Whats the real reason for the censure no go?

[Pharaoh]

I just don't get it?

It seems like Bush could rape and murder a child on the white house lawn and nobody would say shit!:puke: :puke: :puke:

[JuniperLea]

1. Is it a no go?

Seems to me there have been several other Senators coming out in support today.


:shrug:

[INdemo]

19. Why do some Senate Democrats run scared

Its Republican power over all the pork in their respective states for one thing.If a Senator wants that pet project protected than they have to tow the line.It may sound very simplistic but it is one major tool for the Repukes.

[JuniperLea]

21. You are right

But don't give up too quickly. Other Senators are jumping on board... and it's only been a couple of days since Feingold first brought it up. Give 'em time to grow a set:)

I think someone should look into this admin's bullying tactics. They just don't seem right to me.

[INdemo]

25. Oh I'm not giving up

and we should not let this go away..we gotta keep screaming to the Democrats in Congress to "kick em while they're down" my goodness cant these people in Washington understand if the tables were turned the Democrats would have been buried by now.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Dems sensed sharks in the water, didn't want to jump in. EOM

[Lerkfish]

16. what kind of sharks?

[Virginia Dare]

26. Political sharks, the deadliest kind for a politician. EOM

[Lerkfish]

27. ok, I meant: republican sharks or democratic sharks?

[leftofthedial]

3. don't you see? The Dems are geniuses!

They know that if king george rapes and kills enough children, sooner or later he's bound to accidentally rape and kill a republican child. And if he does it once, he might accidentally do it enough times that in 30 years or so, there won't be quite as many republicans! Diabolically clever, these Dems!

[LSparkle]

4. I thought I heard Feingold was glad of the referral

to committee (judiciary?). They want to build momentum for this, as opposed to jumping right in for a vote. ???

[rainy]

10. That sounds very reasonable. I hope you are right

[blm]

12. He just said so on Ed Schultz, but some are refusing to understand

that he put it in committee where it belongs, and it's the media spinning it into a deathmatch for Dems while the GOPs are in the Senate trying to push ANWR through TODAY.

[rurallib]

5. Ya just gotta wonder what mysterious power the Bushies have

When you look at the list of crimes they have committed you'd think each and every one would have been long ago locked away for their natural lives. Yet they are still in power.
I'd say that cowardice has a lot to do with it.

[blm]

6. Censure is moving along and gathering. Don't believe the mediaspin.

Feingold was just on Ed Schultz and everything's moving.

And while media is spinning and activists are distracted, GOPs are in the Senate trying to push ANWR through again.

[Pharaoh]

13. Trying to push anwar

While the corporate media suppresses the story about the huge oil spill going on up there right now!

[OzarkDem]

14. Dems have to multi-task

that's why we elected them.

The GOP is also cutting programs like crazy, running up the national debt and preparing to pass laws that let your insurance company off the hook if they don't cover most of your medical expenses.

Better that our Dem leaders focus on a strategy to make systemic change in Washington rather than have to be putting out GOP fires all the time.

[John Q. Citizen]

18. Thanks for keeping it real, blm! n/t

[blm]

24. ADDED NOTE: Debate on ANWR pushed to tomorrow.

When Kerry and Cantwell showed up with an amendment stripping ANWR from the budget, seems the debate got pushed back.

[BR_Parkway]

20. Actually, the media spin might be part of a strategy - if every Dem

just jumped on board, it would be "politics as usual".

With a few signing on, others saying I don't know yet, then signing on later - it's a "contraversy" so the media will keep it in play longer. Look at the coverage the ports deal got. Or even some nameless missing white woman.

[Botany]

7. It is moving along very well thank you.

I just spoke to somebody on Dr. Dean's staff .... he is on board.

Boxer & Harkin are on board and I guarantee that Kerry is supporting it too.

[uppityperson]

8. Patience. It takes a while to do this.

People are saying shit, all kinds of shit. Remember that it takes time for the shit to hit the fan. It is in transit. Patience.

[Options Remain]

my little tin hat

says the democrats think Bush is going to win and don't want to shut themselves out of the new aristocracy.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

9. Maybe they would censure if Bush got a blow job

[Minnesota Libra]

11. It's got to DRIP, DRIP, DRIP, in people's minds before it can.......

.....get off the ground. People in this country are not necessarily brilliant souls so give them time to get on board. Patience, patience my friend!! I know how hard it is to have patience after five looooooong criminal years but the minions have to be edumakated.:sarcasm:

[Pharaoh]

17. Ah yes, we have to catapult the propoganda?

[Minnesota Libra]

23. Call it what you may, couldn't care less, but even some here at DU are....

.....apparently a bit slow to catch on to the fact that crnsure is a start. It may be all we can hope for in a neocon controlled Congress too. Not much of anything will come of it of course but at least a few are standing up to this criminal squatting bunch. Now, have at the names if you like but in my book trying for censure is better than nothing. :think:

[Dr.Phool]

15. An absence of political courage.

At times, I'm ashamed to be a Democrat.

Shrub's approval ratings are in the toilet, and we're afraid to confront him. We're afraid the cat killer will call us names? Let him. He's going to anyway.

You can't win anything unless you have the balls to try to win it. It's like a boxer who keeps getting hit below the belt, and hoping the ref will disqualify the other guy, rather than clobbering him. The ref is blind, and the talking heads say Democrats have no ideas. I wonder where they got that notion.

Remember back when the pukes were a minority in Congress? Night after night. Day after day, Gingrich and company would stand up before c-span and an empty house, and give speeches condemning Democrats. No good deed by Dems went unpunished. The noise machine was relentless.

Where are we now? Does the leadership even want to win? Or do they just want to retain their own safe seats?

[Imagevision]

22. it ain't over till it's over! Kerry & Harkin backed Russ today!

Murtha - Kennedy....Hello...!