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• whatever :

  The possibility that the democratic grassroots would have to mount a pressure campaign so soon after the election is upsetting. If they keep it up, the democratic party may discover that the populists/progressives have left the building when they need them for the next election.

  It is troubling to see that "most democratic lawmakers have not yet seen the language of the deal". It brings back to mind Congress voting on voluminous bills that were not given to them until a half hour before the vote; not a happy memory. The mental picture of the level of irresponsibility from Congress that put in my head is hard to accept. The rank and file democrats need to put the brakes on this and stop it now but I don't have much hope that they will. Sometimes democrats are their own worst enemy.
  

  Posted on May 11, 2007 2:23 AM

• waltc :

  Its nice to see Democrats revert back to their imperialistic Clintonian ways, ways of telling the people fuck-off and die.

  That said, anytime a politician refuses to reveal the details of legislation they pushed through basically in the middle of the night can't be good.

  And worse when the legislation brings a smile to the face of Bush and his corporate cronies who are all endorsing this piece of evil from Pelosi and her fellow corruptors.

  BTW if this is the Pelosi is going to conduct business she can forget about independents and populists from voting democrat in '08. Because unlike Democrats who are used to their pols screwing them independents and populists don't stand for it. And without their support the Democrats are doomed to a minority position.

  
  

  Posted on May 11, 2007 9:40 AM

• TJ Colatrella :

  Ok This is the 2nd time so it will be shorter..

  Charlie Rangel is Hillary Clinton's lap dog and another Tri-Lateralist Commission stooge just as she is the Tri-Lateralist Judas Goat for Democrats..

  Also Bush and his FDA have killed more Americans than al-Qaeda..

  This is a fact..

  I would vote to Impeach G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney for all they have done, if it was their Last Day in Office..

  ~Impeachment Now~

  TJ Colatrella Stars4Peace..

  Posted on May 11, 2007 10:28 AM

• TJ Colatrella :

  The Democratic party with it's trade deals and support for ill-legal immigration are totally betraying the American worker and middle classes..

  Our Borders are also being erased by the secret deals linking Mexico and American and Canada as a North American free trade zone and not nations any longer..

  These are "Free Traitors" alright..

  This influx invasion of unknown ill-legal immigrant invaders in fact, also works nicely into the Republican and Bush Mafia's desire to destroy and hasten the bankruptcy of Social Security..

  They want to turn things back the when our grandfathers suffered at the hands of Rockefeller and the other super rich oligarchs we are betrayed..as a nation by these secret deals and now this suspect trade deal written by lobbyists for corporations..

  I will do all I can to work against the candidacy of Hillary Clinton as a matter of fact if she gets the nomination then I will not vote unless there is a third party candidate..

  As a life long Democrat who met and worked for Robert Kennedy, I am very close to registering as an Independent..

  The Democratic party can't be trusted, wereas the Republican party can be trusted to lie and cheat and steal like a bunch of drunken Iraqi's who they seem to favor over us or our Troops lives for that matter..

  Yours, TJ Peace.. ~Impeachment Now~

  Posted on May 11, 2007 11:52 AM

• KMarx :

  So what else is new: Democrat = Republican; Republican = Democrat.

  What we need in this has-been of a country is a strong third party - one with powerful Socialist leanings. The two party system subsists under a Capitalist umbrella and as such both parties are sheltered and fed by the corrupt elements of corporate America and the financial elite.

  If someday the people of this country wake up they just might remember what the Italians did to Mussolini when he lead their country down the path of destruction!

  Posted on May 11, 2007 1:30 PM

• TJ Colatrella :

  David Karita or Edwards.com Blog is doing a terrific job of covering this and your important tracking of Rangel being a rat bastard and in cahoots with Bush, and this disgraceful White House gang of criminals..

  This is such a proof of our not being able to Trust The Hillary Clinton Gang of Corporate Demo-rats..

  Also check out my posts on Bush and His FDA killing more Americans than al-Qaeda..

  10,000 due to Vioxx Coxx inhibitors they lied about the benefits of, Oxycotin dope peddlers, and overdoses are way up, and now food poisoning, and Bush does nothing where is his outrage as any decent president would have..?

