Reply #40: Exactly!!!!

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Here is what the MAJORITY of Americans (Democrats AND Republicans) want from OUR government!

In recent polls by the Pew Research Group, the Opinion Research Corporation, the Wall Street Journal, and CBS News, the American majority has made clear how it feels. Look at how the majority feels about some of the issues that you'd think would be gospel to a real Democratic Party:

1. 65 percent (of ALL Americans, Democrats AND Republicans) say the government should guarantee health insurance for everyone -- even if it means raising taxes.

2. 86 percent favor raising the minimum wage (including 79 percent of selfdescribed "social conservatives").

3. 60 percent favor repealing either all of Bush's tax cuts or at least those cuts that went to the rich.

4. 66 percent would reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.

5. 77 percent believe the country should do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment.

6. 87 percent think big oil corporations are gouging consumers, and 80 percent (including 76 percent of Republicans) would support a windfall profits tax on the oil giants if the revenues went for more research on alternative fuels.

7. 69 percent agree that corporate offshoring of jobs is bad for the U.S. economy (78 percent of "disaffected" voters think this), and only 22% believe offshoring is good because "it keeps costs down."

http://alternet.org/story/29788/

8. Over 63% oppose the War on the Iraqi People.

9. 92% of ALL Americans support TRANSPARENT, VERIFIABLE elections!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x446445

Does "voted with the Party 98% of the time" include:

*voting to give $850Billion dollars to Wall Street executives?

*voting to give Telecoms immunity for spying on Americans

*voting FOR the Partiot Act

*voting FOR every single demand for funding for the Iraq Occupation without a single concession

*voting FOR more Free Trade

*voting FOR two of the most Fascist supreme Court judges ever installed on the Supreme Court

..I could go on, but given the Democratic Party's record for the last 30 years, I would consider it a big PLUS to have a record of opposing the Democratic Party consensus.


Rahm's record of Party accord is sort of self fulfilling. Rahm has worked tirelessly to torpedo the local campaigns of grassroots Progressives. He has directed the considerable resources of the DCCC to elect Conservative, Pro BIG BUSINESS Democrats......and then he has a record of voting with them.
Big Deal.

This is about ISSUES, not LABELS.




The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those
who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.