Almost All The Cowardly Senate Democrats Join The GOP In Bolstering Hate Talk Radio And Banning Gun Control
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All but 11 Democrats join Repugs in validating Hate Talk Radio
The headline at The Hill this afternoon was well-chosen: Senate Tunes Out Fairness Doctrine, 87-11. In the run-up to this afternoon's vote on granting representation to Washington, DC's residents, the spineless, craven almost-as-bad-as-Republicans Democrats couldn't throw enough compromises the GOP's way. I'm surprised the Republicans didn't get them to seat Norm Coleman. What they did do-- after stopping the de facto filibuster of 34 obstructions on Tuesday-- went a lot further than just throwing the Republicans an extra vote by creating another Mormon seat. Today they dealt with 3 ugly amendments to S. 160-- the 2 of which passed will hopefully be stripped out by the House in conference. The first was something by Geert Wilder's host Jon Kyl (R-AZ) asking that the District of Columbia be absorbed by Maryland; anything rather than create a Hose seat for another African-American! Neither the residents of DC nor Maryland want this and the Senate, sanely, rejected it 67-30, every single Klan Republican, except Jeff Sessions (R-AL) voting for it, joined, disgracefully by Tim Johnson (D-SD) who may have been suffering a relapse. Corker hid in the men's room so he wouldn't have to vote. After Kyl's silliness was defeated Dick Durban offered an amendment encouraging "diversity in communication media ownership, and to ensure that the public airwaves are used in the public interest." Sounds good, right? It was just so much hot air with little meaning and just some cover for what was to happen next. Durbin's airy-fairy amendment passed 57-41 (party-line). Twenty minutes later they voted on Jim DeMint's "We Love Limbaugh" amendment which seeks to prevent the FCC from promulgating the fairness doctrine. Only 11 Democrats-- and obviously no Republicans-- voted for fairness. Isn't it great that the Democrats have such an overwhelming majority in Congress? Imagine if they could pass a spine around. There were 87 votes against fairness, all the Republicans and a sickening list of Democrats that went way beyond the Landrieux and Nelsons and Pryors. Here's the list of the only members of the Senate with the right to call themselves Democrats today:
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Tim Johnson (D-SD), partially making up for the KKK support earlier
John Kerry (D-MA)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
The Democrats were almost as pathetic in their response to John Ensign's guns, guns, guns amendment, which would strip DC of it's gun control laws. It passed 62-36, every Republican but Dick Lugar (IN) being joined by Max Baucus (MT), Evan Bayh (IN), Mark Begich (AK), Michael Bennet (CO), Robert Byrd (WV), Bob Casey (PA), Kent Conrad (ND), Byron Dorgan (ND), Russ Feingold (WI), Kay Hagan (NC), Tim Johnson (SD), Mary Landrieu (LA), Blanche Lincoln (AR), Claire McCaskill (MO), Ben Nelson (NE), Mark Pryor (AR), Harry Reid (NV), John Tester (MT), both Udalls (NM & CO), Mark Warner (VA) and Jim Webb (VA).
You know, no one is asking them to ban guns in their own gun-lovin' states. This was about the citizens of Washington, DC, where the only thing to hunt walks upright on two legs, wanting sane gun control laws and these pompous assholes voting against their rights of self governance. It's what I would expect of Johnny Isakson and Richard Burr, but not Russ Feingold and Tom Udall. (Feingold, usually one of my favorite senators, requested an endorsement from Blue America this week. Remind me of this vote if you see him appear on our endorsement list anytime in 2009.)
In the end, all that compromising with the Devil passed the bill, 61-37, almost all the Republicans voting against it anyway, including, of course, the two who got their unconstitutional amendments passed, Ensign and DeMint. All the Dems but Baucus voted yes and they were joined by Collins, Hatch, Lugar, Snowe, Specter and Voinovich. In effect they didn't gain a single wingnut vote after playing footsie with them all day. Yecchhh. I need a hot shower.
Wrong time for Senate Democrats to sign on to the Republican agenda for failure:
Labels: DC, fairness doctrine, gun control, spineless Democrats
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 7:00 PM
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Is it "Hate Talk Radio" because you don't agree with it?
Do you think your Left Wing agenda buddies at MSNBC and NPR are really in the love and peace business after the smear campaign they did on the GOP in this last election?
Have you ever listened to the bile that comes out of Keith Olbermann's spews out his pie hole? What happened? Bill O'Reilly beat him up in the fifth grade and take his milk money?
I really don't understand your left wing Socialist buddy and unfortunately one of my senators, Dickie Durbin very cowardly slipped in an amendment today that they want to make a law that the government, again THE GOVERNMENT check and moderate radio stations to make sure they are staying in the "public interest" whatever the F that means. If that passes (I have no doubt it will) that means Station Managers, Program Directors, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Michael Savage will all be dragged onto the hill to face a committee to determine if they serve the damn "public interest". If this comes to pass in the end we may as well call the place Venezuela North and have Chavez fly in and take over.
