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There’s been some bitter criticism on this site for Claire McCaskill’s vote to censure MoveOn.
A contributor at the Change for Missouri yahoo discussion site tells us that she has found a way to let Democrats know that they screwed up when they voted to censure MoveOn for its Petraus/BetrayUs ad. She printed up stickers that she plans to attach to “gimme” letters and then stuff into the return envelopes. The stickers say:
“I regret to have to tell you that I am a member and contributor to MOVE-ON.ORG. Consider please your vote to censure that organization. In doing so, you censured me and everyone like me who is a member of what I
consider to be an organization which represents my philosophy and interests and which works to elect Congressional Members who reflect those interests.
So you see, my money is tainted and it would be wrong of you to accept it.Regretfully,
Peggy R. Henderson
because even bothering to participate in that vote was a complete waste of time when there are are important things Congress should be working on. Claire could bother to vote against moveon but not bother to read the last FISA bill? Or if she read it, not care to vote to protect our consitutional rights.
I can’t applaud this effort by Ms. Henderson because I consider it just as much of a waste of time. Moveon will live. Moveon has raised a ton of money from the fallout from this vote.
What I wish we could do is get people to care as much about tangible concerns as they care about this moveon vote. For instance, the Dems seem willing to cave to the administration on the new FISA bill.
What does the world gain if we get Claire to apologize for that stupid moveon vote and she votes AGAIN to give away our constitutional rights?
Moveon was the only voice willing to speak out for me. I think that’s why Claire and many other Democrats voted to censure them. They wanted the same thing the Republicans did, a distraction from the sterile, lifeless, non-debate…..the sickening silence that threw our soldiers under the bus without a fight.
I fully expected Bush’s mouthpiece to stand before Congress and lie like hell. The shocker to me was when the Senator we expected to represent us, betrayed us. The truth is that General Petroleus wasn’t as big a problem as Claire. He doesn’t have a vote. She does. We obviously didn’t make much of an impression on her after the betrayal censure because she is going to roll over on the FISA vote again, and in November vote to fund endless war in Iraq. I think she has sized us up and figures that if we tolerate her voting to fund Iraq, we’ll tolerate anything. Sadly enough, she is probably right. I hear people saying that at least she is a Democrat. I think we’ve lowered the bar for what consitutes “Democrat” so much that it has become indistinquishable from “Republican”. If Missouri doesn’t find a replacement for her in her next primary, I am going to deClaire myself an independent in the senate vote.