'Don't Ask Don't Tell' Discharges Can Continue For Now, Supreme Court Rules
Friday, November 12, 2010
Congratulations. You can count. So can they.
They could count before they took the vote, they knew who was voting and how, so why would Harry Reid have put it up for a vote knowing that the votes weren't there to repeal DADT? Could the upcoming midterm elections have had anything to do with it?
Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corporate legislation) and then strategize how to get it while saving each other's hides with constituents come election time.
Those in liberal districts get to talk a good game about being champions of the People, but when push comes to shove, if their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislation (like a public option or access to ab0rtion), the DNC will make sure they are covered come election time, with massive infusions of money into their campaign war chests and crushing any principled challenges to them from the left in their primaries.
Here's an example of how they tag team us - Progressive Congresswoman Woolsey Endorses Pro-War Blue Dog Jane Harman Over Progressive Marcy Winograd:
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It's no big accomplishment when Democrats in the House pass legislation that Democrats in the Senate don't. Did the Senate pass those 420 pieces of legislation that were passed in the House? (No)
A Democratic president isn't doing everything that he can to end DADT, beginning with signing a stop-loss order that would move the ball far down the road to ending DADT sooner rather than later.
He has never used the power of his office or the bully pulpit to advance Democratic constituents' issues, preferring instead to knee-cap us and make Republicans stronger and help get their issues passed into law. Obama has never used his power as head of the Democratic Party to pressure Blue Dogs, or his political capital from getting more votes than any other candidate for president in history to smack down Republicans. Instead h
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