Patrick Leahy, Democratic Senator, Mocked By Progressive Group For Batman Appearance

It's a controversy because nothing that Republicans have managed to do for the past 30 years could have happened without Democrats signing on.  Without Democrats compromising, without Democrats' attention diverted, without Democrats focusing on their jobs.

For Leahy, his distractions have been Batman, the Grateful Dead, and long martini lunches which is obvious to anyone who hears him speak on the floor of the Senate after the lunch break.  His lapses helped to get conservatives through the Judiciary Committee and onto the Supreme Court when what was needed was a sharp intellect blocking the extreme rightward assault on our judiciary.

For other progressive senators like Barbara Boxer, it was pursuing writing novels, two of them, murder mysteries, during the Bush-Cheney years.  She actually said that ""It was always something I wanted to do if I had the time."  All the while collecting her salary with benefits from the government.  

Democrats have been more than willing to sell any group's interests, but particular­ly women. Even the most pro-choice of Democrats in Congress, alleged stalwarts who've spent entire careers, decades in public office, have failed miserably to protect women's rights and have let it get to this point.

In 2006, Democratic senators and the Democratic machine publicly supported Democratic candidate NedLamont who was running for senator in Connecticu­t against newly independen­t JoeLieberm­an.  Privately, working behind-the­-scenes, Democratic senators and former president BillClinto­n were working to help Lieberman raise money to beat Lamont, and Republican AlanSchles­inger.

Before Lamont won the primary, when Lieberman was still a Democrat, Boxer stumped for Lieberman.  She was asked how she could support him given that Lieberman supports hospitals receiving public monies refusing to give contracept­ives to rape victims, and instead of dodging Lieberman, dropping him like the bad character he is, she dodged the issue.
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