White House, labor to vote-switchers: We won't forget

Excerpted from “White House, labor to vote-switchers: We won't forget” By JONATHAN MARTIN, Politico, 3/25/10 5:05 AM EDT
[SIZE="+2"]S[/SIZE]enior White House and organized labor officials are warning the handful of House Democrats who supported health care legislation last year only to oppose the final measure on Sunday that they shouldn’t expect assistance for their reelection campaigns this fall. …

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Chappy said:

“We’re going to have to focus on our friends.” — A senior White House official¹​

“They should not expect help from us.” — Service Employees International Union Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger²​

Actions have consequences.

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Chappy said:

I have no idea what you are saying …

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Harry Guerrilla said:

The voters elected those people democratically and now your saying that it's cool for corporations to punish them.

Tisk, tisk.

You guys only like democracy when it benefits you, I see.

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Harry Guerrilla said:

What about the voter mandate?
I thought all of you were about Democracy, now your cool with corporatism?

Make up your mind, geesh.

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Chappy said:

“We’re going to have to focus on our friends.” — A senior White House official¹​

“They should not expect help from us.” — Service Employees International Union Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger²​

Actions have consequences.

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Chappy said:

I think it's more like the following: just because you are welcome in the party doesn't mean that true progressives aren't going to run against you in the primary.

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Excerpted from “Democrats' rage fades on health care heretics” By JAMES HOHMANN, Politico, 4/3/10 6:16 PM EDT
[SIZE="+2"]D[/SIZE]emocrats here are furious with Rep. Zack Space’s vote against the recent landmark health care legislation. His once-strong relationship with local labor chapters is strained. Past campaign supporters claim their congressman’s decision to flip from ‘yes’ on the bill in November to ‘no’ in March reinforced a deep sense of cynicism about politics.

And yet most of them plan to vote for his re-election.

As unhappy as they are about Space’s health care vote—and as distasteful as they found it—many local labor officials, party leaders and activists say the alternative is far worse. They recognize that their neighbors in the southeastern Ohio-based district Space represents tend to be conservative-minded, and are well-aware that a Republican represented the district for 12 long years until stepping down amid scandal in 2006.

It’s a familiar sentiment in the 34 House districts currently inhabited by Democrats like Space who bucked the party on the historic health care vote, with the initial rage and promises of ballot box retaliation giving way to a more measured calculus that accounts for the hard local political realities in many of those seats. …

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Chappy said:

I have no idea what you are saying …

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Deuce said:

We could certainly stand to have fewer Blue Dogs around.

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