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March 14, 2007
Jefferson Appointment May Be on Permanent Hold
I was following this story and then we went to Tennessee and I lost it while I was traveling, so this information is a couple of weeks old. I hate to give the Republican party its due, but it's nice to see for the first time in their culture of corruption cycle someone on that side of the aisle actually did the right thing in spite of themselves. It's disgraceful that the Democrats would allow themselves to be tainted like this because of a subgroup within the party. If there was a shadow of a doubt about his guilt, I might give them a pass, but there is no doubt that he is guilty and should be treated as such until he can prove his innocence. Hell for the good of the party he should have refused to take a position that would put the party in danger. I'm not sure what the hell was going through the CBC's head on this one, personally I suspect that this was just an effort by the Blue Dog coalition to undermine the Democratic party in hopes a reestablishing a Republican majority in the House, which seems to be their only focus in existing.
On the CBC front there is good news that they haven't totally lost grasp of reality and the Jefferson thing may just have been a momentary lapse. Today they announced that they would not be hosting another Presidential Debate on the Republican propaganda outlet FoxNews. You will recall back in 2004 the CBC worked with Fox News, which used the occasion to run continuous attacks on the Democratic Presidential candidates with prepackaged GOP talking points. This year the CBC saw the light of not seeking to destroy Democratic candidates, who seem to have sort of figured out that they need to attack the right wing noise machine because it will be attacking them. You ask most Democrats what has demotivated them about the party as of late and they will tell you the utter surrender to the radical right wing extremists in the corporate media. They are sick and tired of Democrats being cowardly in the face of people who hate America, so it's time for Democrats to stand up and put the GOP on notice that their time is up, it's time for the adults to take over and get this country back on the right track before their stupidity destroys what we hold dear.
Read more over at CQ Politics, Think Progress and Daily Kos.
Posted by Jamison at March 14, 2007 5:04 PM
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