How Should Progressives Be Talking About The Stimulus Package?

From DownWithTyranny:

"Every single day Vermont's Independent Senator Bernie Sanders wakes up, goes to the office and fights for America's working families. Most of his colleagues spend their time working for interests of their campaign contributors in Big Business. The latter is a disaster for Americans any way you slice it.

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The most corrupt members of Congress, in both houses and on both sides of the aisle, are the ones fighting the hardest against Obama's agenda. Listen to Bernie talk about what this Stimulus bill is really all about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afU0GmdhY2Q

Alas, not all Democrats are as smart as Bernie or as dedicated to giving a hand to American working families. Earlier we looked at reactionary North Carolina Blue Dog Heath Shuler, who had crossed the aisle to vote with the Republican obstructionists against President Obama, lambasting Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for sticking up for working people. (Remember, after Rahm Emanuel had selected the failed football player to run against a Republican bankster, Charlie Taylor, he started his campaign by threatening to not vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.) Anyway, Shuler, a virulent racist and corporate shill, may be the worst "Democrat" in Congress but he certainly isn't the only bad one.

One of the 3 freshmen who has continually crossed the aisle to vote with the Republicans is Idaho reactionary Walt Minnick, a near certain one-termer who seems determined to be remembered as a complete and reviled failure. The far right will support Bill Sali, the ex-congressman Minnick defeated, who is running against him next year, but right now they're celebrating Minnick as the useful idiot he is. Minnick is the polar opposite of Bernie Sanders, a dream Democrat for corporate America. He's trying to be the Joe Lieberman of the House-- who new polls show would be swamped in a landslide if he had to face Connecticut voters today-- by playing footsie with the Republicans and betraying the values and ideals of his own party. His idea of a stimulus bill is $170 billion, something that economists are laughing at as completely ineffectual and even ridiculous."

READ MORE: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-should-progressives-be-talking.html

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Minnick, Shuler, and the rest of the right-wing Democrats are a vile bunch aren't they? if you donated to the DCCC you probably helped fund their campaigns.