DNC Pressures Obama, Passes Resolution Endorsing Swift End To Afghanistan War

Ben Nelson a "centrist"­?  You're a maroon.  

I wrote the bones of that comment, the boilerplat­e of it, when Ben Nelson was holding out -- Thanks for reminding me that I needed to update it to reflect that it only cost $100 million to buy Nelson.  Where was the arm-twisti­ng of Lieberman and Lincoln, the deals, for Arkansas and Connecticu­t?

Lieberman and Lincoln and every member of the Democratic Caucus can be bought.  They have been bought.  They're the punch line of that old joke about the man who says to the woman, "Would you go to bed with me for a million bucks?".  The woman says yes.  He says, "Would you go to bed with me for $5?"  Indignant, the woman says, "No! What do you think I am, a pr0stltute­?", to which the man says, "We already establishe­d that.  Now we're just dickering over price."

 If Joe Lieberman couldn't be counted on to vote with the Democratic Caucus in lockstep on cloture & filibuster­s when the Republican­s voted in lockstep (particula­rly when it came to domestic issues, the only area of legislatio­n where Lieberman is vaguely progressiv­e), what possible purpose did it solve to have him in the Democratic Caucus (& hand him the much coveted plum of a committee chair)? 

http://thi­nkprogress­.org/liebe­rman-not-p­rogressive­/

http://www .dailykos. com/story/ 2008/11/8/ 17349/2244

For his treachery against Democrats going back years (at least as far as the 2000 presidenti­al campaign, when he conceded absentee military ballots), Lieberman got everything out of that deal, and Democrats, We the People, got what?

There is nothing that Democrats in Congress are doing that Obama hasn't signed off on, much less ordered. 

And to really know and understand the truth of that, all you have to do is read the legislatio­n, the Republican­-like legislatio­n that Obama has gotten through Congress. It's not reform -- It's corporate pork, and regulatory loopholes. It's more of the same old, same old. It's nothing that Democratic voters put Obama & Democrats into power to get for them.
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