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    Molly Ivins: Enough of the D.C. Dems

    Enough of the D.C. Dems

    By Molly Ivins

    03/08/06 "The Progressive" -- Mah fellow progressives, now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party. I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there, and that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    I will not be supporting Senator Clinton because: a) she has no clear stand on the war and b) Terri Schiavo and flag-burning are not issues where you reach out to the other side and try to split the difference. You want to talk about lowering abortion rates through cooperation on sex education and contraception, fine, but don’t jack with stuff that is pure rightwing firewater.

    I can’t see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can’t even see straight.

    Look at their reaction to this Abramoff scandal. They’re talking about “a lobby reform package.” We don’t need a lobby reform package, you dimwits, we need full public financing of campaigns, and every single one of you who spends half your time whoring after special interest contributions knows it. The Abramoff scandal is a once in a lifetime gift—a perfect lesson on what’s wrong with the system being laid out for people to see. Run with it, don’t mess around with little patches, and fix the system.

    As usual, the Democrats have forty good issues on their side and want to run on thirty-nine of them. Here are three they should stick to:

    1) Iraq is making terrorism worse; it’s a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.

    2) Full public financing of campaigns so as to drive the moneylenders from the halls of Washington.

    3) Single-payer health insurance.

    Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the sheer gutlessness and spinelessness of the Democratic performance. The party is still cringing at the thought of being called, ooh-ooh, “unpatriotic” by a bunch of rightwingers.

    Take “unpatriotic” and shove it. How dare they do this to our country? “Unpatriotic”? These people have ruined the American military! Not to mention the economy, the middle class, and our reputation in the world. Everything they touch turns to dirt, including Medicare prescription drugs and hurricane relief.

    This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.

    Who are these idiots talking about Warner of Virginia? Being anodyne is not sufficient qualification for being President. And if there’s nobody in Washington and we can’t find a Democratic governor, let’s run Bill Moyers, or Oprah, or some university president with ethics and charisma.

    What happens now is not up to the has-beens in Washington who run this party. It is up to us. So let’s get off our butts and start building a progressive movement that can block the nomination of Hillary Clinton or any other candidate who supposedly has “all the money sewed up.”

    I am tired of having the party nomination decided before the first primary vote is cast, tired of having the party beholden to the same old Establishment money.

    We can raise our own money on the Internet, and we know it. Howard Dean raised $42 million, largely on the web, with a late start when he was running for President, and that ain’t chicken feed. If we double it, it gives us the lock on the nomination. So let’s go find a good candidate early and organize the shit out of our side.
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    Re: Molly Ivins: Enough of the D.C. Dems

    Molly,
    Haven't you forgotten someone?

    Dennis Kucinich on War & Peace


    • 90 days to bring US troops home and rotate the UN troops in. (Dec 2003)
    • Let go of Iraqi oil and let the UN in. (Dec 2003)
    • Let the UN rebuild Iraq and develop its governance. (Nov 2003)
    • Stop building Israeli wall; start rebuilding infrastructure. (Nov 2003)
    • Barred from CIA briefing, but considers them misleading. (Oct 2003)
    • No on $87B for Iraq-bring the troops home before it's $245B. (Sep 2003)
    • Have UN handle all Iraqi oil contracts. (Sep 2003)
    • $87B to "protect troops" is cynical; end the war. (Sep 2003)
    • End Bush's blunder: Bring US troops home & bring UN in. (Sep 2003)
    • Supports Palestinian security and Israeli security. (Aug 2003)
    • War in Iraq was wrong, and isolated the US. (Aug 2003)
    • Establish a cabinet Department of Peace and Nonviolence. (Jun 2003)
    • Question Bush's truthfulness on Iraq. (Jun 2003)
    • No credible evidence for offensive against Iraq. (Sep 2002)
    • America should not be the world's policeman. (Sep 2002)
    • We authorized a response to 9/11, not war without end. (Feb 2002)
    • Voted NO on authorizing military force in Iraq. (Oct 2002)
    • Voted YES on disallowing the invasion of Kosovo. (May 1999)
    Dennis Kucinich on Health Care
    • Single-payer isn't in platform because it offends donors. (Feb 2004)
    • Not socialism, but a change from predatory capitalism. (Feb 2004)
    • Not-for-profit system differs from Hillary's pro-HMO system. (Jan 2004)
    • Tax employers to pay for single-payer plan. (Jan 2004)
    • Rally to elect a new Congress to pass new health care deal. (Nov 2003)
    • I'm not selling insurance-switch to not-for-profit system. (Nov 2003)
    • Single-payer for alternative medicine, mental health, more. (Sep 2003)
    • 7.7% tax to pay for full coverage. (Sep 2003)
    • Health is a right, not a privilege. (Sep 2003)
    • Take profit motive out of health care. (Sep 2003)
    • Insurance companies do not heal people; practitioners do. (Aug 2003)
    • Seniors forced to choose between medicine and food. (Aug 2003)
    • Prescription for America: ceiling on drug company profits. (Aug 2003)
    • Regulate prescription drug prices like utility rates. (Aug 2003)
    • Medicare for All: universal single-payer national system. (Aug 2003)
    • Private companies charge 18% admin & Medicare charges 3%. (May 2003)
    • Raise taxes for guaranteed, single payer, universal care. (May 2003)
    • Voted NO on limiting medical malpractice lawsuits to $250,000 damages. (May 2004)
    • Voted NO on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. (Nov 2003)
    • Voted YES on allowing reimportation of prescription drugs. (Jul 2003)
    Dennis Kucinich on Government Reform
    • Public campaign financing yields to public control. (Nov 2003)
    • Public financing for elections. (Aug 2003)
    • Register on election day; more voting rights enhancements. (Aug 2003)
    • Give DC residents proper representation. (Aug 2003)
    • Debate reform opens the door to new candidates. (Aug 2003)
    • Implement Instant Runoff Voting in US. (Aug 2003)
    • Will not accept corporate PAC money. (Aug 2003)
    • Private campaign financing leads to private control of gov't. (Aug 2003) https://www.issues2000.org/Dennis_Ku...Foreign_Policy
    [QUOTE=Barry]Enough of the D.C. Dems

    By Molly Ivins

    03/08/06 "The Progressive" -- Mah fellow progressives, now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party. I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there, and that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton.
    Here are three they should stick to:

    1) Iraq is making terrorism worse; it’s a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.

    2) Full public financing of campaigns so as to drive the moneylenders from the halls of Washington.

    3) Single-payer health insurance.
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