BushWatch's DemWatch: Only 52% Sen. Dems Have Passing Grades as Dems

This is quite a detailed breakdown....


http://www.bushwatch.net/demwatch.htm


Only 52% Senate Dems Have Passing Grades As Dems
Boxer Leads, Hillary Trails At 70%

by Jerry Politex, Bush Watch

With 20 key votes under their belts, 48% of the Senate Dems in the 109th Congress vote Republican more often than Democratic, showing no change since our last report two months ago. While Boxer remains as leader of the Dems with a 95% Dem vote record, and Kennedy remains at 90%, Hillary Clinton, who has led the list of '08 potential Dem presidential candidates in various national polls, passes by the skin of her teeth, voting traditionally Democratic only 70% of the time.

This update on Senate Dem voting adds the recent Roberts Supreme Court vote, the pro-gun vote of July 29, protecting gun manufacturers from civil liability actions, and the letter to Bush requesting that he not make a recess appointment of John Bolton to the U.N. About the Roberts vote, John Nichols in The Nation wrote: "Roberts's record of opposing expansion of the Voting Rights Act, unyielding allegiance to the corporate interests he served as an attorney in private practice and extreme deference to executive power he served as an aide to President's Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush drew broad grassroots opposition."

Adding these 3 votes to the previous 17 votes by the Senate Dems (cloture votes on Bush UN nominee John Bolton as well as judicial nominees William Pryor, Janice Brown, and Priscella Owen, the resolution apologizing for the Senate's failure to enact federal anti-lynching legislation decades ago, the CAFTA vote that took place on June 30., the Ohio vote rejection, the Rice and Gonzales nominations, the consumer protections and bankruptcy votes, the ANWR vote, the medicare budget cut, the tax cut budget, the Bush budget, the greenhouse gas amendment, and the Schiavo vote) produces a total of 20 votes:

Senator Boxer has a score of 95% (19 of 20 traditionally Democratic votes) and Edward M. Kennedy of Mass. has a score of 90 (18 votes)

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2 partial Dems now have failing scores of 65% (13 votes) : Bayh (D-IN) and Reid (D-NV).

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--Politex, Bush Watch, 10.01.05

I have been saying this for how long? I'm surprised, actually, it is as high as 52%!

Say NO WAY to the THIRD WAY!

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According to this poll staunchly liberal democrats like Levin, Leahy, Obama, and Dayton score just 75%, while Biden (who I have no problem with, however is undoubtedly closer to the center then the aforementioned four) has an 80% grade.

On edit-Feingold was at 75% also, another sellout evidently...

had a healthy amount of "cross-overs" but given these terrible times our DINO Dems don't do us any good and actually keep us out of power.

Given that some of them come from Repug states I guess we have to give them a break. But, what does it matter when we have One Party Rule, anyway. :shrug:

are "DINO"'s please name 10 "real" democrats in the history of the Democratic party?