ENDA--Now the art of the impossible

Politicians as wimps: Where are those stalwarts who actually vote their principles and never stick their fingers in the wind?  With their eyes on the next election, that being their chief concern, only that which enhances victory is worth voting for or against.  When a representative cares more for self-preservation than their constituents, we've lost our representative government, and are being led by the unworthy.   Consider this (and remember it on election day):

Freshman Democrats Kill Transgender Amendment

By Jonathan E. Kaplan, The Hill

Reps. Tim Walz (Minn.) and Ron Klein (Fla.), leaders of the class of
freshman Democrats, carried a message to Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) on Tuesday that their fellow first-term lawmakers did not
want to vote on an amendment extending civil rights to transgender
employees.

House Education and Labor panel Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.),
whose committee passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, said he
told the freshman lawmakers at their Wednesday breakfast with Pelosi
that the amendment did not have the votes to pass and would not be
brought to the House floor.

In addition, Miller told the freshmen he recognized that the
amendment exposed the first-term lawmakers to political attacks from
conservatives and liberals alike, said two sources who attended the
breakfast.

We can only hope that these freshman never become sophomores.