Clinton/Obama Ace Study on Middle Class Responsiveness; McCain Gets An Incomplete
Guess who's going to have to go to summer school?
DMI for Public Policy: (.pdf)
With a U.S. Senator set to assume the presidency for the first time since 1960, and with an eye on the 470 other federal elections scheduled for November 4th, the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI) released “TheMiddleClass.org 2007 Congressional Scorecard” today. DMI’s congressional scorecard, which is the only one in the nation based solely upon the interests of the middle class, reveals a great and troubling divide in the Congress. On the positive side, the scorecard reflects an overall improvement in Congress’ support for the middle class, with 34 Senators and 199 Representatives receiving “A” grades. On the negative side, one-third of all Representatives and nearly 40% of all Senators earned “F” grades.
“The middle-class squeeze is a recurring theme among members of Congress, all of whom assert their interest in alleviating some of the burdens faced by the middle class and those struggling to earn their way into it. If that commitment was universally genuine, 99% of Congress would have received an ‘A’ this year. Clearly, that did not happen and it was the current and aspiring middle class who suffered for it,” commented DMI Executive Director Andrea Batista Schlesinger. [..]
As for the three top presidential contenders, Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton each received an "A+” grade. Stunningly, Senator McCain was the only member of the Senate to receive an “incomplete” because he missed a majority of the graded votes. Even Senator Tim Johnson, who suffered a life threatening brain hemorrhage in December 2006 and did not return to the Senate until September 2007, managed to vote on 50% more pieces of critical middle-class legislation than did Senator McCain. “When it came to doing something about the middle class, Senator McCain simply wasn’t there for them,” said Ms. Schlesinger.
How bad is that when a man with a life-threatening illness manages to make it to Congress to vote more often than someone who thinks he should be president? You can learn more about the DMI study as well as getting tools to hold Congress accountable for your interests at The Middle Class.org.
Wow, thats truly damning. How does a working stiff vote for McCain after hearing this?
This man is being set up for a landslide loss in November
odanny @ 1:
You see that 'R' next to his name...That's why...
Congress has been brain-dead for decades. It makes no difference which party is in the majority. The president is a necrophiliac because he has been screwing congress for years.
odanny @ 1:
Yes, he is. What worries me is what the pirates in the white house will do to keep the power they grabbed on November 2000.
All the pieces of the puzzle are in place for the president to take controll of all three brances of government......... at any time now.
Conservatives are only interested in setting up a Marxist economy where whorporate America sits on top and throws bones and gristle to the underpaid working class. They call it Trickle-down economics. But in order for it to work, they have to eliminate the middle class entirely.
CheneyIsADick @ 4:
The way things have been working since 2000, I'd say that already happened.
Zenrage @ 5:
Benito Mussolini: Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, since it is a merger between government and the corporations.
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 6:
You ain't seen nothin' yet. They can cancel the election and declare martial law at the stroke of a pen. Like I said: All the pieces are in place at this time.
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 6:
I have said That,too. But,I just wanna say that I don't need No stinking poll to tell Me what I should Think. None of These candidates give a flying fig about the 'Middle Class' and niether does Congress and hasn't for Years. When public funding is the ONLY way to finance an election,then I might think of voting.
CheneyIsADick @ 8:
Or they can just throw a coup and save the ink. And maybe they have.
McMiddleWho?
was too busy stuffing his meat
into the msmutherfuckers,
givin' teletheofascists reacharounds
and pimping torture for the dancing chimp;
but don't worry, middle class
- if he steals into the White House,
he'll get around to you...
You can find all the McAKA's here, if you're hungry for more...
Andy K Jong Il @ 10:
Aww,now guys. Some guy in LA named Paul would call You 'defeatist'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWT20QYvd0
Here's my account of my weekend at the Model Illinois Government simulation. I was a House Democrat on the Education committee, and I learned a lot about how the legislative process works. If you are interested, I'd suggest looking into your school organizations to find your state's version.
