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  • Conyers: Forget Impeachment “basement hearings-Constitution in Crisis Report Watershed Achievements"
    16 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Disillusioned Misled Email List,
    We did it! We won at least 29 House seats and took the majority. We won 6 Senate seats and took back the Senate too, not to mention 28 Governors and several more statehouses. We had incredible turnout of Democratic voters across the country. Thanks to you, we had a vigorous election protection program in place to fight those who would restrict our right to vote. We ran a positive campaign on the issues that really matter to American voters.
    The past (…)

  • What Happened? or...Why I Voted Blue
    15 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    We noticed!
    It is now three days after the Nov. 7 election. I have read one Republican analysis of the party’s failure after another, most of which seem at a loss as to where the blame might squarely be laid. Like President Bush, no one could see how the Republicans had done anything wrong, or how they might have done anything significantly different.
    Well, I am just one of the small, average shmoes out in middle America who, like most of the small average shmoes with whom I associate, (…)

  • Was the reaction to the 2006 election a ‘Network’ moment?
    14 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was the reaction to the 2006 election a ‘Network’ moment? By Mary MacElveen November 14, 2006
    In thinking back to America’s reaction to the 2006 mid term elections, the only term that I can come up with that best describes the results of these elections is that America had a ‘Network’ moment. We all remember that movie Network in which the producer opened up the window and angrily shouted out, “I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!”
    For years the electorate was (…)

  • New Faces, Same Agenda
    13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Faces, Same Agenda - by Stephen Lendman
    The political firmament shook briefly post-November 7 raising hopes change would follow the Republican’s drubbing at the polls and the Democrats regaining control of both houses of Congress for the first time since the GOP sweep in 1994. Presumed new House speaker Nancy Pelosi stopped the tremors making it clear no substantive change will be on the table when when the 110th Congress convenes on January 3. Instead, she announced to those paying (…)

  • No Arab, Palestinian Cheers for U.S. Democrats
    13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    Arabs, at least at the non-official level, were quick to hail President George W. Bush’s mid-term electoral defeat and the humiliating downfall of his war architect Donald Rumsfeld, but cheering the Democrats’ victory has yet to wait and may not be voiced at all.
    Why hailing Bush’s defeat? Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, Jim Hogland, of The Washington Post had part of the answer: “Bush lost more than a midterm election and a cantankerous defense secretary (…)

  • My email to Tim Russert of NBC’s Meet the Press
    12 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Mr. Russert and Producers of Meet the Press:
    With John McCain and Joe Lieberman as your guests on this Sunday’s Meet the Press, you have proven just how completely out of touch you are with the American public. And, this is on the heels of a monumental repudiation of the Republican party and a nationwide victory by Democrats.
    Why wasn’t Nancy Pelosi on your show? Harry Reid? Russ Feingold? John Conyers? The voters of America have spoken loud and clear. The leadership of President (…)

  • REPRESENT THE PEOPLE not the LOBBIST. OR GET out of OUR DEMOCRACY.
    11 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If you want money. GET a JOB. The democracts and republicans should stop using US tax payer dollars to support issues that are maligned at the voting booth and spin controlled in the mind controlled media.
    A notice to politicians is that if you seek to profit and do not care from whom AT least stay out of our GOVERNMENTS and WORKPLACES and BUSNIESSES. Move to another country that doesn’t care ABOUT the people.
    In addition the DEMS are not pressing for impeachment because they are PART of (…)

  • AS I LAY DYING...THE LIMITED MEANING OF THE DEMOCRATS’ VICTORY
    9 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    November 9, 2006
    AS I LAY DYING
    John Chuckman
    Sadly, little coming from America’s politics can fire my enthusiasm. During my lifetime, America has busied itself with the task of burying liberalism, reminding one of October’s frenetic squirrels hunting and burying acorns.
    The nation is pretty much at ease with ugly imperial government. Liberalism, and I mean liberalism in the broadest, richest sense of the word, is a topic of bathroom humor.
    We read and hear a great deal about the (…)

  • The New Democratic majority must restore the U.S. Constitution
    9 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The New Democratic majority must restore the U.S. Constitution By Mary MacElveen November 9, 2006
    In going through all 517 photos showing the reactions to many different races either won or lost, the ones showing Senator-elect Jon Tester were the ones that especially hit home. After all it was our test to see whether or not a common man can go on to represent the people he grew up amongst. He was the ‘tester’ to see anyone of us can run and go on to win a senate seat.
    We all think (…)

  • The Anti-War Movement Sourced the Democrats’ Victory!
    9 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Take a bow Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Ramsey Clark, Mike Ferner, Max Obuszewski, Michael Berg, David Swanson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ray McGovern, Medea Benjamin and Brian Becker! You, and many other activists, like yourselves, in the Anti-Iraqi War Movement, have helped to source a sweep of GOP members from the House of Representatives, and also to return control of the (…)