Why are they not Republicans? Or rather, are we sure they aren't?

Voters are told a more progressive candidate "wouldn't stand a chance" and are offered a choice between a moderate republican running as a democrat (and getting all of the Party's resources allocated to them), and a far right nutjob running as a republican. I have the 'honor' of having this scenario as my choice in nearly all federal elections down here in Georgia. When a progressive does get in to run against the republican, they never get any resources or help from the state or national parties, and generally are running against an entrenched R with huge resources in a heavily gerrymandered district. But all competitive districts and statewide races follow the first pattern.

No funds for progressive Democrats. Nice.

At least that is his description. During the last shutdown he repeatedly voted with the repubs to defund obamacare as a condition of opening the government back up. In the past he has always sided with the defund obamacare repubs, and with them on any NRA legislation, and on other issues they value. He is a republican, just has a D by his name.

It fools a lot of people here.

The corrupt politicians, militarization of police, attacking innocent country ( Iraq) and leaving in our wake destruction that will take a very long time to recover. This doesn't include the children that have no chance due to the radiation pollution we left behind.
You vote for who you feel is representing you only to find out they lied (if they win). On the other hand I don't know if my vote matters a hill of beans with gerrymandering or dibolt changing votes.
I wish to hell I would have left this country years ago. Now I'm to damn old!

Same thing, It truly is heart breaking,It seems that all the things we were raised to believe in turns out to be a lie, And like you i'm too damn old to get the fuck out at this point,

I would leave this screwed-up country if I could, but at my age it isn't happening. We're told this is is the greatest country in the world. Bullshit.

Our government is owned by corporations now and has an entirely different purpose...

said Warren Gunnels, senior policy advisor to Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-VT, who has been appointed to the 2013 federal budget conference committee, where the debate is taking shape.

“You hear these people saying, ‘We have to be the adults at the table and the Republicans don’t negotiate. Aren’t we reasonable?’” he continued. “A more reasonable position is a majority of Americans don’t want Social Security, Medicare and Medicare cut at all. Why don’t we have one political party represent what a majority of people want?”

October’s government shutdown and threatened debt default was disruptive and hurt the economy. But what is emerging is an entirely different drama, one that could shape the quality of tens of millions of people’s final decades. Most Americans do not have much in retirement savings and will live on Social Security now averaging $1,200 a month, and receive their healthcare under Medicare. Similarly, nearly two-thirds of Medicaid recipients are children from poor homes or adults with disabilities...SNIP


...SNIP

The National Journal, a leading conservative publication, did a nationwide poll in the first week of the shutdown and tilted its questions to try to show public support for the GOP’s intransigence and for cutting entitlements. What it didn’t put on its website but was buried in its results (see page 4) was that 76 percent said Social Security should be cut “not at all,” as opposed to cut “a lot” or “some.” Eighty-one percent said Medicare should be cut “not at all.” And 60 percent replied “not at all” to cutting Medicaid. These results tracked two other National Journal polls done in 2012 and other national surveys.

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/26/sell_out_alert_9_democrats_already_caving_to_gop_on_social_security_cuts_partner/

instead of whoring for the 1%. Won't happen until we, the people, demand it.

Where are the demands to raise the cap?

quote ANY of the accused 9 on any actual budget bill is what you are running with?

Before today's latest outrage against Democrats who are on today's shit list, could you provide any direct quotes from any of these Senators to support your OP?

although he's full of shit.

This past weekend, Sen. Dick Durbin, the second most powerful Democrat in the Senate, appeared on Fox News Sunday and told host Chris Wallace that he would support cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits as part of a grand bargain with Republicans.

These vital and hugely successful programs deserve to be strengthened and expanded, not cut. But the Republicans are longstanding opponents of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and have been waging an unrelenting, decades-long assault to destroy, defund or privatize these programs.

The last thing we need is a powerful Democrat, especially one like Sen. Durbin who claims to care about these programs, going on national television and saying he’s open to making a deal with the Republicans that includes benefit cuts.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/22/1249612/-IL-Sen-CREDO-Action-Puts-The-Pressure-On-Dick-Durbin-D-To-Not-Cut-Social-Security-Medicare

I wish we could primary those assholes out, but some of them come from deep red areas where the alternative wouldn't be much better.

system...

Probably because I never saw them as Democrats in the first place, I guess.

All I see are nine ratfinks who desperately need to be primaried.

How can you call yourself a Democrat?

So this week we had a barrage of OP's cheering Reid's momentous announcement that there would be NO GRAND BARGAIN!

Yet now these nine mentioned in the OP appear ready to betray us.

And today Obama's economic adviser indicates that "entitlement reform" is going to be a part of the deal: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023925289#post17

Sounds like the same old scam again. Lots of speeches to give the impression of supporting the 99 percent, while a deal with the One Percent is actively in progress.