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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anybody know how Senators Warren And Sanders will be voting?
Thank you in advance.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)JeffHead
(1,186 posts)leftstreet
(36,111 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)who disagree with any individual issue. That bus undercarriage is getting mightily crowded these days (from all evidence presented here on DU these days).
But DUers should understand one thing. There's one thing I will likely never do; that's throw the Democratic Party under the bus. That means supporting the party even when it supports a policiy I find repugnant. The reason is that I cannot support anything that the opposition party supports.
So you don't support today's Democratic Party? Fine. Then do something about it. Stand up for precinct delegate. Become part of the solution instead of carping from the sidelines. From precinct, you can go to district, then the state, then the national. At each level you can leverage your opinion to make a difference.
I've been there. That's how you change a party's direction, from the bottom up. Lord knows -- so to speak -- the Republicans know this well. How do you think that the Republicans morphed into the theocratic, authoritarian party that it is today? They did it one precinct at a time.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)August 31, 2013
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement today after President Barack Obama announced that he will ask Congress to authorize military strikes against Syria:
The use of chemical weapons by the Assad dictatorship is inhumane and a violation of international law. However, at this point in time, I need to hear more from the president as to why he believes it is in the best interests of the United States to intervene in Syria's bloody and complicated civil war. I look forward to the Senate debate that will be taking place in the very near future.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=2e6dce9f-dbfe-41ed-ba57-dfbf823f92b8
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said "it's appropriate" for President Barack Obama to seek approval from Congress before taking military action in Syria.
"It's appropriate that he ask for that," Warren said at the annual Central Massachusetts AFL-CIO Labor Day breakfast, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
"What the Assad regime did is reprehensible, but we have to consider what's in America's best interest," Warren said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/02/elizabeth-warren-obama-syria_n_3856706.html
Elizabeth Warren - Statement on Syria BEFORE the August gassing deaths
WARREN: The ongoing killing of civilians in Syria is a terrible tragedy, and Assad has got to go. The unfolding question is how to accomplish those goals. The President is right to try to work with others in the region and in the international community to influence Syria. Because assistance can have complex and unintended consequences, we should not act unless we are confident that we can do more good than harm and that we have a clear plan and achievable goals.
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/07/sen_scott_brown_and_elizabeth_13.html