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Alpha Numeric Wanda Donating Member (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-10 09:54 PM
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11. You know, for a hot minute I was excited about this election...
... and then Don't Ask Don't Tell wasn't repealed. Biden said on Rachel Maddow's show that the WH wasn't going to put a moratorium on witch hunts in the armed services because (as Biden strongly implied) there was some kind of deal cut where there would be no moratorium and there would then be enough votes to repeal.

And, of course, we all saw how that played out.

I voted for "Stop compromising with nothing to show for it." Where is the strong, sweeping, liberal agenda? Why are we always capitulating to the crazy far right? Lyndon Johnson knew that the Civil Rights Act would cost him votes in the South. But he pushed for it anyway. And our nation is greater because of that courage. Where is that kind of courage?

Arrgh.
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  -DEMS: Stop Making Sense! bondwooley  Sep-24-10 02:46 PM   #0 
  - Mixed martial arts...on the Senate floor  leftstreet   Sep-24-10 02:49 PM   #1 
  - LOL. And I'm laughing because it doesn't seem that far-fetched! n/t  scrubthedata   Sep-24-10 03:49 PM   #9 
  - Demostrate Operable Backbone  FSogol   Sep-24-10 02:53 PM   #2 
  - Exactly. What's up with that?  bondwooley   Sep-24-10 03:18 PM   #7 
     - You know, for a hot minute I was excited about this election...  Alpha Numeric Wanda   Sep-24-10 09:54 PM   #11 
        - I'm with you, Alpha! n/t  scrubthedata   Sep-25-10 08:28 AM   #12 
  - The comment at the link that...  scrubthedata   Sep-24-10 02:57 PM   #3 
  - I was talking to some friends I used to work with in the Senate...  bondwooley   Sep-24-10 03:38 PM   #8 
     - Don't they realize that by sliding right they're losing their base?  scrubthedata   Sep-24-10 04:20 PM   #10 
  - By the way, why is Joe Miller running an ad on DU? Has it come down to that? n/t  scrubthedata   Sep-24-10 03:00 PM   #4 
  - I'd say click on it - probably costs him money and goes to DU if you do! n/t  bondwooley   Sep-24-10 03:06 PM   #5 
  - Common Sense  highprincipleswork   Sep-24-10 03:15 PM   #6 
 

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