The Honeymoon is over. Remember Dem Senate-2000-2002
Thu Nov 09, 2006 at 10:37:32 PM PDT
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.
NC-13: Brad Miller needs about $38,000 by Tuesday to bury Vernon Robinson! (Poll)
Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 04:47:48 PM PDT
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/...
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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
US Plots 'New Liberation' of Baghdad
Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 07:50:12 AM PDT
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.
Neoliberalism not Fascism is what we should be fighting
Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 12:14:37 PM PDT
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
Street Protests on Censure: Impromptu, Visceral, Immediate
Fri Mar 31, 2006 at 10:08:41 AM PDT
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!!!
More below the fold
Okay Molly, I am Up for Organizing the Shit Out of Our Side!
Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 05:35:57 PM PDT
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:
Intentional Community vs Totalitarianism. Do we have a choice?
Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 06:35:43 AM PDT
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.
Netroots Militia: Let's insure we have the Senators' backs
Sun Jan 29, 2006 at 11:13:55 AM PDT
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:
More after the flip
To Hell with Congress. Let's fight Corporatism directly.
Fri Jan 27, 2006 at 10:33:48 AM PDT
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.
More below the flip
Mr. Armando goes to Washington (Final Pleas)
Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 10:19:22 AM PDT
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!
More after the flip -- Moveon outlined the process....
Follow-up to Conyers Hearing: Hold Public Hearings Nationwide
Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 10:40:34 AM PDT
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.
More after the flip
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We must distribute the Gore speech via DVD. Massively. (w/ poll)
Mon Jan 16, 2006 at 11:02:33 AM PDT
This is a call out to the netroots. The powers that be, via the GOP controlled media, will try to ignore, suppress, distort, spin, denounce what Gore called for today.
WE MUST MAKE MASSIVE QUANTITIES OF THE SPEECH ON DVD AND DISTRIBUTE IT FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA.
List taken from another board....
The president has broken the law, and continues to break the law.
- We need a special counsel to investigate the president.
- New Whistle Blower Protection
- Both Houses Should Enforce Comprehensive Hearings on these abuses
- The Extensive New Powers requested for the Patriot Act must be denied until constitutional safeguards are in place
- Any US Telecommunications corp must immediately cease-and-desist aiding the govt in its lawbreaking.
Sending Emissaries to DC to ask for Filibuster - part 2
Fri Jan 13, 2006 at 09:51:09 AM PDT
Please see part 1 of the diary: Want to send an emissary to DC to insist on a Filibuster?
http://www.dailykos.com/...
There appears to be a lot of interest in sending emissares to DC to insist that Dean and Reid insitute a filibuster against the confirmation of Alito as US Supreme Court Justice.
Please think about unrecommending the first diary and recommending this one. This diary will set up the donations part of the mission.
More after the flip...
UPDATED 1-13-Want to send Armando and Georgia10 as emissaries to ask for filibuster?
Thu Jan 12, 2006 at 07:17:20 PM PDT
SEE PART 2 OF THIS DIARY IDEA HERE: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/13/12519/4067
Let's send Armando and Georgia10 to DC to get the dems to deliver on the much-needed filibuster!! I am writing this diary to ask kossacks if we might want to send an emissary to DC to speak to both Reid and Dean to implore them to go for the filibuster. We have saved it for precisely this moment. Hell, we let medicare part D and the bankruptcy 'reform' slip through BECAUSE we were saving the filibuster (under threat from bushco? good god!)
UPDATE 1/13/06 11:10am Miss Georgia10 cannot go. Okay.... there seems to be popular support to send Armando, Hunter and MaryScottOconnor. I will try to contact each of them and see if they can go. Then we can do another diary for donations. See further update below.
It is time. ;More below the flip.
Letter Campaign: Mr. Bush, please stop defending me!
Sun Dec 18, 2005 at 08:10:52 AM PDT
This diary will be short and sweet. In short, I think a letter writing campaign needs to be initiated. To George W. Bush, Jr. All of Bush's crimes all around the glob and all of his crimes right here in the United States are written off by Mr. Bush with a swagger, a smirk, and a comment:
"It is my job to protect Americans. I am obligated."
Let's release this yay-hoo from the obligation. Post Haste.
My letter to Bush this week will be:
Please, for the love of God, George, Don't protect me anymore!!!
Imagine if 200,000 Americans let him off the hook? Nothing after the jump. Just an idea that might get some press and some bumper stickers and maybe even some freeway blog signs.
Umm, Time to March Against the War, people?
Wed Nov 30, 2005 at 08:45:37 AM PDT
Hello Kossacks! I don't write too very many diaries on here these days. Not since the `election.' I shelved my outrage and bitterness over the radical right's endeavors to run this country, its people, and the rest of the globe into the proverbial pit and decided to just wait until the American citizenry got a nice taste of text book-style lessons in humility. Figured I might still be alive to help clean things up - once the majority of the country became cognizant of the need to clean things up.
If Rove, Libby Indicted, Bush Must resign. No Settling
Sun Oct 16, 2005 at 07:36:06 AM PDT
I read an article this morning that said that if Rove is indicted that he will most likely resign -- that such a move would be the only reasonable thing for Rove to do to protect George Bush from the 'aspersions' that such an indictment would bring to the oval office.
I have a visceral reaction to such a scenario. Bush should also resign. We should settle for nothing less.
