I wish the Democratic Congress had half the balls Keith Olbermann has.

When are they going to get fired up like he gets? Where is their passion to do what is right?

amongst those lacking in passion to do what's right

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He seems to be a fighter.

balls don't work on everybody.

is so important. Even if it doesn't pass, we get to find out which House members are actually willing to stand up for the Constitution!

Go Dennis (and Keith, although he should have Dennis on)! :woohoo:
http://dennis4president.com
Choose Peace!

That man's brain is absolutely astounding!!

We have enough votes to control the gavel, but not enough to effectively control the legislative agenda between both houses of Congress, let alone a WH with a veto pen.

have nine.

If the committee turns down the nominee, that's it.

41 Senators could filibuster to stop the nomination once those torturing scumballs Schumer and DiFi do the wrong thing.

Are you saying the Dems don't have 40 senators in the Senate?

Why go to the mattresses to stop a nominee that is probably better suited for the position than Acting AG and Federalist Society founder Keisler?

Bush has said he is perfectly content on letting the Acting AG have the role for the remainder of his term if the Senate does not confirm Mukasey, and frankly, I'd rather have the better qualified hack in the posiition than the outright hack.

How easy it is to demand balls while typing on the Internets

Both typing DU'ers and the ineffectual Democrats in congress have one thing in common- their actions result in absolutely little or no change. Only the Democrats in congress have been charged with the obligation to bring about change and yet they do nothing.

The current crop of Dems are the other, more timid Republican party with little reason, other then pressure from the likes of DU'ers to change. IN that light I will do what I can, even if it is only typing on my computer, volunteering for progressive candidates and spending my contributions carefully.

The activists on DU can't get anything done, but they expect the dems (who are nothing more than a "more timid Republican party with little reason") to do it for them.

Can the dems in congress say the same thing? I don't think so. They need to do what they were elected to do period.

And yes, dems in congress can say the same

...waterboarding experience this evening was off the chain (a cliche' I do not use liberally). If Democrats had half the guts and vision that Oberman has, they'd have twice what they have demonstrated to date.

Tonight he was simply on fire. It was truly amazing.

Still, an improvement, as you say.

agree

to condemn Kieth?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3688439

:)

would be history by now.

in Congress

They are so intransigent, cowardly, irrelivant and not even in the same solar system as their base.

I think you would have to go all the way back to FDR to see an election where the electorate gave such an explicit mandate to their leaders.

If they had simply defunded the war the American people would have been behind them - and now the democratic canidates won't even promise to end the war in their first term, all the while Hillary Clinton is spoiling for war with Iran so she can pull a Thatcher and show everyone how fucking tough she is.

The democrats have so little courage of their convictions (if you can even call them that) that the fear of criticism from the screaming assholes on AM radio is enough to make them back down!

I see people with a stronger sense of conviction at the returns counter at Target!

The Democrats showed the highest Democratic unity score in 51 years and backed the majority position of their caucus 91
percent of the time.

"President Bush's success rating in the Democratic-controlled House has fallen this year to a half-century low, and he prevailed on only 14 percent of the 76 roll call votes on which he took a clear position.

"So far this year, Democrats have backed the majority position of their caucus 91 percent of the time on average on such votes. That marks the highest Democratic unity score in 51 years."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1728952&mesg_id=1728952
http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002576765.html

Don't let the media rhetoric fool you. The Democrats have acquitted themselves quite well--especially given their bare majority in both houses, and a relentlessly obstructionist Republican minority.

You can cite me all the statistics you want but the failure to cut off funding makes the Democratic Congress an utter failure.

It's easy to have balls when one is a tv star versus a candidate who must answer to the voters. You can't compare the two.

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