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Sun Oct-05-03 05:24 PM
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Who are your favorite 5 dem senators? My list: Ted Kennedy Russ Feingold Bob Byrd Chuck Schumer Tie*** -Joe Biden (a little too moderate, but he's a very articulate and vocal critic of Bush's foreign policy) - Dick Durbin
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:26 PM
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Teddy Kennedy Russ Feingold Tom Harkin Robert Byrd Barbara Boxer
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:27 PM
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2. Paul Wellstone WAS my very favorite |
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the others can't compare.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:31 PM
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Edited on Sun Oct-05-03 05:31 PM by TakebackAmerica
A slain hero. My hero. A college professor who wanted to make a difference. That is the epitome of democracy at its best.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:49 PM
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13. He would be on mine too |
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Sun Oct-05-03 06:21 PM
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was the greatest...no doubt about it!
And Ted Kennedy Robert Byrd and others deserve recognition as well.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:27 PM
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3. Edwards, Kennedy, Byrd, Boxer, Schumer. n/t |
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:29 PM
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Here are mine. Russ Feingold Barbra Boxer :loveya: Carl Levin Chuck Schumer Ted Kennedy
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:30 PM
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Feingold Byrd Boxer Kennedy Durbin
I'm from NY. Suffice to say, I rate Chafee favorably over Schumer and Clinton.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:37 PM
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9. Excellent choices, and mine as well. |
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:50 PM
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14. whoa our lists are almost the same |
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Although I have Harkin on my list instead of Durbin who I like too,
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:31 PM
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Byrd, Feingold, Jeffords, Kennedy and Leahy.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:35 PM
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-Ted Kennedy -Russ Feingold -Barbara Boxer -Robert Byrd -Daniel Inoyue
:kick: :kick:
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:38 PM
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10. Kennedy, Clinton, Durbin, Cleland (yeah, I know), can't decide on others |
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:44 PM
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11. Durbin, Corzine, Feingold, Kerry, Levin |
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:50 PM
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Leahy Levin Byrd Harkin Dayton
I also like Wyden on certain issues, Reid, Rockefeller (on Iraq), Durbin, Lautenberg, and Corzine. I miss David Bonior.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:54 PM
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19. Dave Bonior was a congressman IIRC |
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But glad to see someone else likes Harkin too, :hi: I like the guy, my type of politican, a midwestern farmers/labor populist a la Henry Wallace.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:48 PM
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Tom Dasche who is their leader. When senators blow hard it is for a reason. Tom turned Jeffers and lead filibusters that protected the federal bench from some really ugly lifetime appointed thugs. There is no fantasy politics folks. It aint Tv or the movies and when your life and family are threatened maybe you reaccess the things you say. Your heros didn't get antraxed.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:50 PM
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Barbara Boxer Fritz Hollings Patty Murray Tom Harkin Frank Lautenberg
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:53 PM
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1. Dick Durbin 2. Ted Kennedy 3. Patrick Leahy 4. Robert Byrd 5. Barbara Boxer
Senator Durbin and I are on the same page on EVERY issue. Wish this guy would run for President. One of my law school classmates did research for his Judiciary Committee staff this summer; I was watching C-SPAN and there she was!
I like Russ Feingold, but don't know as much about him. Also like Hillary and Harry Reid, but they don't make my top 5.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:52 PM
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Im from Illinois
I like Biden too, even though sometimes he gets attacked for being a moderate.
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:57 PM
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20. Nobody considers Jim Jeffords? |
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He is probably my favorite senator. He showed more guts and integrity than anyone in either party when he became an independant.
My favorites:
Jim Jeffords Dick Durbin Russ Feingold Tom Harkin Carl Levin
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Sun Oct-05-03 05:57 PM
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21. Corzine, Clinton, Kennedy, Byrd and Lautenberg. |
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I have to give a shout out to my two fav senators from NJ!
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Sun Oct-05-03 08:07 PM
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31. New Jersey is just the best |
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Edited on Sun Oct-05-03 08:08 PM by NewJerseyDem
We have such great senators. Too bad most of the congresmen are horrible.
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Sun Oct-05-03 08:55 PM
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33. Except Rush Holt . . . |
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one of the brightest, finest people in Congress.
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Sun Oct-05-03 06:01 PM
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Bob Graham Barbara Boxer Robert Byrd Hillary Clinton Chris Dodd
(Although how could anyone NOT love Barb Mikulski?!? :) )
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Sun Oct-05-03 10:41 PM
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I'd put her in my top six!
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Sun Oct-05-03 06:19 PM
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He changed the whole senate.
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Sun Oct-05-03 06:23 PM
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25. Clinton, Feinstein, Wyden, Jeffords, and Byrd |
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Wyden gets a vote 'cuz he's the homeboy.
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Sun Oct-05-03 07:04 PM
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26. Kennedy, Inoyue, Levin, Leahy, and... |
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... a player to be named later.
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Sun Oct-05-03 10:52 PM
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37. I'd nominate our Cal Gal, Barbara Boxer. One FINE woman, and |
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Edited on Sun Oct-05-03 10:53 PM by calimary
a GRAND DEM.
For me it'd be - in no particular order -
Boxer Kennedy Byrd Leahy and last but ABSOLUTELY NOT LEAST, the great, principled Jim Jeffords!
