“It’s time for Senate Democrats to show a little backbone and stand up to George W. Bush and the corporate lobbyists. They should do everything in their power — including joining Senator Dodd’s efforts to filibuster this legislation — to stop retroactive immunity. The Constitution should not be for sale at any price.”

Found over at FDL, with yet another shitty comment thread. Edwards is putting this on Obama and Clinton. They’re senators, and can help with the Dodd fillibuster. Of course, they’ll probably find some superficial TV or radio gig to distract them, while the real heart and soul of the country is up for debate.

It’s Bogg’s blog, but I wish he was still at the old digs. However, I love his writing too much to not read him.

* Disclaimer: I really love Christy Hardin Smith’s writing, I greatly respect Jane Hamsher’s accomplishments, and I have nothing but admiration for FDL stalwarts such as Marcy Wheeler, TRex, Pachachutec, etc. I know that logical adults do not blame the leaders for the shortcomings of their followers. And yet, so much of the commentary on FDL is the very exemplar of why “liberal” has become so tattered a banner beneath which to march!

Couldn’t have typed it better myself. FDL really is a bastion of liberal indignation; a place where policy and ideology meet. The writing really is excellent.

With that said, the comments at FDL suck. For one, why the Hell do you have to register to comment over there? I tried registering with a fake email address (Mailinator), but that didn’t take. For two, I refuse to read a comment thread beyond anyone that posts “first,” which means I rarely read them anyway.

Of course such a challenge would probably pre-empt Edwards’ chances, such as they might be, for the underticket; but he’s had a taste of that dogs’ dinner already and might not want another helping, after all. I am enough of a pessimist to believe that some considerable percentage of my fellow not-Reichtard Americans are liable to go into their voting booths, possibly as early as Super-Duper Tuesday, and realize their hand will not punch the button for a candidate short a Y chromosome or long on the melanin, so it’s too early to write off the Progressive White Man’s campaign in any case. I am a believer: Someday, sooner or later, the candidate who gets the Oval Office will be the one with whom I’ve fallen in love. Hasn’t happened in 30-plus years, and yet I keep showing up every fourth Tuesday in November.

* Disclaimer: I really love Christy Hardin Smith’s writing, I greatly respect Jane Hamsher’s accomplishments, and I have nothing but admiration for FDL stalwarts such as Marcy Wheeler, TRex, Pachachutec, etc. I know that logical adults do not blame the leaders for the shortcomings of their followers. And yet, so much of the commentary on FDL is the very exemplar of why “liberal” has become so tattered a banner beneath which to march!

I don’t want to hold my nose before voting in November.

I’m tired of a leadership that won’t lead, and a hierarchy in the party which is too fucking timid — they should let someone actually lead or get out of the goddamn doorway.

We’re the ones (The People; remember us?) who keep paying for Reid and Pelosi’s necrophiliac style of politics.

Who was?

Maybe someone said it in another thread, and I hate to sound like a nihilist, but I fear we are truly fucked.

Though, hey, that “short man in search of a balcony” sure took a dive, huh? (warning, Tweety clip).

At least we’ll always have that to look back on fondly.

Not to oversimplify this, or to extol the virtues of pseudoDems like Hill and Barry, but does anyone remember the ass-thumping Edwards gave Amanda Marcotte?

And Melissa McEwan.

That was the big reason I ended up endorsing Hillary.

also, doug watts first comment at the top of teh thread=brilliant. i too seek such retroactive immunity.

i’m guessing here, but if you asked 99.1 percent of voters as they enter a primary voting booth what their feelings on on retroactive immunity for telecoms, they would respond “huh?” and then worry about teh gays or taxes or choice. or guns.

The DLC must die.

Word.

From what I see, he is a much better choice than either Obama, who’s interested in comprimise for the sake of political peace (and that way lies madness) or Clinton, who’s int the DLC and business interests up past her neck.

He’s the reason why I find myself in perpetual arguments about trusting government more than businesses. Tragicaly, the folks I’m usually fighting with are usually other lefties who haven’t thought about it much. Well, them and libertarians – but they haven’t thought about much of anything anyways, so they’re no challenge.

One favour – can Kucinich be VP, please? What with all the power the VP office has laid claim to under this administration, the right person there can now get one hell of a lot done…

And they put up with it because most Democratic voters realize that the vast majority of Democrats are at worst disappointing capitulators aiding and abetting corruption and some right wing policies, whereas Republicans are a gang of destructive, nightmarish, nation- and world-ending freaks.

Perhaps most Democratic voters, like most employees, would rather choose between “not great” and “nightmarishly bad”, and don’t need to hear someone lecturing them for not having the amount of influence over the Democratic Party that billionaires do.

No. The plain fact is that most Democratic voters don’t care about jack-shit except winning elections. Like their Republican brothers, Democrats do not have the fucking spine to buck their masters and betters. They’re content to drool over some born-agin-pwogwessive chewtoy like Edwards until it’s time to pull the lever for Hillary.