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  • Democratic Senators Cave on Bankruptcy Bill
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matthew Rothschild
    On March 11, the U.S. Senate passed the bankruptcy bill that will fill the coffers of the credit card companies while bleeding consumers dry.
    The bill passed by a whopping 74 to 25 margin, with eighteen Democratic Senators going over to the dark side.
    Here are the spineless 18:
    Max Baucus, Montana.
    Evan Bayh, Indiana.
    Joe Biden, Delaware.
    Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico.
    Robert Byrd, West Virginia.
    Thomas Carper, Delaware.
    Kent Conrad, North Dakota. (…)

  • Let’s Stop the Republican Debt Slavery Act in the House
    13 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many progressives are mourning the failure of Senate Democrats to filibuster the Republican Debt Slavery Act of 2005, commonly known as the Bankruptcy Bill.
    As Mother Jones said, Don’t Mourn, Organize!
    Let’s stop the Republican Debt Slavery Act dead in the House.
    What’s that I hear out there? Is someone insisting, "House Democrats can’t stop Tom DeLay’s brutal legislative steamroller!"
    The hell we can’t.
    House Republicans are already running for their lives over Social Security (…)

  • Report Documents Republican Abuse of Power: With This Congress, Democracy is Dead
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    Broken Promises: The Death of Deliberative Democracy
    A Congressional Report (pdf) on the Unprecedented Erosion of the Democratic Process in the 108th Congress.
    Compiled by the House Rules Committee Minority Office The Honorable Louise M. Slaughter, Ranking Member
    Cliff notes by Ben Frank
    How Modern Congress works: Lobbyists write the bill and Republicans force it through Congress before anyone has even had a chance to read it. The textbook cases of corruption (…)

  • Teresa Heinz Kerry - Hacking the "Mother Machine"?
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Two brothers own 80 percent of the [voting] machines used in the United States," Teresa Heinz Kerry told a group of Seattle guests at a March 7, 2005 lunch for Representative Adam Smith, according to reporter Joel Connelly in an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Connelly noted Heinz Kerry added that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."
    The two brothers Mrs. Kerry is referencing are, according to voting machine expert (and founder of www.BanVotingMachines.org Lynn (…)

  • Open, Despairing, Letter to Senator Reid
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Senator Reid,
    Since the election, most days, I feel determined. I have become more involved, more passionate, more informed. There is no other choice—because to accept the defeat I felt the day John Kerry made his concession speech is to admit more blackness into my life than I can handle.
    I don’t do hopelessness and depression well. I’m a take-action person. Show me where to aim, and I’ll fire. I’ve been proud of the work I’ve done since the election and I’ve been proud of the (…)

  • Teresa Heinz Kerry says US election could have been hacked
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US election could have been hacked, says Kerry wife
    The United States presidential election could have been computer hacked, the wife of Democrat candidate John Kerry has claimed.
    The United States presidential election could have been computer hacked, the wife of Democrat candidate John Kerry has claimed.
    Teresa Heinz Kerry is openly sceptical about George Bush’s victory some four months after the election, questioning the legitimacy of the optical scanners used in some states to (…)

  • The sun revolves around the Earth and George W. Bush won the election in Ohio
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush family and friends stole both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections. The covert operations long associated with George Herbert Walker Bush, former President and CIA director, are now overtly practiced in key battleground states.
    The mainstream media is much like medieval theologians, who refused to accept the obvious, that the Earth revolved around the sun. Instead, they plotted bizarre planet rotations to prove the Earth was the center of the universe.
    In order to believe (…)

  • The Iraq Election Backfired On Conservatives
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Iraq Election Backfired On Conservatives Jim Hightower March 02, 2005 Reality can be hard on theorists — just ask that gaggle of conservative geniuses who designed and pushed the invasion of Iraq.
    The theory propounded by Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and President Bush’s other "Big-Thinker" war hawks (none of whom have ever actually been in a war) was that crushing Saddam Hussein would cause the flowering of a pro-American democracy in Iraq. In the glorious vision of these (…)

  • Voting glitches haunt statistician
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brian Joiner wishes he could "just get over it."
    He wishes he could ignore the thousands of reported voting irregularities that occurred in the Nov. 2 election, accept the fact that George W. is going to be around another four years and just hope that we haven’t created even more enemies or fallen even deeper into debt by the time 2008 rolls around.
    "I’m sure the Republicans would like me to forget all that stuff, just like they wanted everyone to forget all the strange things that (…)

  • Southern Strategies
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Chris Kromm
    Do progressives and Democrats have a future in the South? Ever since the great unpleasantness of last November, a chorus of left-leaning pundits have taken the region’s defeats—no electoral votes for John Kerry, zero-for-five in open races for US Senate—as a sure sign that the South is a lost cause. Fold up the tent, the doubters say. Focus our energy elsewhere. Or as one indelicate yet frequently forwarded e-mail after the elections put it, "F*ck the South."
    Not so fast, (…)