DU's Favorite Senator?

Just curious. (No I didn't include any of the Senator elects. They're not in yet)

Each have done something remarkable and politically brave. Each deserve the honors and support they get here at DU. It's like asking which child you love more ... you love them each equally for their different qualities. JMHO.

..but if I had to choose from the already sworn in, it would either be Obama or Feingold.

I like all five of them

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well, you don't have to as it's your poll. but in terms of well known Senators they are up there.

As I tell everyone the way to tell if your representative in government is good, look to see if they are a D or a re:puke:ican

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them in the poll, but you're right, to accurately reflect DU opinion, I should have.

Although, that's not hard to believe, considering my home state has Dick Durbin

He's my homey.

As chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, he skillfully won back the Senate for the Democrats in the last election. This was an amazing feat and it will help Democrats fend off wacky GOP legislation in the next two years. Taking back the Senate was Huge!

Yes, Chuckie (and Rahm) almost single-handedly won back Congress. But Mrs. Clinton also deserves some credit, for her blistering attacks-by-proxy on Dean. Unless we keep him in his place - that is, far away from the DNC - Mr. Dean will destroy the Democratic party.

cooperative enough to slap a whammy on lots of folks.

Really, one of the best two-somes ever in the senate.

I'm very happy that Senator Durbin represents me and my state. He's a good Democrat.

works extremely hard behind the scenes. We are lucky to have him in Illinois.

Durbin is tops!!!

Durbin is a MUCH better representative of our
cause IMO. I LIKE and TRUST him.

Harry, not so much.....

Alas, it's not up to me or you.
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He has personally helped my family in a tough time. I have never been disappointed in Dick Durbin! Tried and True he is! :loveya:

he was the lead person in the senate to help us recapture that chamber. additionally he has done a fine job for NYS in his role as senior senator from the empire state.

Together they make a fine team. Good and incorruptible Democrats, always fighting for the Middle Class.

is way down on my list, for reasons both close to home- she supported the International Paper tire burn that would have sent plumes of vile and dangerous chemicals across Lake Champlain into Vermont, she has been terrible on Iraq, and now she's meeting with Avigdor Lieberman, one of the more repugnant racists I can think of.

Can't we call it Hillary's Freedom Fumes or something?

C'mon people, let's work harder to put some lipstick on this pig - otherwise the Bush/Clinton dynasty will never make it to 28 years.

The joint ain't the same after Moynihan's departure.

Hell, the World isn't the same after Moynihan's departure.

My guys rock. :loveya:

but I was really uncomfortable with someone spending 60 million bucks to become a Senator. Lautenberg is also a very good guy.

to have someone like Corzine as my senator.
I can dream, can't I?

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But Boxer replacing Inhofe represents teh biggest swing in our direction. And so goes my vote.

Al and Bobby are two of those people Ben had in mind.

They had a survey some time ago and listed all the bills and legislation that Ted Kennedy had introduced and finally pushed to pass that had benefited the people of this country. It said he is one of the best Senators that fights FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Why do you think the republicans, their vile spewers and the right wing nut posters go after him all the time. Because he has and will continue to make a difference. And he does not back down. In his own quiet he 'KEEPS ON GOING. Thank God for him and other caring senators like him.

... the ability actually be effective.

He is held up by the right-wings nuts as the very personification of everything they are against. That tells me something very important.

Hook, line, and sinker, he bought into the worst prejudices of the people who hate public schools. My children suffer for that man playing nice-nice with George Bush.

On edit: I'll pick Jeffords for my favorite senator of the current Congress. He had the guts to jump ship once Bush got in power.

I think of Wellstone almost daily way down here in red state Alabama. I think he was murdered...

sentence. From different times in life, but my intensity for each man is the same.

Whatever flaws, and we ALL have them, they "tried to make a difference!"

Wellstone died on my birthday 4 years ago... I still think about him and I live in Florida.

Russ Feingold is my favorite after the Honorable Senator Wellstone.

:sarcasm: :puke:

All of the above listed Senators are wonderful...I envy those of you who are represented by Democrats in Congress.

Unfortunately, my district still has a right wing Representative, John Shaddegg. :puke:

Senator Harry Reid the soon-to-be Majority Leader? Or Dick Durbin, the incoming Majority Whip??? Is this a poll for who can be effective or most popular?

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are at the top of my favorite senators.

I sure do look forward to seeing him in action. And Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders and Jim Tester, as well.

he's always speaking the truth about bush. wish he was still my senator...

He and Wellstone are two of a kind - a rare kind.

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foisted on us by some media manipulating organization.

What was it 99-1?

And am a proud 10%er, too!

The Telecomm Act, which Clinton SHOULD have vetoed, that has given us this over-consolidated right wing media machine, and also tried to give us things like the unconstitutional civil liberties depriving Communications Decency Act. Paul Simon (now retired) and the much missed Paul Wellstone were the only others voting against it.

I like both what Russ pushes that might not be popular at the time (Censure, etc.), as well as things he votes against when it's "out of style" (Telecomm Bill, Patriot Act, etc.). The man is all about doing what's right, not just being on someone's bandwagon. I wish many more senators could be like him. We wouldn't be near the trouble we are in now if there were.

I chose Boxer, but everyone on that list stands out IMHO.

should be.

and she'll be our next president, IMO.

she's my senator and I'm always so proud of her! :thumbsup:

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I know we haven't seen spine much lately but the man with the spine is Russ Feingold!

Hell, to be honest, I like all on the list!

as is Boxer. I like Kerry a lot as well. He's intelligent and usually thoughtful, though not the greatest politician.

I like my own two senators - Levin and Stabenaw. Both are great, even though Stabenaw has had a few lousy votes in recent years.

Durbin, Leahy, Obama are some other good ones.

I can't think of a senator I'll agree with 100% of the time, but those I listed are usually close to my politics. I am sometimes annoyed by my own state's senators and congresspeople (even Conyers at times) pandering to the auto industry, but their pandering isn't quite as bad as Hillary and Chuck's pandering to the financial industry in NY.

Since everybody spends so much time discussing what Joe does that it must be him :shrug:

http://lieberman.senate.gov/

disputed the 2004 (s)election. Plus, I get emails from her about issues having to do with things like health issues, what's going on in our economy, and a variety of other topics that we care about. Her office has NEVER failed to respond to my emails, and I feel that she actually cares about Californians. She's the best!!!!!!!!

about the original post. Without Joe we would be so impoverished about things to debate :-)

Btw Barbara Boxer-OUR Senator, is my favorite Senator too

continue to be marginilized?

but you have a point about Kucinich. He doesn't receive the respect he desrves.

How clumsy of me.

with the majority of people here, but I think that a Leiberman/Bayh ticket would be a shoo-in in 2008.
A ticket like this would pull most of the undecideds from the center to our side.

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Out of your list, Ted Kennedy.