During the Primary Season, Congress voted against immunity...during the General Election...

[Junkdrawer]

Congress votes FOR telecom immunity.

Tell me again why we don't need a progressive Third Party.

[HereSince1628]

1. Thus they can say that they voted against it, but they can also say they voted for it

with it's "compromise" language. Which gives professional politicians just what they want. The ability to be on which ever side of the issue turns out to yield donations and votes.

[Junkdrawer]

2. When we run progressive candidates during Primary Season...

the incumbents point to their progressive votes.

The minute Primary Season is over, they're free to chase the corporate money. And what can you do? Vote for their Republican opponent? Please...

[HereSince1628]

4. Consider this ditty from Malvina Reynolds... I think I first heard it in the 70's

All hope notwithstanding, there is nothing much ever seems to change.
Consider the actual stories she points out, it's amazing how perennial they are.


The Man in the Mask.

Come sit down beside me before the big T.V.
And watch the funny pictures they have there to look at,
Shampoo for your hair and the last polar bear,
And the man on the moon who was walking around
Then left, leaving junk on the once virgin ground.

There's old timey movies with old fashioned dresses,
The kidnap of babies and other such messes,
There's football and baseball and guys selling cars,
And then there's The Man in the Mask.

Chorus:
They say it's his face, but I just can't believe it.
It looks like a mask that I saw in the store.
It talks with deep feeling about ending some war
And stopping inflation, and it's so fantastic,
You'll cry while you're laughing, and roll on the floor.

Every four years he puts a new mask on.
Each one is worse than the one he had before,
But the words are the same and the same earnest manner,
About ending inflation and stopping the war.

The sponsors paid out a million of millions
To get him up there with his magic routine,
But it's really a bargain, 'cause there's such a margin
In war and inflation and the big T.V. screen
That gives us The Man in the Mask.

[Terry_M]

3. Here's my thought...

We know that we can't toss out the sellouts in a primary, there's only maybe 10-20% of us that actually notice what's going on. So, we toss them out in the general election where our 10-20% WILL make the difference, give the seat to some republican, then next election we try to put in a new non-corporate democrat in. That's really the best chance we have of actually getting rid of them.