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Monday, January 28, 2008

THIS is why John Edwards needs to stay in the campaign
Posted by Jill | 7:55 AM
Jane Hamsher reports that the Clinton and Obama campaigns has said that both candidates will return to Washington to vote "no" on cloture on the Intel version of the FISA bill.

Does anyone honestly believe that without the netroots, and without John Edwards tugging on the leftmost end of that ideological cord, either of them would have been willing to take a stand on this, and leave themselves open to Republican attacks on their "seriousness about fighting terrorists"?

I don't. And get used to it, folks. Because regardless of which of the two of them gets this nomination, we will have to keep the pressure on at all times, because we are dealing with two candiates who don't exactly have stellar histories of being willing to take a strong stand against the worst excesses of Republicans and their enablers.

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Blogger Unknown said...
Right. It's thanks to John Edwards, who voted for the Patriot Act, when he had the chance.

Yet another vote he regrets, no doubt -- along with the Iraq war and the bankruptcy bill and and Bush's education bill and nuclear waste in Yucca mountain -- you know, because he's such a progressive, and all.
1/28/08, 7:33 PM  
Blogger Porlock Junior said...
Gee, if it takes such a nasty bastard to get the Two Leaders to do something right, they must be really bad, right?

Hey, I can tell you something worse: Letting any of the Republicans get elected. Worse beyond your poor imagination, if it should be somebody wih a brain and not Huckabee.
1/29/08, 1:57 AM  
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