Unhappy Liberals
Ultra-liberal blogger Jane Hamsher is feeling ripped-off:
“After avoiding direct questions for months, [Congresswoman] Donna Edwards signed the July 31 letter saying she would vote against any health care bill that didn’t have a public option. I caught up with her at Netroots Nation and she asked me to have a fundraiser for all the members of Congress who signed the letter.
“Carrots, not sticks,” she said.
Blogs across the country came together and did just that — raising $430,000 to thank 65 members of Congress for promising to hold the line at something 80% of the public wanted.
Donna Edwards said the same thing to Cenk Uygur on the Young Turks: “at the very minimum, a strong, robust public option has to be part of an ultimate, ultimate plan.”
Paul Jay of The Real News reported “Rep. Edwards to insist on public option.”
And as she told the Washington Post:
I’ve joined with 60-some of my colleagues who signed a letter to the president and to our leadership saying very clearly that if there’s not a public option in the final bill then I won’t support that bill.
They concluded, “In short, the public option remains a line in the sand for Edwards.”
Then she suddenly caught the #Rahmflu. Less than two weeks after the fundraiser she was equivocating: she “declined to speculate on whether she would vote against a conference bill without a strong public option….’That’s a long way down the line,’ Edwards said. ‘I am talking about the House vote.’”
Rep. Edwards should not have asked people to lead fundraisers of support for members of Congress who pledge their word if she’s not prepared to lead those members to honor it.”
Those 65 members of Congress should be ashamed of themselves. They made a pledge, raised money based on that pledge, and then went back on the pledge.
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March 16th, 2010 at 9:57 am
“Ultra-liberal”
I guess just plain “Liberal” has lost it’s pejorative power, and must now be amended with modifying prefixes?
Here are some suggestions for new terms when this too becomes all used up:
“Mega-Liberal”
“Super-Liberal”
“Super-Duper-Mega-Liberal”
“Ultra-Mega-Liberal”
March 16th, 2010 at 10:57 am
“Super-Duper-Mega-Liberal”
Guilty.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Ms. Edwards is not a Liberal in a classic sens: Rather, she is a Progressive; that is she believes that the government can run our lives better that we can; she believes that government can and should perfect society.
She’s also having her cake and eating it, too.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:02 am
The word “liberal” has been demonized, but there remains considerable work to demonize the word “progressive”. Not to say that the right wing isn’t up to the task. The word “progressive” does not trip so easily off the tongue in a sneer, as does “liberal”. Moreover, the root “progress” is difficult to attack, who doesn’t want to progress? No matter, the talking points will gain momentum, and we will learn the various conflations, such as progressives were behind eugenics, Marxism, etc.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:08 am
progressive neo marxist
or
GDLC
March 16th, 2010 at 11:56 am
I guess just plain “Liberal” has lost it’s pejorative power, and must now be amended with modifying prefixes?
Yes.
Jane Hamsher is nutty-liberal. Although she is really a progressive. And, if a=b and b=c then a=c.
Because of the irony.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
such as progressives were behind eugenics
If someone calls themselves a progressive and then proposes eugenic practices as a way to provide progress to humanity, would that be progressives behind eugenics?
Well, meet the late President of the United States Woodrow Wilson and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.
You may now resume denial.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
So that means y’all are okay with liberal politicians taking your money for promising something other than what they intend to deliver?
Does that mean you really are the “Useful Idiots” of whom V. I. Lenin spoke?
March 16th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
“The word “liberal” has been demonized, …
Considering that the TV Networks, Public Radio, and all Major Newspapers with the sole exception of the Wall Street Journal are run by Liberals/Progressives, just how did that happen? Unless the “Liberals” ruined the word by association.
Fox News came along after “Liberal” became a dirty word. Do you wan t to argue that Talk Radio is so much more powerful than all of the other media?
March 16th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
McRock, Pluto, L. & Jake in full whining mode….”The word “liberal” has been demonized blah, blah, blah”). Good times. Melt the Congressional switchboard.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
LarryD, it’s just so jarring for the poor leftlings to hear a dissenting voice…
March 16th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
full whining mode
Yes, the seven posts just prior to this one. Nutter quadraphonic.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
So much Wingnut projection in this thread.
it’s just so jarring for the poor leftlings to hear a dissenting voice…
Tell that to the Dixie Chicks.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
We already did, Jake… and they still can’t finger out the tune…
We didn’t tar and feather them–an old Democrat tradition–we just stopped buying their CDs…
You apparently haven’t caught on either.
With Democrat Majorities in both Houses of Congress, and a Democrat in the White House, any lack of “Progress” is due to Democrats–who apparently all like taking your money under false pretenses and laughing all the way to the bank while you poor benighted heathens moan about hopey-changey nonsesnse that never was, ain’t now, and never will be…
March 16th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
we just stopped buying their CDs…after complete and utter public meltdown
Fixed that for you.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
I don’t know why we are objecting to this healthcare bill? Cost are going to go down like 3,000% according to the President today. And L., you were spot on with your comment that the Founding Fathers didn’t have e-mail. Can’t argue with insight like that!