Reply #12: I wonder who he's talking about. [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

"I was told that I was making 'too much drama' about the 'Democratic Senators' who decided to sponsor torture in the USA." --RaulVB

I think we kicked up quite a lot of "drama" here at DU over the 6 traitor Democrats who voted for torture-memo writer Alberto Gonzales--and the 3 who didn't bother to vote, and how they prevented the Dem Senators from doing a filibuster. I can't imagine DU monitors being bothered by that. Their vote was outrageously bad. And I often scorch Democratic leaders here for their corruption and collusion, and their horrendous failures (on the Iraq war vote, and on the election system for 2004, for instance). So do others here.

Here are the BAD DEMOCRATS' names by the way:

Voted for Gonzales

MARY LANDRIEU-LA
KEN SALAZAR-CO
MARK PRYOR-AR
BILL NELSON-FLA
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN-CT
BEN NELSON-NE

Didn't show up to vote

Max Baucus of MT
Kent Conrad of MD
Daniel Inouye of HI

They should never be forgiven for that vote--or failure to vote--and should be targeted for defeat.

(On Inouye, I'd like to hear an explanation. His failure to vote surprised me, he's a lifelong liberal, and from a very Democratic state, but he is old and lives far away. Possibly there is an innocent reason he wasn't there. They needed four more votes for a filibuster.)

So, why is RaulVB gone? I liked his posts, too.