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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-27-10 03:45 PM
Response to Reply #26
30. Except when it's not.
And I don't believe it is. So you don't have to sit down and shut up - just don't paint yourself as a progressive because you're anything but.
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  -Progressives turned an amazing chain of victories into a narrative of defeat impik  Jul-27-10 02:44 PM   #0 
  - Butter please  xultar   Jul-27-10 02:45 PM   #1 
  - Yep, here we go.  Blue_In_AK   Jul-27-10 02:47 PM   #2 
  - +1  xultar   Jul-27-10 04:01 PM   #33 
     - + Another One (nt)  Dinger   Jul-28-10 06:46 AM   #61 
  - No salt on mine, please.  IndianaGreen   Jul-27-10 03:14 PM   #15 
  - K and fucking R!!!11  jpak   Jul-27-10 02:48 PM   #3 
  - Gee, Chris Crocker is getting more wordy. nt  jobycom   Jul-27-10 02:49 PM   #4 
  - Invoking his name without a picture? You can do better!  Oregone   Jul-27-10 03:34 PM   #20 
  - Its because some progressives treat our ideology as a religion that shou shalt not compromise on.  phleshdef   Jul-27-10 02:54 PM   #5 
  - You confuse 'passing legislation' with reform  MannyGoldstein   Jul-27-10 02:56 PM   #6 
  - Exactly.  Better Today   Jul-27-10 02:59 PM   #9 
  - If Obama were really that bad  Radical Activist   Jul-27-10 04:12 PM   #34 
  - Pick one of my charges, and let's discuss. nt  MannyGoldstein   Jul-27-10 04:31 PM   #36 
  - What you said.  Hell Hath No Fury   Jul-27-10 05:31 PM   #42 
  - BINGO!  grahamhgreen   Jul-28-10 05:25 PM   #75 
  - I must keep reminding myself -  DURHAM D   Jul-27-10 02:56 PM   #7 
  - looks like the bar is being raised from better than bush..  frylock   Jul-27-10 02:57 PM   #8 
  - By dog, that's progress!  Webster Green   Jul-27-10 03:02 PM   #12 
  - k/r  CakeGrrl   Jul-27-10 03:01 PM   #10 
  - they would've made more progress in the primaries on principles and message  frylock   Jul-27-10 04:23 PM   #35 
     - OK, then to those who want to primary Obama come 2012,  CakeGrrl   Jul-27-10 04:44 PM   #37 
  - Look at the fierce unrec attack on the truth  impik   Jul-27-10 03:01 PM   #11 
  - Are you threatening me?  Webster Green   Jul-27-10 03:05 PM   #13 
  - Unrec because of your 'you people' comment  IndianaGreen   Jul-27-10 03:15 PM   #16 
  - It's getting to be a very frequent phrase on this board. Along with  alsame   Jul-27-10 03:25 PM   #18 
  - Give it another month.  Dr.Phool   Jul-27-10 03:37 PM   #21 
  - lol  LostinVA   Jul-27-10 06:26 PM   #46 
  - You mean like the frequent critics who  CakeGrrl   Jul-27-10 03:38 PM   #22 
  - Pathetic meme  MissDeeds   Jul-27-10 03:49 PM   #31 
  - +1  Ignis   Jul-27-10 04:52 PM   #38 
  - If recent DU polls and comments are any indication  Blue_In_AK   Jul-27-10 03:23 PM   #17 
  - Oh, that will get me to vote for a useless Dem  mitchtv   Jul-27-10 03:39 PM   #24 
  - "Say Hi to Speaker Boner and president Palin."  LostinVA   Jul-27-10 06:25 PM   #45 
  - You'll be able to say hi to them as well, won't you?  Forkboy   Jul-29-10 08:38 AM   #77 
  - lol  fascisthunter   Jul-27-10 03:07 PM   #14 
  - Wow. They sound magically powerful  Oregone   Jul-27-10 03:32 PM   #19 
  - If you really want to help, stop doing Fox's work for them.  lob1   Jul-27-10 03:38 PM   #23 
  - KnR. And duck!  Hekate   Jul-27-10 03:40 PM   #25 
  - I'm sorry the fact that we refuse to sit down and shut up-  asdjrocky   Jul-27-10 03:42 PM   #26 
  - Yep, and the truth is that this president has had more and bigger victories  Phx_Dem   Jul-27-10 03:44 PM   #28 
