What do these real leaders look like? Who are they? Well a few are emerging. Here are the ones that the Queen considers to be the most outstanding of them all:
FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
At the top of the list–the creme de la creme, we have Dennis Kucinich--a tried and true blue American. Dennis may very well be the ONLY person in Congress who has NEVER lied to his constituents. My guess is that any other politician running for the President of the USA would have lied when asked if he had seen a UFO (even if they had seen one as have thousands of NORMAL Americans from such sources as airplane pilots). Dennis stood up for the city of Cleveland and refused to sell their utility company to a bank–not because it was the politically expedient thing to do, but because it was the right thing to do. As a result, he was politically exiled for 10 years from 1988 to 1998 when the City of Cleveland finally realized that Kucinich was right and apologized to him.
Anthony Weiner – Representative from New York. Mr. Weiner is another truth teller who does not mince words. He knows like all the other elected officials that single payer is the only real solution to health care in the USA, but Weiner is among the very few who is willing to go on record and speak the truth.
Alan Grayson–another truth teller from the House of Representatives. Even though he is a freshmen from Florida, Grayson has already provided an example of what it looks like to stand up and call out the Republican liars in the House of Representatives. Good for him for his presentation on the Republican healthcare plan–don’t get sick and if you do, die quickly. Grayson spoke the truth and this is why his message is so powerful. NOTHING BEATS THE TRUTH FOR STRENGTH AND POWER. NOTHING! and the people know when another is speaking the truth and when they are mealy mouthing.
Maxine Waters--Representative from California–another tried and true representative of the people. You can count on Maxine to NEVER back away from the truth–whether it is on the issue of health care, FISA or Wall Street bailouts.
Yes, there are others in the House that are good people too, but these are the best in my opinion.
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FROM THE SENATE
Al Franken–I knew Al was going to be great and that is why I sent him about $200 over the course of his struggles with Norm Coleman to rightfully be allowed to represent the people of Minnesota. During the tea party days of August I watch Al talking to people in Minnesota about health care. Al listens and gives intelligent feedback. He calms the waters without, at the same time selling the farm (a talent that some in leadership positions in the Democratic party need to learn). His greatest triumph so far is his amendment that was just passed on Oct 6 that will allow rape victims their day in court–no more corporate arbitration in rape cases for corporations like Halliburton, thanks to Al’s amendment. Al did something else that no other Democrat has done–he single handedly turned over 13 Senate seats to the Democrats in 2010. That’s right 30 male Republicans actually had the lack of sense to vote against this amendment. They may as well have signed a contract to end their careers. 13 of the 30 are up for re-election in 2010.
Patrick Leahy- Patrick is another great Senator from Vermont who always does the right thing. I have contributed several hundred dollars to his campaigns over the years as well. He had the guts to stand up and protest to the Senate who debated for less than two hours to remove habeas corpus. He is one of the few Senators to have voted against the Patriot Act. Just recently Senator Leahy had the courage to go against the herd think of the Senate and do the right thing for ACORN. Senator Leahy was among the seven who said no to defunding ACORN. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT! Only 7 Democrats in the Senate had the guts to stand up to the Republican Joe McCarthy act on ACORN–an organization that has done more for the poor of this nation than perhaps any other organization on the books.
HERE ARE THE OTHER SIX–also all leaders, all brave souls who you can count on to do the right thing for the majority of Americans. Go HERE to see their photos.
Dick Durbin
Ronald Burris
Robert Casey
Kirsten Gillibrand
Bernie Sanders
Sheldon Whitehouse
