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The polar ice caps are melting.
40K plus iraq war dead, $1.5 trillion looted
an illegimate and criminal president
elections rigged worldwide
widespread corruption, bribery and pay to play
unsettling 9/11 questions
corporate lies condition us
quality of life declining

democracy in america is slowly dying. our nations ignorance and apathy will eventually lead to our enslavement.

For the sake of your family, and future generations it's critical to
pay attention, get involved and then get THE people you know to care, pay attention and get involved.

Together we will
expose the lies, take back government from the criminal element that captured it,
assess and address the damage
and reclaim our inalienable rights.


Apathy is a killing us.
WAKE UP AMERICA!

The DLC.

This country is ripe for a progressive populist take over, that's why the DLC is fighting so hard and so dirty to keep control of our party. If and when we take over expect the DLC to make a big show of "leaving the party" and forming a third party a la Liberman.

Seems to be part of the DLC/D.C. establishment/consultant culture that brought us the Clinton lurch to the right.

The ones who keep our party weak in order to maintain thier slippery grip on power.

They have stripped the party of any sort of populist justification in order to please thier corporate paymasters/puppeteers.

During his debate with Democratic challenger Ned Lamont last night, Joe Lieberman tried desperately to distance himself from a president whose war he has spent so much time supporting. Meanwhile, George W. Bush was doing his best to keep his distance from Lieberman in an interview with Larry King -- not because he doesn't 'ppreciate his support, but because he said he's wary of giving Lieberman a "political kiss" -- they've already shared the real kind -- which "may be his death."

So did all the distancing work?

You be the judge.

Yes, Lieberman said last night that he would have handled Iraq differently than Bush did after the war began, and he also pointed to other issues on which he's disagreed with the president in the past. But again and again last night -- as it has been again and again over the last six years -- it sure was hard to tell one man from the other.

Think you can do it?

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/200...

Seriously...why don't we have a documentary that targets the GOP? The history, the tactics they have invented. The way they stand in the way of every bit of American progress? Thier war against civil rights, the way they are ushering in theocracy and an executive branch with powers approaching dictatorship.

As for a titlle.... how about "Catastrophe: The Grand Old Party's transformation from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Bush."

The left could destroy the Republican party if it would just FOCUS on the BASICS, and leverage the new media effectively.

AmericaBlog:

Dems. won't redistrict like Texas even where they can

Last week, the Supreme Court said it was okay for state legislatures to gerrymander at any time. The GOP had pushed the envelope in Texas with their redistricting plan -- for purely political reasons -- and it was upheld. So are Democrats going to to do the same thing where they can? Of course not. That would be too political and not bi-partisan:

In Illinois, as in many other states, the current congressional map is the product of a bipartisan agreement to protect incumbents of both parties, election after election. Democrats, who hold 10 of the state's 19 House seats, control the legislature and hope to reelect Gov. Rod Blagojevich this fall. They possibly could gain another House seat or two in the 2008 elections by packing Republican voters into overwhelmingly GOP-leaning districts, the tactic that DeLay used against Texas Democrats.

But recent history suggests that they will demur. The current district lines have strong support in both parties, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) got nowhere last year with a bid to redraw them in retaliation for what happened in Texas. "I couldn't get enough fellow Democrats to see the benefits of that," said Emanuel, who chairs his party's campaign to elect more House members.

Rahm's quote should be astounding. But, it's not. And it explains why Democrats are in the minority. The GOP picked up seats in 2004 because they redistricted Texas. The Illinois Democrats could have re-districted the Speaker of the House this year. But, no, that would be mean.

This passage explains so much. And for the record, AMERICAblog suggested redistricting Illinois in November of 2004.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/07/de...

DLC toadies fight campaign finance reform; traditional Democrats (i.e. liberals/progressives) support campaign reform, including public financing of elections.

It was the DLC caucus that fought Feingold tooth and nail in an attempt to axe McCain-Feingold, a good first step on this issue.

