Red/Blue – Ronnie Shows lets us in a little secret
Thanks to the diligent work of the good folks at YallPolitics.com, we have at our disposal the following extraordinary excerpt from a recent essay posted on one of the nation’s most notoriously liberal blog-sites by former Mississippi Democrat Congressman Ronnie Shows:
… I am asking my progressive friends within the Democratic Party to act carefully until Election Day and not advance legislation that could escalate the national deficit or threaten jobs of people like coal workers and small businessmen. If conservative Democrats are forced to take difficult votes and upset their constituents, they could lose their reelections or just retire altogether, which is already happening at an alarming rate.
Goodness, Congressman, surely you are not suggesting that your liberal cohorts in the leadership of the Democrats in Congress should disguise their true intentions until after November’s elections, are you? Presumably, after Election Day it will be fine for them to go ahead and “advance legislation that could escalate the national deficit or threaten jobs….” We are left to wonder what, exactly, the Congressman meant by the “difficult votes” that he fears his former colleagues being forced to take that might “upset their constituents,” but we can guess.
Red/Blue – Taggart
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5/17/10