  Now the head of the FDA has even lied about China poisoning our food supply..feed supply going to chickens, fish and pork..

  Bon Apitite..from al-FDA..

  Bush and his policies and FDA has killed more Americans than Osama bin-Laden and that's a fact, why don't we just charge him with Negligent Homicide..and Impeach Him and Cheney now and save our country..from these crooked imbeciles..!

  Check out the Stars4Peace design now available as well no profit to me their for:
  

  We The People..

  ~Impeachment Now~

  Posted on May 12, 2007 1:09 PM

• TJ Colatrella :

  Sorry about the double post don't know how or why that happened..my mistake I'm sure..

  That said I think we must focus on the out of control murderous policies of The FDA..who has really killed more Americans than al-Qaeda..

  Vioxx, Oxycotin now our food poisoned by China due to their feed going into poultry , fish and pork..!

  The FDA must be purged and totally re-vamped the head of the FDA lied to the Senate as to food safety..!

  The Bush family is totally in bed with these corrupt drug companies see H.W. Bush and Ely Lilly, and Bush let the drug companies write the prescription drug bill..

  Bush is letting the FDA kill Americans this must be totally exposed and ended..

  How many will die from long term exposure to these poisons in our food stock now..?

  The FDA has already killed way over three times more Americans than al-Qaeda..

  Bush and his policies have killed more Americans than bin-Laden, it's in the numbers..and it's true..!

  This is huge..!

  TJ Peace..Stars4Peace..

  ~Impeachment Now~

  Posted on May 13, 2007 8:17 AM

• wnpac :

  LET’S TEAR DOWN THAT WALL

  Authors

  Honorable Edward Abramson
  Former Democratic Majority Whip of the NYS Assembly

  Edward Wiacek
  Consultant with over thirty years of experience in Primary’s and Elections

  3/6/2007
  LET’S TEAR DOWN THAT WALL
  Fifty years ago, 33% of the work forces in the U.S. were members of a union. Today, the union barely account for 12% of our work force. How did this happen? The politicians together with corporations passed anti-union legislation. Twenty-two states have a right to work law that is anti union. They changed labor laws that make it impossible for unions to organize large corporations with locations throughout the U.S. They fire workers that are looking to unionize creating terror in their work force. While this was going on, our national unions were asleep and allowed this to happen.
  We listened to the Democratic Presidential Candidates speak at the National Democratic Committee (NDC) winter meeting and heard former North Carolina Senator John Edwards speech where he got the democrats to stand for the workers and the unions.
  “Lets stand up for the working people whose labor made this country great. America was built by men and women who worked with their hands. And organized labor has fought for and made better the lives of every working man and woman, by giving them a voice – labor never stands silent where wrongs need to be righted. Will you stand with them? It is time we acknowledged that it is organized labor, which has protected the American worker against mistreatment by corporate America. I am proud to stand beside organized labor? Will you stand with them, too? Will you walk with them and march with them?”

  They all stood up. He gave us goose bumps because he talked about the real issues that are important to the workers. Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, in his announcement speech in Springfield, Illinois, on February 11, 2007, said,
  “Let’s be the generation that ensures our nation’s workers are sharing in our prosperity. And let’s protect the hard earned benefits their companies have promised. Let’s make it possible for hard working Americans to save for retirement. And let’s allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country’s middle class again.”

  If they and the Democratic Party mean what they say, then before the election we challenge Senator Barack Obama, Senator John Edwards, Governor Howard Dean, and the entire Democratic Party to go to North Carolina and speak to the democratic governor and both legislative bodies that are controlled by the Democratic Party and let them know what the democrats stand for.
  North Carolina is anti-worker and anti-union. The North Carolina government has taken away workers freedom to be represented. Only 3% of North Carolina’s work forces are union member making the state of North Carolina last in the country in percent of union workers. There is a law in North Carolina, statute 95-98, that prohibits any municipal, city, or state worker from being represented by a union. The statute states:
  “any agreement, or contract, between the governing authority of any city, town, county, or other municipality, or between any agency, unit, or instrumentality thereof, or between any agency, instrumentality, or institution of State of North Carolina, and any labor union, trade union, or labor organization, as bargaining agent for any public employees of such city, town, county or other municipality, or agency or instrumentality of government, is hereby declared to be against the public policy of the State, illegal, unlawful, void and of no effect.”

