The Honeymoon is over. Remember Dem Senate-2000-2002

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 10:37 PM PST

2006/11/09 · 22:37

Look guys. The honeymoon was over. I can't tell you how much I have LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the past 72 hours. Lovely.

We control all of Congress.

But think... really think about it: We controlled the Senate for two years. A lot of really bad, bad, bad Bush bullshit passed with flying colors in those two years.

Patriot Act
Iraq Resolution
NO response to the exec declaring and instituting war WITHOUT the advice and consent of the Senate.

and Now....

in the wake of our glory... Reid PROMISES Lieberman a chair seat on the Homeland Security Committee.

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Wednesday October 25, 2006 · 4:47 PM PDT

2006/10/25 · 16:47

Hello. I don't do too many diaries around here. I guess I enjoy everyone else's so much and they seem to cover the pertinent issues quite fully, but.... I got an email from Brad Miller, and he just needs about $38,000 by this Tuesday.

I figured this was worthy of a fundraising diary because Rep Miller has been a mainstay on this site, keeping us informed and helping to keep our morale up. And this was well before the election push came into play.

In my mind, he's been a bona fide Kossack. And we should go a little further in helping him. His email request follows, or just click here to contribute:

http://www.bradmiller.org/...

: UPDATE: Hey, help a fl citizen out, and if you want to give some money to Brad, just give it to this fl dem, and her fundraiser will give the same to Brad. She's maxed out for her fav candidate: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/25/211054/78 Read More

US Plots 'New Liberation' of Baghdad

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Sunday April 16, 2006 · 7:50 AM PDT

2006/04/16 · 07:50

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...

THE American military is planning a "second liberation of Baghdad" to be carried out with the Iraqi army when a new government is installed.
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The battle for Baghdad is expected to entail a "carrot-and-stick" approach, offering the beleaguered population protection from sectarian violence in exchange for rooting out insurgent groups and Al-Qaeda.

I kid you not. The Battle for Baghdad! Carrot-and-Sticks - the only thing Baghadians have to do is root out insurgent groups and al-qaeda. There will be SWAT teams....it isn't what you think: see below the flip. Read More

Neoliberalism not Fascism is what we should be fighting

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Tuesday April 04, 2006 · 12:14 PM PDT

2006/04/04 · 12:14

Fascism and Theocracy are merely the vehicles used to ARRANGE and FACILITATE the agenda of Neoliberalism. We attack neoliberalism (by making sure our countrymen are aware of what neoliberalism is), and the road to Fascism will be a deadend.

A few years ago I was ranting on a blog about the corporate take-over of our government and the resulting policies that have been emerging since Reagan and now being institutionalized as The New American Way of Life: No Middle Class (and everything that portends for this society).

Someone piped in: Hey, the New Zealanders fought off this same encroachment of corporations in the 1980s. That stuck with me these last few years. So much so that it only took me three years to look into it! Call me the tortoise in this tale.

More about New Zealand as our MIRROR after the fold
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Street Protests on Censure: Impromptu, Visceral, Immediate

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Friday March 31, 2006 · 10:08 AM PST

2006/03/31 · 10:08

I have only been watching the hearing on Feingold's Censure Resolution for a mere 1/2 hour. But have read the live blogging commentary.

What's clear is: Lindsey Graham makes me homicidal!!

What reinforces my white rage is the fashion with which this hearing (and ALL hearings in the Senate these days) is conducted:

I think. It's my opinion. What do you think? This uncontrolling dicta asks this question. This debate. This debate. This debate. Honest debate. Do you (four) think my bill is sufficient?

Dammit. We have on our hands a constitutional crisis, and the results of a Censure Resolution is hinged on the OPINIONS of a handful of people. It isn't a DEBATE, Mr. Graham. It's an INQUIRY!!!

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Not Fox Security, but Ben Stein is after me! HELP!!

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Monday March 13, 2006 · 4:44 AM PST

2006/03/13 · 04:44

From Ben to me:

From: Benstein99@
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:44:49 EST
Subject: Re: Your editorial on life as an aging baby boomer
FUCK YOU.

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Friday March 10, 2006 · 5:35 PM PST

2006/03/10 · 17:35

I am taking Molly Ivins up on her challenge. I am on a recruitment search. Every one of us should be. Let's find that perfect person to run for president. And get him or her out in front of the people starting now and continuing on a daily basis until Novemeber 2008!

I make reference to her new Common Dreams article: Enough of the DC Dems, found here: http://www.commondreams.org/... , and wonderfully diaried here on kos, here by a cuddly CObear, http://www.dailykos.com/...

