He does not scream and yell for us. That is the point. He screams and yells when it benefits him. He stands down on REAL issues that REALLY affect Americans. He will scream for healthcare to a thousand workers for his own district that will vote for him, but not for 300 million Americans? He even pledged to not vote for healthcare without a public option yet he did anyway.
What about the heroes we have in Iraq and Afghanistan that are there for utter lies. When Obama sits there and hints at prolonging past the deadline, does he stand and yell? Hundreds of thousands of people have died for these conflicts. NO, he does not yell. No, he does not tell the others to stand down.
What about Elizabeth Warren, certainly a hero who has done much to help Americans? When Dodd and others say "not her" for the position she created, does he stand up and yell at Obama and Dodd to stand aside and let her protect Americans? No, he doesn't.
This guy is as much of a progressive as Obama is.
"He even pledged to not vote for healthcare without a public option yet he did anyway."
I agreed with everything you said in that first paragraph until that line. Show me any kind of evidence to support that outrageous claim and maybe I'll consider it. But that is a wildly outrageous claim.
You are right in your 2nd and 3rd paragraphs, but what are they going to do? Scream their lungs out for what? The system is broken, we all know that, how do you blame and accuse Weiner, Grayson, and the like for trying to speak out and stand up to the system.
Yes he caved, just like Kucinich. But both are the strongest progressives in our congress? If they are any better please point them out.
My main point is that I was mad you were picking on weiner when the hundreds of other democrats in the house sit on their ass and say nothing
