DREAM Act causes ugly breakup on left

Slowly but surely those 5 democrats will have to pay for what they did . Here is some evidence .


http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/belt...stributionEndp

Markos Moulitsas, the influential founder of the lefty website DailyKos, used to love Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.* Starting back in December 2004, when Moulitsas first praised Tester, then a farmer-turned-state-legislator, as a Democrat who "naturally speaks the language of rural America," the DailyKos has portrayed Tester as the cutting edge of a movement by which once deep-red western states would become swing states and then, perhaps, permanently blue.
In June 2006, Moulitsas was rhapsodic when Tester won the Democratic primary to challenge then-Sen. Conrad Burns.* "What a great night," Moulitsas wrote.* "Not only did the best Democrat win, but so did Conrad Burns' worst nightmare. Say hello to the next Senator from the great state of Montana."* Electing Tester and other favored progressives would create "a whole new ballgame in Washington DC," Moulitsas added.* "Let's do everything we can to make it happen."
Moulitsas certainly did his part, promoting the Tester campaign -- "This is the future face of the Democratic Party," he swooned -- and contributing $1,500 to Tester in October 2006.* When Tester defeated Burns, part of a Democratic wave that took over the Senate and House that year, Moulitsas was ecstatic.
Now that's all a bitter memory.* On Capitol Hill, Democrats are using the lame-duck session to try to ram through some key unfinished parts of their agenda.* Among them is the DREAM Act immigration bill, a favorite of Moulitsas'.* And on Friday, Jon Tester, once the darling of DailyKos, announced that he will vote against it.
Moulitsas' reaction was swift and furious.* "Jon Tester to vote against DREAM," Moulitsas tweeted Friday night.* "Good luck getting re-elected, a--hole."* Moulitsas began re-tweeting negative comments about Tester -- one said, "Sen. Tester's active misrepresentation of DREAM act isn't just burning his bridges, it's going at them with a blowtorch."* And then Moulitsas added his own final remark: "Anyone who votes to punish innocent kids is a de facto a--hole."
The DREAM Act isn't the only cause of the breach; just a couple of days before, Tester voted to extend all the Bush tax cuts.* But there's no doubt the love affair is over.* When Tester runs for re-election in 2012, he'll have to do it without some of his most passionate supporters from 2006.

Do you think the 5 Senators democratic senators that voted against the dream act being from conservative states care about what the San Francisco far left newspaper says. Really these democrats were probably told by Reid to vote against so they could have some hope of getting re-elected in there state next election. Because the Republicans already gained 7 seats in the last election and there are nothing but democratic senators in the next election so all those democrats that got elected in Republican states the prior election had to vote against it or the Senate will wind up being a Republican majority next election. Its that simple politics.

Kyl from Arizona. A name I'll never forget.

Kyl from Arizona he was never going to vote for the Dream Act look what is going on in that state. He would be just asking to be thrown out next election. Economy , Unemployment, demanded which pissed people off these are the reason the bill was dead. I mean once every one realizes the reason of what went wrong then you can develop a sane plan.

Don't fall for that bullshit excuse. The American people didn't kill the bill, backward,ignorant racist senators did.

^^^^^this

Yes, I think while everyone says look at the latino vote, those 5 senators had to deal with a much bigger and angrier redneck vote from their states. I don't think a Senator from Montana cares about the latino vote, to be honest with you.

No, they couldve simply caucus with the democrats for cloture and voted against the dream act once it was time for a real vote. What the democrat senators did was to caucus with the republican which made a partisan move to block cloture. This is actually detrimental to any future campaign if you ask me. At the end of the day it was their choice to block it and not that of their constituents since they voted democrat and not republican.