Mother . . . . . . Fuckers

[Stinky The Clown]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39286687/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

A POX on your houses, you shitbag motherfuckers.

A special pox to McGramps and Collins The Enabler.

[Ohio Joe]

1. K&R - nt

[Stinky The Clown]

2. The NO votes included "Democrats"

Useless motherfuckers.

[sandnsea]

8. 3 out of 56

Yeah, Democrats are just like Republicans, they're all totally useless. :eyes:

[OmahaBlueDog]

14. Really, it was two. Reid voted no as a procedural tactic so the matter could be brought up again

Lincoln and Pryor voted "no"

[Bryn]

15. Blanche Lincoln? Mark Pryor?

You got to be kidding! Blanche is losing more and more voters because she's acting like a Republican~ She fails to heed Harry Truman's warning.. that when a democrat acts like a republican they'd pick a real republican each time!

[Bryn]

17. I went over to Arkansas Times Blog

People who were considering to hold their nose to vote for Blanche are now pissed off and are saying they'd vote for Boozman just to spite her. Doh!

[sandnsea]

19. And do what when Pryor comes up for election?

People can jump up and down and throw rotten tomatoes at Lincoln and Pryor all they want. The problem in *that* state is the VOTERS. You won't elect a pro-gay candidate until people start confronting the attitudes in that state.

And while we're at it, maybe Mainers could quit pretending their two ladies are as good as Democrats too.

[bvar22]

25. Wrong again.

We were on the way to replacing Blanche Lincoln until the White House and former DLC President Clinton
jumped into the fray on the side of the Anti-LABOR, Anti-Public Option, Proud Obstructionist Blanche Lincoln when there was a perfectly good Pro-LABOR Democrat available who was polling AHEAD of Lincoln at that time. The only thing more infuriating than seeing Obama's face on my TV campaigning FOR Lincoln against a Democrat is to read a smug post on DU blaming us for the failures of the Party Leadership.


The Democratic Party Leadership threw away this seat in Arkansas because they would rather have that seat go to a Corporate Friendly Republican than to go to an honest Pro-LABOR Democrat.

I live in Arkansas.
I campaign for Democrats here.
I work to bring true Working ClassFDR Liberalism here.
I never thought I would have to fight a Democratic White House and the elite Party Leadership in order to get traditional Democratic policies FOR Arkansas.

[sandnsea]

37. My family has been in Arkansas for 20 years

I see what kind of Democrats you elect now and have been electing. This is nothing new. Halter wouldn't have voted to repeal DADT either, no matter what the hell he said.

THANK YOU for working to bring Working Class FDR Liberalism to Arkansas. It is SORELY needed. But the job isn't done yet and that is the problem with Lincoln AND Pryor, and the rest of your Congressional delegation as well. Am I wrong? Is there anybody in the Arkansas Congressional delegation who will vote for the repeal?

[Bryn]

27. The problem in Arkansas is THE VOTERS ??? Really??

Nope ... see post by Bvar22. I couldn't say it better. He's 100% correct.

[Major Hogwash]

30. I hate to mention Bill Clinton stumping for Lincoln . . . but, I just did!!

And when we can't move beyond the glow of His Majesty, we will be stuck in the 90s forever!

DADT was Bubba's legacy, and there is NO WAY he can ever talk his way out of it.

[sandnsea]

35. There you go. Bill Clinton from Arkansas

And while he supports the appeal now, how long did it take him to be out of Arkansas before he got it right.

[Jamastiene]

24. Sourced:

"I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.

We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program. This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party."

Address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action (May 17, 1952)
http://trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1296&st=republican+party&st1=

Great Quote! So true too!

[Bryn]

28. +1000000

Still true to this day! Truman was right. Lincoln is desperate and is reaching out to Boozman's supporters instead of hers by continuing to vote WITH the Repugs! She's a Fool!

[bvar22]

29. ^^^K&R this post ^^^

Harry had it right!
QED Massachusetts!

The "Centrist" Whirlwind approaches, and Democratic Party Leadership is telling The Left to "Wake Up"???
I have some words for the Party Leadership.
I am NOT a "disappointed" Democrat.
I am NOT an angry Democrat.
I am FURIOUS !!!

[sandnsea]

38. DeFazio, the LIBERAL, is running against Big Spending

and everything that has been done that has kept this country out of a depression.

Right at the top of his web site is a graphic about the deficit. The Progressive. Running against Obama and Pelosi because they're exploding the deficit.

So now who is the FDR Democrat?

[Brickbat]

3. SHAME.

[blondeatlast]

4. God, Damn. Them. nt

[sarge43]

5. Expected nothing else from McShame

But -- rot Collins

[Major Hogwash]

36. Well, shit no, not coming from that senile, ridiculous windbag of a piece of shit

But, other than that, I don't have any real opinions of him.

But hey, he did pick Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate, so at least we know how fucking stupid he really is - and now the whole world knows it too!!!!!

