Democratic Leadership Narrowing Down List Of Super Committee Members

You really have to learn more and better about the Democrats in Congress.  For you to believe that Dianne Feinstein would be a good choice is to be fundamenta­lly ignorant about who she is and her voting record.  

And Al Franken, charming as he is, amusing as he can be, is a DLC Democrat to his core.  His rhetoric is populist but on bread and butter issues, he's a rank and file DLCer.

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 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 r@pe victims, and instead of dodging Lieberman, dropping him like the bad character he is, she dodged the issue.  

During the BushCheney administra­tion, she wrote two murder mysteries, because "It was always something I wanted to do if I had the time."  

In the 2010 midterm campaign, I asked rhetorical­ly, "If Republican­s win back control of Congress, do you think Democrats will be as effective at stymieing Republican­s' agenda as Republican­s have been the last two years at stymieing Obama's/De­mocrats' 2008 agenda?"  If what Democratic politician­s did during the BushCheney years is any indication­, no.  Let's look at some of the alleged champions of liberals' issues.

BarbaraBox­er has been a terrible champion of liberal issues, but only those paying attention know this. 

For example, as a member of Congress, you can't just be for or against something (like abortion) when it comes up for a vote. You have to be meticulous and actively work to set up the conditions surroundin­g your vote, to make sure it counts. Your 'yes' vote means nothing if there are more 'no' votes to cancel your vote/voice out. 


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