Tea Party? How about Coffee Party? (The progressive way to engage and change the narrative)

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Friday February 26, 2010 · 11:37 AM PST

2010/02/26 · 11:37

Apparently, there is a progressive alternative to the Tea-Party movement that is beginning to percolate (sorry for the pun): The Coffee Party.

What in the name of Java and Joe is the Coffee Party? As the founder of The Coffee Party, Annabel Park, says:

We gain a voice by organizing local chapters, and we need our volunteers to learn to effectively and respectfully communicate amongst themselves and with their elected representatives. We are a democracy and every vote DOES count, and we have to engage everyone in the political process -- that's the only way we're going to have a government that represents the will of the people.

In Washington, it will matter that, as voters, we will determine the outcome of elections.

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Monday February 22, 2010 · 10:31 PM PST

2010/02/22 · 22:31

Like many of you reading this, I proudly voted for President Obama in 2008. Like many of you I spent a lot of time and energy helping to get him elected (many of us pitched in with canvassing, making phone calls, talking to or sending emails to family, friends, classmates, co-workers, etc, participating in blogs, or basically engaging many people that you came across in your daily lives in making them aware of the issues from the last election and Obama's positions on them). Like many of you I have watched his first year in office with a mixture of hope and frustration. And, like many of you, the combination of this frustration and the inevitable letdown after campaigning for so long in 2008 (and 2007 and 2006) left me somewhat disengaged over the past 12 months. I get the sense that too many of us have done this, and accordingly we have ceded too much of the narrative and too much of the messaging to Republicans and tea-baggers.

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[I've updated this diary per the comments and to add some additional links]

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Monday March 10, 2008 · 7:14 AM PDT

2008/03/10 · 07:14

Sorry if this topic has already been diaried, but a quick search revealed that it hadn't. It occurred to me that looking at two of the big stories over the past week (at least according to the media) - that Clinton noted that she and Republican John McCain had passed the Commander-In-Chief threshold (whatever that is exactly) and Obama hadn't, and that both Hillary and Bill have been pushing the idea that Obama should be Hillary's VP - that the 2 statements are incompatible. One interpretation is that Hillary will say anything to win. I know, tough to believe. The second, is that she obviously does believe Obama passes the CiC threshold.

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With respect to the CiC, and VP issues is Hillary

2 votes Vote Now!

With respect to the CiC, and VP issues is Hillary

Merely playing politics and using poor judgment

0 votes

Lying about her feelings about Obama's qualifications to be CiC

0 votes

Neither

0 votes

Both

2 votes

Dick Cheny Democrats? It's not that simple.

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Friday May 25, 2007 · 10:58 AM PDT

2007/05/25 · 10:58

This is my first diary though I have been a long time reader of DKos. Feel free to flame away. I suppose I won't really feel part of the community until that occurs.

As are most of this on DKos, I was very disappointed that the Iraq funding flap ended with the result it did this week. However, for those castigating the Dems over this, I respectfully submit most (as 90+%) of the blame for this result is Bush and the congressional Republicans.

Please see the article I have linked to below written by Jonathan Alter about this week's vote. He expresses my arguments better than I could have.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Also, while this will come as no comfort to the families of the military personnel who will die as a direct result of whatever delay this week's vote causes on our eventually pullout of Iraq, at least we got the minimum wage bill passed. This was a major campaign promise and a bill Bush repeatedly said he would veto. This funding battle will be waged again in September and I believe the Dems will get more in that battle.

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