Be a Pelosi
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"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality…And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
- Barbara Bush, September 5
Is any situation in which the bodies of your loved ones are left to rot on streets and bridges 'working very well'?
President Bush 41 was not familiar with a grocery market scanner; Mrs. Bush is not familiar with The Golden Rule. (She does, however, have more than a passing acquaintance with gold.) Treat others as you'd like to be treated--not just other rich folk or other white folk. Treat everyone as you would like to be treated.
She and President Bush 43 patted Michael Brown on the back, said "You're doing a good job, Brownie." The Bush dynasty seems to exhibit a dangerous disinclination to indulge in reality.
Where are our Progressive voices? Publicize the truth like Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the House minority leader, recounted her 7 September meeting with the President at a press conference on the same day.
The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal among others promptly misrepresented her remarks. On CNN today, she not only willingly repeated her criticisms but defended them to CNN's (critical) correspondant.
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) called for an independent investigation into the disaster mismanagement, responding to the Bush administration's proposed self-investigation on CNN by stating that "I don't think the government should be investigating itself…I don't think either the president or the Congress can conduct the kind of objective, independent investigation that we need."
We need more strong Progressives. Women and men like these. Where have they been following the Iraq debacle? Congress spends over 1 billion dollars a day on the military. Over 2,000 Americans killed so far. That's not even saying anything about how many Iraqis have died, how many foreign nationals have died in the wars and conflicts the Bush administration has started since 2001.
Progressives can win the White House in 2008, can contend for Congress in 2006. And they must. A Progressive president is small consolation in the face of an increasingly conservative Congress.
Condaleezza Rice was confirmed in the narrowest vote for any Secretary of State since 1825 despite doubts raised not only regarding her misleading statements about the Iraq War but her ability to bring opposing opinions to the President, a critical function of the Secretary of State. John Roberts will be our next Chief Justice because the Democrats lack the legislative firepower to keep him off the bench.
We blew 2000, 2002, and 2004. Progressive candidates should never have lost these elections. The negative consequences could have prevented it with cohesion and discipline.So, let me again say, if we lose in 2008 it will be our fault. The resultant policies, ours as well.
Our ally is truth. Make the consequences of current Conservative policies and actions known. Publicize the realities of the situation as Pelosi did. Brown's towering incompetance should have spoken for itself and led him to resign. But it didn't. Enter Pelosi. Enter Clinton. Enter Progressives to insist upon truth, to avert deflection and diversion and redirect attention to Katrina.
Imagine this:
You see a bully beating another child. His best friend, a much better match for the bully, sits by the beatee's side and holds his hand, mouthing platitudes.
Bullies are bullies. As long as he has the upper-hand, he's not going to listen. So your anger toward the bully is useless. But this friend, this friend deserves your frustration. He could be doing something about the bully yet watches the situation without taking action to rectify the wrong being done.
Conservatives are the bully. As Progressives, we can do little to change Conservative policy. We are the best friend of the beatee, of the people and thus must change how we respond to the bully. We have to fight back. How? Use our fists, okay. But moreover, we've got to convince the beatee to use his, to stand up for himself. All we have to do to win him to our side is point out the obvious: He's getting beaten up. Together we can put a stop to it, gang up on the bully.
Now is not the time for platitudes or politeness. It's the time for action, for conviction. Step up. Be a Pelosi.
- Barbara Bush, September 5
Is any situation in which the bodies of your loved ones are left to rot on streets and bridges 'working very well'?
President Bush 41 was not familiar with a grocery market scanner; Mrs. Bush is not familiar with The Golden Rule. (She does, however, have more than a passing acquaintance with gold.) Treat others as you'd like to be treated--not just other rich folk or other white folk. Treat everyone as you would like to be treated.
She and President Bush 43 patted Michael Brown on the back, said "You're doing a good job, Brownie." The Bush dynasty seems to exhibit a dangerous disinclination to indulge in reality.
Where are our Progressive voices? Publicize the truth like Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the House minority leader, recounted her 7 September meeting with the President at a press conference on the same day.
"When I said to the president that he should fire Michael Brown, he said, 'Why would I do that?' I said, 'Because of all that went wrong, with all that didn't go right last week.'" And he said, 'What didn't go right?'"
The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal among others promptly misrepresented her remarks. On CNN today, she not only willingly repeated her criticisms but defended them to CNN's (critical) correspondant.
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) called for an independent investigation into the disaster mismanagement, responding to the Bush administration's proposed self-investigation on CNN by stating that "I don't think the government should be investigating itself…I don't think either the president or the Congress can conduct the kind of objective, independent investigation that we need."
We need more strong Progressives. Women and men like these. Where have they been following the Iraq debacle? Congress spends over 1 billion dollars a day on the military. Over 2,000 Americans killed so far. That's not even saying anything about how many Iraqis have died, how many foreign nationals have died in the wars and conflicts the Bush administration has started since 2001.
Progressives can win the White House in 2008, can contend for Congress in 2006. And they must. A Progressive president is small consolation in the face of an increasingly conservative Congress.
Condaleezza Rice was confirmed in the narrowest vote for any Secretary of State since 1825 despite doubts raised not only regarding her misleading statements about the Iraq War but her ability to bring opposing opinions to the President, a critical function of the Secretary of State. John Roberts will be our next Chief Justice because the Democrats lack the legislative firepower to keep him off the bench.
We blew 2000, 2002, and 2004. Progressive candidates should never have lost these elections. The negative consequences could have prevented it with cohesion and discipline.So, let me again say, if we lose in 2008 it will be our fault. The resultant policies, ours as well.
Our ally is truth. Make the consequences of current Conservative policies and actions known. Publicize the realities of the situation as Pelosi did. Brown's towering incompetance should have spoken for itself and led him to resign. But it didn't. Enter Pelosi. Enter Clinton. Enter Progressives to insist upon truth, to avert deflection and diversion and redirect attention to Katrina.
Imagine this:
You see a bully beating another child. His best friend, a much better match for the bully, sits by the beatee's side and holds his hand, mouthing platitudes.
Bullies are bullies. As long as he has the upper-hand, he's not going to listen. So your anger toward the bully is useless. But this friend, this friend deserves your frustration. He could be doing something about the bully yet watches the situation without taking action to rectify the wrong being done.
Conservatives are the bully. As Progressives, we can do little to change Conservative policy. We are the best friend of the beatee, of the people and thus must change how we respond to the bully. We have to fight back. How? Use our fists, okay. But moreover, we've got to convince the beatee to use his, to stand up for himself. All we have to do to win him to our side is point out the obvious: He's getting beaten up. Together we can put a stop to it, gang up on the bully.
Now is not the time for platitudes or politeness. It's the time for action, for conviction. Step up. Be a Pelosi.
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A job well done, my love.