how Teddy Kennedy will vote - NO - I guess I'd just like to have 51 Senators with voting records like Ted Kennedy