You heard me right. Now it's not often I rant and rave here on the Great Orange Satan but given the last 5 days I've experienced I have to... but it'll be worth it for you dear reader cause in the end I have a suggestion for how YOU can help save our constitution that you simply don't want to miss!
Exhibit #1: Texas Education School Board
The amazing Texas School Board of Education debacle. I mean seriously... we're gonna totally revise history because a few people who sit on that board are bigots? Luckily, Texas has two amazing women willing to fight for what's right here in Judy Jennings and Rebecca Bell-Metereau.
I was contacted by their campaign months ago and have spent some time on the phone w/them and met them both at Netroots Nation. These women know the score and they'll get the job done, but not without our support.
Exhibit #2 Citizens United.
Talk about an attack on the Constitution. I'd still like SCOTUS to show me where in the constitution it says that corporate entities have the same rights as individuals? Where? Where does it say that for every individual vote, a corporation gets a million votes?
Because from where I sit in the middle of the corn desert midwest that's what the Citizens United decision has done. Talk about revisionist history.
For a real world example, let's look at ohhh how about Arizona...where I was born and where my parents, grandma, sister and cousins reside along with a few million others. Just over this past weekend Rep. Raul Grijalvaand we the netroots stared into the eyes of the beast and not only fought him, we beat him.
But not to worry, there will be more beasts to slay. Just look around, you won't have to throw a rock far to hit one.
Exhibit #3 Our US Senate
Talk about an attack on the constitution. We have the chance to work towards
equality for all
and what do they do? They don't even bother to debate it. Really? We're not even going to have a civilized discourse on whether or not our LGBT friends and family should be treated equally under the law? Now let's face it, it's disgusting that we even have to be wanting such a discussion, but due to the right's selfishness and the ways of our past, such a need exists and instead of standing up and doing what's right, we scurry away without even a debate let alone a vote?
My friend Blake late late last night said it best:
It's pretty pathetic when Lady Gaga is more politically relevant than the former GOP Presidential nominee.
Again, we have an answer for that. Candidates like Rodney Glassman, Scott McAdams, Roy Barnes, Richard Blumenthal, Chris Coons, Roxanne Conlin, Tom Sullivan, Alexi Giannoulias, Brad Ellsworth, Lisa Johnston, Jack Conway, Charlie Melancon, Robin Carnahan, Elaine Marshall, Tracy Potter, Paul Hodes, Lee Fisher, Jim Rogers (does a US Senate candidate really NOT have a website?), Joe Sestak,and Sam Granato.
They are how we fix our Senate: start with filibuster reform, then things like DADT, the DREAM act, and on down the line.
And don't forget the house. And don't forget we have to re-elect our Democratic incumbents in the house and senate.
Now for the pay off my friendly readers...there is one more way we can fix this. We can come together once a year to learn to be come more effective leaders...
oh yeah we already do that, it's called Netroots Naton and in case you didn't know we are almost at the end of our annual fundraising auction and
BREAKING NEWS
Just in my inbox... Sen. Russ Feingold has donated a copy of the US Constitution signed by Sen. Feingold.
That's right you dear reader can not only save the Constitution from attack, you can own it.