Don't care what lying sophistries you employ as you pull the ripcord, just leave.
"Top-ranking Democrat Obey says he’ll exit House; Wisc. progressive was facing strong GOP challenge" by Andrew Taylor, Associated Press | May 6, 2010
WASHINGTON — Representative David Obey, a leading liberal Democrat but a symbol of entrenched incumbency that’s falling out of favor with discontented voters, said yesterday he will retire at the end of his term this year.
The decision by the often gruff House veteran of four decades and influential Appropriations Committee chairman dealt Democrats defending their majority another blow headed into a midterm election where they already confronted a significant loss of seats.
Obey, at 71 the third longest-serving current member of the House, faced a potentially bruising reelection campaign this fall for the northwestern Wisconsin seat he’s held since winning a special election in 1969.
Just as we thought; DemocraPs have no spine.
At a hastily called Capitol Hill news conference, Obey told reporters he was confident he could have won another term, but that with the passage of landmark health care legislation this year, he felt he had accomplished much of what he set out to do in Washington.
That is such a BS reason.
That's what you set out to do and the health bill is what you came up with after all this time?
“There is a time to stay and a time to go. And this is my time to go,’’ Obey said. “Frankly I hate to do it. There is so much that needs to be done. But even more frankly I am bone tired.’’
I believe the tired part, bit he contradicted everything he said previously.
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Democrats, who hold a comfortable majority, expect to lose seats in November, a typical trend for a new president’s party in the first midterm elections. Complicating Democratic prospects are a slide in support for Congress and President Obama as well as the party’s agenda....
Obey also can have an irascible, sometimes prickly demeanor and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. In a 2007 incident, he was captured on camera by an anti-war group telling activists who confronted him outside his Capitol Hill office that “idiot liberals’’ didn’t understand Democrats’ strategy for leaving Iraq....
Oh, so the ANTIWAR FOLK are FOOLS now, huh?
And when he said idiot liberals he must have been referring to himself.
So are we out yet, Dave? It's been three years!!!