[damntexdem]

6. Two recourses:

1) Obama can order that DADT not be enforced by the military.
2) There is still need to pass a Defense Authorization Bill; and Reid can keep the DADT language in the bill brought up EACH TIME.

[bdamomma]

7. just crap

damn nothing ever gets done in the senate.

[Dawson Leery]

9. John "Forestal" McCain.

A coward as usual.

[Major Hogwash]

32. John McCain is a sack of fucking shit!!! A huge sack of fucking shit!!!

They're going to kick Lt Colonel Erlenbach out of the Air Force and McCain will say "we're safer now because of it!"

Fuck him!!
Lt Colonel Erlenbach has several Air Medals, and is a highly decorated Air Force officer!

What the hell is wrong with this picture?

[Dawson Leery]

41. McCain's choice of running mate shows he does not give a damn about America.

To let that ignorant, racist piece of horse s**t anywhere near the levers of national power, show's what John Sidney McCain really feels about this country.

[Bryn]

10. fine, bring them ALL home, then!

Republicans love, love wars yet won't repeal DADT... they can't have it both ways!

BRING THEM ALL HOME!

[Vinca]

11. Harry needs to keep the debate open - 24/7, until the end of time if necessary.

The bastards know that if they just look cross eyed at Reid, the bill will be put back on the shelf with hundreds of others.

[joeybee12]

12. I think all involved knew this would be the outcome, so now certain Dems can say,

"well, we TRIED."

[Individualist]

16. Correct!

"The Democratic Leadership Council's agenda is indistinguishable from the Republican Neoconservative agenda," Dennis Kucinich

[sandnsea]

18. What is YOUR alternative plan? n/t

[Major Hogwash]

31. And what, pray tell, will the Republicans say, that gays don't exist in their state?

Lady Gaga was absolutely correct when she asked what does the military defend, if they don't defend ALL of us.

"I thought this was prime steak. I thought this was a buffet."
Man, was she ever right!!!!

We are either equal OR we are not!!

So, when the courts overturn this stupid policy ----- ooops, already happened in California!!

And remember when John McCain ran for President just 2 years ago when he said he was against DADT, too?

Man, that old senile fuck sure can lie his ass off, can't he?

I was born a Democrat, and I will die a Democrat.

[Initech]

13. God damn it!!!!!

[EFerrari]

20. No kidding. How cynical do you have to be to be a Senator

that blocks a bill like this to suck up to your homophobic base, all three of them, when this country has already signaled clearly that it supports equality.

[libnnc]

21. I'm too angry to participate cogently in this thread

I'm just going to kick and fume :kick: :nuke:

[shireen]

22. Republican amendments?

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine had been seen as the crucial 60th vote because she supports overturning the military ban. But Collins agreed with her GOP colleagues that Republicans weren't given sufficient chance to offer amendments.

What amendments would THEY possibly have to offer?

This is just disgusting.

:mad:

[gratuitous]

23. The "amendment" argument is a pretext

Both Collins and McCain, as members of the committee, had every opportunity in committee to offer any and every amendment that entered their silly little heads. They're making an issue out of it now because they're more interested in scoring political points by denying Democrats a "victory." Shocking, I know, but apparently true. So people's civil rights under the constitution are nothing more than a political football for the Republicans, totally fungible in the service to the greater political game.

Keep THAT in mind, Republican lurkers. How soon might it be that your rights become inconvenient for the Republican agenda?

As for Blanche Lincoln, well, what can we say that we didn't already say during the Arkansas primary? Lincoln trimmed her sails a smidgen to fool some of the Democrats, and she was ably assisted by the political apparatus in Washington, right up to the White House. Those of us who though Lincoln was useless and that Bill Halter presented a good Democratic alternative were derided by any number of people. Oh, we'd soon see, we would, that Blanche Lincoln was the only reasonable choice by all the sensible Democrats. How do you like Blanche now, Rahm?

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. NOTHING will get done in DC since the Dems created the 60 vote rule.

THEY created the problem.
THEY knew they had the majority.

When push comes to shove, has anything been passed that is helping us?
Anything?

[Major Hogwash]

34. It's the Democrat's fault since they brought up the issue, huh?

Jesus Christ some people are totally fucking stupid!!!!

[Recursion]

45. Huh?

The 60-vote rule dates back to 1917.

[ThatsMyBarack]

33. GO THE FUCK AWAY, MCBUSH!

Thank you.

[Jamastiene]

39. sigh

As usual... Talk about angry. :nuke:

[AsahinaKimi]

40. Republicans

The party of "F~(K No!"

[pleah]

42. K&R

[femrap]

43. and fatherfuckers....nt.

[autorank]

44. k*r You're too kind

Poor McCain. He can barely hold it together. He doesn't know the difference between policy and practice.

This is simple...full rights for citizens, period. If they don't get their rights, then
they don't have to pay taxes or observe any but the most fundamental conventions of law.