On the strength of network predictions that President Barack Obama has won state of Ohio, RSN is projecting that he has enough electoral college votes to prevail.
Obama wins re-election. (photo: AP)
Obama, Warren, McCaskill, Donnelly Victorious
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n the strength of network predictions that President Barack Obama has won state of Ohio, RSN is projecting that he has enough electoral college votes to prevail.
In Massachusetts all major broadcast networks have declared Elizabeth Warren the winner over Republican incumbent Scott Brown.
Insensitive remarks on the reproductive rights of rape victims by Republican senate candidates have propelled Democrats Claire McCaskill and Joe Donnelly to victory in Missouri and Indiana respectively.
A very successful night for the Democrats overall.
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Now if Romney wants to run for President again, I hear there's job openings in Iran, Syria, Lybia, Egypt. Since economy is not doing well, you have to go to one of these countries for a job -
Since President Obama took this job in USA, even though nobody likes to leave home, Romney can afford to fly home on weekends if he takes a job in one of THOSE countries.
We not only export jobs we can export presidential candidates.
Although I empathize with how he's feeling - because I understand he cannot win all the time - even with a lot of money. Soooo sad.
Religion is important in Somalia and Haiti. Voodoo entertainment delights the tourists and Somalia has some Muslim fanatics who have interesting opinions about women's rights and gay rights.
Export Presidential candidates? An interesting suggestion.
Instead of "china bashing" we should be calling on US workers (and particularly the unions) to be reaching out to chinese workers (as well as other workers around the world) and organizing internationally . There are now something like 10,000 strikes (the chinese call them "incidents") a year in china as chinese workers are still some of the most exploited in the world.
China, or at least the chinese working class (which is the vast majority of the population) are not our (i.e., the US working class) enemies.
Both parties to some degree play the china bashing game as it is a great distraction away from the real culprits and cause of the economic decline of the US working and middle-classes which is not china but rather our own homegrown 1%.
Time for us to stop falling for this old nativist, jingoistic distraction and focus on the real enemies.
I hear ya Matt. One Big Union was always the way to go (and still is) but at the very least if we are going to be able to effectively take on global capital well then labor too must be global and at the very least we should be talking about organizing along trade lines internationally . If "they" want the free flow of capital then we need to be demanding equivalents on the labor side (not that i think we should be supporting the whole "free trade" free flow of capital stuff but that's another story).
Paraguay.
...I wonder if he can make a two-way radio out of coconuts.
OK Barbara K enough of us voted for the democrats. I hope you are happy? AND we did get Elisabeth Warren into the senate along with Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin. And courageous Tammy Duckworth beat that nasty SOB, Joe Walsh. He sure needed to go.
Congratulations to all of us.
Now comes the toughs stuff that needs to get done. I am afraid a lot of the people, who just voted for Obama, will be angry at him, because a lot of difficult issues must be addressed, and there will be a lot of pain to go around. But I hope we can get through it. For it MUST be done.
First on his mind is Disaster and getting it done. Between him and the Governors, it will get done. Cuomo is already telling not asking Corporations and Millionaires he is expecting matching donations to help those single parents, disabled, seniors who do not have insurance. He is going to see that every door is knocked on and a fund started.
I think if he can do this, we are going barrel over CU and start getting jobs back in America or boycott allowing the crap in here.
We have a chance, everyone here and America to keep our heads up, work together and get the changes necessary to make America Number One Again It takes the Village to do so
federal income taxes and end the nonsense that we have to be the
policeman of the world and the deficit will shrink on it's own! The deficits during WW2 were far higher as a percentage of gross domestic product than the deficits now and we did not collapse. The debt was paid down thanks to a truly progressive tax code with a top marginal rate of 91% for ALL income over $200,000 for individuals with no distinction between wages and capital gains. I personally favor eliminating the corporate income tax since they cheat to the point of ridiculousness anyway, which only makes their value to real investors unclear, in exchange for a more progressive personal income tax rate with a top bracket of 49% of all earned income over $10,000,000 and a progressive capital gains tax table. Capital gains should be 5% on the first $100,000, 10% on the next $400,000, 15% on the next $500,000, 20% on the next $1,000,000, 25% on the next $3,000,000, and 30% on all capital gains over $5,000,000.