The challenge: Find the right candidate and Organize the Shit out of Our Side. And the netroots can do it. The right candidate would have money flowing into his or her campaign the likes of which would make Ponce De Leon think he had found the Fountain of Youth!

More patriotic fun below the flip:
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Intentional Community vs Totalitarianism. Do we have a choice?

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Thursday March 02, 2006 · 6:35 AM PST

2006/03/02 · 06:35

Can you imagine? Living in an intentional and self-sustaining community that reflects "values of cooperation, sharing, nonviolence, equality, and ecology?"

Check out this lovely community. Twin Oaks. In the business of creating a quality enriched life since 1967! http://www.twinoaks.org/

I came across their website wayyyy back in 2003, when I (as many of us did) foresaw the current state of affairs encroaching upon our shining sea shores.

Thing is, what we see today is simply a precursor to the really, really bad stuff that now seems a certainty to materialize. US as a 3rd world debtors nation. Totalitarianism in the extreme. Death squads for dissenters. Religious fanatics used as brown shirts. All I can say is (and I say this a lot!) is I am damn glad I didn't have children. Damn glad about it. This is sick, but I see these post-partum depression-afflicted moms kill their kids and it actually enters my mind, "well, at least those kids don't have to endure what America is to become." Sick. I know.
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Netroots Militia: Let's insure we have the Senators' backs

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Sunday January 29, 2006 · 11:13 AM PST

2006/01/29 · 11:13

Okay, so a primary concern of many senators is the media noise machine.

Senator Kennedy talked in particular about one thing that I think is critical to keep in mind as we approach our Senators, and for them to keep in mind as they are considering this vote. We need to overcome the media noise machine by letting our Senators know that in voting their conscience, and making it clear that they are voting on principle, on conscience, they will overcome the media noise machine calling them obstructionists. We can help them realize this by letting them know that we've got their backs. That they are voting our conscience as well, and that we will not forget their courage.
From McJoan's Saturday diary on the conference call with Kennedy. http://www.dailykos.com/...

That's their big concern? It's valid to some degree. So, in this fight for a filibuster, we would be wise to set up a way to really `get their backs' in this regard with more than a promise to do so. Here's a' idea:

To Hell with Congress. Let's fight Corporatism directly.

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Friday January 27, 2006 · 10:33 AM PST

2006/01/27 · 10:33

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger
of State and corporate power." Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)

Yeah, yeah... we have posted and read the above quote millions of times on these progressive blogs. But what have we done about corporatism in this country?

CORPORATISM is Fascism. This diary will attempt to begin a conversation about what we can do about corporatism directly.

Mr. Armando goes to Washington (Final Pleas)

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Monday January 23, 2006 · 10:19 AM PST

2006/01/23 · 10:19

Okay, kossacks. Time is running short before an Alito vote, which, let's face it, a vote on the floor is a slam dunk confirmation. Short of storming the Bastille, we must take action. Petitions galore have been delivered to the Senate. We have to personalize our dissent. By the time next week, Alito will be joining Scalia, Thomas, Roberts in block voting against the people and the constitution of the US.
Armando, please go to DC and say you are from Daily Kos and register OUR VOTE FOR A FILIBUSTER. Puhhlleeeze!

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Follow-up to Conyers Hearing: Hold Public Hearings Nationwide

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Friday January 20, 2006 · 10:40 AM PST

2006/01/20 · 10:40

Why not encourage a nation-wide effort to hold public hearings of, by and for the people to allow citizens to comment on the domestic spying issue?

I am watching the Congressman Conyer's hearing on domestic 'surveillance.' And I am reminded of a raucus city council meeting in Austin, Texas, in the 80's where the people of Travis County came out in force to speak out against Freeport MacMoran (sp?) poisoning our aquifer for a golf course. The public comment period went all night -- one citizen after another lining the block around the building and one citizen after another said NO. It was community involvement that I have since never seen. It was a true testament to what citizens can do.

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The Honeymoon is over. Remember Dem Senate-2000-2002

NC-13: Brad Miller needs about $38,000 by Tuesday to bury Vernon Robinson! (Poll)

US Plots 'New Liberation' of Baghdad

Neoliberalism not Fascism is what we should be fighting

Street Protests on Censure: Impromptu, Visceral, Immediate

Not Fox Security, but Ben Stein is after me! HELP!!

Okay Molly, I am Up for Organizing the Shit Out of Our Side!

Intentional Community vs Totalitarianism. Do we have a choice?

Netroots Militia: Let's insure we have the Senators' backs

To Hell with Congress. Let's fight Corporatism directly.

Mr. Armando goes to Washington (Final Pleas)

Follow-up to Conyers Hearing: Hold Public Hearings Nationwide