That is what is at stake here gents.
FG, your argument does not hold water.
Expressing outrage at an administration that trashes our Constitution (as did Bush) is not equal to hate... and is not on the same playing field as "I HOPE HE FAILS" and "OBAMA, the MAGIC NEGRO."
Really, what do you get paid to troll the liberal blogs and feign outrage?
Jacqrat: The Rush comment "I hope he fails" was grossly misquoted as is most stuff as that is one of the Mission Statements of the extreme left. He actually said "I hope his policies fail". His socialist, lefty policies. Yes, I to hope the SOCIALIST POLICIES of the Obama administration all go down like the Titanic.
As for the story of "Obama the Magical Negro". David Ehrenstein, a writer who happens to be black and liberal, wrote an opinion piece in March 2007 in the Los Angeles Times called "Obama the 'Magic Negro.'"
He argued that whites, according to sociologists, stereotype blacks as "dangerous." But whites consider Obama accessible, likeable and "benign." This, according to Ehrenstein, explains Obama's "crossover" appeal.
I do not get paid anything. I could be writing in other conservative blogs like "Townhall.com" and "Little Green Footballs" on my laptop while sucking on my second double latte at Starbucks as I suspect you are doing now. But that is too easy. That is preaching to the choir. It gets boring very quickly. Why don't you try writing in some of the conservative blogs yourself sometime or are you afraid they may have a point and you might actually learn something?...
Feral!
GOOD to see you!; too much preaching to the same choir otherwise.
Hope you have recovered from Grandpa Fred's crash and burn and looks like he has a clear shot in 2012!
Usually I agree with your posts but I don't think I can here....
Feingold makes one "bad" (I personally think it was good) vote and it erases all the good things that he's done? How soon we forget.....
I'd like to remind you that Tom Perriello and Eric Massa campaigned on pro-2nd Amendment platforms.
You also endorsed Mark Begich, who campaigned on a pro 2nd Amendment platform and voted for this amendment.
Does this *one* vote automatically put them on the level of your average Blue Dog hack? I don't really think that's fair at all....
Let me be clear about Feingold. He's still an excellent senator. This is far from the first time he's screwed up but he's still much better than most of them.
As for the cult of gun worshippers, we endorsed loads of pro-gun candidates (you mentioned Perriello and Massa but there was also Begich and Tester). If the folks in these "hunting districts" want guns, that doesn't bother me much-- although automatic weapons seems like overkill. My problem is imposing that ethos on densely packed urban centers. What works in Nome and Helena isn't what works in L.A., Manhattan or... DC.
I'll be rooting for Feingold to win his Senate re-election and maybe by 2010 will even want to help him raise money. But not this year.
Socialist policies. That alone proves you know nothing about Obama.
The radio airwaves are supposed to be owned by the PUBLIC, and are, in fact rented to the giant corporations like Clear Channel.
Through "ACTIVIST LAWYERS" on the right, they've corrupted the original intent, and use it as a free tool to print money - at the expense of a "Well-informed Public", which is killing our Democracy.
THIS IS WHAT IS AT STAKE HERE, GENTS.
PS: howie knows me, and your image of me sitting in a starbucks, sipping a latte is laughable.
Obviously you are totally off-base here. I heard Lou Dobbs last night was railing against the Democrats for trashing the Constitution! (I don't recall him having this issue with Bush.) Lou said that by supporting the Fairness Doctrine the Democrats were trashing Freedom of Speech, and then they and the new Attorney General were trashing our Right to Bear Arms.
Obviously you observed an entirely different session of Congress than Lou Dobbs did. I'm glad to see CNN is really concerned about a Constitutional rights now. Where they were the last 8 years is a mystery.
although automatic weapons seems like overkill.
Fully automatic firearms have been heavily restricted under Federal law since 1934. Few advocate a reversal of the 1934 National Firearms Act, though some do believe that the 1986 closure of the National Firearms registry was entirely unnecessary and unjustified.
I have observed that individuals who question the necessity of allowing unrestricted ownership or access to fully automatic firearms are frequently so uneducated regarding firearms laws as they exist now as to be unqualified to comment upon the subject of firearms legislation. Unfortunately, this includes a number of elected legislators, such as Long Island Representative Carolyn McCarthy, whose HR1022 bill proposed a ban on firearms equipped with "barrel shrouds" -- a feature that is nearly ubiquituous to firearms -- who later acknowledged in an interview that she does not know what a "barrel shroud" is.
My problem is imposing that ethos on densely packed urban centers.
Then you believe that the Second Amendment's protection against the infringment of the right of the people to keep and bear arms does not apply in "densely packed urban centers"?
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