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

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“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.

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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We could certainly stand to have fewer Blue Dogs around.
 
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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What about the voter mandate?
I thought all of you were about Democracy, now your cool with corporatism?

Make up your mind, geesh.
 
I have no idea what you are saying …
 
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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Big Tent Tolerance has no room for those that do not obey the leadership and vote as they are commanded.
 
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.
 
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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The SEIU are the same people that assaulted the town hall folks last year. They're the Liberals's version of the SA. Remember when PBO said he wanted to make the country purple? He wants us all working for the unions, not only giving the government it's cut, but shelling out our hard earned money to give the unions their cut. It's pure facism.
 
I don't see how this is news. If, for example, a conservative politician voted against gun rights than the NRA would be up in arms as well. This is essentially the same thing.
 
True, I was taking note of the recent leadership comments regarding the five House members who voted aye back in November but voted no in March.
 
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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:) and now you know exactly how conservatives feel about moderate republicans.
 
But, Democrats have practical minds if not forgiving hearts.

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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Deuce said:
We could certainly stand to have fewer Blue Dogs around.
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The radicalization of the Democratic Party is no more desirable than the radicalization of the GOP, and threatening political retaliation because they didn't like a lawmaker's particular vote is just petty, especially considering the White House won this particular battle.
 
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