The DLC is funded by corporations to get corporate-friendly, anti-worker, anti-consumer laws passed in Congress. That is thier mission. Why else would corporate america be funding them to the tune of seven million a year? Because Corporations love Democrats? No. Because they want Democrats to be Republican-lite. Even a fool understands the motivation at play here.

It's pay to play, plain and simple and the DLC is saying... no this is good for our party. Bullshit.

The fact that most candidates take corporate money is a problem. A problem the DLC will say is not a problem and that progressives challenge and aim to change.

I'm not a Spitzer fan-boy but I'm pretty sure the DLC and thier corporate donors have major problems with what he did as AG. Pointing out one decent DLC person to defend the DLC is a pretty pathetic attempt on your part. Not that you have much to work with.

Then you have the fact that the DLC tries to claim everyone as "New Democrat", sometimes with hillarious results:

To wit:

"...The chameleons at the DLC have shamelessly name any up and coming politician a "New Democrat" so as to cover their own hide inside the beltway - even if those politicians reject huge portions of the corporate DLC agenda. For instance, Sen.-elect Barack Obama rejected any “suggestion” that “inclusion of my name” on a DLC/New Democrat membership list amounted to “an endorsement on my part of the DLC platform.” Similarly, with the exception of Spratt, the leaders cited in the Prospect article broke with the corporate/DLC model in defining themselves, instead raising their profile on a populist progressive message. The Denver Post noted that Ken Salazar won his "Senate seat with populist campaign" – not the DLC's Republican-lite model. CBS 4 Denver reports John Salazar won by "hammering home a populist message that included bashing tax cuts for the rich" – the same kind of "class warfare" the DLC criticizes. Janet Napolitano built her record going after big corporations like Arthur Andersen, who had contributed lavishly to one of the DLC's key leaders, Sen. Joe Lieberman. She also built up a record prosecuting Qwest, a company that has been a major backer of the New Democrats. Wall Street, which contributes heavily to the DLC, sees crusader Eliot Spitzer's "as a meddler poking into issues best left to federal regulators and as a rabble-rousing populist," according to the Washington Post. And Stephanie Herseth hammered her opponent for supporting pacts like the Australia free trade deal, while the DLC applauded its passage."

http://www.davidsirota.com/2004/12/attack-...

This is amazing! Must see!!!

http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

If the Republican cancel the 2006 election, would China and Russia and the EU bring the Republicans to thier knees?

http://www.alternet.org/election04/20702 /

From "The Democrats' Da Vinci Code"

Fight the Class War

If patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels, crying "class warfare" is the last refuge of wealthy elitists. Yet, inexplicably, this red herring emasculates Democrats in Washington. Every time pro-middle-class legislation is offered, Republicans berate it as class warfare. Worse, they get help from corporate factions within the Democratic Party itself.

But as countless examples show, progressives are making inroads into culturally conservative areas by talking about economic class. This is not the traditional (and often condescending) Democratic pandering about the need for a nanny government to provide for the masses. It is us-versus-them red meat, straight talk about how the system is working against ordinary Americans.

In Vermont, Rep. Bernie Sanders, the House's only independent and a self-described socialist, racks up big wins in the "Northeast Kingdom," the rock-ribbed Republican region along the New Hampshire border. Far from the Birkenstock-wearing, liberal caricature of Vermont, the Kingdom is one of the most culturally conservative hotbeds in New England, the place that helped fuel the "Take Back Vermont" movement against gay civil unions.

Yet the pro-choice, pro-gay-rights Sanders' economic stances help him bridge the cultural divide. In the 1990s, he was one of the most energetic opponents of the trade deals with China and Mexico that destroyed the local economy. In the Bush era, he highlighted the inequity of the White House's soak-the-rich tax-cut plan by proposing to instead provide $300 tax-rebate checks to every man, woman, and child regardless of income (a version of Sanders' rebate eventually became law). For his efforts, Sanders has been rewarded in GOP strongholds like Newport Town. While voters there backed George W. Bush and Republican Gov. Jim Douglas in 2004, they also gave Sanders 68 percent of the vote.

