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| Dems selling out for power |
| 2005-03-12 |
| This pretty much sums it up: Pro-Abortion Shumer is willing to select Anti-Abortion candidates if thats what will get the Dems back into control of the Senate. They are willing to sell out their core principles in their lust for power. Democrats woo abortion opponents for Senate WASHINGTON - The indefatigable senior senator from New York, Charles Schumer, has spent a career crusading for abortion rights. Now as the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Schumer's job is to chip away at the Republican majority of 55. Be advised, its MSNBC, and thus slanted news. The language gives it away: "Pro-Roe" (they use that throughout hte article) is actually pro-abortion. Once again the press slants things and uses language to obfuscate, not clarify, the truth. As an indicator of who is and who isn't for abortion rights, consider a March 12, 2003 vote on a measure offered by Sen. Tom Harkin, D- Iowa, which said that the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade "secures an important constitutional right" and should not be overturned. The only current Democratic members of the Senate to vote against Harkin's measure were Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, while 45 Democrats, including Schumer, voted for it. Schumer and other Democratic leaders aren't changing the party's orthodoxy on Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide, but are accommodating candidates such as Casey (PA Senate candidate) who could begin the long march back to 51. Democrats now hold only 44 seats in the Senate, the fewest since 1931, so they're seeking the strongest candidates they can, even if such candidates are doctrinally abhorrent to abortion rights groups. In addition to Casey, Schumer is also trying to recruit anti-Roe Rep. Jim Langevin to run against pro-Roe Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island. One gets the feeling that these people would sell out their own mothers if thats what it took to get back into power. Lunatic fringe opposition to the liberation of Iraq, hoping NKorea and Iran turn into disasters for the US - and now selling out their own principles. The mask is off. These are power mongers who do not have the best interests of the US in mind - only their own grab at power is important to them. All the more reason to get out and work hard to oppose these monsters. |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #3 They have a track record for taking their constituency groups for granted. Organized labor and urban-dwelling minorities, to name two. "Where ya gonna go? To the Republicans?" they sneer. One day, enough of them will, and the Democrat Party as it is constituted today will pass away. Until then the Dems will continue to serve their one Overriding Core Principle: "We deserve to be in power." |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-03-12 8:43:00 PM |
| #2 This suggests that the Deaniacs and Soros-On have so much influence that the only future for moderates is to do an "end run". Unfortunately, if one sleeps with dogs, you end up with Republicans. (No insult to fleas implied.) |
| Posted by: john 2005-03-12 4:51:48 PM |
| #1 It's a effort that is destined to fail. That is, their tactic is for the dominant radical wing to *permit* moderates to get elected. However, the republicans can offer the democrat moderates what the radicals cannot, largesse and real power. The former offer is only for one day, election day; but the latter offer is for the six years in between. It will not take a rocket scientist to figure out that if they individually build their power base over the course of six years, they won't *need* the radical's duplicity. And eventually, the moderates will dominate the party. The republicans can spend their money in a focused way, targeting the most radical democrats; while the national radical democrat rank-and-file will bitterly resent the party giving support to democrat moderates. Eventually, I suspect that it will give rise to a strong bloc of DINOs (democrats in name only). |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-03-12 3:14:07 PM |