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happen, let the fascists bring up bills with fascist names,

LET the fascists have their money for their war ...

NANCY PELOSI IS INCOMPETENT OR CORRUPT.

We

We the peee-ons,
We the citizens of this country,
We the FRUSTRATED members of a chicken spineless party,

WE gotta have LEADERSHIP from those who were hired to LEAD.  Even if I ran for the job of 'leader', I do NOT have the job - 435 of you  in Congress ahve the job, AND

isn't the liberal caucus bigger than the sell out caucus?

100s of Dem congress critters,
1000s of staffers,
1,000,000s in salaries

and I heard YOU tell us at the 36th Dist Dem meeting last fall all these complicated reasons why Madame Pelosi took impeachment off the table,

Just like I heard Tip O'Neil tell me why he had to compromise with RayGun the fascist 25 years ago when I lived in his district in Boston,

and once in my life I made 51 grand, and I've always made less.

thousands of dems staffers on bigger salaries than I've ever made,

and you people can only come up with excuses about how lying fascist thieves are thieving fascist liars.

I went to your fundraiser put on by dinazina, BUT

ALL DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE TO BE FIRED.

I will NOT give a dime or a second of time to any Federal Office holder or incumbent, AND
I will encourage the residents of my precinct to do the same, AND
ANY big wig dem who doesn't like it can get one of their lackeys to take my job in my precinct.

Robert M. Murphy
PCO 36-1392

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

by rmdSeaBos on Tue Oct 02, 2007 at 04:47:16 PM PST

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I wrote you several weeks ago, thanking you for signing onto the Impeachment of Dick Cheney bill - for which I doubled my latest contribution to your legal defense fund.

Secondly, I brought up my fears of a World War Three resulting from an attack on Iran, based on many pages of information on the internet from credible sources, as you relate.

Third, I asked if you couldn't talk some sense into Congressman Brian Baird?  

Your reply mentioned only the first item.

But here you are responding to the second one. Once again you are listening! I wish we could populate the House with sane representatives LIKE YOU who will speak up LOUDLY before it's too late, before W and Cheney decide to "kick ass" again, as you brazenly repeated on the floor of the House recently.

Instead we have a presidential front-runner who once again gives the green light to Bush, and too many other Dems using her as a role model.

I don't know the answer - I am frustrated and angry like seabos (although more polite). But thank you for at least TRYING.

by dinazina on Tue Oct 02, 2007 at 07:11:29 PM PST

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are we supposed to fight back against, as seabos accurately puts it, "the fascists" when our supposed Party leaders sell us out?

What exactly did 28 Senate Democrats think they were doing when they voted for the Kyl-Lieberman amendment? Apparently they've learned nothing.

The Bush administration is trying to make its case for war, and the 28 helped them by labeling the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as "terrorists."

A "terrorist" in this era is practically defined as anyone the Bush administration wants to attack. In the meantime, there is no terror like the terror caused by war.

These people in the White House are lunatics and criminals, and I'm puke sick of Democrats who haven't enough sense to realize you can't work with crazy people.

We've talked and wrote and organized and what has it gotten us? Our own State Party leader rewarded our efforts to elect a Democratic Congress by saying the "Left is lost" and suggesting we ought to concentrate on the concerns of the middle class. About a year ago he said the war would be over by as early as a year.

Guess what? The Iraq war is far from over, and now we face a new one with Iran. We'll do what we can to help build opposition to a new war, but Lord knows we'll be doing it without the help of those feckless, self-deluded con artists who feed off our work and money, and then kiss up to fascists because they're so weak they're afraid to look weak by fighting them.

Absolutely pathetic. Here we go again.

by DWE on Tue Oct 02, 2007 at 08:25:50 PM PST

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as expressed by the first three commenters.

I'm sickened by these Democrats who trade blood for electability and status quo, who appear to be blind to the reality facing us.  

Congressman, thank you for once again standing up for sanity.  I am grateful.

The Republican party is increasingly characterized as moribund -- in the midst of imploding.  The same is obviously the case with the Democratic party -- and the whole apparatus of special interest money that drives this system.  It's bankrupt.

by noemie maxwell on Tue Oct 02, 2007 at 09:27:11 PM PST

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This diary is, in fact, the text of Congressman McDermott's speech on the House floor yesterday afternoon.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever -- Larry Andersen
Blogging at Peace Tree Farm

by N in Seattle on Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 09:42:54 AM PST

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 When son-in-law leaves in 2 weeks for his second extended, stop-loss, 15 month deployment to Iraq, I fully expect that before that 15 months is over, he along with other troops may well be deployed in Iran.

  At Rep. Brian Baird's recent Town Hall meeting in Raymond, WA, one of my very direct questions as a military family with 2 WA based returning Iraq veterans was to ask him 'where are these troops coming from' and his response....(paraphrasing) well that is a problem, the military troops are exhausted. And the few Americans making the sacrifices for this war are the troops and their families.  More Americans would need to exercise the courage and be willing to make sacrifices.  

  So while Brian Baird advocates for keeping the troops in Iraq till April 2009, the war drums beat for initiating - no amend that to 'expanding' the war into Iran. But beyond Brian Baird, who is but one among many in Congress, indications appear to me to be that there will be little effort by Congress to interfere with permitting a green light of attack on Iran.  

  I continue to be sick at heart confounded on what motivates Congress and while I hardly like to make these kind of rhetorical type statements, I feel more and more like I now know to some degree what it might have been like in Germany prior to WW II as German national policies moved into place without restraint until there was no longer the ability to restrain.....

  Rep. McDermott, you have it exactly right when you say

"As a medical doctor, I was trained to listen to the patient. I've been listening to this President and he is telling us that Iran is his next military target".

 

  I have also been listening with growing trepidation and horror to this President, this Commander-in-Chief, who wasn't kidding when he said 'the long war' and it will be the next President who decides what to do about Iraq.  And I even now half way believe he meant it when he staged the 'mission accomplished' photo op back in 2003 - he was ready then to move on to the next front in his war on the Middle East and had not much intention of managing the war in Iraq except that it impeded what he would interpret at progress in advancing the war further into the Middle East.  

"The bar for success (in Iraqi)is so low that it is almost buried in the sand." Barack Obama, Sept 12, 2007

by Lietta Ruger on Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 10:18:56 AM PST

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of the Supreme Court, international law, the Congress and the American people, the Bush administration continues to torture prisoners.

I'm sorry--why was impeachment taken off the table? Oh, yeah, it had something to do with all this stuff the Democratic Congress was going to accomplish instead.

Protecting and defending the Constitution apparently pales in significance to whatever it is the Congress is accomplishing in DC.

If the Democrats are unwilling to fight the loonies in the White House in any meaningful way, should we be surprised if they decide to start another war because they feel like it?

by DWE on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 06:30:08 PM PST

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Does Bush have the authorization to attack Iran? If not, doesn't he need it? Like a declaration of war or something?

I'm still a little baffled by all these goings ons. It seems like most everyone is fairly lucid on Iraq, Iran, al Qaeda, etc.

But a small cabal of lunatics have the reins, a larger cabal of enablers can't or won't stop them, and the rest of us are on the sidelines feeling impotent.

I'm at a complete loss for what to do. Looking for ideas. Meanwhile, I just plug away at my pet issue.

by zappini on Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 07:22:15 AM PST

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