We do not need to fix the filibuster, or "purity tests" we need to restore some Party discipline.

TheBigotBasher

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Sun Dec-27-09 06:37 PM
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We do not need to fix the filibuster, or "purity tests" we need to restore some Party discipline.

Edited on Sun Dec-27-09 06:43 PM by TheBigotBasher

Another poster said "purity tests are for loser". Yes they are. However ONLY disciplined, principled Political Parties not only win but they remain in power.

Almost all of the attacks on the President on DU are missing the target entirely.

Bush Dog Democrats, aka Conservadems are using blackmail to get whatever they want, at the cost of the Democratic Party, the agenda they got elected on and the poorest of Americans that someone standing as a Democratic member of Congress IS elected to serve.

Bush Dog Democrats have broken key Democratic principles and Party positions just because they can. They are not "moderates". They are a militant Republican tendency holding the Democratic Party to ransom.

Rights for women were a long standing accepted position of the Party. The Democratic Party has always had staunch Catholic support, but those supporters understood that the positions of the Catholic Church and the position of the Democratic Party were alien to each other, that consensus was understood. Stupak and Nelson in the Senate destroyed that consensus.

Support for some form of universal health care was a key issue that every Democratic Party Representative stood on, especially in 2008. The betrayal of the COMPROMISE position was nothing more than a breach of trust with the electorate. The public are not happy that the bill goes too far, as Republicans would want people to believe, it does not gar far enough. For that blame the militant Republican tendency operating inside of the Democratic Senate caucus.

Support for the poor; Again a key principle of the Democratic Party. The Militant tendency now want to hold the whole Government to ransom, unless they get their way with the creation of a "Task force" on the deficit, they will block an increase. The Militant tendency want that "task force" to include cuts to welfare and social security expenditure. Democratic members of the Party would not be able to block it, because the resulting paper would be subject to only an up down vote with no debate.

Support for a jobs package to get the economy out of the mess it is in. The Militant tendency removed much of the good from the Recovery Act, so much that there was little stimulus in the stimulus package. They did however add useless tax cuts which resulted in the more useless Act being more expensive than what would have been the more useful House bill. So what would the militant tendency do to another jobs package?

The Bush Dog Democrats have even managed to block an Obama nominee, the usual forces were at work.

From wiki!

Political prospects
As of May 2009, there were believed to be 37 Republican Senators (out of 40) who will vote against confirming Johnsen. Her nomination was endorsed by Senator Richard Lugar, a senior Republican from Johnsen's state of Indiana. The remaining two Republicans, Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, have not announced their positions. One other Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, has joined Specter in expressing opposition to the nomination, but neither Nelson nor Specter has stated whether he will vote for a cloture motion to end a threatened Republican filibuster. Johnsen was supported by the remaining 57 Democrats as of May 2009.

These people are supposed to be members of the Democratic Party. They were elected to the Senate on a Democratic platform. This is not about a purity test this is about them acting as a militant wing of the Republican Party within the Democratic Party. They are a cancer and they are a tool to helping what was seen only last year as a destroyed GOP regenerate.