David Hawes @ 9:
All three candidates: HRC, JMcC, and BO are Council of Foreign Relations connected and approved. Any candidate that is not, does not get media coverage, and will not be allowed to participate in the televised debates. (R. Paul and D. Kucinich, just to mention two)
McCain is running on more wars and no jobs. So what does he care about the middle class. That election strategy in itself tells you he doesn't give a flying f*ck about the middle class. He just wants his chance to win the Vietnam war.
Maybe McCain just forgot to vote sometimes. He is rather old you know.
odanny @ 1:
Never underestimate the capacity of the angry middle and poor class white people to vote against their very own interests....
They *know* they are winning the lottery any day now... so they don't want to fuck it up when they become part of the top 10% club....
Tyler Durden @ 17:
Been sayin that for years.
"""With a U.S. Senator set to assume the presidency for the first time since 1960,"""??????
Both LBJ and Nixon had been senators, true they became VP first but WTF?
Tyler Durden @ 17:
Read my comment @ #4
The problem is that this is probably the only place we will hear about this. The public who need to know most likely never will. That's what's so sad and so frustrating.
john doe @ 19:
Hope Congressmen.
I meant 'Nope'
Republicans continue to vote against their economic interests.
They seem happy to be broke but at least gays can't marry.
STUPID!!!!
LBJ and Nixon were Congressmen Not Senators.
odanny @ 1:
Mix one O'Reilly with one Hannity and one Rush. Stir in McCain special atta boy sauce and present for public consumption.
McCain the Liar @ 24:
With the economy goin off the cliff,
hopefully they'll realize
they can't have their McCake
and eat, too.
David Hawes @ 25:
Senators--Look it up!
L.A. Confidential @ 26:
"Looks like jerk chicken, tastes like tuna taco..."
L.A. Confidential @ 26:
It's called a Socrates Special. Really curls your toes.
David Hawes @ 25:
They were Congressmen before they were Senators. Know your history.
David Hawes @ 25:
Nixon was senator from -December 1, 1950 – January 1, 1953
LBJ was senator from-January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1961
I Am Legume @ 31:
I never said that they where not congressmen. Don't f*ck with me!
john doe @ 28:
I stand corrected. I suppose the meaning was a 'standing senator'. I have been corrected,but I'll stand by My statement that none off the Candidates give a fig about 'the middle class.
CheneyIsADick @ 8:
You may be right, but why would they? Most people fall over themselves believing the freedom and rights spiel and consider "voting" once every 4 years to replace a few of the front and center politicians, as doing something.
john doe @ 32:
But they were both also Representatives.
And Representatives and Senators are all Congressmen or Congresswomen.
So you're all wrong for being only partially right. Nitpickers! :^P
john doe @ 33:
FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE! KNOW YOUR FUCKING HISTORY!
David Hawes @ 34:
Ya been 'doe....!'d, dude, lol how ya doin DH...
;-}
Andy K Jong Il @ 36:
hehe
I Am Legume @ 37:
Hey Guys cool it. I was wrong. I admitted it. Now let's move on. OK?
I Am Legume @ 37:
Evidently you don't.
David Hawes @ 34:
Since we're all done pissing in each others cornflakes (mmmm...urine) shall we proceed.
Proud2bHumble @ 38:
Jest fyne. A butafull day in Floriduh.
I Am Legume @ 37:
I suppository that would make him full of beans, eh Legume?
Peter G @ 42:
Sounds golden ta me.
David Hawes @ 43:
Sweeeeet. Lived in Hawaii for 13 ys myownself.
john doe @ 41:
ROFLMAO!!!
Again, none of you were right, exactly.
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Proud2bHumble @ 39:
Ain't the catbird's seat just grand? :^D
Proud2bHumble @ 46:
Oloha! tampa Bay glistenens like a thousand jewels.
