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26 Feb 09 - 09:26 AM (#2576350) Subject: BS: Party Purity From: GUEST,beardedbruce IMO, this may give the Republicans a real chance. February 26, 2009 Democrats to target Democrats in 2010 Posted: 08:58 AM ET From CNN Political Editor Mark Preston Conservative Democrats will take heat from members of their own party. WASHINGTON (CNN) — A powerful union, influential bloggers and several liberal groups have formed a political coalition to pressure conservative Democrats to support liberal policy goals. "Accountability Now PAC will recruit, coordinate and support primary challenges against vulnerable congressional incumbents who have become more responsive to corporate America than to their constituents," the PAC said in a written statement provided to CNN. Accountability Now comprises of BlogPAC, Color of Change, DailyKos, Democracy for America, MoveOn, Service Employees International Union and 21st Century Democrats. The PAC was created last September, and organizers have been acquiring funding and hiring an executive director to oversee the project, Jane Hamsher, of the political blog firedoglake.com, told CNN. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ |
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26 Feb 09 - 09:33 AM (#2576353) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Jeri B, instead of using Mudcat for your personal political blog, why don't you go get one off site so we can more easily ignore your 'Hey there people who are too stupid to find news articles without my help, read THIS!' shit. |
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26 Feb 09 - 09:36 AM (#2576357) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: curmudgeon Motion seconded - Tom |
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26 Feb 09 - 09:57 AM (#2576370) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: artbrooks While I agree with BB's positions on issues more often than I don't, and there are certainly many other people using Mudcat below-the-line for their own political purposes, I think that it would be good to have some kind of introduction to articles. This would be in the sense of "did you see this? I think this about it, what do you think?" Otherwise it is only a reprise of stuff on the AP and CNN feeds, which I already see. Referring to them as "Hey there people who are too stupid to find news articles without my help, read THIS" may be slightly unkind. |
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26 Feb 09 - 10:11 AM (#2576384) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Ebbie I'll add my own thinkin' on this: I resent and resist the inherent implication that just because I/we don't post to any of the 'Do You Care' threads that I don't care. As Jeri says above, we find things by ourselves, we think, we mourn, we contribute - and even if we did not, it is not for any one poster to decide what and how I should feel about anything. Several times in the past I have seen threads that say "I can't believe that Mudcatters are silent on this ... they would have expressed lots of opinions about it if the shoe, etc, etc..." And yet that person had not him/herself written about it before, either. Enough already. |
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26 Feb 09 - 10:20 AM (#2576390) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: GUEST,beardedbruce Art, ""did you see this? I think this about it, what do you think?" " I prefaced the initial post with "IMO, this may give the Republicans a real chance." Sorry I did not give an invitation for others to give their opinions. I assumed it was implied by my posting. |
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26 Feb 09 - 03:23 PM (#2576635) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: beardedbruce And from the other side of the Democratic Divide... (Sorry if some here find it a problem that Demodrats all don't agree, any more than Republicans did) February 26, 2009 Dem blasts Obama's budget Posted: 02:50 PM ET From CNN Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh Taylor, a Democrat, says the budget isn't 'change.' (CNN) – Mississippi Democratic Rep. Gene Taylor blasted the budget outline President Obama submitted to Capitol Hill today, saying "I don't like it…change is not running up even bigger deficits that George Bush did." "That's what George Bush did very well. Apparently that's what President Obama is doing." Taylor, a conservative "blue dog" who voted against the stimulus bill, noted he was still reviewing the plan but was troubled by the additional amount of spending for many government programs on top of the recent increased funding many agencies received in the economic stimulus bill. As a member of the Armed Service Committee, Taylor noted the budget only gives the Defense Department a "small increase," which he said would barely cover the cost of living adjustments for the military. Taylor pointed to President Obama's inaugural address that called for Americans to make sacrifices, saying "It's certainly not reflected in his budget." |
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26 Feb 09 - 04:28 PM (#2576691) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Amos WHat horse manure. Is he completely ignoring all the differences between Bush budgets and the new one? Is he intentionally ignoring all the news stories about plans tor edue the deficit in half by 2013? If so, why? Fondness for distortion? Or just lameness of brain? A |
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26 Feb 09 - 04:30 PM (#2576697) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: beardedbruce Amos, He's a Democrat- YOU have to make excuses for him. |
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26 Feb 09 - 04:53 PM (#2576718) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: curmudgeon He's a bloody DINO! |
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26 Feb 09 - 05:04 PM (#2576726) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Big Mick I like Bruce, and enjoy his company when I see him. I wish he would do exactly as Jeri suggests. |
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26 Feb 09 - 05:18 PM (#2576736) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: GUEST,Sorcha I agree with Jeri. Yea, I can be a pretty crabby old lady, but Jeri can be pretty crabby when she feels the need too. Delete if you like, I don't care much anymore. |
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26 Feb 09 - 05:21 PM (#2576741) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Amos I don't need to make excuses for somebody being stupid whether they are a Republican, a Democrat, or a damn Munchkin. Dumb is dumb and not identifying differences and similarities where they exist is pretty much the core nature of dumb. BTW, I like Bruce too, and enjoy his company, when I see him; and I concur with Big Mick. A |
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26 Feb 09 - 05:25 PM (#2576746) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: beardedbruce Amos, You have failed to read the opening post. The LEFT wing of the Democratic Party is the one seeking purity. Look back, and tell me how BOTH parts of the Democratic Party are just dumb- That I might agree with you on! |
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26 Feb 09 - 05:59 PM (#2576772) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Q (Frank Staplin) Left, right, left, right, right, left, right, left, Center! |
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26 Feb 09 - 06:21 PM (#2576790) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: katlaughing Here's another vote for what Jeri suggested. |
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26 Feb 09 - 06:37 PM (#2576807) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Ebbie ("Sorry if some here find it a problem that Demodrats all don't agree, any more than Republicans did)" bb May I suggest that it would be beyond dumb if anyone expected or even desired all Democrats to think the same about everything. (I'll leave that mindset to the simplistic Republicans.) |
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26 Feb 09 - 07:24 PM (#2576834) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Bill D bruce... Democrats have problem members, just as Republicans do. We don't have to explain every one who goes off on a toot. Do YOU want to explain Tom DeLay or a couple of those congressmen who have been sending the racist emails & videos out? I don't start threads daring you to. |
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26 Feb 09 - 09:27 PM (#2576913) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: robomatic Well, the one on the right was on the left And the one in the middle was on the right And the one on the left was in the middle And the guy in the rear burned his driver's license |
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26 Feb 09 - 11:28 PM (#2576967) Subject: RE: BS: Party Purity From: Amos From the opening post it has nothing to do with some arbitrary idea of "purity", which makes it sounds like a bunch of brownshirts or something. it's a political coalition trying to poorganize support for its platform. Doh. At least they aren't pulling secret strings to persecute those who do not agree with them as the Bushites were wont to do. |