Now the Corporate States...Indust ry and Farm look out want red, well we are going to want to see your tax money, bring back jobs because CU is going down...
And, i also agree we should eliminate the capital gains tax. It's income so tax it at the same rate as all other income. Again, i salute your proposal.
Also, i'm not sure why you are singling out obese, alcoholic, drug addict gang members...they should be able to get the same "benefits" as other gang members like the ones in Skull and Bones don't you think?
I do agree though that we should "stop spending for those who produce nothing for our society"...i have rarely heard a better argument for drastic cuts in our war budget...so, again, i salute your proposal.
It would appear, Senator Mitch McConnell, that your political party’s “primary goal” of President Barack Obama being a “one-term” President, has failed.
I’m not sure you understand the saying: “turn-about is fair play”, but, suffice it to say: Democrats might now be working to assure that your next election bid for the Senate seat you currently hold will fail also, but, it will NOT be their PRIMARY goal, because, you see, they believe their primary goal is to help run the country, not destroy a man.
Have a nice day.
Yep, as are we all. But at least now it may last a bit longer, especially if Obama gets his finger out on the environment.
2: Sabre-rattling against Iran, support for Israeli apartheid state, possible world war.
3: Obama's kill list, Obama's child-murdering drone bombs, indefinite detention, no habeus corpus, illegal domestic spying, war on whistleblowers, violence against & arrest of peaceful demonstrators - all becoming entrenched bipartisan policies.
A wise man doesn’t throw away the good just because it comes in a package that's not ALL good. NOTHING in the history of democracy indicates that's the way progress has EVER been achieved. The unrealistic insistence on getting everything will get us nothing.
Stomp your feet and hold your breath and demand everything happen your way all at once — or grow up and realize this war is like any other war — incremental.
If a lesser evil that includes mass murder is acceptable to you, I guess that's your problem. But what I was trying to stress is that the environment is one issue that has a set expiration date, and the Democrats have shown no indication that they are going to even come close to making the necessary changes to avoid that. Like I said, go to 350.org and read the science. How much good is your incremental reform going to be when 3/4 of the world is desert?
I have I wish they were dead list so that is a Kill list of sorts.
I am so glad you have walked such a fine line and love everybody...any hatred or animosity is still a kill list just modified. So Grow up, your crap has fell on deaf ears esp since it is Military and Congress that okays Killing
and they have a Kill List for sure..everyone.
Nit was the one Promising Israel to bomb Iran. It is on RSN archives and any news link including Guardian UK so again stay in grade school get an education and learn to prove your facts.
Iran has sanctions, will be inspected, and that fact is not backing down...Comprende?
I am against Drilling I believe now with information coming in....Pa. Post Gazette in Allegheny Nov 2, 2012 has found 2 DEP Testers in Court admitted that home drinking water tests were falsified. Do you know who ok'd them and DEP to do this?
A Nit Supporter
Back pocket money taking Governor
Want to clean up tar sand project, fracking, drilling in Artic Start Organizing. Get Referendums together for your community, State to have for Primary.
You want to make difference, than do so instead of blaming everyone else.
By the Way us Environmentalis ts, we voted for OBama because he is not a sell out like Republicans. Progressive, MotherJones, Nation are just a tip of News facts
5: takeover of agriculture by GMO's, FDA rubber-stamping w/o any evidence of safety, food tainted w/ superbugs from antibiotics in factory farming.
So enjoy your glorious "progressive" victory. I just hope you aren't now done for the next 4 years.
OB didn't go after Unions GOP goes after Unions
Get or stay in school, you obviously have no clue as to what you are talking about.
