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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (1549)	2/1/2001 6:06:20 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

This link disappeared moments after I read it. Here is a cut and paste from U.S.A.Today. WASHINGTON — Ralph Nader's former allies, angered by his role in helping President Bush win the White House, are taking steps that could reduce his clout in Congress. "Who's going to work with him now?" says Michigan Rep. John Conyers , top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. The backlash against Nader, who placed a distant third in the presidential election on the Green Party line, is widespread. Democrats are closing doors on Capitol Hill. Some liberal activists have stopped contributing to his consumer groups. Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, which Nader founded in 1971, says lawmakers have told her that they will not work with the consumer advocate. He was even rebuffed from testifying at Senate hearings on John Ashcroft's nomination as attorney general. "We're not going to touch him with a 10-foot pole," Rep. Robert Wexler , D-Fla., says. "He has divorced himself from the very ideals that made him a worthwhile political actor. He sold out his constituency." Stunned by the backlash, Nader has asked Marcus Raskin of the Institute for Policy Studies, an anti-globalization think tank, to reach out to environmentalists, trial lawyers and Democrats. "The anger of the past is going to be very hard to transcend," Raskin says. Polls have shown that about half of Nader voters would have voted for Al Gore if Nader had not run, compared with about 20% for Bush. That would have given Florida and New Hampshire — and the White House — to Gore. Nader says he doubts that former allies will continue to shun him and his groups. "What are they going to say, 'We don't want your help?' " he says. "Is the Democratic Party, in its latter stages of decay, now one for masochism?" Nader says he is not ready to put his political efforts aside. He says he wants the Greens to run more than 1,000 candidates for local, state and federal offices in 2002, up from 280 in 2000. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., says it is "bizarre" for Nader to believe that Democrats would welcome him after he attacked them during the election . "Nader can never admit he was wrong," Frank says.