L-I-A-R

Is that the word?

Panderer?
Hypocrite?

untrustworthy

Turncoat?

phony

feckless
because *∞§•$%&*@, while accurate, would be impolitic

Politician?

Ding.

Hiya, TexBetsy.

Unemployed.

We can hope.
Wait ’til next year!

Mice working for their campaign donation cheese.

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Politician? Thanks Jane!

How about “defeated”?

Boxturtle (would have added bitter, but you wanted one word)

A far-left Democrat according to GovTrack’s analysis of bill sponsorship.

http://www.govtrack.us/congres…..?id=400062

But hey, let’s get her out of office since she is choosing to support Brack Obama, Joe Biden Hillary Clinton and the troops right? I bet if she didn’t, that headline would play well in a GOP leaning district. But who cares about her support for women’s rights and a myriad of other progressive issues right? She doesn’t drink the Cindy Sheehan/Code Pink kool-aid.

Your support for women’s rights is impressive. Thank you so much for such commitment to our cause.

Can you provide links to other things you’ve written in the past that express these sentiments? As a woman in a largely male-dominated blogosphere, I find that many only care about our rights when they want to throw something in our faces and demagogue one of their pet issues.

It’s great to have support from someone such as yourself who freely speaks on our behalf. Please, do let us know where we can find more of your work.

Since when does a citizen who is interested in political discourse have to have a “body of work” or “writings” Jane? It seems to me what you are attempting to do here is to suggest I am a demagogue and question my motives because of my stance on Afghanistan and the release of the photos. What am I throwing in your face?

I happen to believe Lois Capps is a very valuable Democrat and according to GovTrack a “far-left leaning Democrat”. She is not only a fervent supporter of woman’s reproductive rights, she is also right-headed in my opinion on a myriad of issues that are important. I don’t believe in “discarding” someone based on one issue. You already know my position on the issue. I respect your point-of-view and you should respect mine — or at least the right to express it without demonization.

I will not avoid your question though. First of all I think there was a subtle and unfortunate sub-text in what you wrote perhaps alluding that a man in the blogosphere has to have an agenda to be supporting of woman’s issues. I have always been supportive of women’s issues politically. I believe in equality in every respect and I especially believe that no one has the legal or moral right to tell a woman what to do with her body. I think the decision whether to end a pregnancy should be a private one — between a woman, her health care provider and her spiritual advisor if there is one.

There are many other issues I have written to friends and family about expressing deeply felt progressive views.

…let’s get her out of office…

Yes, lets.
About the single most urgent issue of our time – funding an unwinnable, terrible destabilizing, and pointless war in the absence of contingencies – Representative Capps vowed to do her duty. And she didn’t. She failed. She bailed.
I personally like Lois, but that doesn’t mean an irredeemable betrayal should be applauded.

But that is beside the point.
Obama is not Liberal. He is not Progressive. He has never to my knowledge said he is either, and while you devote slavish praise on him, some of us do not. If you have learned anything in your short time on earth, you should have at least gotten this memo: Politicians, even the blessed ones, will not do anything that they are not asked to do, provoked to do, electorally threatened to do. So if we have to send him signals through his Congressional caucus, (because he isn’t listening), we should. Your Obamagasm is entertaining as far as it goes, but it says a lot about your upbringing, ma’am. You might want to send fewer signals.

You are willing to settle. That is not true of everyone. Not with the President, not with the Congress, not with the courts, and not with ourselves.

Prove it. Prove that one time, ever, you have ever done one thing in support of a woman’s right to choose. Link to a comment you’ve made somewhere in which you’ve stood up for the womens’ rights you now champion so fiercely. Prove that this isn’t the first time you’ve ever given a damn.

A comment. A simple comment. They all have links, you know. You’ve left many here at FDL. If you’re such a good liberal and you feel free to preach to us on how valuable Rep. Capps is to something that “we” all care about so much, prove this isn’t just something you’re invoking so as to sneer at people who don’t agree with you about something else entirely.

I guess you got me Jane. I disagree with you on Afghanistan and the photos and I not a professional political writer or a blogger with a stream of comments on woman’s issues so I must be a fraud right? I comment on issues that I passionately disagree with the writer on. Women’s reproductive rights are not the only issue I support — I commented on it becauase of the Lois Capps reference. As a matter of fact I never said that was my top priority although it is among them. I also am not a woman and any writing I have done has usually been on other progressive issues that I may know more about. I have written plenty on many issues.