I'd give honorable mention to Feingold (simply because I, too, don't know enough about him), Levin, Harkin and Reid, plus the New Yorkers, Clinton and Schumer, and Dick Durbin. Tom Daschle gets extra points, too, for weathering the anthrax scandal (wonder WHY he was singled out) AND for engineering the Jim Jeffords defection. That was the first big blow to bush, back in the early days of this monstrous regime.
on edit - added the New Yorkers and Durbin to the list.
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Sun Oct-05-03 11:07 PM
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39. Levin was on my list too, ... until Sunday. |
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Edited on Sun Oct-05-03 11:14 PM by Bozita
check his latest comments on pre-emptive war. Levin is no longer part of the solution. He's part of the problem. http://democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=476747&mesg_id=476747
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Sun Oct-05-03 07:06 PM
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Ted Kennedy John Kerry Russ Feingold Joe Biden Tom Daschle
These 5 guys are awesome. :)
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Sun Oct-05-03 07:14 PM
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Clinton, Jeffords and Byrd. :thumbsup: :bounce:
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Sun Oct-05-03 07:46 PM
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29. Feingold, Feingold, Feingold, Feingold & Feingold |
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He's the only one who had the guts to vote against the damn Patriot Act! THE ONLY ONE & that includes Wellstone.
Actually, I also like
Harken Durbin Jeffords Boxer
I'm hoping to add Clinton to the list next year if she stays in the Senate and gets an investigation going into the EPA/WH 9/11 air quality scandal.
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Sun Oct-05-03 08:06 PM
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I'm excluding Corzine and Lautenberg because I cannot objectively reach an opinion on them.
1. Ron Wyden 2. Dick Durbin 3. Jack Reed 4. Dianne Feinstein 5. Russ Feingold
I also like Lincoln Chafee a lot just because his liberalism probably annoys republicans.
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Sun Oct-05-03 08:36 PM
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32. Byrd, Boxer, Graham, Kennedy, |
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no others,
but Reid of Nevada might be added
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Sun Oct-05-03 09:06 PM
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34. In no particular order (other than alphabetical) |
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Edited on Sun Oct-05-03 09:09 PM by DinoBoy
Boxer Byrd Daschle Feingold Graham Harkin Kennedy Kerry Murray
Well, ok, that's 9 :-)
Honorable mentions to Chafee and Jeffords.
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Sun Oct-05-03 09:18 PM
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1) Harkin 2) Kerry 3) Feingold 4) Edwards 5) Clinton
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Sun Oct-05-03 11:00 PM
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38. Schumer, Clinton, Leahy, Edwards, Harken... |
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Edited on Sun Oct-05-03 11:08 PM by AP
Kennedy, Kerry, Stabenow, Corzine, if I could keep going...
...there must be a few more...drawing a blank
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Sun Oct-05-03 11:11 PM
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40. Byrd, Kennedy, Durbin, Boxer, Harkin |
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Sun Oct-05-03 11:24 PM
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41. What? No Zell Miller? <ducking> |
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My preferences...depends on the issue:
1.) My Senator - Dick Durbin...he's always on the right page of all the right issues and one of the best on the Senate floor.
2.) Tom Harkin - A great man who embodies the same Progessive values I do.
3.) Russ Feingold - No question the most principled man in government.
4.) Ted Kennedy - He's who you want out there going up against the lies of this junta to break through the noise.
5.) Barbara Boxer - She's become more and more a leader and drives the RW nuts. Can't be all bad.
I respect virtually all Democratic Senators...even blue dogs like Breaux (I honestly will miss him) and moderate Republicans like Chaffee.
This might sound really goofy, but lately I kinda am liking the Senator from Scotland. If there's anyone who could be a really poop in the Elephant's punchbowl, I wouldn't count out Arlen.
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Sun Oct-05-03 11:33 PM
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42. Kennedy 1st to provide cover for the others ... except for Byrd. |
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3. Russ Feingold 4. Chuck Schumer 5. tie - Richard Durbin - Debbie Stabenow - Tom Harkin - any dems who believe that Paul Wellstone was right.
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Sun Oct-05-03 11:54 PM
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43. Kennedy, Boxer, Edwards, Graham & Byrd. |
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Kennedy, Boxer, Edwards, Graham & Byrd.
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Mon Oct-06-03 12:04 AM
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44. Rockefeller, Jeffords, Feingold, Conrad, Daschle. |
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The last two manage to keep themselves in the Senate from pretty difficult places.
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Mon Oct-06-03 12:09 AM
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My list:
You know, I can't really say at the moment...I first gotta look to see WHO co-sponsored the latest ENDA bill that ONCE AGAIN EXCLUDES PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE!!
Becuase whoever is on that list of co-sponsors just got moved to my excrement list! Ted Kennedy is FIRMLY on that list...for that very reason! I can't STAND him!!
What I fail to understand is...how can the party that stands for civil rights abandon MY CIVIL RIGHTS?!!!?
Sign me - Pissed off Democrtaic Transsexual from Texas
P.S. Favorite Congressman - Lloyd Doggett.
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Mon Oct-06-03 12:16 AM
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Kennedy, Harkin, Boxer, Clinton, Byrd
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Mon Oct-06-03 12:24 AM
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47. Instead of naming my favourites, I'll name my least favourites...lol |
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1. Miller 2. LieberBush 3. Every other
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Mon Oct-06-03 12:44 AM
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48. someone I keep an eye on ... |
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...is Blanche Lincoln. She's a very good speaker. Very attractive.
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Mon Oct-06-03 01:37 AM
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49. Feingold, Kerry, Biden, Schumer, Kennedy, n/t |
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