I'm sick of the apologists.

[angus]

These are the people who voted with the Democrats about Gonzalez today:


Seven Republicans voted for the no-confidence resolution, including four senators who had called for a new attorney general: Sens. John Sununu (news, bio, voting record) of New Hampshire, Gordon Smith (news, bio, voting record) of Oregon, Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record) of Nebraska and Norm Coleman (news, bio, voting record) of Minnesota. Joining them were Specter and Maine Republicans Olympia Snowe (news, bio, voting record) and Collins.

What do five of these people have in common? Well, they are all up for re-election in 2008 and now they are darting to the center faster than you can say "impeach Bush". It is such a joke. I hope that all loyal democrats can see through the fact that these Senators have been Bush apologists for the last six years and have rubber-stamped every single move that he has wanted to make, but now that the Titanic is going down, they are desperate to hold on to their seats--as Republicans in Democratic-leaning states.

I'll tell these guys the same thing I would tell Colin Powell--until you get rid of that little (R) behind your name, you will receive no quarter from my party.

So I say to you....Sununu, Smith, Coleman, Collins, and Hagel...stop pretending to be a moderate Republican so you can save your seat---either switch parties or get the hell on down the road. You'll find your buddies Chafee, Burns, Allen, et al, waiting for you.

[RufusTFirefly]

1. I'm sorry.

:headbang:

[whistle]

2. Cheers and welcome to DU angus

:kick:

[Lasher]

3. You damn right

However moderate they seem to be, they caucus with today's scorched-earth Republicans, who for the most part care about nothing except to perpetuate their party's power.

[dflprincess]

4. Normie Coleman already switched parties once

from DFL to Republican largely because there was no where for him to go in the DFL (though he'd tell you different.)

Though I am not authorized to speak for all members of the Democratic Farmer Labor party I do feel it is safe to say, we do not want him back.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Yikes! Pretty harsh for Senators who did the right thing. I would never

bash an "R" for voting the way I want them to, I don't care what their motives are. And yes, I realize that for most of them, it's re-election in purple states (except for Hagel, who continues to torpedo his own prospects for re-election in Nebraska with every vote against his party). Lay off, already--they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't, according to you.