If you want Change, get off your own butt and organize to make America a better place. We need more people taking a stand, getting referendum on ballot for May. Get a clue, a life and do something.
We could have been saluting the next Nazi dictatior if OB wasn't re elected, fool
so, i agree we need to keep organizing, protesting, building alternative institutions etc....but let's not fall into the same trap as many did during Obama's first term and view him as the "savior" he never was or ignore some of the really horrible things he has and continues to support.
You can spare me the childish name-calling - it only shows that you have no leg to stand on. Please show me one piece of actual evidence that on any if these issues, Mitt Romney would have been worse than what Obama has done for the last 4 years (not his promises, which he consistently breaks - his actual policies).
And yes, organizing is exactly what I said we should be doing. Rather than celebrating this mythological great progressive victory as you all seem to be doing, we should be figuring out how to stop our bipartisan corporatocracy from driving us off the cliff. We'd have more time to do that if we didn't pretend that these elections actually matter.
As far as the next Nazi dictator, read this: http://bit.ly/QoYKoq. The way Hitler came to power was that in the Weimar Republic, Germany's establishment Left party failed to solve their problems, which opened the door for the violent racist ultra-nationali st populist groups to take control.
Nice to see some others here with a sense of history and an understanding of why it's important to learn the lessons so we don't just keep making the same disasterous mistakes over and over.
Sad, that now that the election is over and Obama has won that there are still people who won't accept any criticism of this President and his administration and continue to see him as the "savior" he never was and don't understand that substantive progressive change in this country has never come from elections but rather from mass movements that had the political clout to pressure politicians to do things they otherwise simply would not do (including sacred cows like FDR who most people don't know or acknowledge that he campaigned as a moderate who was going to maintain the status quo and balance the budget).
If people think that there work is now "done" because the election is over then we will have just more of the same and whatever opportunities exist will have been squandered.
It's not up to Obama or congress folks; it's up to us.
By the way, the new Oliver Stone mini-series _Untold History of the United States_ has started playing on HBO. I watched the first episode and it looks really good. He was debunking the ideas that the U.S. rulers were opposed to the Nazis or that we got into WWII for humanitarian purposes, which touched somewhat on that FDR sacred cow.
On the other hand, if you are a betting man i would be happy to wager everything on your claim that Obama will cancel the 2016 election...i had to take a significant pay cut when i took a new job after being laid off so i'm looking for ways to supplement my income. so, as my mom used to say "put up or shut up." I'll even give you odds.
So on the one hand you want "us" (though i'm not one of the "lemmings" you referred to...though i still do love that record....since i am in NY i was able to vote for the Green Party) to deal with "facual data" but on the other hand this data should not be that "rediculous scienc" (sic) stuff...interes ting how you reconcile those two positions.
Two years ago, the nation reset the philosophy to the Right Wing philosophy. Unfortunately for them, the Right Wing's philosophy was never put forward in any legislation. The party that took over the House proclaiming that they were all about jobs, did not present one single jobs bill! The philosophy came up empty.
So, being somewhat fickle and impatient the public turned against the do nothing except ban abortions Right Wing and re-elected the President.
The challenge to the Right Wing is to engage in the debate and introduce legislation that will actually move the nation forward. Blocking everything the Democrats propose isn't working for you guys, the votes are in, either work with us or resign.
Eagle will NEVER provide specifics to why he feels the way he does. He never has done so. My advice Robert; go back to your cave and then in three years your right wing puppet masters can roll you out again to once more provide statements of doom and gloom. In the mean time, America will do just fine thank you.
We Won, We Won, We Won....America Won, Americans Won....
Corporations who do not pull it together...Adio s.
