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Former Vice President Al Gore is basking in the global spotlight for nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar, but a growing nu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/68 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:14:37 (Edited for big goofs!)

This past week, I, along with ~250 others, were in a training session with Al Gore on the global warming issue. I came back home late on Thursday night and am still trying to recover from the emotional high and calm down enough to write a rational report on it!

It wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/67 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:14:47 in life -- such people usually make the right decisions.

How do I know he has that? I can never forget the scene last year on the
House floor when that wretch from Ohio all but called Murtha a coward --
Ford tried to rush her! Later some reporter who was there observed that
Ford was enrag... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/66 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:47:04 that I never sent him! (His email that provoked it is attached below my rant.)

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Keep on keeping at it! We will soon fulfill all the Bushbots' wishes and be well on our way to the end... Meanwhile, in the real world, poverty is up,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/65 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:17:20 http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/bookclub/2006/sep/13/base_bush_and_bushs_base

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That much is straightforward, I think. But it also must be said that Bush incarnates certain potentials long embedded in movement conservatism, potentials that, in ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/64 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:13:30 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701259.html

(Thanks to Eric Alterman for the link -- I never go to the WP by myself these days...)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/63 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:49:40 1. Elected Dems must present a united/consistent/concerted front against the dangerous/suicidal Rethug excesses. At some point, this business of giving them the benefit of the doubt should stop, in order to make it clear to the people (who are usually short of time, resources and the inclination t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/2 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:35:48 Over the last few years, his fallback on any baiting is "Kennedy/Chappaquiddick" or "Clinton/BlueDress".

Lately he has taken to sending me all these funny sites spoofing K/C, without any opening provocation from me! And today, he needled me one too many times and here are my two email responses ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/3 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:07:25 This is a rant that I wrote for another forum -- thought it might be of interest here too!

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I guess most people have moved on now from that original discussion. So I am simply going to address some salient points here, es... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/4 Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:53:23 "People versus the Powerful" and his constant, unremitting references to "Big Oil".

As usual, the media made fun of it and the sheeple, this time including progressive, otherwise intelligent people, went along happily.

I had not followed politics all that much until then; but the difference be... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/5 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:42:07 by 1994, there was absolutely only a ghost of a 60's liberal tendency left in the Dems. What had taken its place was the constant trumpetings of Rush and wannabes on the AM radio about the evil evil liberals. In other words, their work is relevant if Limbaugh's world of evildoers (aka liberals) re... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/6 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:17:27 that makes such a possibility much less likely: they never can get into the kind of lockstep that is needed to pull off the "winning is everything" mindset (just witness the clockwork regularity of the DU circular firing squads :-)

Second, the Democratic party has too many different disparate int... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/13 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:32:15 On the other hand, the argument could be made that when one's character is impugned, the best defense is witnesses other than one-self. Where were the other Dems, when their standard-bearers (who were known to be almost too good to be true: Gore was routinely referred to as a "boy-scout" by those ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/8 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:37:55 In the short run though, Dems have to engage the conversation and call the wing nuts on their feigned piety, because these irresponsibles have made it a high-visibility issue totally for opportunistic reasons -- we have to now separate the wheat from the chaff before we can turn down the volume. Th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/10 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:17:39 just because someone quotes from the(ir) scriptures. It is ok to invoke that which moves you the most, if indeed it does -- it need not necessarily be perceived to be threatening -- and I speak as a part of a miniscule minority in this country: agnostic, and a Hindu by birth.

The problem comes f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/9 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:53:14 Enough with this inanity, already. Both Kerry and Gore were saying pretty much the same things during their campaigns too -- it is just that the media doesnt pump it up (or even cover :-() and even folks at DU, who should be more aware of what our own candidates have been saying all along, find it ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/7 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:05:45 I have been meaning to post an apology to the Republicans on the forum and out in the country for repeatedly using "Rethugs" in my postings.

I do mean to include under that umbrella only the thugs that are misusing power so shortsightedly that they are making a mockery of their own much-touted pa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/14 Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:26:58 The Democrats in Congress are much more faithful to fundamental liberal/progressive tenets than we give them credit for. Don't use single issues, especially ones in which the outcome is not dependent on any Dem votes (such as is the case with anything in Congress these days, controlled as it is by ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/15 Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:43:27 However, keep this also in mind: what if you believed Saddam really posed a long time danger to us and the world, given the euphoria of the Qaeda camp after their 9/11 muscle-flex (thereby tempting Saddam to start working with them, even if he did personally detest them)? What if you thought that a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/16 Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:03:03 I kind of sense a schizophrenic reaction from some of the staunchest Republicans: they seem to be happy and even proud to belong to the party, but are not quite as sunny or upbeat about Bush.

The problem with even the rank-and-file Republicans seems to be that they "know" firmly which side of th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/19 Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:14:15 But, I think their motivations are not of real concern to us right now (I hate saying that we dont need to learn something, but, read on to see why I am saying that). I am almost afraid that if we delve into what must be dark dark depths, we are not likely to survive with enough energy to fight the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/18 Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:39:12
They (Corporate Media + Rethugs) will do the same number on any "fresh face" that they did to Gore and Kerry -- they did it to Clinton too, who was fortunate enough to (a) have Perot around and (b) have no electronic voting for easy fraud.

We have to, in fact, embrace aggressively our past (muc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/17 Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:23:44 I am not advocating voting blindly for the Democrats either.

(Believe me, I do sympathize with your frustration; been there, done that, though not as long ;-)

Voting is not even what I am talking about.

I believe very strongly that there is a fabric of opinions that gets woven into the publ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/24 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:23:43 How long are you willing to tolerate Rethug reign?

The contrasts and consequences of our actions do not get any starker than they did in 2000 and 2004. Stay and fight from within: this is our only real(istic) choice...... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/23 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:49:11 I have been there and sometimes still am...

But I also worry about the consequences of my *own* actions, not merely of those that I am free to critique. What good does it do to quit on the apparatus, based upon a frustration with the current contents?

Take the object lesson of Nader, for ins... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sick_of_Rethuggery/22 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:28:24