Reminder: Why it is VITAL you vote for a Democrat, even if a DINO in '06

From Kevin Spidel's post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=839811&mesg_id=839811

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- At least 9 Congressional Progressive Caucus Members would become Committee Chairmen or Chairwomen
- An additional 35 Congressional Progressive Caucus Members would become Subcommittee Chairmen or Chairwomen.

The following Progressive Caucus Members would become Committee Chairs:

- Congressman George Miller, Chairman of Education and Workforce Committee
- Congressman Barney Frank, Chairman of Financial Services
- Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of Government Reform
- Congressman Bennie Thompson, Chairman of Homeland Security Committee
- Congressman Tom Lantos, Chairman of International Relations Committee
- Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of Judiciary Committee
- Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Chairwoman of Rules Committee
- Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Chairwoman of Small Business Committee
- Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman of Ways and Means Committee

The following Progressive Caucus Members would become Subcommittee Chairs:

- Appropriations Subcommittees -- Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro and Marcy Kaptur and Congressmen John Olver, Jose Serrano, and Ed Pastor
- Armed Services Subcommittee, Congressman Neil Abercrombie
- Education and Workforce Subcommittees, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and Congressman Dennis Kucinich
- Energy and Commerce Subcommittees, Congressman Ed Markey and Congresswomen Jan Schakowsky and Hilda Solis
- Financial Services Subcommittee, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congressman Luis Gutierrez
- Government Reform Subcommittees, Congresswoman Diane Watson and Congressmen Dennis Kucinich, Elijah Cummings, Danny Davis of Illinois, and William "Lacy" Clay
- International Relations Subcommittee, Congressman Donald Payne
- Judiciary Subcommittees, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee and Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Melvin Watt
- Interior Subcommittees, Congressmen Raul Grijalva and Tom Udall and Congresswoman Donna Christensen
- Rules Subcommittees, Congressman Jim McGovern
- Small Business Subcommittees, Congresswomen Madeleine Bordallo
- Transportation and Infrastructure, DeFazio, Filner, Holmes-Norton, and C. Brown
- Ways and Means Subcommittees, Congressmen Pete Stark, Jim McDermott, and John Lewis of Georgia



Folks, it is that serious.

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(Thank you Kevin Spidel!!)

This is SO IMPORTANT

equipped with all of Bush's new "Super Powers" that the GOP has so graciously given us.

I can't wait until the anti-abortion groups are designated to be Enemy Combatants and we can wiretap them without warrants!

Thank you Mister Bush! I like you!

:kick:

Way to spin a positive edge out of the craziness of todays political spectrum. Thank you!

predict they will impeach, or any other progressive concern, even if such strategic advances are made?

If anything, it would be more logical to assume electing a DINO will actually prevent impeachment, because they wont' vote for impeachment, n'est-ce pas?

tell him to impeach, he has no choice if he wants to keep his job. That's why it's important to have the elections every 2 years. If one doesn't do what you want, find another to take his place. And even if you don't, you have the threat to hang over the elected official's head. You work them, AFTER they are elected.

zalinda

half of them shoot into our own goal, the other side still wins.

chair of the Senate intelligence committee too. This man has done NOTHING but cover up for the Bush administration.

off to the greatest for you

K&R

I thought this isn't automatic and has to be done through races themselves. Am I wrong?

I'm not sue, AND I'm not sure.

I remember when Congresswoman McKinney returned to Congress in 2004 Pelosi wouldn't give her seniority back. With Seniority McKinney would've been able to ask the right questions when we needed them asked (something she is good at).

How do we know that Pelosi won't purge the progressives again?

Lots of other things going on in teh world right now, but a dem majority could bring some resolve to these problems better than any neo cons.

:applause:

All the Dem bashing and Green loving and Castro bedding posts have been enough to make me wanna puke my democratic guts out. But this thread sends me to bed with hope and a smile. Thanks Helderheid! :)

I'd like to vote against DINOs someday. :sigh:

The DLC/moderates keep saying vote for us or we won't be able to control congressional panels. They say, we don't care that you are against everything we stand for, we demand that you give up everything you believe in and vote our way. If you don't it is your fault the GOP is in control.

I call bullshit. It is the DLC/moderates who are at fault here. Because they cannot be distinguished from the GOP, voters are turned off and don't vote because they feel both parties are the same. The DLC/moderates are the ones who are keeping the GOP in power. The DLC/moderates carry all the blame here.

If the DLC/moderates want people to vote for them, then they had better change their stance and get a plan that people want and will stand behind and gladly give them their vote.

I do not want a DLCer to lead my country and will not vote for one.

I live in Connecticut and will cast my ballot for Ned Lamont! :bounce:

I believe DiFi is running this year, and I'll vote for her. I'd only draw the line with Lieberman. He's a whole different ball game. But I don't get to vote for him in any case.

There's being a DINO, and there's being a traitor to the party (and in doing so, being a traitor to the American people and the Constitution).

--if s/he has a "D" after his or her name, will put those agenda-setting gavels in the hands of the party which had 59% of its legislative contingent vote against the Iraq war.

starting with impeachment of *, Crashcart, Rummy, and Condi