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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-05 09:55 AM
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Should All Dem Senators Vote Against All bush Apointees?
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Because that's the sense I get from many of you; immediate outrage whenever a dem Senator indicates that s/he's going to vote for a bush apointee. An opposition party needs a strategy, and simply opposing everything and everybody proposed by the majority party is not only counterproductive, it's not a viable strategy. We need every dem we've got, and they're not all going to be liberals. What I want in hearings from dem Senators are tough questions. We're getting that in the Condi hearings, not just from Barbara Boxer, but from Dodd, Feingold, Kerry, and yes, Biden. Presidents have historically been given great leeway when it comes to cabinet apointees. That's not going to change,

The liberal purity test for our elected members of Congress is unrealistic. Practically no one is going to meet it on all occasions.
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