Reply #69: Again, it's not about supporting the DLC, it's about supporting Conyers [View All]

[Hippo_Tron]

Since the 2004 election, Conyers has made it clear that he is dead set on taking down this administration. To do this, however, we are going to have to be in the majority, because it's very hard to investigate things when Sensenbrenner turns off your microphones during committee hearings and banishes you to the basement for the ones that he doesn't like. However, the fact that he's trying to silence Conyers is HIGHLY suspicious. If there was nothing to find, Sensenberenner would just let Conyers have his hearings. If the Dems got the majority, Conyers may very well take down the Bush administration. Not only would that be incredible, but Conyers would become a party icon. Wouldn't it advance the progressive cause when people know that it was a progressive like Conyers and NOT the DLC that ruined the Bush administration and set us up for inevitable victory for the 2008? Isn't that worth electing a few DLC backbenchers to congress, some of which will probably lose their seats in two years anyway.