Comments on: Data Check: Most Democrats Voting Yes on Stupak Amendment Won Election By Wide Margins. Primary, Anyone?

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:47:56 +0000

I’m thinking I will send money to anyone who runs against these folks, no matter their party. I hope FireDogLake and Blue America make it easy to donate to their opponents.

By: Richard Schmorleitz

Richard Schmorleitz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:04:55 +0000

My thought is that none of these ‘CANDIDATES’ should receive any mony from the Democratic National Committee for having broken from the ranks in such a rankling way. Perhaps they’d rather be Republicans — or, shall I say re-Publicans (turn them back to running taverns and other public entertainments if they’d rather have
a party than do principled legislating.

By: Peregrin Wood

Peregrin Wood — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:14:33 +0000

Geri, if you think the answer is just to elect more women, I think you need to look at all the women on the Republican side, like Michele Bachmann.

By: Geri Kenyon

Geri Kenyon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:59:28 +0000

These statistics are staggering; I note that of the 64, I could identify by name only 2 women. Since when did Democratic party decide that it should be men determining that it is only men who control what happens to women’s bodies and lives? It feels like we are living in Afganistan or Saudi Arabia or Nicaraga or Italy – in short, in any country that is controlled by men who use fundamentalistj, patriarchial religion as a means of controlling women, their bodies and their behavior – their very sense of themselves and their thinking – and thus our mutual future. The best means of population control and upward economic growth is to allow women education and control over their bodies. As persons knowledgeable of our planet’s current challenges understand, this tragic and horrific mind set of men (and of the women entrapped by this ‘Stockholm syndrome’) leads to future planet-wide catastrophe. To return to this current issue, why haven’t the Dems enabled more women officeholders?

By: Jon Williams

Jon Williams — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:06 +0000

Thanks for this illuminating bit of research. Besides this bit of cow-towing to campaign-funders afraid of the anti-choice tyrants, “pro-peace” Dems vote for pro-war funding and “populists” vote to bail out bank-robbing bankers. Once their snouts are in the trough, Democrat or Republican, only a crowbar seems to get them out. So what’s that crowbar going to have to be?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:21:09 +0000

Well, of course you are, as is your democratic right. My first question is whether others will bother to counter you with their voices. My second question is whether you’ll exercise similar diligence in responding to those Biblical contradictions as you pledged to do months ago.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:02:19 +0000

I am working through the list calling and thanking each one personally for a job well done…