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  • Democratic Party Denies Democracy “We will not cut off funding for the troops”
    7 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is generally understood that the recent overthrow of Republican control of congress was a direct result of the war in Iraq. As if ‘ taking Impeachment off the table wasn’t enough’, now Democratic ‘leaders’ are promising to stay the course in Iraq. Americans are tired of destroying an innocent nation, killing hundreds of thousands and poisoning possibly millions with Depleted Uranium just so Halliburton can continue it’s looting.
    The problem however, is that the Democratic leadership (…)

  • Three Little Girls from School are We: Left’s unwarranted giddiness over election gains
    21 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Giddy as Mikado schoolgirls, Democrats and their allies on the left are positively gushing over their election gains of November 7. In the US’ two-party duopoly, voters are restricted to shifting power from one side to the other to voice their dissatisfaction with government. And, to be fair, voters did their part, kicking out congressmen, senators and governors from coast to coast.
    But hopes that this shift will lead to real changes in policy are, as Cosmo (…)

  • The US left could learn from Mexico’s example
    20 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Andrés Manuel López Obrador for President (of the US!!)
    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Synopsis: Every election cycle, the US antiwar left reconvinces itself that its best chance of advancing its agenda is to dive once again into an alliance with the Democratic Party. Poor Charlie Brown! Is Lucy going to yank the ball away again? No suspense here....
    "The only game in town" is just one of the myriad cover stories used by the vestiges of the US left to justify continued support for the (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Marie-George Buffet: "We should declare war on the Right"
    17 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    At the close of work at the National Conference, Marie-George Buffet notably had to say:
    "We measure the unparalleled stakes in the 2007 elections, for the future of our country: either to slide into bi-partism, with its hopeless succession of alternances, or instead to give rise to a popular alternative to neo-liberal politics. This must be our objective: to construct on the Left a popular and political majority, around a project capable of changing our life. This ambition, I sum up in (…)

  • A Candidature to Succeed - The Communists United and Determined
    17 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PCF: Marie-George Buffet is proposed as anti-liberal [1] candidate in the presidential election. The delegates to the party’s National Conference approve by 80% the strategy for 2007. The objective: to construct a vast assembly of all anti-liberal forces. This decision will be submitted to a vote by all party members in November.
    2007: The National Conference of the French Communist Party (PCF), this weekend, proposed by a majority of more than 80% the candidature of Marie-George Buffet to (…)

  • 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, (…)

  • 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 (…)