Yo Congress, I think people have given a message and you a chance to listen. Otherwise you will be gone, gone, gone in two years...Take that to the BANK
We Won, We Won, We won....We are Proud to Be Americans. Traitors Beware
If you are talking about America as an "empire" or as the leader of global capitalism i hope you are right but for that to be the case it will take a lot more organizing and building of a genuinely radical political movement in this country.
this is the true task of progressives at this point otherwise it will be more of the same "new democrats" which are the much closer to the republicans of the post world war II era (at least up until Nixon if not Reagan) then they are to the old FDR "new deal" democrats and even there it was a mass movement that pushed FDR into proposing the New Deal and gave us much of the modern welfare state legislation that has been under attack (in many ways from both parties) for the past 30+ years.
so, depending on which America you think is doomed i might agree with you and more than that welcome it as it is long overdue.
It was over before midnight. The plans and fruits growing out of the Gingrich years blew up in their faces. The Republican Party that's evolved over the past sixteen years is lying in ruins - a shamble that will not regain its once proud position in American politics for a decade, if then. By that time I hope that we will have averted a major war with Iran and that Justices Ginsberg, Breyer, Kennedy & Scalia will all have been replaced by a progressive Administration . . , which were my major concern all along.
Amen
Intelligent life detected in America!
Just listening to Romney and Obama's speeches and it's the difference between an exclusive and an inclusive America.
I only hope Obama gets onto the things he's hinted at - climate change and peak oil both got a mention, together with what in any other country would be called communism - i.e. caring for each other (obviously nothing to do with the so-called communism of the USSR etc)
Some people call "caring for each other" Christanity...
People still have it in themselves to dare to care Disasters prove it...Thanks NJ for going Blue Yahoooo
Maybe, maybe the world can breathe again, as we enter this new air-lock.
But there's one thing we MUST not do: people can't afford to return to couch-potatodom , as they did 4 years ago.
And now the BIGGEST challenge: how to recover inclusiveness, how to bridge the partisan gulf? How to revive DIALOGUE and TRUE DEBATE across party lines after all those years of sterile trench warfare?
Americans need to seek and find ways of reviving the citizens' associations that brought them TOGETHER for the best part of two centuries, and to box in the corporate barons and divisive special interest lobbies whose excessive power has done so much to ruin us all.
Now, politicians, starting with the President, need courage, courage, courage, to reach out to and heed the advice of wise ordinary folk, not just party hacks and pundits approved by the financial community; and by every available means to stimulate association and INCLUSIVENESS.
¡Y,FINALMENTE, TODOS, TENIAMOS QUE HACER UN ESFUERZO INAUDITO PARA ENTENDERNOS A TRAVES DE FRONTERAS RACIALES Y LINGUISTICAS! REACH OUT! AND KEEP ON REACHING OUT!
¡¡¡Que dormilón!!! Verdad, que teníamos que hacer aquel esfuerzo, pero lo que quería decir es que TENEMOS que hacerlo, todos, y ahora mismo.
Sorry, sorry! It's true there WAS, there always has been a need to reach out across racial and language divides, but I was half asleep and wrote "we should have made an effort", when I meant WE MUST.
LET'S GO!
Estado Unidos para Tu!
We need your input, we all need to learn from each other, accept each other to take America to a new level.
No GMO, Label, Label all food.
Start up American Business and disenfranchise buying Chinese ....
Support Companies that support workers and equal pay, benefits.
Law for Women .... No more Slavery, No more rules against us. We are Equals.
Planned Parenthood more care, more awareness, and preparing kids. No more unwanted pregnancies. Let's get up to date, teach the children well. Mom/Dads start teaching your sons some respect for women, teach them to keep it in their pants or learn about Birth Control. Both Partners should learn to say NO.
Obama has already named two people to the court and i only wish they had been "hard left." Both of their records prior to being on the court as well as their records since joining the court clearly demonstrate that neither are anything of the kind so again this is just more right-wing fantasy about Obama being a leftist or socialist. If only it were true.
We can make change, and World must do it together
Will Mr. Obama use the results as this term's excuse for refraining from a progressive agenda?
On the other hand, am I the first to murmur: "Warren for president in 2016". After all, when Obama threw her "under the bus," she bounced back to claim an even better prize that the administrative position that she was denied. So, what's next?
