Comments on: CALL NOW: Tell Democrats Stand Up To Rahm On Triggers at 7pm Tonight

By: viejolex1

viejolex1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:08:31 +0000

In response to Ghostof911@9: No one is questioning the dual citizenship thing because one would immediately be accused of being an anti-senmite, besides which I read somewhere Rahm had given up his Israeli status. I personally wish he would re-up for another stint with the Israeli army and take Lieberman with him. So there.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:58:02 +0000

I’m not sure what Rahm might think we would get in exchange for pulling back on a public option. It ought to be an interesting meeting.

By: Quasigrue

Quasigrue — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:23:47 +0000

We already pulled the trigger.

We pulled the trigger when we elected Obama. That should have been the signal that we wanted the meaningful reform he promised, that the status quo was no longer workable.

By: PublicTakeover

PublicTakeover — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:08:13 +0000

Personal interest: need to be liked by those with status

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:33:30 +0000

I’ll quote Jame Hamsher on the subject:

Note that they (Wall Street) don’t take Obama’s statement to contradict what Rahm said. Neither do I.

pressure works - to get the President to utter some pacifying platitudes!

By: danps

danps — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:35:47 +0000

I just called Tim Ryan’s office. Again. More unresponsiveness. Again. I’m starting to get undiplomatic with the staffers answering the phone. Someone might need to talk me down a little.

By: wohjr

wohjr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:16:47 +0000

I want a progressive party. Why not now? If not here, then where?

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:12:32 +0000

Sporkovat, if we were as powerless as you say, then why did Obama interrupt his Russian trip to try and smooth things over? Pressure works.

(Besides, a bunch of us tried Nader’s heightening the contradictions trick in 2000 — which is why Gore lost seven times as many voters to the Greens as Bush did to Buchanan — and that’s why we’re in the messes we’re now in.)

By: greenwarrior

greenwarrior — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:03:11 +0000

whenever i needed or wanted anything from congress while lamar smith was the rep from my district, i still called doggett anyway because i knew that he was the one who was really my rep.

his vote on the energy bill underwhelmed me, but he usually does vote the way i’d want him to.

By: tejanarusa

tejanarusa — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:57:41 +0000

LOL. not.
He is polite. So are his staff people. Then he just goes ahead and does his Rethug thing.
He knows he doesn’t need dems or libruls to get elected. Sigh.

I get nostalgic for the days when Barney Frank was my young, newly elected Congressman, replacing the equally liberal Father Drinan. (before the newly-elected Pope JPII told him to quit)