Don't be mad at the Democrats! - Democratic Underground

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Mon May-23-05 08:31 PM
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Don't be mad at the Democrats!

I'm sick and tired of posters in threads venting their anger at senate democrats.

Look it's a compromise -- in a compromise pretty much no one is really happy but its better than the alternatives.

If you want to be angry, be angry with the jerk-off neo-cons who've made it a habit of abusing power.

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Mr_Spock

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Mon May-23-05 08:33 PM
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1. Well said

It's better than the alternative - a Constitutional Crisis and likely quite a bit of political violence...

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Spinzonner

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Mon May-23-05 08:36 PM
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2. Yes, but the question is whether the Republicans can be trusted

to keep a deal they have agreed to.

If you look at the administration they lie and lie again even after they have been proven to have lied.

And the House of Representatives shenanigans are a bad precedent for following rules and traditions.

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Pepperbelly

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Mon May-23-05 08:37 PM
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3. I have a sinking suspicion that we are being fed a shit sandwich ...

while being assured it is peanut butter.

Something just doesn't smell right.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Tue May-24-05 10:12 AM
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14. Yeah :^( I don' think this is really over.

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sbarrett

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Mon May-23-05 08:38 PM
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4. I Agree,

And I'm hopeful that the moderates in both parties will be the cooler heads that will keep the Senate from imploding. But at the same time, I don't think we would have made it to this point if the Democratic leaders had not stood tough against Bill Frist, et al.

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wurzel

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Mon May-23-05 08:39 PM
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5. They played a very weak hand very well.

Edited on Mon May-23-05 08:43 PM by wurzel

The Repukes would have broken the rules without a second thought. In no time people would have forgotten all about the 60% fillibuster. And the Repukes would have been able to get anyone through the Supreme Court with just 51%. To really win you have to have power.

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lancdem

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Mon May-23-05 08:44 PM
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7. I'm with you

All Frist had to do was get 50 of the 55 Repukes. Reid always faced an uphill battle.

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wurzel

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Tue May-24-05 10:02 AM
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11. And Frist would have got them. n/t

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ulysses

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Mon May-23-05 08:41 PM
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6. the problem

is that a compromise that partially turns back great extremism still leaves you in the extremists' camp.

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Joey Liberal

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Mon May-23-05 08:47 PM
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8. The American voters gave us this situation

We the people (well, at least the red states and the conservative evangelical idiots) put this Congress in republican hands. It really put the Congressional Democrats in a no win situation. Who would have ever thought the republicans would try to end the filibuster for judicial nominees? At least we now know just how low the republicans will go when they have the majority. One must wonder, what will they do next????...................

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housewolf

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Mon May-23-05 08:57 PM
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9. The American People are the winners today

Both sides won some and lost some and in a country as divided as this, that makes all Americans the winners.

And that's something we should all be celebrating.

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sbarrett

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Mon May-23-05 08:59 PM
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10. Absolutely..

I think the American public won this one..

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derby378

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Tue May-24-05 10:05 AM
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12. Welcome to DU!!

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Tue May-24-05 10:10 AM
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13. Exactly. If people here spent as much time attacking Republicans

as they do Democrats, we might accomplish something. I'm sick and tired of people letting the Republicans off the hook.

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CWebster

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Tue May-24-05 10:13 AM
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15. "be angry

with the jerk-off neo-cons who've made it a habit of abusing power."

and how are you supposed to not be angry with a group of centrists who sell out us all to support them every time?

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