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  • To Elliot Spitzer and the Democratic Majority, the people’s needs must come before impeachment
    18 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Elliot Spitzer and the Democratic Majority, the people’s needs must come before impeachment
    By Mary MacElveen November 18, 2006
    There is a big lesson for us all as one reads E.J. Dionne’s piece Remember who sent you in which he speaks to the new Democratic majority of why they were elected to take over both houses of congress and also this piece once again reaffirms my original belief that those across America did not vote for this new majority to get their pound of flesh through an (…)

  • The Price of Imperial Arrogance
    16 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Price of Imperial Arrogance - by Stephen Lendman
    Lyndon Johnson was a conflicted man about Vietnam almost from the time he took office. As early as May, 1964, he confessed his doubts about the conflict to his good friend Senator Richard Russell in one of the many phone calls he taped in the Oval Office. That was three months before the fateful Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave him congressional authorization for military action in Southeast Asia without needing a formal declaration of (…)

  • Howard Dean’s accomplishments versus James Carville’s failures
    16 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Howard Dean’s accomplishments versus James Carville’s failures By Mary MacElveen November 15, 2006
    Newsmax.com reports that James Carville the political has been stated that Democrats should fire Howard Dean as the chair of the Democratic National Committee. In the most laughable statement he likens Howard Dean to that of Donald Rumseld when he said, "I think he should be held accountable. I would describe his leadership as Rumsfeldian in its competence.”
    Unlike Rumsfeld, Dean’s (…)

  • 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, (…)

  • Donald Rumsfeld: International War Criminal (Bush Belongs Behind Bars Too!)
    15 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rumsfeld war crimes complaint filed in Germany Holly Manges Jones at 10:01 AM ET [JURIST] Eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture initiated a criminal complaint [introduction in English, PDF; full complaint text in German, part one and part two, PDF] in Germany Tuesday asking that the German Federal Prosecutor [official website] investigate and ultimately prosecute former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and (…)

  • To Bush, McCain and Olmert: The Congo Cries Out and all of you remain silent
    14 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Bush, McCain and Olmert: The Congo Cries Out and all of you remain silent By Mary MacElveen November 14, 2006
    The lesson for the GOP to take from last week’s election results in which they lost majority rule in both houses is that the American people saw through the deceit in using our military to fight an immoral war in Iraq. If we are to gain respect world-wide, it would be to stand up to brutal acts that continue to this day.
    No, I am not speaking of Iran. In fact I think some (…)

  • Demand Action From Congress: 500,000 Impeachment Letters to Pelosi by Jan. 3
    14 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    News has spread across the country, but Americans remain unhindered by spineless Democratic leaders’ calls for a cut and run from Impeachment. Instead of being silenced, patriotic Americans have been emboldened by this call to action and have turned up the volume on their demands for justice.
    Anti-war Activists in San Francisco are already raising their voices outside Nancy Pelosi’s office “Activists urge Pelosi to halt war in Iraq”
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    We’re out here today telling Nancy Pelosi (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • AS SLIME GOES ’BYE!’...A song of Celebration!
    13 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Here is the music:
    http://www.heart-soul-music.com/music/midi/AsTimeGoesBy.mid WE WILL REMEMBER THIS OUR BLISS IS CRAZY BLISS! THE NEOCONERS SIGH THE FUNDAMENTALISTS ALL CRY AS SLIME GOES "BYE!" BUSH ’MANDATE’ IS NO MORE THE VOTERS SAID "WHAT FOR?" ON THAT WE DID RELY LET’S HOPE JOY’S WHAT OUR FUTURE BRINGS AS SLIME SAYS "BYE!" FAIRNESS AND HONESTY ARE.. NEVER OUT OF DATE WE’RE FULL OF PASSION NOT JEALOUSY AND HATE PEOPLE NEED HOPE OUR HOPE BECAME OUR FATE THAT WE CANNOT DENY WELL, (…)