Just a quick reminder ... NYC residents who want to help the Dems hold onto the NY-1 seat on Long Island, the Bishop campaign is coordinating through me right now ... debowd01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
On to the memos!
DNC Blog relates the plight of poor Orrin Hatch, betrayed by his own party ...
IRRATIONAL
http://mailer.democrats.org/rdr/002P6011ih0001E
Slate has a good piece up about the right-wing attack machine letting loose on one of its own: Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
Hatch has never been afraid to use divisive rhetoric to achieve partisan goals. But when Republican Senate staffers were caught breaking into Democrats' computers, Hatch did the only reasonable thing and called for an investigation into the incident.
As the Slate article details, Republican reaction has been swift and harsh:
The more the story balloons in the media, embarrassing Republicans and distracting them from trying to confirm more judges, the more right-wing activists savage Hatch, the man they hold responsible for it. To them, the Utah Republican has done something "acutely damaging to the struggle to get conservative judges onto the federal bench," as one National Review writer put it this week, in a column widely e-mailed among disgusted activists. Another activist ominously warned in the Washington Post of a "thermonuclear" punishment for Hatch. Also in the Post, Gary Bauer fumed over a "demoralized Republican base around the country" and sounded about ready to stage a public hanging on Capitol Hill.
Bush Greenwatch reports that the Pentagon doesn't believe Fearless Leader that there's no science to global climactic shift:
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BUSHGREENWATCH
Tracking the Bush Administration's Environmental Misdeeds
http://www.bushgreenwatch.org
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February 24, 2004
PENTAGON STUDY DESCRIBES RAPID, CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE
A recent Pentagon report describes dramatic worldwide ecosystem
changes, resulting in massive political and social instability,
due to rapid climate change over the next 20 years. From food
shortages to violent storms, mass human migrations and wars for
survival, the study suggests that the Bush Administration must
reverse its position on climate change immediately.[1]
House Minority Leader's Man at Large, Tom Manatos, gives us the potential legislative windfall that will come with a Democratic House:
Want to know what House Democrats will do once we have the a majority in the
House? Go here: http://www.housedemocrats.gov/issues/index.cfm
http://www.housedemocrats.gov/issues/index.cfm
He also reported today that the NEA will be trying to get Paige to resign for calling them terrorists. No web address, but you can google NEA. Help out a teacher today!
And finally, your House Democratic memes on the anti-marriage amendment:
News From House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
> H-204, The Capitol, Washington D.C. 20515
>
> http://democraticleader.house.gov http://democraticleader.house.gov
>
> Tuesday, February 24, 2004
> Contact: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider, 202-225-0100
>
> Pelosi Statement on President's Endorsement of Gay Marriage Ban
>
> Washington, D.C. -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the
> following statement today on the President's endorsement of the proposed
> Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage:
>
> "I strongly oppose this amendment and will work to defeat it.
>
> "The United States Constitution is not a place for political wedge issues.
> The Constitution is about freedom, not about limiting freedoms. Never
> before has a Constitutional amendment been used to discriminate against a
> group of people, and we must not start now.
>
> "This is a classic case of the President trying to distract from his
> failures. Whether the issue is Iraq, the economy and jobs or health care,
> the President and the Republicans are in disarray and in desperate need of
> a distraction. The American people deserve better."
>
> # # #
>
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>
http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/press/rel22404.html
http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/press/rel22404.html
Reaction by Congressman George Miller to President Bush's Call for a
Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
WASHINGTON --"At a time when America faces many great struggles that require
the unity of its people, President Bush has chosen to further divide our
nation by calling for an indefensible amendment to the constitution,"
Congressman George Miller (D-Martinez) said today. "His use of this issue
raises further questions about his judgment and ability to lead our nation.
"Up until today it had been the position of the President -- and the Vice
President -- that a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was
unnecessary. Apparently he was either not being honest with Americans then
or has changed his position on this issue in a very short period of time.
"This proposed amendment to the constitution is not necessary, and I
strongly hope that it will be rejected. But even proposing it causes harm
and disunity. The President is proposing to use the constitution, which
guarantees the rights of all Americans, to deny millions of Americans equal
protection under the law."
Meetup lets us know that Democratic Meetup has been moved to March 24, for a special unity meeting.
Guess they figure JOhn or John will be gone by then.