WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in the senate that is...

What I can't figure is why some of them didn't change their votes so that it barely passed 60/40... they must really love that GOP-lite and sticking it to those BK slackers... 80% of which found themselves in BK proceedings because we as a nation (as represented by teh votes of our congressional leaders) don't think its important for everyone to have healthcare coverage...

Now watch them roll over on SS... the bastards.

. . .We need to remember them.  This is revolting.

This is also International Women's Day.  Nice little kick in the stomach they just delivered to sick and elderly women (and women with sick kids).  

So shall we see these gals on the streets or will our "leaders" be kind enough to re-open some debtor's prisons?   Nah,  we'll see them on the streets right where they belong.  Stupid old sick broads!!

biden can kiss his presidential aspirations goodbye.

and WTF is up with the wisconsin and michigan dems voting for cloture?  any locals wanna offer me a clue?

...why Salazar was so much "better" than Mike Miles.

I can't imagine that Miles would've voted for this shit.

Stabenow's getting an email...

...where the Republicans keep thier entire party together, even Chafee, McCain, and the Maine twins, yet we have more than a dozen defections.  It's really starting to get annoying.

Every once and while he reveals a real dead zone in his brain where information about "the working stiff" should be stored. He tries hard, but there are times like these when there is a real disconnect. That's when Wisconsites like me throw up our hands and mutter under our breath something like, "What the hell was he thinking?"

...is as owned by MBNA as Carper and Biden. They have call centers and back office operations in Portland, and all over the mid-coast. Half of Camden is painted MBNA green-and-gold.

First of all, the only moderate Repubs on the list are Chaffee, Snowe, Specter, and Collins, while McCain and Hagel are mavarick Republicans on issues they care about. This is a classic issue where the Repubs are united and the Dems who know that only us bloggers care will side with the Repubs. Remember that MBNA and credit card cos are based in Delaware and the Dakotas and that explains Carper, Biden, Johnson, and Conrad, and the others are mostly conservative.The problem is that we have been losing too many elections, so when we had 55 votes instead of 45, and there were genuine moderate and even liberal Republicans,the defections weren't really noticed. But now that we are down to 45, they hurt. By the way, where the hell is Ralph Nader-going around making speeches about how there is no difference between Bush and Gore and Bush and Kerry. If he had been actively alerting his supporters, Kohl and Stabenow and others would not have voted the way they did.

When AND HOW are we going to make our elected representatives be true to their [promised] principles?  Does MBNA have such reach [and donations], that Dems lack the guts to vote honestly on an important issue?   And WHY did our Leadership come in so late[ and hardly at all] in asking for protest to the Draconian aspects of this Bill, and organizing real opposition?

I am not from West Virginia.  Does anyone understand why he voted the way he did?

Please do not even hint at this anywhere. He talks the talk but never walks the walk.

Oh, and I am so tired of Ben Nelson it hurts.

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The vote today wasn't even an up and down vote on the bankruptcy bill.  It was a vote to decide if they could debate the issue (in terms of important  amendments) further.  

If all the members can't/ won't even ask for discussion, where does that leave us?  They couldn't even hold it together enough to debate amendments put forth by members of their own party!!

I have never liked Bill Nelson. I didn't vote for him in 2000. I will not contribute money to his campaign in 2006 and I will vote for a third party candidate again if necessary. I don't care if I indirectly help elect a Republican. Such considerations are meaningless when you're up against the wall. If you're a Democrat and side against the people then I have no need for you. I'm not hopeful about taking Congress or the presidency back in 06/08. I think our efforts should be concentrated on the governorships and state legislatures, which will impact redistricting after the 2010 census. Only then will progressives be able to retake the Federal government.

It seems, you consider "the genuine Democrat" only very consistently liberal Democrats. Look - almost all Democratic Senators who voted for cloture represent either Republican-leaning or swing states. Exceptions: Biden, Carper, Lieberman - and all three ran as a moderates all their political life. They are mostly interested in political survival, and it's in their political interests to vote the way their vote. Even more - they can easily turn your anger to their profit: by creating a visible "distance" between them and you, which will be well received by most of the voters in their corresponding states. So you may curse them at your pleasure - that's also part of the plan. And my prdediction: after 2010-2012 you will say something like: "there are only 25 Democrats in Senate"....

Dear Senator Stabenow:

I have cheerfully donated to your campaigns since you ran for state Senator lo these many years ago.  I have always thought of you as a champion for the ordinary American.

So why did you vote for cloture on the vile bankruptcy bill?  This is a vicious bill which will punish regular folks for having catastrophic illnesses which their health insurance doesn't adequately cover, for losing their jobs and being unable to find another... you get the picture. Contrary to the picture painted by the rapacious credit card companies, the majority of bankruptcies come from these, not from "irresponsibility". Interesting that the right-wing-hijacked Republican Party, the self-proclaimed "party of Godly moral values", backs up the credit card companines (and yes, auto companies) who practice what the Bible calls "usury".

The right-wingers (they aren't real Republicans) are determined to destroy the American middle class and turn us into a nation of serfs-- and you did your little part to help them. I am frankly shocked at you. I will be really thinking twice about donating to you this election.  If you have a (D) after your name but help the right wingers who go by (R), what good are you to us anyway?

Anyone can call Allen (R-VA) a "moderate."  He's as redneck as they come--complete with confederate flag--and is clearly conservative.

Yes, KimPossible, Warner is much more of a moderate than Allen. His rating from ADA is 5%