I was so glad to see the women, third partiers get in there. I loved seeing Bernie up there, no doubt therre.
But it is time for you all to start your work for 2016. This waiting for the last minute backfired on Pres from many ...Want Change than start now.
I am glad for Amy. Sometimes we have to get back up and kick butt...she did. Hopefully OB saw the light, I am sure he did. Nittens would have laughed at these women, OB doesnot.
I am so proud of Americans, but in two years I want more third partiers ousting GOP/TP even Dems if need be
While I agree about your doubts, there might just be a little hope in this. Dems will have to think hard how to address the situation. As for GOP, the policy of sabotage has failed and only morons would not be prepared to rethink it. True, there are plenty of those - and even more among their electors. Yet the scene's set for some tectonic shifting...
It's time to circulate to both Houses Edmund Burke's famous speech to the electors of Bristol. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch13s7.html
Some may remember the advantages of being one's own man/woman. It's always better than crawling or whoring. Voters are tired of pimps, admen, puppets, cowards and political prostitutes and even fanatics may show respect for those who stand up for themselves and their values.
As for the market going down yesterday and today...well, i guess since neither candidate mentioned the entire continent of Europe during the debate perhaps you are unaware of what's going on there or is that Harry Reid and Obama's fault too.
Hopefully, the Greeks and the rest of the Europeans will tell Goldman Sachs and the rest to fuck off and default on their debt and inspire the same kind of anti-austerity movement in this country.
dead beats of the world unite!
In 2008, the Dow wasn't doing so hot either. Do we blame that on Obama?
So, the Dems, including Obama,had a near sweep. But you'll no doubt keep "looping." Can you change to another "calling script?"
Third Party are on move. We will see Young and hopefully old alike, changing attitudes.
I believe the cretins were given a chance to prove they can work for America...if they do not they can look to Nittens for jobs in China
Third Party are moving in, we will continue to see this. Like breezes on a summer morning.
I love America.
The downside is that I have no idea what Obama will do. He's still a blank slate. Will he finally understand that he cannot compromise with republicans? Or will he continue to triangulate and take over the republican agenda with a kinder face.
The other best news is that Hillary will now resign and some other cabinet posts may be vacated. Obama will have a chance to make some good appointments. I hope the uses this opportunity to transform his top administration by appointing some real liberals and peace makers. Obama owes this to his liberal base who worked for him again.
OBama has alrady acknowledged that he owes us.
Now we must get organized, and start showing him we are going to do more than vote.
Fracking referendums must start Now. Tar Sands must be Public Vote. GMO must be Public Vote. We must clean up the Clean Air and Water ACT. Then we must get a new plan of defense for Disasters...Tal k about Homeland Security..these Disasters need their own.
We must work to get China inspections, China goods both food and material up to our inspections.
China wants to talk about Environment than they can figure a way to Safely Remove and Clean Tar Sands on their own...WE do not need the poison Canada has.
We must tax Corporations, Million/gazzill ionaires, and dismantle the Anti American Groups like CU. They can assemble all the want, they no longer have rights of individuals.
We have work to do, everyone here from different States should start organizing in their state...let me know Pa
With that in mind I think Romney's concession speech was simple and good. Let's see if he means it and follows through. If he goes to Republican Senators and Congressmen and publicly says "ok enough with the divisiveness- work with the democrats" there is hope for this country otherwise I agree with Robt Eagle.
Romney's concession speech was simple and a good message to the Republicans and the right wingers. Of course, since it was Romney delivering it, the speech amounted to a checklist of points he was supposed to make in a concession speech. Which he dis deliver in an honest, but unemotional manner. The only item on the checklist he couldn't check off was a "story" of disappointment. But, as we know, that's not Mitt.
If you think, that many Republicans are going to follow his advice, we got to get together so I can try whatever it is that you're smoking.
Romney uses words like any CEO. Grow up
I am so glad we can breath, no ax over my head I can see seniors, disabled not fretting over paying way too much more.
