So what?

Now Democrats can't keep company and friendships with Republicans, are they untouchables now or what. I don't see the point. Wasserman is one of the most liberal members of the house, and head of the "Red to Blue" Program. In the capitol building there's a certain degree of respect and amnity expected and kept between members, which is why so many Republicans started jeering at Rep. Schmidt was well when she made her statements about Murtha. It's considered kind of unprofessional to campaign against Representatives from your own state delegation directly, attnending fundraisers and whatnot these days is perfectly fine. But we barely have a race against Ros-Lehtenin, it's a Republican district, so no real damage done, and it's not like her statements are that importany anyway, unless we give them importance. People should be allowed to say nice things about their friends, period, as politics should not come in between friendship and family.  

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus

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by: ArkDem the Ragin Cajin @ Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 21:34:50 PM UTC

It's called "Red to Blue" for a reason

She's in the leadership of the "Red to Blue" program. I sure hope they're going after Republican districts, so we can get enough seats to get things done.

And for being so liberal, I wonder what this quote is all about.

She worked last year, Ros-Lehtinen says, ''like a tiger'' to help quash a push to ease travel and trade restrictions, delivering pro-travel advocates a big loss.

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by: Progressive America @ Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 22:14:47 PM UTC

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This isn't a tea party.

We've got a war to end, an economy to salvage, a health care disaster that needs to be fixed, and here you are wistfully longing for more pols to indulge each other in bipartisan backslapping?

Give me a break.

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by: James L. @ Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 02:18:09 AM UTC

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no,

Now, I'm not going to say this rude, as you did, but what I want is more bipartisanship, and less virulent partisanship which has become so widespread. That, and I'm upholding my personal, over opinion and policy; politics doesn't come between family and personal friendships. I'm a raging liberal, but because I've always lived in obnoxiously conservative areas I've never had liberal friends, and my family is mostly very conservative, so I have a personal belief of ambability between parties, upholding certain boundries, (which infuriates because the Republicans on't uphold them), and that most of all, people shouldn't let politics come between family and friendship.

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus

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by: ArkDem the Ragin Cajin @ Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 22:14:41 PM UTC

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