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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:22 AM
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We have only 45 people on the front line protecting America...
It's an awesome responsibility. They are the buffer between freedom and fascism. They are the line that must be crossed before we get a Supreme Court of radicals - willing to interpret the Constitution in their own limited and narrow ideological viewpoint. They are all that we have to keep Social Security from being dismantled and put in the bathtub. We can only hope that all 45 of them recognize and understand the position that history has bestowed upon them. They are the 45 Democrats in the United States Senate. They are all that we have. Let us not forget that.
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:24 AM
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1. dont forget the democrat appointed judges.
all those article III judges are lifetime appointees - may well outlast those senators....

:scared:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:27 AM
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2. They directly represent 50.7% of the population of the U.S.
The Reichpublicans directly represent 49.2%. (The remaining 0.1% are represented by Jim Jeffords.)
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:28 AM
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3. Usually there's not even 45
on account of the likes of Lieberman, Biden, Nelson, and a few other weak-kneed DLC turncoats.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:30 AM
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5. Yep
I'm glad we have them though. I'd hate to be in their situation's with all the tough fighting and all the headache's from the Bushies. :\ God bless them though! I saw the Democratic SS thing tonight and it was great.
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Lone Pawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:54 AM
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7. Biden a turncoat?
He was the only sane Senator during the buildup to the war--and I think that on foreign relations, he's the most sensible senator serving at the moment. Just because he's in favor of a bad bill doesn't mean he isn't one of us.
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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:57 AM
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8. Biden has signed a PNAC document
That is treason, period. Not just against the party either, but against this country, as PNAC is the enemy of America and the ones responsible for this LIE called the "war on terrorism".
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Lone Pawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 06:28 PM
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17. PNAC is not treason.
That's absolutely ridiculous. They have dangerous ideas, but they are not treasonous ones. You're slightly confused.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:58 AM
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9. Um, I think you meant Byrd there on war sanity.
:D

-Hoot
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Lone Pawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 06:33 PM
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18. No, I do mean Biden.
He expressed a rather sensible view--Saddam Hussein may be a threat that requires military action, given his general militarism and expansionism, and removing him may possibly have positive ramifications in the mideast, but at the same time to act without international backing would be foolish, as would acting before we knew if we had to, as would botching the war in the same manner Bush did. Of all the Senators who could be called pro-war (and nearly all were), he was the one who laid out the most intelligent case for war--and has had the most accurate criticisms of the way in which the war was carried out since.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 03:55 PM
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14. He's backing the bankruptcy reform act, among other things.
I know he has to make his Delaware credit card donors happy, but that hardly speaks to me of a man of the people.
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:30 AM
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4. 46 - don't forget Jeffords. nt
Edited on Sat Mar-05-05 12:30 AM by paineinthearse
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 01:00 PM
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10. Forty-four plus Jeffords equals forty-five.
:shrug:
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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 12:38 AM
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6. + 4 Supreme Court Justices, and sometimes 5.
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scarletlib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 01:08 PM
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11. There are some in the house fighting for us
The entire Congressional Black Caucus which is primarily from the House of Representatives, Kucinich and other Representatives such as Wexler of Florida. (Name your representative if he/she is with us. Unfortunately mine is Foley--Mr. Lockstep closeted gay republican)

The there is the ACLU, PFAW, Lawyer's Guild, AAR, Common Cause and a hosts of others.

So the Sen. Dems do not stand alone.
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 02:04 PM
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12. Keep sending Thank you E-mails !!! n/t
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 03:43 PM
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13. Well...that's a cheerful message.
However, realistically, I think if it comes to dire straits, some Republicans would realign.

For some illusive reason I remain optimistic about the American people.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 03:57 PM
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15. Think about those up for re-election in '06 and the popular
opinion concerning SocSec reform. I know JD Hayworth got an earful the other day--and it wasn't a hand-picked one, either.

I think we may well have more than 45 occasionally in the Senate.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 06:13 PM
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16. You forgot to mention that out of that "45," how many can we count on to
be in the "trenches" with us when we get to "Armaggedon."

:shrug:
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FourStarDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-05-05 10:26 PM
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19. I really miss Paul Wellstone...
Such a loss his death was. He would have been out there fighting every day against the Bush crime family.
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