Reply #19: Gene Taylor. [View All]

[Ken Burch]

Baron Hill. Heath Shuler. Almost all of them. You can't seriously say we should want more like THEM.

Blanche Lincoln(who only voted for the healthcare bill after she made sure it was meaningless).

None of them were the best we could get from those districts.

We don't need "Democrats" anywhere who hate urban people, love the Pentagon and want to force prayer back into schools.

There were NO meaningful issues where the Blue Dogs did us any good.

And, without real commitments to change "organizing the chamber" is nothing.

We organized the Senate. It turned out to be useless.

Half-victories never lead to anything better in the future.

And gradualism isn't progressive.

Most of them are only slightly different at best. And progressives don't HAVE to accept the myth that we're a minority in this country(which you do, and which is the same thing as giving up on change entirely), which is the myth that is used to justify the Blue Dogs.

The voters were never insisting that they'd ONLY let Democrats have Congress back if we agreed to have a right-wing fifth column to keep us from getting anything done.