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  • 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 (…)

  • Rumsfeld quits
    8 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    12:53 ET, Wed 8 Nov 2006
    WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the face of U.S. war policy and a lightning rod for critics worldwide, will step down, President Bush said on Wednesday.
    The announcement followed dramatic victories by Democrats in Tuesday elections fueled by public anger over the Iraq war in which Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives and were close to taking the Senate.

  • US NEWS NETWORKS WRONG
    8 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is something I just noticed while visiting the CNN.com site. They show a tight race for the Senate. 49 to 49 seats. However, they show Independent chairs as 0. They are counting one independent as a Democrat. That Independent is Joe Lieberman. Who was booted from the Democratic party just a few months ago. Yes although he had been the Vice presidential candidate for Al Gore, they booted him. He had to run as an Independent. He is no longer technically a Democrat.
    Very interesting. (…)

  • The Democratic Victory: ‘It’s the people’s agenda, stupid’
    8 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Democratic Victory: ‘It’s the people’s agenda, stupid’ By Mary MacElveen November 8, 2006
    When Congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi the incoming Speaker of the House stated that impeachment was not on the table in relation to Bush, it angered most on the more liberal side of the Democratic Party including myself. Hindsight being what it is, it was smart of her to say that. In fact, if that had been our main platform, there would have been a sharp rebuke by the electorate itself. The take (…)

  • everythings ok now???NOTTTTT!!
    8 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Have you noticed that NONE of the important activities that led up to Bush’s War were NEVER brought up.No WMDs .....no mention of the downing street memos.....depleted uranium...violations of human rights and genocide.DESTRUCTION of our constitution...why didn’t ANY of the Dems scream bloody murder about the fact that they were flat out LIED to ,during the lead-up "sales pitch" about the justifications for going into Iraq??This is just another case proving that the Dems and Repubs are the 2 (…)

  • Vote Flipping in Webb Allen Senate Race in Virginia
    8 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My wife just called me from our polling place.
    We are in Northern VA, a blue enclave in a red state. This morning, as I posted earlier, I had difficulties in casting my vote on the machine.
    Well, she just visited the same polling place after work, and informs me that her vote for Jim Webb was flipped to Felix Allen TWICE.
    She never hit the VOTE screen until her vote finally registered for Webb, but is this what we’re up against? (FYI, she laughs at my conspiracy theories, and calls DU (…)

  • MD GOP Candidate Recruits Homeless to Pass Out Deceptive Flyers
    7 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Misleading flyers were handed out at several Maryland polling places by men and women recruited by the GOP governor’s campaign from out-of-state homeless shelters, the Washington Post reports. The flyers, given to voters in a heavily Democratic area, showed GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Ehrlich as a Democrat:
    Erik Markle, one of the people handing out literature for Ehrlich, who is seeking reelection, and Steele, the current lieutenant governor who is campaigning to replace retiring Sen. (…)

  • Numerous Problems In Houston Texas Including MACHINES BEING SWAPPED OUT!
    7 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By 11am this morning here in Houston, The Houston Chronicle has already reported a number of election day issues with machines not working or displaying incorrect data.
    Most disturbing of all, a race I’ve been watching exceedingly closely, they swapped out TWO voting machines in Tom DeLay’s old district after voting had already begun.
    Voters across the Houston area today were already finding long lines and problems with electronic voting machines as they tried to cast their ballots.
    In (…)