Another nail in the coffin?

[Brutus]

Lieberman: Call me a Democrat
POSTED: 1:23 p.m. EST, November 10, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, who won re-election as an independent, has a message for his Senate colleagues in the next Congress: Call me a Democrat.

The three-term Connecticut lawmaker defied party leaders when he launched his independent bid after losing to Democrat Ned Lamont in the August primary. During the campaign, he vowed to be an "independent-minded Democrat" if he were re-elected. In Tuesday's election, Lieberman won strong GOP support and given the closely divided Senate, Republicans are expected to court him.



So will he count as a Democrat or an independent who caucuses with the majority Democrats? In an e-mail message late Thursday, Lieberman spokesman Dan Gerstein said the senator will begin his new term as a Democrat.

With the Democratic takeover of the Senate, Lieberman is in line to become chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

In a post-election news conference, Lieberman said he was reassured by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid that he would retain his seniority when the new Senate convenes.

[zengrifter]

[darrislance]

I think the recent shift of power in the Congress will be beneficial. With Republicans controlling the House and the Senate the President had too much power. This inturn will limit the President's power and hopefully help to straighten matters that we currently face. However, this major shift may have just ended the Bush Presidency, per say. I doubt if we will see many reforms for the remainder of his term. However, this is not uncommon. Historically, second term presidents have been less productive in their second term than their first. Nevertheless, the man has had an extremely difficult presidency.

[supercoolmancool]

Zengrifter, do you think that the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans and that this change in power is just an illusion to make the American people content.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by supercoolmancool

Zengrifter, do you think that the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans and that this change in power is just an illusion to make the American people content.

Yes, just a facade to quell the masses. With the Repuiblicans beat down I say thats one down and one to go! z(the libertarian)g

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Pelosi Already Using Gingrich Bait & Switch Trickery
Offers Another Bogus 'Contract With America'
Called 'Six In O6' - More Utter BS

From Dick Eastman
olfriend@nwinfo.net
11-11-6

After Waco and other crimes, the people voted Democrats out of Congress -- but what they got was a new crop of Republican congressmen led by Newt Gingrich who backed Clinton on every major policy of the money-power agenda -- he called it the "Contract with America" -- it as a fake set of reforms that no one wanted and no one asked for (but which made certain plutocrats evern richer)

And now Madame Chairman is serving up the same crap -- the people voted Democrat in reaction against the things Bush is doing for the money-power elite -- but when they are voted back in power, the Democrats pull a Gingrich -- the bait and switch -- they feed people a different agenda other than the agenda the people wanted and voted for!

Why did you vote for the Democrats?

1) Will they repeal the Patriot Act?

2) Will they reinstitute the Writ of Habeus Corpus and Posse Comitatus?

3) Will they eliminate Bush's 2007 Military Commissions Act?

4) Will they seek to impeach Bush & Cheney?

5) Will they withdraw from Iraq?

6) Will they reopen and conduct a legitimate 9/11 investigation?

7) Will they roll back globalization to restore the middle classes?


No chance.

Here is Nancy Pelosi stating her "agenda" (and asking for money)

"Together, we can set a new course for America. Nowhere did the American people make it clearer that we need a new direction than in the war in Iraq. We are committed to finding a new solution to Iraq, but we know that actions speak louder than words.


"That's why we will go forward with our "Six for '06" agenda:


* To make our country safer by implementing the 9/11 commission recommendations

* To make our economy fairer

* To make college and health care more affordable

* To move toward energy independence

* To guarantee a dignified retirement

* To do this in a fiscally sound way with civility, integrity, and bipartisanship.

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, not only is "Six for 6" NOT what we voted for -- it itself is also code for very bad legislation, rife with all kinds of corruption and pork are behind each of her platitude goals.

'Implementing the 9-11 Commission recommendations' means accepting the Commission's UTTER WHITEWASH and going ahead with more police state measures.

'Making the economy fairer' means taxing the middle class and further crushing small business -- without touching the multi-national economy, big corporations and big finance and anarcho-criminal laissez-faire.

'Making college and health care more affordable' means regulation and loss of freedom and rationing according to political formula

'More towards energy independence' means not implementing new energy forms to compete with oil -- but new taxes and costs placed on oil use to further exploit/strangle families and small business

A 'dignified retirement' means this is where the votes are. We have a very aged population -- but what does this mean and who will pay for it? (certainly not the richest)

Do this 'in a fiscally sound way' means taxing the middle class, taxing the small business while letting the billioniares off free -- the Democrats are owned by the corporations, by the Zionist billionaires

Note carefully the following: Ruppert Murdoch -- who brings you Hannity, etc. -- is for Hillary Clinton in 2008. Pelosi is in the Hillary Clinton circle (with Diane Feinstein, etc.) We are in for more crime -- and lots of pretend "opposition" that really isn't opposition at all. They will debate losts of phony issues and the media will help them -- while what really matters stays stolen and the world continues its course of death and rot.

Dick Eastman

Yakima, Washington

[mdlbj]

Originally Posted by supercoolmancool

Zengrifter, do you think that the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans and that this change in power is just an illusion to make the American people content.

Absofrikin Yes.

[sagefr0g]

my vote is yes/no or no/yes
my perception of the two political parties is as follows:

democrats = conservatives in liberal sheeps clothing
republicans = liberals in conservative sheeps clothing