Is the GOP blackmailing all the Dems in Senate & House?

[electropop]

Have they dug up juicy sexual indiscretions or shady business dealings on everybody? Or are they simply threatening to kill their families? Why are nearly all the Dems playing dead on every issue???

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. Are nearly all Democrats playing dead on Social Secruity?

:shrug:

[asjr]

3. I hope there will be a real battle on this issue. I also hope we

will not be sold out on Rice and Gonzales. Just because a president is "entitled" to put someone he wants in the cabinet doesn't mean he or she should be.

[electropop]

5. SS is a no-brainer

Bushit didn't campaign on it, and polls show that it would be political suicide to support corporatizing it. Even many GOP are against the SS charade. Which is why Delay & Co don't feel the need to turn the blackmail screws on the SS issue.

[Avalux]

2. Don't think it's blackmail -

they just don't care. They call themselves Democrats but that doesn't mean they will uphold our values and fight for them. Our Dem leaders are a bunch of fat lazy wimps (most of them, anyway). Anyone out there yelling about election reform???? I didn't think so.

[rman]

4. it's a bit of everything:

blackmail, bribery, intimidation, deception, infiltration, and probably some Dems who're simply being self-serving.

[sui generis]

6. alla ya's is wrong

they're ELECTED OFFICIALS.

They are worried about their constituencies and their ability to get re-elected, and that's reality.

Eight out of ten letters going to elected officials come from right wing nuts. It's not the representatives that are lazy - it's us. The right loves to hate more than anything in the world, and they are well organized through AM talk radio, through churches, and through the NRA, accounting for tens of millions of people who have nothing better to do than piss and moan about how outraged they are.

We on the other hand have DU and MoveOn.org accounting for hundreds of thousands vs. their tens of millions.

As an elected official, they have to respond to what is in front of them, and if eight out of ten constituent letters tell them to stand down on an issue, they have to listen, at least in this democracy. THat's reality. That's what we have to change if we want those boneheads to wake up and vote in a way that's meaningful to us.

[EFerrari]

8. Yep. Lotta work being free. lol

[Al-CIAda]

7. Massive systemic ELECTION FRAUD

Only 30 min. of your time...be warned though, you will never be the same.US democracy is an illusion-

January 18, 2005: FTR #494: "Another Interview with Daniel Hopsicker about Electoral Fraud"
Realplayer Audio-
http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=13923

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[zbdent]

9. What do you think the ramifications would be if all Dems just voted

"present" on all the bills that are so Repuke or W inspired?

If anybody notices, the Dems could claim "Well, with the majority being Republican, we knew that we couldn't shoot it down, so we just acknowledged that we were there so that the Repubs could get all the blame for their failed policies."

Would the "present" vote still count against the passage of a bill if the Repukes somehow don't get the majority on the vote?

[electropop]

10. Why go halfway?

That would only piss off us AND the righties. I say grow a pair and fight for your real constituents, Dems!