McPoopyHead--Does not give a rat's ass about the middle class, even though he keeps saying, "my friends"
Andy K Jong Il @ 47:
Since I don't know shit, and I know I don't know shit, the best I can do is wait around and make fun of those who have the misfortune of knowing the wrong shit. Kinda shitty of me really, hehe.
Greetings P2B et al It's Timmy Time. (A Canucki custom) Back shortly.
ConcernedHusseinCanuck @ 35:
This is true, but the so called "Washington Crazies" ( A nick name the neo-cons got back in the late sixties, by the way) aren't going to let go that easy. If the gap is too big for Diebold to rig, they'll pull some nasty shit, just wait and see. All I can hope for is that anyone that thinks differently than I do, get the last laugh.
Proud2bHumble @ 50:
Temper, temper. guys!
David Hawes @ 48:
Enjoy, bro.
I'm personally glad that McNoVoteIsBetterThanABadVote was absent.
Proud2bHumble @ 50:
Get yer laughs where you can find 'em, I say(this from a guy who still thinks that The Ice Storm is a black comedy)! Never know when they'll dry up...
How long is "the McList" now?
Free Sidney Hussein Lunch @ 49:
#596, thanks! Also including it on the McAKA's for kids list...lol
;-}
David Hawes @ 12:
aint it the fucking truthhhhhh!
AndyKJIl@56
LOL, almost didn't recognize ya with the new hi-top fade cut there AK, lol... click on my moniker for the new list loc (tryin ta go easy on JA's bandwidth, observe long comment courtesy, and pretty it up a little)...always fun talkin with/readin ya, lol
tyree @ 58:
Yup. Mut be My 'East Coast Bias'.
Hi tyree! Not to beat it to death, but didja get my last message at our convo back there? Just wanna make sure, then we can move on if ya like.
;-}~
David Hawes @ 60:
So what's the solution? Tune up the guillotine?
Proud2bHumble @ 62:
I leave the 'solutions' to younger folk,now. I paid My price.
David Hawes @ 63:
50,000 of my generation down the tubes for the same shit They're preachin now.
David Hawes @ 63:
I prefer Blue Hawiians, what's the most garish drink in Fla.?
David Hawes @ 64:
McArmageddonhorny says "gettin way behind, gotta catch up, bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb bomb Iran"
David Hawes @ 12:
Okay, more proof that people don't read Paul in LA. He and I agree on that point as well as quite a few others.
I know PiLA bothers the shit out of a lot of you. There are things he writes("Liar!" comes to mind) that convince me that he lacks a bit in manners. And, yes, he will jump in whenever Pelosi and/or impeachment are being discussed. BUT if some of you wouldn't keep arguing with him and simply ignore him, things would get along more...swimmingly. Agree to disagree with him.
But if you flame him without reading everything that he writes, it's on you. Just sayin'...
Proud2bHumble @ 61:
hi proud , yeah i got it, thnx for the good words , and were jake!!!!!!! so lead on !
The Obama campaign should crib on this study. It would be great to through this in McPatrician's face when he starts to go on about Obama voting "present" in the IL legislature.
Andy K Jong Il @ 67:
I read Every Word. He kisses mirrors and His favorite quotes are His own.
Proud2bHumble @ 65:
Garish? terpentine. Or sterno. It's a tie,I thunk.
David Hawes @ 71:
Prune juice and vodka, it's called a Pile Driver!
Free Sidney Hussein Lunch @ 69:
There are so many talking points Obama could use against McCain he would win in a landslide, and this is one arrow in a bundle so big he wont have to shoot half of them. When Obama speaks of McCain he does so in a respectful, as well as restrained, fashion.
However, if Clinton somehow weasels her way in, expect McCain to morph from confused old man who would be hung from his own petard into warrior hero who stands for freedom, America, and everything warm and fuzzy in the world.
Andy K Jong Il @ 67:
Ya know I love ya'll (and if ya didn't ya do now, blush), but I gotta go with Andy on this one. I don't understand why Paul is so harsh, and I don't agree with that about him, but he's sharp as shit and knows what the fuck he's talking about when it comes to the facts and his take on them.
