SCOTUS Case Just Wrong for Dems

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Saturday April 19, 2014 · 12:54 PM PDT

2014/04/19 · 12:54

Reposted with permission: from Lou Freshwater

Overview: A Supreme Court case next week will have long-lasting implications. It could provide precedence as a place for polluters to hide. It could prevent veterans and citizens from seeking justice. But it could also be used to shift the balance of power in Washington.

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Sunday January 18, 2009 · 9:17 AM PST

2009/01/18 · 09:17

[Thanks to Casey Morris for suggesting I solicit great music to play for all of us to dance to: together and in our own space!]

Over the next few days, change is a gonna come. The change is overt: a new President, a new administration, and it is as-yet-undefined. Some startling clues exist, however: pictures of dead children in Gaza horrify us, creating the clear loud message that brutality and carnage, no matter under what guise, are not to be tolerated. A pilot saves 155 people with calm and skill that reassures us that not all disasters end in total loss and that paying attention and thinking clearly actually works sometimes. A gay bishop and a rightwing preacher both celebrate a new government that is not catering to any one constituency but appears to want to cut a swath across all, and maybe even elevate the country to a higher moral ground, without privileging one belief system or lifestyle over another.

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 7:34 AM PDT

2008/11/01 · 07:34

I woke up early this morning and it did not take long for the tears to come.

Four years ago, I was numb at this point. After almost fifteen straight months of daily and nightly work, of writing and editing and researching and arguing and convincing and listening, there was really no more to say. All I had to do was to monitor and moderate for two more days. The Kerry-Edwards Blog was coming to a close and I was more than ready for it to be over.

Richard's words of the day before had chilled me to the bone, however. As we were getting into the car that Sunday morning, he stopped. I said, "What's wrong?" He paused and then, in a very quiet voice, said "I just have a horrible feeling that all over the country people are hearing in church that they have to vote for George Bush."

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The Eternal Imprisonment of John McCain: Debate Movement Analysis

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 9:55 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 09:55

[Crossposted at the Democracy Cell Project]

The following debate analysis comes from Certified Movement Analysts Karen Bradley, Martha Eddy, and Karen Studd:

Barack Obama won the Presidental debate last night, but not because he has resolved his own conflicts and challenges. Barack Obama won the debate because John McCain has not escaped the effects from his imprisonment decades ago.

From the beginning of the evening, both men were grappling with new territory, literally. The Town Hall meeting, with the empty space in the middle and actual voters (not the usual vetted supporters) all around is a challenging space in which to deliberate. The setting resembles both a boxing ring and a one-ring circus more than it does a venue for a side-by-side presentation. Add in all of the people in television land and there is a lot to take into account. Neither man seemed comfortable in the forum, but for different reasons:

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Thursday June 12, 2008 · 10:16 AM PDT

2008/06/12 · 10:16

This just in: My friend Lori called and said she had tried to get tickets for a so-called Town Hall event in New York City tonight. Apparently, originally, Mayor Bloomberg had invited Barack Obama and John McCain together to do a broadcast event via ABC, but since the opportunity was not there for other media to broadcast it, both campaigns declined.

Enter Fox. Tonight, Fox will be broadcasting a 90-minute Town Hall event exclusively, with John McCain.

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Saturday May 10, 2008 · 7:09 AM PDT

2008/05/10 · 07:09

[As usual, cross-posted from the Democracy Cell Project]

Last Saturday, as I was fielding comments on Daily Kos about the piece Why We're Leaving, prospective buyers were traipsing through the house, opening the doors of newly-cleaned out closets, perusing the half-empty book shelves, and asking the occasional question about the plumbing. The traipsing continued through Sunday, even though we did not even have a For Sale sign in the front yard yet.

On Monday, we had four offers to buy. We accepted the one from the nice young couple who will have a baby in three months. They seemed to be the hopeful choice: they had saved their money for ten years, had lost out on another house they had loved, and were so so positive about our house. They bid high. They won.

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 6:32 AM PDT

2008/05/03 · 06:32

[cross-posted from the Democracy Cell Project]

When did we know we had to leave?

Certainly the first indication was right before the 2004 election, after a year-plus of working hard, 24X7, to elect a smart, good, thoughtful, honest man to the White House. Richard (Blogmaster for johnkerry.com, initiator of the first national party website and first online political community sponsored by a political party) and I were sitting in the car on the Sunday prior to election day. He hesitated before turning on the car. "I have a bad feeling," he said. "I have a sense that in churches all over America, people are being told to vote for Bush."

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Saturday January 05, 2008 · 6:58 AM PST

2008/01/05 · 06:58

[The author is a Certified Movement Analyst who recently appeared on Hardball analyzing the body language of the Republican candidates. This piece is reposted from the Democracy Cell Project]

There are voices, crying, begging, screaming: Iraqis, Pakistani lawyers, Burmese monks, Kenyans, Katrina victims, sick children without insurance, mothers of soldiers, steelworkers, immigrants, polar bears even. The noise is deafening if you listen, but listen, we must.

It is the Year of Listening Well.

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Friday November 30, 2007 · 5:33 AM PST

2007/11/30 · 05:33

The story I am about to tell has been only ONE of a series of stories we hear about in passing; stories about the bullying and McCarthyism that characterizes the Bush Administration. This particular story came to us through several pathways, the first one being my friend Bev.

Bev came to DC while my husband and I were working on the Kerry campaign and she introduced me to her good friend, Carolyn, who was married to a Judge Advocate General. We had a lively conversation about John Kerry's campaign and thoroughly enjoyed the "girl-time" we had. Four years later, Bev emailed me.

Do you remember my friend Carolyn, she asked? I did, vaguely. Bev told me Carolyn's husband was having a good deal of trouble and perhaps we could suggest help. I sent her to Jesselyn Radack's site and Daily Kos because I knew that a number of Bush whistleblowers were getting together for support and action.

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Friday October 19, 2007 · 7:28 AM PDT

2007/10/19 · 07:28

(Cross-published at The Democracy Cell Project)

Yesterday, I spent another precious-few hours of my life inside the Halls of Congress, which allowed me yet another in a series of anthropological investigations into the power structures and decision-making styles of Our Leaders.

Unfortunately, the person I observed most closely was Mr. Dana Rohrabacher (CA) and, instructive as it was, I was reminded of my anthropologist-friend who cautioned her students to make sure that when they chose a culture to study, that they genuinely liked the food, because they would be eating a lot of it.

The background first:

Many of you here have heard me say this, or write it, but it bears reiterating:

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 11:26 AM PDT

2007/10/18 · 11:26

In the Fellini-esque movie that runs daily in the Halls of Congress, I am sitting in a hearing room in the Rayburn H.O.B., listening to Dana Rohrbacher compare the rendition program with medical errors that happen "all the time".

And YES! He just went to the chestnut d'annee: "There has not been an attack against the US since 9-11".

Script updates will commence as we go along.

John Conyers now up. He shares his respect for all, including Rohrbacher and Jeff Flake.

Amnesty Intl. statement is entered into the record. I don't have the statement but here is a transcript from their site.

And now we move to the Ottawa panel, including Mr. Arar.

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Saturday October 06, 2007 · 7:19 PM PDT

2007/10/06 · 19:19

[Cross-posted at the Democracy Cell Project]

Truth

As I was sitting in the Dirksen Hearing Room a few weeks ago, listening to the testimony of the folks from the GAO, I had one of those moments: you know...when you feel your head explode, or search for a nearby wall upon which to bang it??

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