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08/19/06, 07:39 am
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8.18.06
Sen. Pryor: "Don't ask me to be consistent"
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) is vice-chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - the committee whose official mission is "to elect more Democrats to the United States Senate." Yet, Pryor says he's supporting GOP-endorsed candidate Joe Lieberman (CT) against Democratic nominee Ned Lamont. He's supporting Lieberman at the very same time he acknowledges that Lieberman's continued parroting of RNC talking points is unacceptable. Pryor's public rationale? "Don't ask me to be consistent," he told a group in Arkansas. Right, I forgot - no one should ask Democratic U.S. Senators to be consistent...what were we thinking?
...and some people still wonder why the Democratic Party remains susceptible to GOP charges of flip-flopping and/or standing for nothing.
Posted by David Sirota at 11:09 AM | Link | Discuss (4)
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TAKE ACTION: Support Trade Reform Candidates in 2006
8.17.06
Democracy, shmemocracy
The less accountable to voters, the more in touch with voters?
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National Republican Party Officially Endorses Lieberman for Senate:
Joe Lieberman is no longer the De Facto Republican nominee - he is officially the Republican Party-endorsed candidate for Senate in Connecticut. The GOP's motivation is obvious - they not only are rewarding Lieberman for regurgitating GOP talking points that attack Democrats as terrorist sympathizers, but should he win, they are making a move to get him to support a Republican for Senate leader. In the event that the Senate is very closely split after the 2006 election, a Lieberman vote for the GOP leader could keep control of the Senate in GOP hands.
UPDATE: The NRSC has now tried to backtrack - but Greg Sargent confirms that the NRSC is backing Lieberman.
Posted by David Sirota at 12:37 PM | Link | Discuss (2)
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Hope you take the time to read David Sirota's recent past blogs...............
workingforchange :thumbup:
Sirotablog
Real-world wisdom from outside the beltway:
http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/
8.18.06
Sen. Pryor: "Don't ask me to be consistent"
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) is vice-chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - the committee whose official mission is "to elect more Democrats to the United States Senate." Yet, Pryor says he's supporting GOP-endorsed candidate Joe Lieberman (CT) against Democratic nominee Ned Lamont. He's supporting Lieberman at the very same time he acknowledges that Lieberman's continued parroting of RNC talking points is unacceptable. Pryor's public rationale? "Don't ask me to be consistent," he told a group in Arkansas. Right, I forgot - no one should ask Democratic U.S. Senators to be consistent...what were we thinking?
...and some people still wonder why the Democratic Party remains susceptible to GOP charges of flip-flopping and/or standing for nothing.
Posted by David Sirota at 11:09 AM | Link | Discuss (4)
categories: Progressive In Name Only, Politics ************************************************** ***************
Headlines of a few other Sirotablogs:
TAKE ACTION: Support Trade Reform Candidates in 2006
8.17.06
Democracy, shmemocracy
The less accountable to voters, the more in touch with voters?
************************************************** ***************
National Republican Party Officially Endorses Lieberman for Senate:
Joe Lieberman is no longer the De Facto Republican nominee - he is officially the Republican Party-endorsed candidate for Senate in Connecticut. The GOP's motivation is obvious - they not only are rewarding Lieberman for regurgitating GOP talking points that attack Democrats as terrorist sympathizers, but should he win, they are making a move to get him to support a Republican for Senate leader. In the event that the Senate is very closely split after the 2006 election, a Lieberman vote for the GOP leader could keep control of the Senate in GOP hands.
UPDATE: The NRSC has now tried to backtrack - but Greg Sargent confirms that the NRSC is backing Lieberman.
Posted by David Sirota at 12:37 PM | Link | Discuss (2)
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Hope you take the time to read David Sirota's recent past blogs...............
workingforchange :thumbup: