TPM: Blue Dog caucus in the House was decimated yesterday, cut from 54 to 26 members

[mod mom]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/11/until_the_last_blue_dog_dies.php?ref=fpblg

and the DINOs are saying we need to move the party to the right? It's past time to give progressives a seat at the table and support the Democratic platform instead of attempting to placate the GOP/corporatists.
:mad:

[T Wolf]

1. I guess voters prefer real rethugs to pseudo ones. No loss with the disappearance of these cretins.

[Better Today]

15. Yes, actually I would. That way when they do stupid things like vote

with Repubs on virtually everything, backstabbing LGBTs, the middle class, and unions, then at least it will be a Repub that gets blamed and not a Dem. That does matter. DINOs give the illusion that Dems are responsible for our current positions, had they each and every one been correctly aligned with their political ideologies, then real Dems would now be occupying those spots perhaps.

[ingac70]

2. Blue Dogs pissed on the parade....

we should have steamrolled the repukes for the last two years, but they stood in the way, and here we are.

[Le Taz Hot]

3. I'll try hard to find a tear.

Sorry, but I'm NOT sorry to see Costa go. I know this little turd and, believe me, the description is right on.

[jannyk]

4. If we had to lose seats, I'm thrilled that it was half the DINO's. eom

[pampango]

14. True, but the other half (or more) included some real progressives and non-Blue Dogs.

The Progressive Caucus fared much better than the Blue Dog Caucus. Of course, they generally come from more liberal districts than Blue Dogs, but I'll take a good showing from the CPC reps.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/5061-progressives-emerge-unscathed

"The hard-core Left represented by members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives will survive essentially undamaged in today’s mid-term elections.
Only one member of the CPC lost in the primary election, and only one other member is predicted to lose in today’s election, according to the Cook Political Report. Three other members of the caucus are in races too close to call. The other 77 members of the CPC will keep their seats."

"The DSA (Democratic Socialist of America) website is equally candid about its support for the CPC and its purposes: “Many socialists have seen the Democratic Party, since at least the New Deal, as the key political arena in which to consolidate this coalition, because the Democratic Party held the allegiance of our natural allies.”

Through control of the government by the Democratic Party coalition, led by anti-corporate forces, a progressive program regulating the corporations, redistributing income, fostering economic growth and expanding social programs could be realized. It’s attack on free markets and private property is explicit: “A democratic socialist politics for the 21st century must promote an international solidarity dedicated to raising living standards across the globe, rather than ‘leveling down’ in the name of maximizing profits and economic efficiency…. Democratic socialists are dedicated to building truly international social movements — of unionists, environmentalists, feminists, and people of color — that together can elevate global justice over brutalizing global competition.”

Active members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus include Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), Roland Burris (D-Ill.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Laura Richardson (D-Calif.), Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), Pete Stark (D-Calif.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.). Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) served on the executive committee, but is not currently listed as a member."

[AspenRose]

5. It's a start.

Fake republicans losing to real republicans and all that.

[fascisthunter]

6. yeee-up... and if they continue to say that, I will leave the party

I registered Democratic Party and have only voted Democratic... but now, I think maybe it is time to move on and start voting for leftists outside of this party since they don't seem to be welcome. EVEN NOW they still won't get it...

[RoadRage]

7. just great....

So now we have a whole bunch of Reps who vote Dem NONE of the time instead of SOME of the time.

This is what I call cutting off your face to spite your nose.

[Scuba]

8. If we would just move an inch to the left....

...we might attract 10% of the 50% of American voters who never vote.

[snot]

9. Silver lining.

[Ganja Ninja]

10. I think it's high time to admit we have a GOP fifth column in the Democratic party.

And anyone who doesn't think the GOP is actively working from within to subvert the party and drive it to the right is kidding themselves.

[mod mom]

21. One has only to go back to see who funded Bill Clinton in his initial run for president

Jackson Stephens rivals Bath in his role as conduit between high-level factions. A Little Rock, Arkansas tycoon who attended the U.S. Naval Academy with Jimmy Carter and staked Sam Walton to found Wal-Mart in 1970, Stephens was owner of the notoriously toxic WTI Incinerator in East Liverpool, OH, and a munificent contributor to the campaign warchests of both Bill Clinton and George Bush, Sr. He was also embroiled in the BCCI affair through his association with BCCI satellite Union Bank of Switzerland—UBS, in turn, contributed $25 million to the moribund Harken Energy Corp.

http://www.wburg.com/0202/arts/lombardi.html

It was Clinton behind the corporatist policies (MFN status for China, NAFTA, repeal of Glass Steagall, Telecom Act of '96) that allowed the corporatist take over of this country. :mad:

[NorthCarolina]

11. Perhaps that fact is the silver lining in all this. eom

[Barack_America]

12. I'm not sure there's room at the table, what with all of the corporations and all.

It's nice that the Blue Dog caucus has been weakened, but it's really time to throw out their benefactors.

[Scuba]

13. Silver lining?

[Cassandra]

16. Evan "Corporate Tool" Bayh has an Op-Ed...

in the Times this morning. I refuse to link to that pile of dogshit on the paper.

[mod mom]

17. Thank you. No one cares to hear what that corporatist pos has to say.

:hi:

[Hawkeye-X]

18. Good. That should tell these stupid DLC and Blue Dawgs

that we're not accepting any more fake Republicans when they can vote for the real thing EVERY time.

Harry S Truman had it dead on. He knew what he was seeing. God bless that man.

Hawkeye-X

[KittyWampus]

19. So if a move to the Left was necessary, why did Feingold and Grayson lose?

[Romulox]

20. Well then, our top priority needs to be finding more Republicans to convert!

:shrug: