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KoKo

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4. Fair Point....
Sat Dec 13, 2014, 10:16 AM
Dec 2014

Some of us have wondered for a long time how the Repubs held up everything when they were the Minority but when we were the Majority we were told that we only had it for two years and we still didn't have enough votes to over-ride what the Repubs were doing.

Yet, I've noticed that it's always the same 45 or so Dems who always voted with the Repubs. Those were the DINO's that we could never vote out because of either Gerrymandered districts or we couldn't get a real Dem to run for whatever reason or the other. So we had to vote for the DINO who voted with the Repubs on everything except social issues...and, even then, some of them voted with Repubs against GLBT and Women's Rights, Immigration Issues. Then, there is the Bi-Party support of bailing out and lack of prosecution of Wall Street Criminals and full support of the War Profiteering MIC for our now "Endless Wars."


Warren is a breath of fresh air in the Senate. She hit the ground running, unlike the other Dems we've had high hopes for who stood back and waited for the Committee Assignments while "learning the ropes" that we heard little from ever again. It was as if they disappeared into the woodwork once the Lobbyists and Big Money got hold of them.

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