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Originally Posted by Rickypt
That was f*king hilarious!
This lifelong Dem is going to reregister as an independent if they don't stop Alito. I have some problems with the Greens, especially locally, so I'm not quite ready to join their party. Instead, I will cast each vote on a case-by-case basis. Barbara Boxer will always get my vote, but I may very well vote 3rd party if the 2008 Dem candidate is someone like Hillary who seems to have no firm principles. Or I might just vote for McCain out of respect for the fact that he actually has principles and sticks with them
Thing about the Dems is that they have been lame pretty much since I became politically aware. Their only big success in recent history is Clinton and that's only because he is such a master politician.
I remember dancing on Castro Street all night long after the '92 election. Dems were going to be in control and change was coming. Two months later, we got "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and a codification of the HIV immigration ban. A year later, national health care was dead for a zillion years, even though Dems controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. Four years later, Clinton signs DOMA. Not to mention welfare reform and ending public benefits for immigrants.
Dems suck even when they are in control.
Obama is going to disappoint us because he wants to be president. These guys aren't basing their votes and action on how they really feel; they are all calculated on future political races.
This country is too diverse politically not to have a several party system. I'd be much happier being part of a small, but truly oppostional party, than having to go protest people from my own party to teach them what it means to be a Democrat.
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I LOVE The Daily Show! They never cease to have me falling on the floor in hysterics! Did you see last night, when they showed Bush getting distracted by a camera that was coming loose from the ceiling? He'd stop talking and just stare at it with his dumb George look. Then John Stewart follows up with: "If it had been a shiny object, we would have lost him for weeks!"
I need to find out more about the Greens... to be honest, I don't really know a lot about the party. But if this is the best fight the Dems can give, then I'm done with them.