In the fight to pull this country's (and world's) head out of its ass, I'm glad we're all on the same team. It's gettin time for us to pull together as a team a bit more so we can start gettin the contard cancer out. We can settle all of our smaller differences with all the acrimony ya like once the biggest threat is outta the way...IMHO.
;-}
David Hawes @ 71:
LOL, ya did a 2b like punny, lol
lafin gas @ 72:
Garnished with a matzo ball?
David Hawes @ 70:
But you DON'T, otherwise you would have picked up on the fact that PiLA talks about the coup (starting the SCOTUS ruling on the Florida recount in '00) a lot. Have you ever read anything he's jotted off on Feinstein? You'd probably agree with him 100%. Okay, 83%, but ...
Again, I understand why PiLA grates on some peoples' nerves. But instead of pulling the grater away you apply more pressure, allowing him to grate more effectively. Not sayin' any of you who fight with him are bad people, I'm just sayin' that your using the wrong tactics to quiet him down or shut him up- which seems to be the objective, no?
[First, FIFY. Second, let's get it back on topic, please. Thank you. Site Monitor]
OK Dems! Hit it!! Hit it hard!!!
Obama and Hillary have to start hitting McCain and not each other (I'm sure nobody has said that in the first 75 comments!)
Andy K Jong Il @ 77:
I'd just rather he drop the insults and use a little more honey. He seems very tired and impatient sometimes. I get the impression he's been in the fight against fascism for a long time.
I went to the site for DMI for public policy and checked my Congresscritter Bill Nelson D of Florida and was really surprised to see that he got an A, with a score of 83%. Others with the same score were given B or a D.
Nelson is not exactly a Blue Dog, but he is not very good on most issues. He voted for the awful Bankruptcy Bill which wasn't even on the list of bills they considered for the grade.
Anybody out there want to explain this to me?
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FastMovingCloud @ 78:
Its not nice to beat up old people.
Andy K Jong Il @ 77:
No
David Hawes @ 82:
LOL!!!
uhhmm... wass FIFY?
No the object is to discuss freely here- The site monitor is right-BUT. My point was some of US have lost the energy that certain commenters have left to fight. I don't like being called names just as anyone else. I have been guilty of it and I have reformed myself to continue here.
Andy K Jong Il @ 77:
Let's work on this with all parties some more at future opportunities. They're more than worth it, all of them...
Back on topic. Sorry SM!
EliteLemming @ 85:
Fixed It For You. I typoed. Sometimes I'm a pain in the ass and ask the monitor to fix it. Sometimes thet're watching and nip it in the bud. Pays off having spent a lot of spare time here over the past three or four years. :^D
Proud2bHumble @ 79:
that can be a useful training method, get students to think and argue.
just my tuppence worth
EliteLemming @ 82:
zombies dont count
McSocialclimber left his middle class roots behind with his first family.Which begs the question: if he were to succeed in his quest would the First Lady be the Second Lady?
Proud2bHumble @ 87:
Absolutely! I came over here from dU a few years back because , well, it was nicer. And it had all that video when no one else did. But mostly because it was nicer. C&Lers- not just Amato and the team, but all of us- are capable of having arguments with each other yet still get along. Two of my favorite people who used to post here- Con and marcos- are both Republicans(Con much more so than marcos). But they argued hard without getting nasty, and then hung with us at the LNMC.
Maybe I'm asking to much in an election year, but this internecine warfare that we've been seeing here must abate (pun intended) or progressives will reap what they have sown.
ferrofluid @ 89:
Comprendo, but his concise analysis get lost in the melee, and we need to pull together to beat an army of contards financed by sociopathic plutocrats and fight smart and hard...
Andy K Jong Il @ 92:
LOL, spoken like a master debater, lol...
Andy K Jong Il @ 92:
Amen brother. I've been preaching to that invisible choir for some time.
