Bush numbers at all time low! Inds & Dems blame Dems for not stopping Bush

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083000302.html

The survey also provided bad news for Democratic leaders, who are judged as offering Bush only tepid opposition. Slightly more than half of those surveyed expressed dissatisfaction with congressional Democrats for not opposing Bush more aggressively.

Self-identified Democrats were particularly impatient. More than three in four said congressional Democrats have not gone far enough to oppose Bush on Iraq or on administration policies in general.

"Somebody needs to speak up," said Michelle Burgess, 41, a home health aide in St. Louis. "Enough is enough. I don't understand why we're over there in Iraq or what he's doing on other issues. There are too many lives being lost."

Independents were similarly dissatisfied with Democratic leaders for not challenging the president over the war and other issues, with six in 10 saying Democrats have been too meek.

[Gloria]

1. Ok, wimps, you have permission to do what you should have been

doing all along.

I'm so pissed lately that I could scream.

[aquart]

2. Exactly what we've been saying.

[MadeinOhio]

3. It will only get worse.....

Until Howard Dean becomes the new face of the entire democratic leadership.

He is the backbone all of them need to have, and launch in lockstep, all across the senate and congress and MEAN it and also mean business.....

It's time more so than the repubs, to wake the dems the heck up!

Email, fax, telephone ALL your dem leaders today and make them light fires and fuses if they haven't been even paying attention for oh, say more than a month!

http://www.usalone.com/index.htm

[flpoljunkie]

9. Free Howard Dean!

[roguevalley]

4. If these dems are too damned COWARDLY to do their JOB, then

they need to be VOTED OUT TO THE LAST ONE! I hope the fuckers are happy.

[zanne]

10. I agree, roguevalley

And I don't want to hurt your feelings, but what kind of a dog is that? I've been trying to figure it out since I first saw it. Is it a Dacshund?

[TayTay]

5. Did anyn of you people actually watch theSenate debate

on energy? The Dems did speak up. A lot of them spoke up and were well and truly pissed off about that boondoggle of a bill. And they got no coverage. None. (Okay, five minutes on PBS, but that's about it.) Everything that was wrong with that bill, with this Admin and it's ruinous policies came up in that debate. (Go read it. Go see what Wyden said. See what the other said. It is scathing.)

The MSM bears some responsibility for this as well. They have not been covering the Dems that have been speaking out. They have been much more interested in the idiotic 'horserace' aspect of this. (The same friggin thing that Jon Stewart decried on his CNN appearance earlier this year.) The media is supposed to be a check on the power and abuse of power in this country. They have failed as well.

[flpoljunkie]

8. There is no doubt the media failed us. That the Dems could've filibustered

the energy bill and stopped it in its tracks, is also a fact. The vote in the Senate was an overwhelming 74-26--which, of course, included many Democrats.

Here is the link to the vote. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00213

[Senator Lamb]

6. so my DLC friends....what say you?

you DLC'ers live in a world with rules created by Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter where you are apologetic for being an opposition party. This shows that America indeed wants a real democracy.

[TankLV]

7. What the fuck have they been waiting for?!?!?!

NOBODY can seriously even THINK that they have been anything but WIMPS!

It is beyond disgusting.

[welshTerrier2]

11. the radical left-wing fringe now exceeds 75% of Democrats

WE ARE THE MAJORITY IN THIS PARTY !!!

and don't let any of DU's DLC apologists say differently ... don't let the DLC divide left and center anymore ... they are rapidly the ones becoming the irrelevant 1% fringe they accuse us as being ...

both left and center share very similar views on most of the big issues ... that's especially true on Iraq and it's especially true about corporate interference in our government ...

[flpoljunkie]

13. Excellent point, welshTerrier2! We are now the majority in this party!

[Neshanic]

12. Hillary is busy at Best Buy asking about video games. She's on it.

Biden is getting his ass permanently glued to a swivel chair with motor to go from Sunday talk show to talk show.

Lieberman? Lost long ago.

DLC? Planning meetings and triangulating their asses.

[Totally Committed]

14. "Self-identified Democrats were particularly impatient.

... More than three in four said congressional Democrats have not gone far enough to oppose Bush on Iraq or on administration policies in general."

Say "AMEN!", somebody!

TC