Other than immigration (and maybe there) Dems are blowing it in Congress

DuaneBidoux

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Mon May-21-07 11:30 AM
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Other than immigration (and maybe there) Dems are blowing it in Congress

What ever happened to the minimum wage? How about negotiating prices for drugs for medicare?

Yesterday on Meet the Press Gingrich said that Dems have not enacted a single piece of the first 100 hours legislation. Is this true?

Dems need to get something done now or we are going to quickly look as ineffective as the repugs (and as far as I am concerned, worse than looking as ineffective is being as ineffective).

I know that there is plenty to investigate and Iraq is important but if there is only so much attention to go around I would rather get some good legislation passed than convict one Bush criminal (Bush will just pardon them anyway).

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Greyhound

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Mon May-21-07 11:41 AM
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1. Unfortunately it is true. Our party is, and has been, held hostage by

a coterie of Republiks in Democratic clothing, and they will not allow anything to get through.

I mentioned this http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=918477&mesg_id=927343">here in another thread. The corporatists have total control of the Republik party and enough of ours to ensure that we will stay on the course to self-destruction until it is too late.

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earthside

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Mon May-21-07 11:52 AM
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2. Pro-Working Class Party?

This so-called "immigration reform" will be a killer for Democrats.

Reid, Kennedy, Pelosi really need to listen to Thom Hartmann on the immigration issue.

Dems should be the pro-working class Americans, pro-middle class Americans, pro-union, pro-fair trade party.

But it sounds like too many of them are jumping on this Bush-Chamber of Commerce, wage-busting, immigration amnesty bill ... and they just got on board that trade agreement deal.

Individual Dem candidates up against individual anti-amnesty Repug candidates next November are going to be in for a very tough time.

Democrats in leadership need to get back to their roots and be on our side.

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Mon May-21-07 12:20 PM
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4. Why?

The overwhelming majority of Americans support amnesty.

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jaxx

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Mon May-21-07 12:11 PM
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3. I think they need to pass bills and send them to the WH as fast as they can.

Let him veto them, and send them back again. This bushco bunch has got the whole congress buffaloed and it's got to stop. The few who speak up aren't backed nearly enough by the dems. The idea of a bi-partisan congress is bull. We took it on the chin for 6 long years, it's time to give back. Let the pubs answer as to why that bully in the oval office won't allow the people to have fair wages or lower priced meds. We keep trying to do it his way.......stop that madness.

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Bullet1987

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Mon May-21-07 12:27 PM
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5. According to whom exactly?

The overwhelming majority of Americans support amnesty.

I don't support amnesty at all! And yea, the Dems have dropped the ball because of creeps like LIEberman (thanks Connecticut for that one).

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jaxx

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Mon May-21-07 01:51 PM
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7. I don't support amnesty either and wasn't referring to that when I said send in the bills.

I was thinking of the war and the min wage and the drug prices. I also don't support a North American Union or the damned NAFTA Superhighway. I support American jobs for Americans.

Lieberman is no democrat. He is a Joecrat, full of himself.

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OHdem10

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Mon May-21-07 12:28 PM
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6. For at least 3 to 4 days now Fox has been pointing to Democratic Congressional "Failkure.

Edited on Mon May-21-07 12:36 PM by OHdem10

Dynamic Opinion Poll khas Congrss at 28%. Fox
is capitalizing on and of course pointing out
how Pelosi's First 100 Hrs Legislation has never
been passed by Senate.

Fighting over the War when in reality Bush is going
to do what he wants--serves no one.

Somehow the Senate has to get some legislation
passed.

I will never understand why they took up such a Hot
Button Issue as Immigration when we are involved
in the hottest war debate ever. Ignored all the
promises from the campaign.

They had better get some wins or the DLC will once
again bring down the party.

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