Peter G @ 91:
No, cause his keeper would be a dicktaboutit, lol
#597 ;-}
Proud2bHumble @ 93:
So whos going to say the magic word three times "imp... impe... impea..."
Task Master @ 2:
Smart Democrats alternative will be McCain, if he is the only experienced candidate in November, who actually has a record.
ferrofluid @ 97:
Fuck, bro, I hear ya there. I think we all gotta say it all the time everywhere. Maybe I'll start a list... ;-}
NoClintonVoteMcCain @ 98:
yes he does have a record and it plays at 78rpm, Bomb Iran, Barbara Ann or similar.
NoClintonVoteMcCain @ 98:
After Obama and Clinton move into the White House and get all the contard sludge cleaned outta the DOJ, he'll definitely have a record, along with chimpy, KKKarl and a host of other that'll look great in orange.
NoClintonVoteMcCain @ 98:
Ha Ha Ha Ha!
McCain is no alternative to Clinton, he's like buying a used jalopy with 200,000 miles on it, or buying an experiemental hybrid in Clinton you at least know is not supposed to break down. Some unknown glitches are inevitable but you at least hope for it not to be spewing oil and steam like the McCain mobile
Proud2bHumble @ 99:
Maybe places its impolite to mention the I word ;)
#1 Congress
#2 MSM
#3 near any Federal employee (tasers hurt)
#4 any public place with LE watching (see above)
#5 while rogering the mistress and avoiding the MSM
#6 chasing after Pages in DC
#7 while out hunting with Dick C
'a host of other' - I'd fix it if I was anal but I'm not so I won't.
Hey SM! Whenya gonna start coverin MY!!!!! ass? lol
[FIFY. Happy now? ; ) Site Monitor]
ferrofluid @ 103:
1. Congress is listening to the sphere more and more.
2. Let the msmotherfuckers keep marginalizing themselves.
3. "Don't lase me bro!!"
4. Posters, stickers, bumper stickers on the neighbors cars to replace those fading 'W's etc.
5. Ok, some things are more impotent than democracy. I'll give it to ya on that one...lol
6. Repedophiles back dick/bush.
7. As long as I have a gun too, that'd be fine.
Proud2bHumble @ 104:
So happy me...
odanny @ 102:
Obama is the experimental new car which claims to run on water, but shows no proof & can't say how. If Clinton is not a candidate in November, McCain is a more proven alternative than Mr. Present.
NoClintonVoteMcCain @ 107:
McCain is proven i one sense: He has lost his grasp on reality. Clinton is just a Bush enabling Republican lite, she may actually balance the scales between justice and injustice, whereas McCain is clearly delusional and his grasp on reality has been repeatedly proven by his comments either on Iraq or while visiting Iraq that the man is in the early stages of senility, or the late stages of denial, neither, and I do mean neither, is appropriate for leading the direction of a nation. It's a non starter in every sense.
How can you not grasp such an obivously deal breaker?
Then look at his SENATE RECORD, he gets a failing grade for even pretending to give a shit what happens to middle America.
McCain could be worse than Bush, trying to fix his catastrophe by pouring more money and troops into Iraq.
And looking at that report card, whoever authored or proofread the grades on all the Senators gave exceptionally poor grades to all the Repukes (a majority were F) and exceptionally good grades to the Democrats (not only "A's" but lots "A+'s")
Isnt that a wee bit biased? I'm gonna have to wonder about this report cards accuracy when seeing such a gradeout.
However, judging the score of my Repuke Congressional representative, it appears to be accurate.
Oh wow, look at the House:
Members who received an "A" or "A+"
Democrats: 85%
Republicans: 1%
Members who failed:
Democrats: 0%
Republicans: 72%
McTheMiddleClassCanGoFuckThemselves
So exactly who identified the two dozen members of the middle class that are left, so this groundbreaking bit of news could be made? And where do they live...I have a used car to sell.
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