
Where are the national Democrats, on this and all populist issues? Are they hiding under rocks?
For the past several decades, Democrats have been more than willing to sell any group's interests, but particular
ly 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. One example would be Barbara Boxer.
In 2006, Democratic senators and the Democratic machine publicly supported Democratic candidate NedLamont who was running for senator in Connecticu
t against newly independen
t JoeLieberm
an. Privately, working behind-the
-scenes, Democratic senators and former president BillClinto
n were working to help Lieberman raise money to beat Lamont, and Republican AlanSchles
inger. 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 r@pe victims, and instead of dodging Lieberman, dropping him like the bad character he is, she dodged the issue. During the Bush-Chene
y administra
tion, she wrote two murd#r mysteries, because "It was always something I wanted to do if I had the time."
In the 2010 midterm campaign, I asked rhetorical
ly, "If Republican
s win back control of Congress, do you think Democrats will be as effective at stymieing Republican
s' agenda as Republican
s have been the last two years at stymieing Obama's/De
mocrats' 2008 agenda?" Not by writing novels as Boxer did, or by expanding your Grateful Dead collection and appearing in cameo roles in your favorite comic book hero movie (Batman) as Patrick Leahy did. All on the public's dime.
And now on another thread at Aytch-P, Jim DeMint and a handful of conservati
ve senators are about to stymie all legislatio
n by challengin
g Constituti
onality. Are we really to believe that Jim DeMint and conservati
ves are smarter than Obama and Democrats?
Democrats in public office haven't been taking care of us. They're not vigilant about our issues.
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