For the first time in more than a decade, Democrats seem to have a shot at taking back Congress. But also for the first time in recent history, Congress is on the cusp of switching hands without a voter mandate. How is that possible? Because Democrats are only in the hunt thanks to gross Republican missteps—and they are going out of their way to make sure their potential election to the majority is about nothing. Call it the Seinfeld strategy.

Los Angeles Times columnist Ron Brownstein reports, “Democratic leaders are drifting toward a midterm message that indicts Bush more on grounds of competence (on issues such as Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and prescription drugs) than ideology.”

As a short-term electoral tactic, the Seinfeldian “competence” strategy allows the GOP to right itself with new management. Sadly, it is not a strategy based on ideological differences that puts a boot to conservatives’ neck when their hypocrisy trips them up and they fall down. Thus, while Democrats celebrate the resignations of people like Reps. Tom DeLay (Texas) and Duke Cunningham (Calif.), the GOP simultaneously celebrates because they can now counter the Democrats’ “competence” argument by pointing out that their party has sloughed off the incompetents. In short, the Republican Party and the right’s ideological agenda march forward, largely unscathed.

In making such a limited critique, Democrats tacitly validate conservatives’ ideological goals and further reinforce the public feeling that Democrats have no convictions of their own. For example, despite the GOP scandals and the political opportunities they present, Democrats refuse to push serious reforms like public financing of elections and instead push half-measures and focus on Republican missteps.

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/arti...

I dont expect my Democratic elected officials to criticize the party publicly.

Conduct unbecoming a Senator if you ask me. He'll never get a dime of support from me.

Can't we raise like 30 million for Tancredo to run or something? Or someone else? Maybe a radical anti-gay fundy cleric? Just rip the Republicans a new one.

Ever since the Clinton's and the DLC came our way.

PHXnews - A Gay Mafia in the Republican Party?

by James Buchanan

Opposition to Gay marriage is one of the biggest reasons many people still
support the Republicans. The idea of Gay marriage is a monstrous moral
abomination and the Democrats outraged ordinary Americans pushing that piece
of insanity. The Gay marriage issue is a highly charged emotional issue, and
just the sort of thing that Republicans look for, which can keep them in
power. Meanwhile other issues like reverse discrimination, the illegal war
in Iraq and an eight trillion dollar federal debt get pushed to page two.

Over the last ten years, an increasing number of Gays have turned up at high
levels in the Republican Party. There is an organization called the "Log
Cabin Republicans" which is openly Gay. Bob Dole angered mainstream
conservatives when he accepted a donation from them in the '96 presidential
election. Michael Huffington, a Republican candidate for Senator in
California in the '90s was exposed as being Gay only after he lost the
election. Congressman David Dreyer was outed by fellow homosexuals during
his last election, which he nearly lost due to his soft stance on illegal
immigration. Are these Gay Republicans who've been outed a sign of a much
larger problem?

One article reports George Bush's closest advisor, Karl Rove, has been seen
frequenting a Gay bar in Washington DC. Another article reports "The Gay
Republican Mafia is evidently in control of the Party, even as they spin
hard to avoid the obvious questions. How did so many closeted 'conservative'
gay men wind up in the upper echelons of the GOP? Should the GOP be called
the Gay Old Party now? With gay RNC chairman Ken Mehlman and the latest
outing of fake reporter Jeff Gannon, a GOPUSA/ Talon News shill, the issue
of Karl Rove has come out as well, so to speak."

An New York Daily News article reports on how a man linked to Gay
prostitution was used by Republican as a phony reporter to ask questions at
Bush press conferences: "A conservative ringer who was given a press pass to
the White House and lobbed softball questions at President Bush quit
yesterday after left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to
gay prostitution. 'The voice goes silent,' Jeff Gannon wrote on his Web
site. 'In consideration of the welfare of me and my family, I have decided
to return to private life.' Gannon began covering the White House two years
ago for an obscure Republican Web site (Talon-News.com). Gannon was also
given a classified CIA memo that named agent Valerie Plame, leading to his
grilling by the grand jury investigating her outing."

http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?artic...