Democrats "have accepted over 100 Republican amendments, in exchange for" no Republican votes

democracy1st

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Thu Aug-20-09 04:08 AM
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Democrats "have accepted over 100 Republican amendments, in exchange for" no Republican votes

Begala on bipartisanship: Democrats "have accepted over 100 Republican amendments, in exchange for" no Republican votes

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908190068

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bigjohn16

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Thu Aug-20-09 04:13 AM
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1. Then they get to say it's loaded with pork when they vote against it.

Democracy at it's finest. :sarcasm:

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zbdent

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:17 AM
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4. that the Repukes benefit from ...

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quantass

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Thu Aug-20-09 04:29 AM
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2. It's a scary realization that the Democrats will Most Likely Keep all those Bad Amendments anyway

even when they know full well they will not get any repub votes and make this bill so watered down that it ends up failing and repubs will use to campaign against them for having such bad amendments that hurt it in the first place. Nice...

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old mark

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Thu Aug-20-09 04:54 AM
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3. When the bozos get back from their month off, we must start an email/fax

campaign to give them our opinions on this. I'd have to see even one GOP "idea" become law if they are not even going to participate.

Mark

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snake in the grass

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:18 AM
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5. They just never fucking learn!

Here's what it looks like when our party offers the regressives bipartisanship:

We, the constituents, get it, but our representatives are either too feckless, too dim, or too deep in the corporate pockets to actually figure it out or care.

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ThomCat

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:37 AM
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6. Yet, will they strip those amendments out and push though a cleaner

better bill with just Democratic votes? Will they? :grr:

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cleveramerican

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:49 AM
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7. this has gone just swell

could we possibly look worse to the large general public not following along too closely.

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Puzzler

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Thu Aug-20-09 07:51 AM
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8. Quick, Campbell cut off the debate...

... a very good point has just been made

(sarcasm)

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