Because we have traitors in our party, Bush uses them for leverage

[Horse with no Name]

This is PRECISELY why Dems should stick together.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060128/pl_nm/usa_court_bush_dc
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
President George W. Bush on Saturday quoted Democrats praising
Samuel Alito in a bid to deter some in the party who want to block confirmation of the conservative appeals judge to the
U.S. Supreme Court.

Bush, in his weekly radio address, quoted Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell as saying he was displeased with the partisan way some fellow Democrats had handled Alito's confirmation process.

Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd (news, bio, voting record) of West Virginia has announced he would vote for Alito, the Republican president said.

Bush also quoted one of Alito's former law clerks who later worked on the 2004 presidential campaign of Democratic Sen.
John Kerry.
"She says this about Judge Alito: 'His approach to judging is not about personal ideology or ambition but about hard work and devotion to law and justice."'(Wasn't this debunked as a Republican rumor?)

[BillZBubb]

1. That's the way it always is for the Democrats.

We have ZERO party discipline. It's "every man for himself" with no repercussions for defection. I do admire the way the Repugs are able to get absolute party loyalty on all issues they deem essential. If the Democrats could ever achieve that, we'd be the majority party for a long time.

Any Democrat who supports Alito either voting for him or voting for cloture, should be faced by a well financed, credible opponent in the next Democratic primary. They should lose any choice committee assignments. They should be ostracized. This is war, treason should be severely punished.

[rurallib]

2. Why it seems like just yesterday I heard drugRush call Byrd

"sheets" in reference to his 65 year past association with the KKK. Uh, yeah it was yesterday. Gee even when your nice to the pukes they still kick you.

[global1]

7. Do You Think Someone From *Co Showed Byrd A Picture Of Himself....

early in his career - ala - Commander and Chief - like Geena showed Donald?

[firefox]

3. It will always be corrupted as long as there is criminal prohibition

There is a window that nobody wants to look through. It is not discussed by either party in any Congressional race or the presidential race. It cost $69 billion a year and results in the arrest of 1.6 million people that have don e nothing to no one. It creates problems of violence it says it wants to prevent, much like attacking Iraq made the terrorism problem worse when even the moderate Islamists wanted to reign in the extremist and the violent.

It corrupts the core of our society. There is nothing that could be done to promote the welfare of the country than ending it. Yet the parties agree never to talk about it and it is not debated or criticized on any mass media because scrutiny would kill it. There was an experiment that lasted a dozen years that failed so miserably the public demanded an end to it.

The evil among us is prohibition that is marketed to us as the war on drugs. The experts of the world call for the legalization of drugs to end the violence and corruption and deliver products whose production, distribution, and quality are regulated. Legalization is not to end the harms of substance abuse. For that we can use honest education and a health care system.

There are people out there calling for an end to prohibition, but their voice is not allowed by a controlled media. When neither party can discuss drug policy, which is rightly called criminal prohibition, that should tell you something.

Some people could come to a life-awakening moment in 5 minutes and that is why there is no video on the controlled media outlining the harmful policy that should be called prohibition.

Please bookmark this if you do not have time. It is a group of active and retired law enforcement professionals that call for an end to prohibition. It is called LEAP and it stands for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. They can furnish speakers for people in hearing their message of ending what many feel is the greatest mistake since slavery. This is their online promo that last can awaken many people in 5 minutes or less- http://leap.cc/audiovideo/

[bowens43]

4. I see. if someone disagrees , they're a traitor.

Guess we should all just shut up and goose-step into line......certainly no room for independent thought in our party.

[TheDebbieDee]

5. I don't think of them as "Traitors", but...........

I think of them rather as "Victims of blackmail".

I'd bet you dollars to donuts that much of the info (dirt) gleaned from the illegal info mining done by the NSA at *'s direction is being used to buy Democratic Senators' votes against the filibuster as well as keep the corporate controlled media in line.

[PA Democrat]

6. Ed Rendell's wife Marjorie is a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals

I wonder if Rendell's recommendation has more to do with the fact that his wife has served on the same court as Alito since 1997. It is interesting to consider that cases that Rendell's wife decides could end up before the Supreme Court and before Alito.

Personally, whether Rendell's statement is intended to help his wife's career or whether he truly applauds Alito's record and believes he is not an ideological extremist, I have lost all confidence in Rendell.