The cruel fate of the democratic voter...

[Matsubara]

Most of the democrats I know personally, including my Dad, are frustrated as hell at the congressional dems' caving on things like Iraq funding, the immigration bill, and their disinterest in impeaching the worst criminal mob tro ever occupy the White House.

Last week my dad told me he got a lettter from the Democratic Congressional Fundraising Committee asking for (another) dotation, and my dad told me he was going to withhold a donation to show his disgust with their inaction.

And there are probably a lot of other regular people out there doing the same thing.

But now that labor as a funding source has dried up, if more and more rank-and-file dems decide to withhold donations, the party will be ever more forced to turn to the very cause of their ineffectiveness - corporate donors, which can only serve to make them ever more sold-out and useless.

It's a heck of a tight spot.

When I told my dad this, he said "Yeah, well, I'm going to do it anyway, and hopefully if enough people do it they'll change their ways".



Oh, how I wish he was right. :(

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. DemocratIC voter.

Even if the party sucks, we need to call it by its correct name.

[Matsubara]

2. Oh brother. Fine.

I call myself a democrat, not a democratic, but whatever.

[peacebird]

3. we are withholding our donations and telling them why

We have donated as much as poss for over a decade - now we say that when the dems show spine we will show green.....

I am glad to hear your dad is with us!

[Matsubara]

4. But the corps will reward them for their inaction...

...and for funding the war.

I think withholding donations from the General Campaign funds and targeting them to the candidates who ARE doing the right thing is probably the best thing to do.