Reply #20: Yes, it certainly does- he's no friend of the middle class

[depakid]

or ordinary working Americans or traditional Democratic values. Quite the opposite-

Let's see, support for offshoring? Check.

Vehement opposition to the Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed rules (the kind would have prevented ENRON, WorldCom, et al - and saved 100's of thousands of pensions- and tens of millions dollars stolen from small investors? Check.

Support for weakening SEC regulation. Check.

Support for repealing Glass-Steagall- and allowing mega-mergers in the banking, financial and insurance industry (e.g. the Citibank, Travelers Insurance and Salomon Smith Barney octopus). Check.

(that one alone is going end up helping to take down the American economy).

Support for telecommunications deregulation. Check.

(we all know what that got us).

Support for the bankruptcy bill. Check.

Support for tort deform. Check.

The list goes on-

This guy's religious moralizing on "family values" while at the same time coddling corporate criminals is the worst sort of hypocrisy. It's as indefensible as anything a Republican does. The quicker the Dems show his ass the door, the better. Then he can get a job simpering and snivelling on Fox News, without officially undercutting the Dems. He can go ahead and enable the far right and rip Howard Dean every night- with a clear conscience. Assuming he has one.