I hope China throws Nittens out in a heart beat.
I also hope Nittens is brought up on Charges, Annie, and Delphi, Singer for their selling out Auto Workers.
Koch next, then down the line. Maybe if we make as much Public Awareness now of what these cretins are up to, IRS investigates them all Dem and Repub...we can get back on track.
May the Environment win again
May Women get some Laws that no more Dictators. Let's get a Good Rape Law into affect, no more loopholes.
You and Mr Eagle can move to China.
America needs real people, civil people, anti racists to move forward. We will no longer help you all by carrying you on our backs. You do not like OB good, Americans like us don't like your kind
You want to jump back on with your agenda...No Thanks Adios Welfare line for Farmers, Cheats, Corporations stopped last night
I think you misunderstood . I feel Mr Obama should be MORE politically liberal/environ mentally radical/conserv ationist/femini st/pacifist and makes far too many concessions to conservatives. Looks that my hope for some concessions from the Ultracons offended you? I feel that hope does no harm. (and ps- I'm a low-income lifelong organic farmer).
Chinese workers are not the enemy of american workers no matter how many times you try and push this point. Instead of bashing china we should be calling for solidarity with chinese workers and calling for all workers to be organizing internationally .
To do this it seems to me that one place to start is by looking at some interesting demographic results beyond the ones that the mainstream talking heads keep mentioning (youth, women, african americans and latinos, etc).
For example, i think that rather than talking about red states and blue states we should see this more as an urban/rural split as Obama won the urban areas even in many deeply "red states". this suggests that we need to be talking alot more about how to craft a genuinely progressive rural agenda that could attract some of this constituency.
Also, since Obama won decisively among individuals earning under $50,000 and families earning under $100,000 this suggests to me that the so-called "class warfare" tact that the rethugs (wrongly) accused obama and the dems of engaging in is an effective strategy i.e., appealing to the majority that are in this income range. To me this suggests that the dems should not shy away from class politics but rather more fully embrace it (which would include figuring out how to reach some of the "angry white voters" that made up so much of the base of the t-party.
anyway, it strikes me that these are the types of conversations we now need to start having if we are to move forward.
We have work to do from GMO to air/water quality to peace and tax reforms
We cannot afford another person fronting for the "greedy bastards" (Koch, Rove, etc) to to run the USA and lead the world.
The country will look at the R's in the house to step up to the plate now and "WORK" bc some of them are up for re-election in 2 years.
History was made on 11/6/2012.
Now the senate must define the filabuster to allow "majority to rule" --
For the problems Florida blacks again faced...get with it GOP are not wanting minorities.
I was not optimissitic at six o'clock but at eleven I was elated. Not for myself as I would have survived, put up with Dictatorship until we overthrew. But I thought of all the Victims esp the newest...I saw the newest ones vote, over and over. God Bless You all....even you Christie.
OWS Thank You for your work in the Disaster Areas and your Vote...you made the Young Aware. I know the Women of all ages, made a Vote for Us also. Good for you
Now we have a lot to do. We need to start getting ready to clean out the House. We need new blood. As we see how our Third Parties Work, we will be looking for them in our States. We need Fresh Air, these new faces, ideas may be that breeze.
We need to get referendums in order against drilling for anything right now. More and more information is available about lies...Pa DEP not doing Water Tests for Homeowners. If it was done with this Red Evil Governor in charge...start looking in your states. Help people and start using other Addresses to get it done.
To Karl Rove -eat your black heart out! To the Koch's, Adelsons and shadowy money pumpers, you can't buy everything including progress and you can only rig so many elections.
To Dung-heap Trump; see a shrink then go and open a casino in Colombia.
To those who say "America is doomed", do not pass "Go", try Paraguay and launder yourselves through the recently acquired Bush Compound for disgruntled fascists, criminals and reactionaries and leave the American people to stay "gruntled" and bring the nation into the 21st century. And take Curdled Rove with you.
