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@eric free
[Read the article: What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt mean by "bipartisanship"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As for supporting progressive candidates, there aren't many that actually voted properly today.
This is a list compiled by selise at Firedoglake:
dems who voted no, or did not vote on the PAA extension in feb are listed. i’ve cross referenced them with the blue dog coalition (BD), with the progressive caucus (P) and with “NO” votes (N) on today’s fisa bill.
Jason Altmire
Dan Boren - BD
Leonard Boswell - BD
Michael Capuano - P - N
Jerry Costello - N
Lincoln Davis - BD
Peter DeFazio - P - N
Lloyd Doggett - N
Bob Filner - P - N
John Hall - P - N
Maurice Hinchey - P - N
Rush Holt - *** - N
Dennis Kucinich - P - N
Barbara Lee - P - N
John Lewis - P - N
Tim Mahoney - BD
James Moran - N
Patrick Murphy - BD
Christopher Murphy - N
Frank Pallone - N
Bill Pascrell - N
Donald Payne - P - N
Collin Peterson - BD
Steven Rothman - N
Loretta Sanchez - BD - N
John Sarbanes - N
Jan Schakowsky - P - N
Jose Serrano - P - N
Tom Udall - P - N
Timothy Walz - N
Maxine Waters - P - N
Melvin Watt - P - N
Lynn Woolsey - P - N
David Wu - N
no vote:
Ruben Hinojosa -
Mike Honda - P - N
Nita Lowey -
Solomon Ortiz -
Dutch Ruppersberger -
Edolphus Towns - N
There you have it. The sum total of barely acceptable to acceptable Democraps in Congress. Those with an "N" next to their name are the acceptables. Those without a "Blue Dog" marker and no letter next to their name are barely acceptable because they failed to vote for whatever reason. Those with a "Blue Dog" marker are unacceptable. Period. Regardless of their vote on the FISA bill because it was merely an ass-covering exercise - a vote given only when they KNEW the bill would pass without their vote.
Not much of a list and that is all there is out of all the Dems in the House.
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@achilleselbow
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You can be sick of it all you want, but that won't change the fact that it's true. I have yet to see someone respond directly and logically to this question: What does your not voting or voting for a third party accomplish, if not letting McCain win?
Sorry, but Prez McSame doesn't get to appoint SCROTUS justices, only nominate them. It is entirely up to the Senate who gets on the corrupt SCROTUS.
You whiny argument about McCain vs Obama-the-liar and the SCROTUS falls flat. The Democraps are in charge of Congress, and sadly, that wont likely change even after their abject traitorous vote to eliminate the 4th Amendment on Friday (and next week in the Senate). THEY are the ones to push to not accept McSame's nominees. They don't, by any means, have to go along with ANYONE within ANY time limit. They can keep saying "No!", "No!", "No!" to each and every nominee for 4 years, or 8, if they don't like the stench of any of McSame's nominees.
I will NOT vote for Obama. Not now. No way.
I will do everything in my power to dissuade anyone and everyone to not vote for Obama. He is a liar and cannot be trusted with anything. Hell's bells, he desires the unconstitutional powers that Bush/Cheney have claimed (and the Congress has repeatedly ratified by their silence and acquiescence). Anyone who desires that power is unfit to be handed that power and must be rejected.
Obama has been weighed, measured, and found wanting. He is unfit to serve and must be denied the powers he so craves. I don't give a f*ck for McSame. I am not even considering McSame.
I am voting anyone BUT Obama or McSame. I may even vote Nader.
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@lilyrose
[Read the article: Obama's support for the FISA "compromise"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While MANY of us will now vote 3rd party or not vote at all, and will do what we can to convince others to do the same, there are those like you with no principals whatsoever. there are those like you who see every single Amendment in the Bill of Rights as expendable for political gain.
This nation would be better off, and wouldn't be headed rapidly into authoritarianism followed soon after by utter collapse if there were fewer like you.
Happily, you were not there at the Founding to make the Bill of Rights into a mere List of Suggestions.