It bears repeating: VOTE D even if it is for a DINO. HERE'S WHY:

I will vote for Jim Matheson this year, ONLY because if we take back power, the following will happen:

- 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

Really, I'm pretty lucky in my choices. And I keep hoping Hillary will grow into a stateman instead of just an ambitious politician.

I'll vote for my DINO (Nelson, FL)

AND

...if these new committee and subcommittee chairs make satisfactory, appreciable progress towards turning things around, I'll change my party registration to Democrat before the '08 election. (I'm an independent.)

On the other hand, if there's no real progress by the '08 election, I promise you I'll never vote Dem again -- because I'll be voting in some other nation's elections.

Previously, I always shunned voting for a party and supporting for an individual. That was before the Republican Party went insane and eliminated the voice of the individual.

The Republicans are the greatest danger to our Democracy that has ever existed. They are poised to destroy everything our Costitution stands for. They must be replaced, at all costs.

He's a Mississippi Congressman. He's not in my district (Gene Taylor is), but Thompson is about as good as Mississippi can get.

win in a landslide, no matter what. Most Repubs in the district love the guy, and have never heard of the schub (R) running against him.

In Matheson's case, I think voting your conscience won't make a bit of difference. That seat goes D no matter what.

there's a time & a place for everything, and there is no such thing as "winning by losing."

the steps ALWAYS go in this sequence:
1) obtain power
2) implement agenda

so work the process to get the right people into the primary, but in the real election, you are going to get incremental positive change or negative change/none at all.

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Pragmatism and politics. Thanks for pointing this out.

Lots of ?'s with subpoena power and the ability to put people under oath

I just hope we first, win, and second, no one is talked out of doing their duty. Great potential but let's carry it through.

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No time for personal expression, and I'm all in favor of that. We need the committees and the control of the agenda offered by being a majority.

Lets go for it. We'll set up re-education program for the DINOs and they'll be happy to attend. Everybody loves a winer.

and Justice Stevens (the most liberal member) retires, there is a better chance of a nominee who would be acceptable to us.

for that reason alone...

Just think Conyers..and Waxman..they have the goods on these rethug neo con bastards!

they have all the goods..and they are prepared !!

vote "D" all the way down the list..check your judges online if on your ballots..check cases they have been involved in and who they were appointed under..and really do check them..for your state supreme courts...and appellate courts..just google them up..if your dem party has not made a list of good judges..

i did a research for all of our fla judges for the 2004 general and posted it at Kerry headquarters...but now if no one has told you who is good and who is not..do the research for yourself..know who you are voting for..and send it out even to dems in your area....we need to be careful of the judiciary as well!!

fly

:hi:

How are you doing?

If people haven't realized the improtance of Democrat control by now, they never will.

k&r


http://journals.democraticunderground.com/bigtree

some! This will be the first time I will cast my vote for unknown/unresearched candidates. But conscience be dammned in this case. The Republicans have gotten us into this current mess by their 'talking points' united front, and that was only possible for the brain dead, the grossly incompetent, or the souls that completely lacked a conscience and agreed with B* on everything. Let's get these b-tards out of office!

k&r and thanks for posting.

WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-10-06 02:07 PM
Original message
Just a reminder
Edited on Mon Jul-10-06 02:19 PM by WilliamPitt
that if the Democrat running for the House and/or Senate in your district is a piece of crap, you should vote for them because you aren't voting for *them.*

You're voting for a recapturing of the majority by the Democrats.

You're voting for the removal of people like Frist and Hastert from power.

You're voting for the recapturing of the Intelligence Committee, the Finance Committee, the Armed Services Committee, the Ways and Means Committee, the Government Oversight Committee, and a dozen other committees of unbelievably substantial power.

You're voting to give subpoena power to John Conyers, Henry Waxman and Barney Frank.

You're voting for the ability to stop judicial nominees...and remember that Justice Stevens is 86 years old and not much longer for the world. You're voting to make sure another Roberts/Alito clone isn't elevated to the highest bench.

Just a friendly reminder.

One last edit, perhaps a snooty one, but it needs saying.

Responsible voting has nothing whatsoever to do with making you feel good about yourself or burnishing your liberal credentials. If you vote because you want to respect yourself in the morning, you are not being responsible to the country. This is a "we" deal, and this is also politics, which is a dirty business requiring multiple, constant and ever-present compromises.

Vote for majority control, no matter which individual Democrat you cast a ballot for. That is the responsible thing to do.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1603117

AND VOLUNTEER, DAMN YOU!!!

Even if you have to hold your nose the whole time. This election will pivot on TURNOUT. And WE'RE the ones who have to turn other voters out.

Do it for Conyers and McDermott and the rest of our staunch Progressive fighters.

NGU.