From Salon War Room re Kerry's letter: "Where Are the Other Democrats?"

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/print.html?blog=

Where are the other Democrats?

For those who have been itching for someone -- the national media, the White House, Congress, anybody -- to take the Downing Street memo seriously, the news today is mostly good: Even if the Republicans will never let it happen, John Kerry and nine other Senate Democrats have actually asked for an investigation that will include the revelations set forth in the Downing Street memo.

And yet -- where are the rest of the Senate Democrats? There are 44 Democrats in the Senate, and Kerry circulated a draft of his letter to the whole lot of them two weeks ago. In the end, he was able to persuade just nine of his colleagues to sign on: Jon Corzine, Tim Johnson, Frank Lautenberg, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed, Jeff Bingaman and Dick Durbin.

Where are you, Harry Reid? Any reason you didn't sign, Sen. Clinton? And while we wouldn't expect to see a signature from someone like Joe Lieberman on this letter, why don't we see your name there, Sen. Obama?

It would be one thing, we suppose, if Kerry's letter were outrageous somehow -- say, if it impugned the patriotism of millions of Americans or suggested their real "motives" were to put U.S. troops in mortal danger. But Kerry's letter isn't like that. It simply quotes passages from the Downing Street memo and highlights the "troubling questions" that they raise.

Is it that you don't think those questions are worth answers, Joe Biden? Or does the experience of Dick Durbin -- who did, after all, sign the Kerry letter -- have you too scared to raise them?

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[acmavm]

1. Reid surprises me. Clinton just figures and Obama's turned out to be

a huge disappointment.

Ben Nelson of Nebraska didn't sign. No surprise there. If you want his mailing address it's Ben Nelson c/o KKKarl Rove's Back Pocket.

[pox americana]

2. I can think of several reasons not to sign

but it wouldn't be polite to mention them.

[elehhhhna]

3. Welcome aboard and please, list 'em!

[pox americana]

6. thanks elehhhhna

well to start with, CYA, don't rock the boat, keep the sheeple clueless, don't kill the golden geese, let somebody else take the hit until it registers on the people meter, 2008, a few others I better not mention...

[flpoljunkie]

8. Very well put, pox americana!

[Warpy]

9. It's always nice to see new posters who get the point

and you certainly got the point.

Most of those senators are place holders, watching their pensions accrue and fattening their portfolios while they enjoy tax cuts that benefited them but didn't do a damned thing for us.

[flpoljunkie]

5. Email your Senators and urge them to sign Kerry's letter. Link below.

Link to Senators' email: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[pox americana]

7. thanks flpoljunkie

I did and will again

[EndElectoral]

4. Or Feingold or Feinstein?

Not sure what the hell the problem is in getting signatures on this.