Reply #85: I presume that's a loaded question so I'll give it a qualified answer....

[mike_c]

In the broadest sense, one of my senators, Barbara Boxer, my congressman, Mike Thompson --most of the time-- John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Maxine Waters, and of course, Dennis Kucinich. There are many more-- I mention those only because they came to mind first. I think Jimmy Carter was one of the greatest statesmen of my lifetime.

Equally, there are lots of democrats I don't support. I'm unabashedly liberal and I don't have much use for centrists or rightwingers, no matter what letter they carry after their names. Principles mean more than party to me. I'm not ashamed of that-- quite the opposite.

In the context of the current thread, I think anyone who voted for the Military Commissions Act today attacked America. They certainly attacked the principles America stands for. Another DUer has commented that he grew up on military bases during the Cold War-- I was also a Cold War kid-- and we were told that the kinds of provisions contained in the Military Commissions Act, along with other things we see in America today, typified oppression in the Soviet Union and that they were the reason the Soviets were our enemies-- because if we didn't fight them, they would export their oppression and threaten our freedom. Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted to surrender America to that very same darkness. However imagined the darkness might have been in the 1950s and 60s, it is certainly real today.