News flash folks, Democrats already have a supermajority in congress  

Everyone needs to take a real long hard look at their candidates BEFORE they vote again in 2010.

Please don't take this the wrong way, Lil, but it sounds to me like you want to recall everyone but conservative (but not neocon) Republicans. Recalling someone is difficult at best but first there has to be a really GOOD reason and I'm afraid the majority of the voters probably won't think there is one for their own Senators and Representatives. That's been one thing that's been constant through the years, no matter how low Congress's approval has gone - people don't like Congress as a whole but they're happy with their OWN.
Annie

To tell you the truth I would LOVE TO RECALL ALL OF THEM. Reguardless of party.
But as a Recall can only be done on a state level. I can only do the ones in South Carolina.

Specter only did what he's been wanting to do for a long time. Frankly, I'm relieved that he did, as he's been a thorn in the side of the Republican party for years.

Spector is an idiot. Trying to push the idea that the Republican party has been moving too far to the right and that is why so many people in Pennsylvainia moved from the Republican party to the democrat party. Oh Please! The whole country has been moving more and more left for years. They switched parties because the Republican's were letting them down. Republicans blew a ton of money they shouldn't have and grew the government when they were supposidly against big government... you might as well vote for a Democrat. The problem is the Democrat they voted for is more Liberal than Democrat. And time will tell this is what is breaking America and turning us into exactly what the founding father's were fighting against.

Amen...I doubt anyone on Capital Hill has read the Constitution lately. Corruption and greed is at it's boiling point. Like what the Boston Tea Party was about. Not only fighting Taxation without representation... But also the Corruption of Parliament... Parliament being bought by powerful companies and wealthy men to push their own agenda onto the American people. That is why the constitution was written and what made America so great once.

It depends on teh "moderate" type that htey are.

If you are a fiscal conservative there is not room anymore.
Social conservative...yep still room.

Which basically kicked me out.

There's nothing moderate about voting democrat 80% of the time. Wasn't it you Annie, who wanted Senator Lieberman STRIPPED of his chairmanship when he voted democrat only 70% of the time? He was clearly too moderate for you. As my numbers show, these two are more liberal than Hillary freaking Clinton. Now that takes some effort.

If you really want to use other reps from their state as a measure of how conservative they are, they fail that too. The two reps from Maine have almost identical voting records. Mike Michaud has the same ACU rating as Snowe and he isn't pretending to be a republican. Moderate for me is when someone is between 65 and 85. Once you hit 50, it's time to quit lying and call yourself independent and when you rank as a 12 in your own party, you aren't moderate anything, you are the opposition.

Calling these people moderates is like calling water moderately cold at 80 degrees Celsius.

Taskr, I never called for Lieberman to be stripped of his chairmanships based on his Senate votes; I was discussing is actions while campaigning for John McCain, NOT even the fact he had endorsed or was campaigning for McCain but the fact that he was attacking the Democratic candidate. Back to Snowe and Collins, if they're registered as Republicans, they ARE Republicans. I don't live in their state so I haven't followed their elections but I still believe, based on what I know about that area of the U.S. to the voters up there they are moderate, even conservative. Liberal and conservative are relative terms in my view; one person's liberal can definitely be another person's conservative, relatively speaking.
Annie

I live in a state where the GOP ALWAYS wins- no matter what. When the moderate Republicans in the state are talking about extreme conservatism, there is obviously something up in the party. I think you are right- the ultra-conservatives have made the moderates feel unwelcome, and they are leaving in droves. Even in this state, if you pick up the paper and read the opinion pages, seeing someone communicate that they are leaving the Republican party is getting to be a normal occurrence.

I think more of the moderates from both parties are moving to Independents- and I say come on in, the water's fine! Next we just need a viable candidate...

"Taskr, I never called for Lieberman to be stripped of his chairmanships based on his Senate votes; I was discussing is actions while campaigning for John McCain, NOT even the fact he had endorsed or was campaigning for McCain but the fact that he was attacking the Democratic candidate."

I know you're going to say I'm attacking you personally Annie, but I'm not going to mince words on this one. YOU ARE LYING.

"Does anyone else here feel as I do that next year, after the Democrats expand their majority in the U.S.Senate, Joe Lieberman, I-CT, should be stripped of his committee chairmanship?"
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1555802.aspx

As anyone who reads that thread can see, you made these statements over a month BEFORE Obama clinched the nomination and several months before Lieberman's speech at the RNC where he criticized Obama. I just knew you were going to pretend it was based on his criticism of Obama.

Here is part of what I posted in that discussion:

"There are plenty of Democrats who think for themselves but when one goes as far as to help perpetuate the dirt being spread about the Democratic nominee in order to help the candidate he's endorsed, that's going too far."

Anyone who reads this can see there WAS a nominee when I wrote it. Who said anything about the RNC Convention speech? This was about an introduction at a campaign rally Liebermann made for McCain when he said Obama didn't always put America first. If I remember correctly it happened in my own state.

Calling anyone any name is a personal attack.

Annie

"Anyone who reads this can see there WAS a nominee when I wrote it."

You wrote it 11 months ago. Obama was nominated 10 months ago. Perhaps you assumed he would be the nominee, but he wasn't yet.

"This was about an introduction at a campaign rally Liebermann made for McCain when he said Obama didn't always put America first. If I remember correctly it happened in my own state."

It happened in your state in August of 2008. You said you wanted him stripped of his committee chairmanship in May of 2008. Check the dates Annie. Why can't you admit you wanted him out of the party before that even when confronted with proof? I linked you to your own post.
http://thecaucus.blogs.ny...

"Calling anyone any name is a personal attack."

Well I didn't call you a name, I merely pointed out that you were lying. It's either that or you have selectively chosen to forget that you hated Lieberman before he made the statements you refer to. Also, in Lieberman's defense, he claims that his words were misinterpreted.

“Between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not."

He claimed he was saying that Obama has not worked across party lines and was not questioning Obama's patriotism. I can see how this statement can be interpreted either way, but those on the left chose to take it in the worst way possible.

Put, not pet... BAD keyboard!

The thing with Specter is that he's not even really a democrat. With a 50/50 voting record he's an independent just siding with the winning team whenever he wants.

I know, but it is all about perceptions.

Isn’t it sad that so many are just getting fed up with the political scene?

I don’t know just where I’ll end up in the next elections.

The dems have been salivating and ready to run with a lot of stuff that is going to cause huge problems in the future.

No one can get through to them, and those that support them are like the blind being led by the blind.

The republicans aren’t much better.

It’s the “PARTIES” that have actually replaced God in society!

My nickle’s worth.