  - Except when it's not.  Nicholas D Wolfwood   Jul-27-10 03:45 PM   #30 
  - And now you're the arbiter of all things progressive?  SpartanDem   Jul-27-10 06:37 PM   #49 
     - Why not? Seems like everyone else here is.  Nicholas D Wolfwood   Jul-29-10 08:23 AM   #76 
  - Your opinion is not equivalent to "the truth."  treestar   Jul-28-10 03:46 PM   #69 
  - They certainly did, or at least tried to. How pathetic is that?!  Phx_Dem   Jul-27-10 03:43 PM   #27 
  - Strawman  zipplewrath   Jul-27-10 03:45 PM   #29 
  - And it only hurts progressive priorities, like the climate change bill.  Radical Activist   Jul-27-10 03:56 PM   #32 
  - What a fucking crock of shit!  ibegurpard   Jul-27-10 04:55 PM   #39 
  - You can have your representative...  Davis_X_Machina   Jul-27-10 05:13 PM   #40 
  - Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies  QC   Jul-27-10 05:17 PM   #41 
  - Sarah-Get me Superintendent Chalmers...  a la izquierda   Jul-28-10 01:36 PM   #64 
  - "When push came to shove they always had his back."  Alenne   Jul-27-10 05:43 PM   #43 
  - that's a complete crock of shit as well  ibegurpard   Jul-27-10 06:19 PM   #44 
     - Republicans can depend on the conservative vote.  Alenne   Jul-27-10 07:16 PM   #52 
  - this is just silly. and an insulting shitstorm of invective.  Warren Stupidity   Jul-27-10 06:31 PM   #47 
  - You'd think this would qualify as a group attack.  EFerrari   Jul-28-10 01:13 AM   #58 
  - Oh Daddy, this tastes like Gramdma!  LostinVA   Jul-27-10 06:32 PM   #48 
  - More "progressives are the enemy" rhetoric from you.  spoony   Jul-27-10 07:04 PM   #50 
  - Loyalists destroy amazing policy opportunities with partisanship  Prism   Jul-27-10 07:07 PM   #51 
  - K&R n/t  firedupdem   Jul-27-10 07:38 PM   #53 
  - Republicans love blind loyalty  niceypoo   Jul-27-10 08:54 PM   #54 
  - Interesting phenomena...this lock step stuff  Sheepshank   Jul-28-10 01:46 PM   #65 
  - Republicans are in lock step because they are brainwashed  niceypoo   Jul-28-10 03:17 PM   #66 
     - I don't think Dems showing a unified front  Sheepshank   Jul-28-10 03:30 PM   #67 
        - Largely due to the Democratic politicians frogmarching to the right  niceypoo   Jul-28-10 04:29 PM   #72 
  - There needs to be lockstep, to a point  treestar   Jul-28-10 03:47 PM   #70 
  - how come you could say what I was trying to say in one sentence?  Sheepshank   Jul-28-10 05:10 PM   #73 
  - It's not a matter of "blind" loyalty, it's a matter of respecting heuristics.  Unvanguard   Jul-28-10 05:16 PM   #74 
  - Dude come on  Ramulux   Jul-27-10 11:54 PM   #55 
  - +1  depakid   Jul-28-10 12:47 AM   #57 
  - Happy to kick and rec.  Number23   Jul-28-10 12:45 AM   #56 
  - Just what the Woodchuck Brigade doesn't want to hear  NoPasaran   Jul-28-10 05:58 AM   #59 
  - So much so.. that I wonder if we are even on the same page  Peacetrain   Jul-28-10 06:31 AM   #60 
  - Excellent post, I agree with the assertion whole heartedly  NJmaverick   Jul-28-10 01:27 PM   #62 
  - Well, the Democratic Party is known for its amazing circular firing squads.  Pirate Smile   Jul-28-10 01:34 PM   #63 
  - Very true; it would be nice to have a left as fanatical as the right is  treestar   Jul-28-10 03:44 PM   #68 
  - An easy thing to do, given that those "victories" in many cases don't help ordinary people  MadHound   Jul-28-10 03:52 PM   #71 
  - Whining about progressives again?  niceypoo   Jul-29-10 11:44 AM   #78 
 

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