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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on December 22, 2009, 02:04:09 PM
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OP is just the news article. Enjoy the misery.
Bleacher Creature (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-22-09 04:04 PM
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1. Good riddance.
Edited on Tue Dec-22-09 04:12 PM by Bleacher Creature
"In August—one month after Republicans picked up his former state legislative seat in a special election—he told a local newspaper that he wouldn't vote for Nancy Pelosi to remain as House Speaker because she's too divisive. He joked that if she didn’t like it, he’d provide her with a gift certificate to a mental health center."
I'm guessing there will be very few tears shed on the Democratic side of the aisle today. The only downside to it is going to be GIGANTIC DRUDGE HEADLINE using this to portend certain doom in 2010.
Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-22-09 04:21 PM
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9. The cynic in me says --
this **** ran as a Democrat to win in this "historically Democratic district" because he knew "R" after his name was a death sentance to his campaign.
And he knew from the start he would be changing from "D" to "R" after an appropriate time.
Look for more of this in the future, folks.
:-)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4195015
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Look for more of this in the future, folks.
One sure hopes so!
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In principle, though, I don't like the practice and it should be undertaken in only special circumstances. People ought to know what they're getting when they pull the lever. I sure as hell wouldn't want an R suddenly going D on me. What if I'd contributed?
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R-->D Good and just.
D-->R treasonous bastard should be shot.
Oh imaginative, exactly the same as free speech.
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R-->D Good and just.
D-->R treasonous bastard should be shot.
I don't remember them being disgusted with Jim Jeffords coming to their side.
Weren't the DUmmies cheering at the thoughts of Grassley switching parties?
No complaints were heard about Jim Webb or Wes Clark jumping ship.
Oh...wait...
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I don't remember them being disgusted with Jim Jeffords coming to their side.
Weren't the DUmmies cheering at the thoughts of Grassley switching parties?
No complaints were heard about Jim Webb or Wes Clark jumping ship.
Oh...wait...
They weren't real thrilled with Arlen Specter.
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R-->D Good and just.
D-->R treasonous bastard should be shot.
Oh imaginative, exactly the same as free speech.
IMHO, they should all be shot.
Why people hail this as a victory, I will never know. The guy's a lib.
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Honestly, this changes little but it does get the libs all weewee'd up so It makes me happy.
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In principle, though, I don't like the practice and it should be undertaken in only special circumstances. People ought to know what they're getting when they pull the lever. I sure as hell wouldn't want an R suddenly going D on me. What if I'd contributed?
That is true; however, under certain circumstances, it's not the wrong thing to do. It sounds like Mr. Griffith is (a) more conservative than the average Democrat, and (b) very tuned into what's going on in his district, and realizing that it turns out that his constituency is growing more and more conservative as time goes on; under those circumstances, it may very well make good sense to get out ahead of the curve and get to where his constituency is going first so he can be there to greet them.
As far as it going the other way, I've said ever since Specter pulled his little trick that it was better that he jumped ship voluntarily than that we had to spend a lot of time, money, and scarce political capital forcing him out of his seat. Now, instead of having to worry about ruffling the "senior senator's" feathers, we can pick a good candidate in a competitive primary free of Specter-taint, and then well and truly kick his ass so hard his intestines pop out of his mouth.
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They weren't real thrilled with Arlen Specter.
Has anyone ever been thrilled with Arlen Specter?
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That is true; however, under certain circumstances, it's not the wrong thing to do. It sounds like Mr. Griffith is (a) more conservative than the average Democrat, and (b) very tuned into what's going on in his district, and realizing that it turns out that his constituency is growing more and more conservative as time goes on; under those circumstances, it may very well make good sense to get out ahead of the curve and get to where his constituency is going first so he can be there to greet them.
As far as it going the other way, I've said ever since Specter pulled his little trick that it was better that he jumped ship voluntarily than that we had to spend a lot of time, money, and scarce political capital forcing him out of his seat. Now, instead of having to worry about ruffling the "senior senator's" feathers, we can pick a good candidate in a competitive primary free of Specter-taint, and then well and truly kick his ass so hard his intestines pop out of his mouth.
I have to agree about Specter, his move saved the GOP State and National committees yet another battle where they would inevitably choose the stupidest possible course of action and back a left-drifting incumbent purely-nominal Republican over any actual Conservative in the primaries, leaving us with an even-bigger shit sandwich to eat after the general election no matter how it came out, and an ever-more-alienated base.