Also happy for Tammy Balwin (my daughter worked on her campaign team in Wis'), Eliz' Warren and Allan Grayson ; and a strengthened Senate
Glad too that my wife and I get to stay here a little longer, as we'd decided to move back to Europe earlier than planned if the Rethugs had won.
Now don't get complacent, hold Obama's feet to the fire, get universal health coverage, renewed infrastructure and a progressive SCOTUS in place, and progressive coalitions with third and fourth parties just for starters and make the Congress critters come beggin' to work with you.
Good on ya America; now use it or lose it!
I'll check up on this personally; -had no idea.
But his IS a quite stridently courageous voice the likes of which is so sadly lacking; remember his crushing attack on the Rethug's solution to healthcare "#1 Die!", #2 "Die soon" or words to that general effect (They were outraged but never offered anything but Vouchers which is their answer to everything). We need a bunch more like that!
Back at ya on the Zionist thang.
thanks for pointing this one out Matt; like reiverpacific i had no idea that Grayson supported the reactionaries forces in Israel and Israeli state policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians (and perhaps others)....for what it's worth, i think it is better to refer to these folks as supporters of israeli state policy or the reactionary/rig ht-wing forces in Israel as i think the term Zionist is one of those loaded ones that often obscures more than it helps to clarify (e.g., even some of the Israeli "refusnik" soldiers that refused to serve in the occupied territories consider themselves zionists as do some in the israeli left/peace movements. I don't and have never considered myself a zionist but i think "we" open ourselves up to charges/accusat ions (whether they are true or not) of either anti-semitism or being a "self-hater" when we talk in terms of zionism as opposed to the israeli gov't and israeli state policies.
thanks for the info on Grayson on this stuff though. sad to hear.
This is our Country we have to set a list...even here. What we need to do, prioritize it. Then organize State by State, see what Groups are already working on different things, and say No more see saw motions let's put it on Referendums. Let's referendum the States until the see we are not sitting down anymore.
I know we all did our cheers, exhales, I want to thank you all for your work, belief, time to fight to keep America in Front. You have the Power and we have reminded all Yesterday,
We are something that SCOTUS will have to reckon with because that illegal CU is over. Campaign Contributions are over. Use your own money no more nonsense. I am disgusted at the waste of money in a time when Americans and the World is in such Economic Times as we are. Disgusting to waste money to say how great you think you are. Your not, you a human being that were trusted with our Safety, our Lives and You all Blew it.
Like the Disaster Victims, we must work together and grow again as a Nation. We must Promote American Products to grow this Economy. We must Demand American Products so we can produce Jobs. We must look into shredding Property Taxes, School Taxes for Elderly who do no longer work. We must get all Americans together in this Thanksgiving Season...Give Thanks, and work for Tomorrow
Don't forget that Montana (Republican) actually came out against CU (I suspect with some Libertarian votes) which is just the tip of the iceberg; ---it's coming. Even Obama has spoken against it. Hold on to this hope.
The current tide towards progressive balance must be maintained by vigilance, activism and involvement of progressive involvement in the same way that the Tea-Party nutcases drove the Rethugs but have now been exposed and cast them out of the grass roots milieu weakening the reactionary cause.
I can actually see Green, Socialist, and so many unheard voices merging in a progressive coalition to drive the current and future Presidents and his base into a rising and stronger current of catch-up without regression into the old "Lassize-Faire" order. And that includes the banishment of CU back to the shadows of judicial corruption and cronyism from whence it slid like toxic slime.
OD.
OK back at ya.
Whilst I wouldn't categorize Grayson as a "Zionist" you definitely have a valid point -in an interview with the Philadelphia Jewish Voice;
http://maxblumenthal.com/2009/12/progressive-hero-alan-graysons-secret-life-as-an-aipac-tool/
It tells me that A.G. is simply being a politician -not excusing it, just recognizing a guy who wants to be re-elected getting a strong if utterly wrong-headed PAC behind him.
However, it does diminish his image as a brutally frank voice for progressive causes.
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