Senate Dems hit suck-up overdrive
They’re in the zone, folks. Auto-pilot knees-on-the-floor Bush fellation overdrive, don’t let the tempest in the teapot judicial quibble fool you, these guys and gals couldn’t opposition-party their way out of a wet paper bag. Tellingly, their leader Harry Reid of Nevada is an avid pro-lifer himself. Foxes guarding chicken coops, and not even getting a decent cut of the McNuggets.
Speaking of foul fowl, how have these turkeys voted of late?
On the Bush $82,260,000,000 (not a typo) supplemental war funding, we note a vote of 99-0, with Dem Daniel Inoyue of Hawaii - one of the fellows who supported drilling in the ANWR - "sticking it to the Man" by failing to vote at all. "Holy totalitarian agit-prop, Batman, even the Soviets had a dissenting vote in the Politburo every 5 year plan or so!"
A relative roar of opposition was sounded against the Bush appointment of John D. Negroponte as new Director of National Intelligence, 98-2. Senators Wyden (OR) and Harkin (IA) led the, um … charge… in all likelihood becasue Negroponte is a vicious bastard supportive of Reagan-era Central American death squads who figured in the Iran-Contra scandal. His service to Mammon and the worst excesses of racist butchery in the service of capital as a brutal spook extends back to Vietnam.
Voting with the Dubya on both counts? Senators John Kerry (MA) and John Edwards (NC), with whom I believe some of you readers are familiar. [Looking to the future, Hillary Rodham Clinton (supposedly NY) naturally voted with the President as well.]
May 4th, 2005 at 7:20 am
hey, minor quibble: Edwards didn’t vote to confirm Negroponte because he’s not in the Senate anymore. He’s now running the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC and working on raising the minimum wage through his One America Committee PAC. We all know his voting record when he was in the Senate was far from perfect (Iraq war, PATRIOT act, etc.) but man, can that guy give a speech about tax policy or what? (Check it out at http://www.oneamericacommittee.com/new-school.asp)
May 4th, 2005 at 8:33 am
That link’s not working for me; could you repost? Thanks.
May 4th, 2005 at 10:00 am
Erg, it attached the ) to the end. The link’s http://www.oneamericacommittee.org/new-school.asp
The speech is for some reason very badly punctuated, but I love “If you hate the income tax, blame Abraham Lincoln.”
May 4th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Of course you can’t really attach the federal income tax to Lincoln, who died almost 7 decades before it went into effect.
This speech, in parts, sounds like Nader’s during the campiagn. Pity that we always get this sort of thing from Democrats after they leave the election arena.
Most interesting in this capacity would be taking a look at the 2004 Nader campaign statements on federal taxes:
http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php?cid=7
http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php?cid=115
… with the same from the Kerry/Edwards campaign:
… which appears to be M.I.A.! It’s gone. Ah well. But we do have this, which is rather non-specific and fails to be inspiring:
http://www.issues2000.org/Tax_Reform.htm#Headlines
I especially like the Kerry claim: “I supported or voted for tax cuts over 600 times.” (Oct 2004) That’ll show ‘em!