Durbin to dems: eat your spinach

[Enrique]

Dessert will come in the hereafter!

http://jackienapper56.typepad.com/blog/2010/12/estate-tax-a-key-stumbling-block-for-dems.html#tp

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"We have to accept the reality that, if we want to change Washington and continue to move in the right direction, we need to stand together," Durbin said. "And sometimes the accommodations that we make, the compromises that we make may be painful, but we've got to eat the spinach and keep moving on. It's going to be a good dessert when it's over if we can say that we've worked together for the working families across America."

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[Echotrail]

2. Dessert = Re-election

That's all they know or care about.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Durbin who voted for the Catfood Commission proposal?

Marvelous.

[neverforget]

9. Ironic huh? Mr Austerity is for tax cuts that make the debt worse.

Cognitive dissonance......

[monmouth]

4. Oh, F^&# you DICK....n/t

[Oceansaway]

5. Durbin=Lapdog...nt

[Donnachaidh]

6. why wasn't there as much smoke and bravado about stopping the elite tax cuts ?

Surprising, isn't it -- that the shock troops with their *suck it up and deal* message always seems to get unleashed AFTER a deal is struck to screw the middle class?

While the Dem party *says* it doesn't do lockstep -- there sure seems to be a LOT of it rolled out to shut down dissent from their own party. Over the course of the last two years this has been happening.

WTF?

[Enrique]

7. Durbin needs to remember something from one of his own speeches

just a few months ago, he said:


http://www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=510502&keyword=&phrase=&contain=

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Hours after eating the spinach, Mary Ann was sprawled across her bathroom floor--vomiting violently and experiencing uncontrollable diarrhea. Then her kidneys failed.

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[NorthCarolina]

10. "It's going to be a good dessert when it's over"

Cake?

[ladjf]

11. Senator "In favor of the Catfood Com" Durbin has permanently

lost my respect and gained my scorn. nt

[whathehell]

12. Dick is my senator (unfortunately)...and I told him in an email

what he could do with his "spinach"..Metaphorically, of course.

Literally, I told him that had he any decency, he would have stood with Senator Sanders last Friday.

In addition, I told him he was a weak sellout and that if he and his spineless compadres continue along the same lines, I'd be voting The Green Party..good bye and bad luck.

[Paulie]

13. That explains why on Friday when I called his office to ask how's he's helping Bernie

The staffer laughed at me. All I asked is if the Senator is standing with Bernie and bringing him some water or a bite to eat while on the floor fighting for me.

Sigh.