Where were the questions that matter to the everyday people of this country?
Where were the questions about $4 gas and tax breaks for the huge oil companies? What about rescinding the tax breaks for the wealthy? What about extending the upper limits for taxes on earnings for funding Social Security? Why don’t we have universal health care like the rest of the civilized world? Who gives a s**t about Rev Wright or Bosnia?
Why is there another farm bill going through Congress right now that’s written to extend the wealth of the mega food growers while doing little for the average farmer or for addressing hunger in America? Why did we get a new bankruptcy law mainly written by the credit card companies that screws people, eg, who have unexpected major health bills?
Condi Rice supports torture and then lied about it.
Here we go again. Major news stories get published with very little reaction from the general press. It’s been revealed that the very top officials of the white house held specific meetings detailing and authorizing torture by the US gov’t.
This is just one more example of what should be a nail in the coffin of this administration.
When was this topic raised in last nights debate? Where do Hilliary, Barack, & McCain stand on this issue?
If you want to way in on this issue, here’s a great way to get your voice heard. Just go over to http://www.CondiMustGo.com and sign the petition or leave a comment there.
We the People must speak out now, not in November or never. We must speak out NOW.
This disgusted Republican is continually amazed that the United States approved torture is now defined as either Democratic or Republican. If you’re Democratic, you’re against torture. If you’re Republican, you think that torture is just fine, that the country will thrive on torture, that we’re all safer with torture as part of our national culture.
I draw this conclusion from yesterday’s vote to override the veto of the torture act affecting the CIA. The vote came down to all but three of the Democrats voted to override the veto, while only five Republicans voted to join them.
You can click on the following link to see how your representative voted:
The Republican montra in 2006 was that the Democrats wanted to “cut & run.” So will the Republicans stand up and take responsibility the next time some of our troops or civilians get captured and tortured? After all, if it’s OK for us to do it, then it will be OK for them to do it, right?
This disgusted republican urges you to call or email your U.S. representative today and urge him/her to vote to override the pres. veto of the torture act. This act is specifically aimed at the CIA. Our reputation around the world, and not to mention our own national values right here at home, are once again at stake.
All we’re asking is that the CIA follow the same guide lines as are set out in the U.S. Army Field Manual. The manual expressly prohibits waterboarding detainees, forcing prisoners to perform sexual acts, and many other objectionable interrogation “techniques. Even Gen. David Patraeus, the commanding general in Iraq, has said that the techniques outlined in the Army Field Manual “work effectively and humanely in eliciting information from detainees.”
Once again, we must stand up and assert what type of nation we are. We do not torture and we expect not to have our own people tortured if they are ever detained in a war situation.
Disgusted Republicans and everyone else can listen up.
Now is your chance to fight back against the heavy handed FCC.
Commission Chairman Kevin Martin pushed through a new rule in December, 2007 allowing big media conglomerates to own multiple outlets in the same market. Although he framed it as a limited rule, the fine print says otherwise. And the FCC regularly allows exemptions to the rules.
We the people can fight to protect democracy. In this case, you need to call your Senators and urge them to support North Dakota’s (D) Sen. Byron Dorgan’s “resolution of disapproval.” This legislation would roll back the new FCC rule that allows cross-ownership of owning a newspaper, television station and radio station in the same market.
Where public opinion was voiced at public meetings, the overwhelming consensus was against media concentration and yet, the FCC led by Kevin Martin went right ahead and implemented the rule change. It’s own studies to the contrary were ignored.
So, call your senators. Urge them to repeal this FCC rule. Further gutting of our Democracy must be resisted. Stay informed.
Here’s a link to an article that appeared this week in the Free Press.
Net Neutrality is still a huge concern to those of us little guys who are depending on the internet for the free and open sharing of ideas, and, not to mention it has become the livelihood of millions of people these days.
“There is a huge turnout at today’s public hearing in Boston on the future of the Internet. Hundreds of concerned citizens have arrived in droves to speak out on the importance of an open Internet.” Internet Neutrality
I’m thinking back to when I switched sides. Having been a life long Republican, first voting for Goldwater, I trusted the Repubs up through the 2000 election.
At the time, I thought that Gore had too much of the deer-in-the-headlights look…and we were coming off of 8 years of the Clintons. I’d seen enough. And “compassionate conservative, blah, blah, blah” kept me on that side. Then came the attacks on us and the war in Afg. I was still with them.
But the leap into Iraq was too much. Plenty of people were advising that we would be poking a stick into a relatively quiet hornet’s nest. Sure enough, all hell broke loose and now we don’t know what to do with it. And, yes, my personal beliefs are that war need not be the only way to solve differences, in fact should be the last possible choice.
So leaping forward to now, I’m faced with the possibility of having to vote for another Clinton, or having Obama. Give me Obama any day, and as quickly as possible. As a country, do we really need either a Bush or a Clinton in the white house for 36 years? I don’t think so.
Yes, we need change and we need hope. Not fear. And it would be fine if Gore were to step in and take the nomination in a deadlocked convention.
Yes, I’m still here. I got too disgusted to post for awhile, but I have been watching what is going on. We had the ‘06 election which went pretty well.
Unfortunately, the congress has squandered the momentum they had built up from the election. They just continue to allow the prez to just keep on bullying them and fear mongering them into submission. Look at the current flap over holding the telecom industry’s feet to the fire for aiding in illegal wiretapping.
What about holding the administration accountable for their actions, holding individuals in contempt for not appearing before Congress to testify, eg?
Personally, I’m very tired of listening to the prez fear monger the American people into giving up our Constitutional rights in the name of security. Anyway, I’ll be adding some more as the election season pushes on.
Its not just the “Party of Corruption.” God knows, over the years both parties have had their share of scandals. I think this more than typifies the problem of power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And I am talking in the broader sense of the whole Republican party.
That is to say, one party rule is doing us in as a democracy. This Foley thing is an example of how its more important to keep power than it is to out and prosecute a pedophile, or at the very least, to investigate the possibility of him being one. Begin by immediately removing him as a person on a committee assigned to protecting children–a blatant shortfall of leadership to do just that.
The Republican spinners can dig all they want to try and find Democratic pedophiles, but the fact remains, this is their cover up, on their watch, and the democrats were specifically left out of the loop in the alleged misbehavior of this guy.
So how’s this for a theory? The leadership purposely left him not-outed so that they could guarantee that they could get him to vote their way on any issue that came up where they needed all the votes to pass that issue. Anyone smell a rat here?
