Tag: 2010 election

LAST CALL: SUPPORT RUSS FEINGOLD OR LOSE EVERYTHING!

Senator Russ Feingold needs our help folks. It is time to put our money where our keystrokes are and really support this guy in his hour of need.

Russ Feingold has been the only consistent profile in courage in the U.S. Senate, and the only firewall against the wholesale legalization of criminal mass looting, mass corruption, and mass tyranny by the Elites against the common people for the last 10 years.

• He voted against the U.S. Patriot Act (in fact, the only U.S. Senator to ever do so).
• He voted against the Iraq War.
• He voted against the Bailouts.
• He was the only Senator to try to censure Bush & Cheney.
• He stood by the HC Public Option all the way to the very end.
• He wants Obama to stop the futile Afghanistan War and criminal racket.
• He has been a leader on Campaign Finance Reform issues.
• He opposed NAFTA.
• He opposed the filthy Bush Tax cuts for the rich.
• He opposes all the efforts to “privatize” Social Security.
• He voted against the confirmation of Timothy Geithner!!
• He voted against Bush’s Corporatist Supreme Court  judges.

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Now try to name any other U.S. Senator in all of government with that record of Integrity on all of the great defining issues? You can’t find another U.S. Senator with even a roughly comparable record on each one of these issues.

This is the only guy in the U.S. Senate that has actually put his public votes and advocacy where his mouth is, and has actually been helping the Middle-Class (in this screwed-up Country) instead of participating in its destruction.

We need him. This is the one guy we cannot lose!

Support Russ Feingold!!

Feingold Campaign Site Link:   Our Best U.S. Senator: Russ Feingold

Contribute Link ==>:       Support Senator Russ Feingold

Unless you’ve already voted, you have a decision that must be made by no later than November 2, 2010.  Will you choose to exercise your right to vote?

Unless this writer has misjudged the mood of the Docudharma community, there seems to be a prevailing sentiment that the Democrats need to be taught a lesson. If enough of their supporters from 2006 and 2008 stay at home this time, perhaps they will learn a lesson.  But the question must be asked, “What will that lesson be?”

Will the Democrats, soon to become a severely chastened minority party, move to the left to recapture the hearts and minds of those who have voluntarily surrendered their right to vote?  Will they regard this portion of their electorate as fickle and unreliable, choosing to move further to the right, even further marginalizing the progressives, compensating for their losses by attempting to secure the support of those occupying that elusive “center” of the political continuum?  The clear shift to the right under the influence of the deceptively named Tea Party by the Republicans has created a gaping vaccuum in the so-called “center.”  

Will the Democrats perceive the stay-at-home progressives as an important constituency to be recaptured at all costs, or simply write them off as not worth the trouble?  Even though abortions are still performed in this country, gay marriage is now legal in several states, we haven’t yet adopted a state religion, and a few civil rights still remain, the Republicans can rest easy knowing that the Right to Life movement, the Christian Right, the NRA and the libertarians will show up without fail.  And they can still take this for granted even though much that was on these respective factions’ wish lists were not enacted, even with clear Republican majorities from January, 2003 through January, 2007.  

URGENT: SUPPORT RUSS FEINGOLD OR LOSE EVERYTHING!

Senator Russ Feingold needs our help folks. It is time to put our money where our keystrokes are and really support this guy in his hour of need.

Russ Feingold has been the only consistent profile in courage in the U.S. Senate, and the only firewall against the wholesale legalization of criminal mass looting, mass corruption, and mass tyranny by the Elites against the common people for the last 10 years.

• He voted against the U.S. Patriot Act (in fact, the only U.S. Senator to ever do so).
• He voted against the Iraq War.
• He voted against the Bailouts.
• He was the only Senator to try to censure Bush & Cheney.
• He stood by the HC Public Option all the way to the very end.
• He wants Obama to stop the futile Afghanistan War and criminal racket.
• He has been a leader on Campaign Finance Reform issues.
• He opposed NAFTA.
• He opposed the filthy Bush Tax cuts for the rich.
• He opposes all the efforts to “privatize” Social Security.
• He voted against the confirmation of Timothy Geithner!!
• He voted against Bush’s Corporatist Supreme Court  judges.

___

Now try to name any other U.S. Senator in all of government with that record of Integrity on all of the great defining issues? You can’t find another U.S. Senator with even a roughly comparable record on each one of these issues.

This is the only guy in the U.S. Senate that has actually put his public votes and advocacy where his mouth is, and has actually been helping the Middle-Class (in this screwed-up Country) instead of participating in its destruction.

We need him. This is the one guy we cannot lose!

Support Russ Feingold!!

Feingold Campaign Site Link:   Our Best U.S. Senator: Russ Feingold

Contribute Link ==>:       Support Senator Russ Feingold

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 The utter nerve of President Obama.  The gall of this guy.  Scolding rank and file Democrats for being down and disgusted with the Administration, disgusted with the Democratic Party, when it was the Administration and Democratic Party that’s made rank and file Democrats so damn disgusted.

 Since taking the oath of office Obama’s time and time and time and time again bent over backwards, demonstrated all manner of contortions, to make nice with the very Republicans who have it in for him and have done all in their power, and then some, to undermine whatever tepid initiatives he’s put forth.  But when it comes to the Democratic base, the very ones who put him into office, we get:

. . . watered-down proposals (Single Payer off the table, the Public Option under the bus . . . all to appease Republicans who worked overtime to fuck-over America anyway); we get the same-ol’ same-ol’ when it comes to Justice (why hasn’t the Justice Dept dropped all charges against Don Siegelman and started seriously investigating the chicanery of the Bush BFF’s who persecuted him?); we get Rahm Emanuel calling liberals “fucking retarded”, apparently with Obama’s blessing (no public dressing-down, let alone firing); we get the just-as-petulant Robert Gibbs scolding “the professional left” (where’s my paycheck? I could damn well use one!); and on and on and on . . .

  And rather than taking his own advisers and other hangers-on to “the woodshed,” rather than even considering that we’re disappointed in his obsession with genuflecting to the Great God BiPartisanship (while sticking it to Americans in the process and refusing to FIGHT for the Middle Class), rather than declaring anything like:

 “I messed up.  For a year-and-a-half I actually believed that Capitol Hill Republicans also wanted what was best for America and Americans, just that they advocated a different way of getting there.  Now I realize that I was wrong and they want what’s best for the wealthiest and most mean-spirited of Americans.  I won’t make that mistake again.  Today, I fight them, and fight for the United States of America and her citizens.”

 

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 . . . or rather than saying, with crystal clarity:

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. . . rather than any of that, we get scolded.

Screw it.  Oh, and what Bartcop says.*

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* h/t to lotlizard; and h/t to nightprowlkitty

The Democratic Message For 2010

Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic

Apr 28 2010, 7:06 AM ET

“We have more accomplishments to run on than any Party in a long time,” Kaine’s expected to say.

• We’ve gone from recession to recovery.
• We’ve made more progress in the war on terror in the last eight months than was made in the preceding eight years.
• We’ve strengthened our relationships with our allies around the world.
• Two million people or more have jobs today who wouldn’t have without the bold action taken by this President and Democrats in Congress.
• We have the first Latina and only the third woman ever on the Supreme Court.
• We’re using science and fact in policy making instead of ideology and politics.
• We have the most transparent Administration in modern history, with tough ethics standards, and we are wringing the influence of special interests out of the policy making process.

Oh, and Republicans == bad.