I can't keep track anymore. We need a forum for being sold out...

[arendt]

we could call it:

Sold Out by Democrats and Other Followers of Finance or, for short, SOD OFF.
(A marvelous British/Irish phrase that goes FU even one better.)

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Obligatory Disclaimer: I will support the Democratic nominee no matter who it is.

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Having said that, there is a deep and building anger that being loyal to the Democratic Party is a one-way street. That the politicians who beat us up to be loyal are, themselves, not loyal to the historic values of the party or to the people who continue to vote for them.

These days, its not clear if they took an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution or their contributions.

As I said in the title, I simply cannot keep track of the number of occasions where we have been sold out. I mean, to just talk about the FISA act lets the perpetrators off too easily. Senator Dodd killed immunity back last year. That was one sellout averted. But, Harry Reid put it back on the table. Can someone total up the number of different procedural votes and other instances of blatant sellouts on the FISA act and telecom immunity alone? Ditto for cutting off funding for the Occupation, for saying yes to every "supplementary" budget without a fight, without any kind of pressure on the GOP.

We could set up the forum so that it takes, say, 100 votes for something to be an official sellout. When that occurs, the sellout gets a number and goes into a permanent list that is pinned to the top of the forum. Then we could have a "sellout rating", which would be the number of items in the list that Congress-critter X voted in favor of.

Some might call the forum a "dungeon"; but I think it would be a useful resource for getting the corruption in this party out in the open.

What do you think?

arendt