Feingold/Corporate Oligarchy debate #2 liveblog

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Monday October 11, 2010 · 4:49 PM PDT

2010/10/11 · 16:49

While leading his opponent by huge factors in individual contributions to his campaign, Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold finds his Senate seat in jeopardy. What's going on?

Update: Replays of this debate are available at WausauDailyHerald.com

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Friday October 08, 2010 · 5:50 PM PDT

2010/10/08 · 17:50

The anchor of Constitutional principles in the Senate, Senator Russ Feingold is being challenged by Ron Johnson - wealthy businessman, climate change denier, and threat to all social safety nets, who is running a scorched earth campaign with funds from the Republican Party, wealthy tea party funders, and outsourced foreign funds laundered through the Chamber of Commerce.

A debate starts soon (8pm central), and you're needed to witness this threat to democracy.

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Monday October 12, 2009 · 5:09 PM PDT

2009/10/12 · 17:09

A media reform bill promoted by the President, and based on a proposal written by a coalition of community media, human rights groups, unions and progressive academics, was quickly signed into law today. The bill had passed through the House last month in a highly charged session that saw more than 100 opposition lawmakers walk out in protest, and was recently passed in the Senate by a wide majority.

The President has said that the overhaul will open the country's airwaves to new players, and called the bill an attempt to make radio and TV broadcasts more democratic by capping the number of licenses controlled by media giants.

I know. Here, in the United States? Good question. Well, read on.

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Thursday October 08, 2009 · 4:30 PM PDT

2009/10/08 · 16:30

I was moved to tears during Keith Olbermann's very special Special Comment last night, not only for his deeply personal struggle of conscience with the high level of health care privilege which his success affords him, but for the humanity and beauty of his win-win-win proposal.

The suffering of Americans already in dire need of health care has become, in a way, a pawn in the very struggle we wage to relieve the imminence of that suffering. To bring more immediate relief while ramping up the pressure for systematic change with the same action is now a goal we can achieve, thanks to Keith.

But though I am anxious to buy in to his plan, and buy in NOW, there is as yet no specific plan functioning. I hope that changes soon; time is certainly of the essence.

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I affirm

82 votes Vote Now!

I affirm

to donate to K.O's win-win-win

30 votes

to keep fighting

3 votes

both

49 votes

Baucus exaggerates mail delay, blames Postmaster

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 8:10 AM PDT

2009/08/22 · 08:10

What a sorry excuse for not wanting to answer your mail.

Senator Max Baucus is running from the public's demand for a strong public option, and hiding behind any excuse he can fabricate from the tiniest thread.

While most of us here rely heavily on the internet and email to communicate with our representatives, many people still make use of the USPS mail service. If we write and send a letter, we deserve a response.

Rather than face that responsibility, Max Baucus would prefer to pass the blame onto dedicated civil servants.

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 5:36 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 17:36

Now that the controversy over President Obama's remarks about whether or not we have a public option have mostly run their course, thankfully including the backtracking that our "left of left" dedication to this issue made necessary, I want to look at the question and initial response that lead up to this now infamous several second sound bite from hell. Because the lead-up was even worse.

Debate is a wonderful tool to participate in, many of us do it here every day. But each debate needs to take place in an appropriate forum, and our President has not always been appropriate in his choices. A debate over how to defeat health care reform does not belong on Kos, and a debate over the competitive strategies of privately run corporations does not belong in the public policy arena, or at a town hall meeting with our President.

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Saturday August 08, 2009 · 6:33 PM PDT

2009/08/08 · 18:33

I just read a diary, thankfully not on the rec list, in which the diarist brags about bringing a megaphone to a health care meeting and using it "point blank" to shout down the opposition.

This is thuggish, dangerous and violent. It displays less intelligence than those who are trying to shut down our civil discourse.

My comment, to which I have yet to see a reply:

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Friday August 07, 2009 · 4:19 PM PDT

2009/08/07 · 16:19

While we are denied an open forum at Town Hal meetings, our soldiers still die in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraqis and Afghans still die because of our presence there.

While we speak out with our words, pictures and videos to expose the thuggish behavior of teabaggers and freepers, some speak out with their feet and expose themselves to arrest in an effort to save lives and end illegal war. They walk for peace for us all.

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Sunday July 05, 2009 · 1:35 PM PDT

2009/07/05 · 13:35

I live in an undisclosed-for-security-purposes state which has lots of cheese and has seen the best and the worst of politicians, a.k.a. Illinois' biggest state park.

I know, here we go with the regional bitchfest. *Deal with it.

I like my little neighborhood 'cause it's peaceful....most of the time. Deer and turkeys and various other critters wander through my unmowed, natural prarie kind of a yard....if nobody scares them away.

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Thursday July 02, 2009 · 12:33 PM PDT

2009/07/02 · 12:33

In the push for universal health care, every bit of support which can be squeezed out of the Senate is "bleeping golden".

With the news of a viable plan for a public healthcare option now in the hands of Senate Democrats, the time is ripe for action on our part. I'm here to point out a new, but weak point of support which needs reinforcement from all of us, and especially from fellow cheesehead constituents of Wisconsin - Senator Herb Kohl.

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I

7 votes Vote Now!

I

called Senator Kohl's office

3 votes

emailed Senator Kohl's office

1 vote

just don't give a damn

3 votes

Feingold on Holder's DOJ, "The jury's out." w/video

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Saturday June 27, 2009 · 6:34 PM PDT

2009/06/27 · 18:34

After my disastrously entertaining "trip to crazy town" at the last listening session I attended with my U.S. Representative, it was refreshing to attend Senator Feingold's listening session this morning.

I have become increasingly alarmed at the evasive rhetoric and the questionably legal tactics employed by the Department of Justice to block investigations and court proceedings on matters of illegal surveillance and other possible lawbreaking of the Bush Administration.

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Friday April 17, 2009 · 5:42 PM PDT

2009/04/17 · 17:42

While for most of this week national and local media obsessed over the woefully unfocused messages coming from angry crowds of right-wing protesters, many of whom may never have dunked a bag, another group who's members occasionally bag a buck conducted a very focused demonstration for their cause, not with clever(or not) signs or inappropriate symbols, but with an approach to redressing their grievances to government agencies worthy of a study in activist civics.

Outside the state Capital in Madison, Wisconsin on Wednesday, with tea bags the chosen symbol for it's incoherent agglomeration of unrelated issues, one demonstration served simply to vent anger at having lost their grip on political power, while under the dome inside, camouflage and blaze orange garments marked many of those who chose to take a serious approach to focusing their message and advancing their agenda.*

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