  This law contradicts the constitution by taking away workers basic human rights and freedom to choose. It takes away the workers right to be represented.. Chinese law makes it compulsory for any company or institution with a staff of 25 or more to set up a trade union upon the request of their workers. Wal-Mart stores in china are unionized! Our politicians speak of workers rights in the US. Where are the workers rights in North Carolina? We say like Ronald Regan said to Russian President Gorbachev, “TEAR DOWN THAT WALL.” This is one state that the Democratic Party cannot play the “BLAME GAME”. The workers of North Carolina need freedom, justice, and equality, now, not promises. Then and only then can the Democratic Party, Senator Obama, and Senator Edwards declare that they stand with the workers and the unions.
  Unions are the workers. They have an obligation and a duty to defend all workers. We in the workforce must not allow the politicians and the corporations to divide the workers along racial, religious or ethnic lines anymore. The workers are all sisters and brothers that carry the yoke of the US and must stand together and fight for our rights. The unions are the only place the workers have to turn to.
  There are many challenges and battles to be fought over the coming years. The unions must be tenacious and determined in their resolve to attain justice and equality for the American workers and their families. It is the workers that sweat, bleed and die on the battlefield. That is what made and makes this country great. Let the workers of North Carolina know that the unions feel their pain and pledge to stand together with them in their fight for freedom.
  We call upon the 10,000 union locals throughout this country to show their love and solidarity with the workers of North Carolina by forming peaceful protest throughout this country to bring this issue to the attention of all workers in the US. If peaceful protest does not do it, then the unions, the unemployed, the 40 million people living in poverty, and our military should start staging protest in Washington, DC. Then maybe they will get the idea. For those that don’t, they should get pink slips and be shown the way out of DC.
  Senator Schumer wrote a book Positively American, where he offered a 50% solution in 11 areas. We did not see a 50% increase in Union membership mentioned. I guess he forgot the workers or maybe he didn’t want to offend the corporate donors. It could be the workers should be looking at their own 50% solutions.
  Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, who is in the leadership in the Senate, is asking the workers to trust the democrats. Over the years, the workers trusted both the Democrats and Republicans. What has it gotten them? 1) The elected officials have increased our National Debt from $3 Trillion to $9 Trillion. It took this country hundreds of years to get to $3 Trillion and only six years to get to $9Trillion. They then borrowed 43% of that debt from the country’s who we have large trade deficits with, such as, China, Japan, Korea and others; 2) Our trade agreements have caused a trade deficit that is fast approaching $1 Trillion per year; 3) They allowed American Corporations to move their manufacturing to China, Mexico, Southeast Asia, and now South America where they pay workers .60 cents per hour, which caused the US to lose payroll taxes into our SS, Medicare and the Treasury and the American workers to lose jobs. Then the corporations ship their products into the US duty free; 4) Our elected officials took the SS taxes that workers paid, put them into the general fund and now the government wants workers to pay taxes a second time to fund the SS retirement; 5) Our elected officials gave us 911 and three wars, 2 in Iraq and 1 in Afghanistan. These wars cost the US treasury over $½ Trillion. We believe that someone should be looking at who had a motive to commit these crimes and what corporations benefited from all this; 6) Even if we believe the governments voodoo statistics, they claim we have 6 million unemployed workers and 40 million people in the US living in poverty, many of which work full time. We also have seniors on SS with an income of $500.00 a month. Of course this doesn’t count the illegal immigrants because there is only estimates on how many there are.
  It’s very possible that 1 in 5 Americans or 20% of our population is living in poverty. Trust in our elected officials is DEAD. The workers now want accountability. We now ask our politicians to trust the workers, not their political party. And, no, we don’t think that after 10 years a raise in our minimum wage from $5.15 to $5.85 this year did anything. In case they can’t add, this is .7 cents per hour, per year.
  The authors of this article have spent the last three years developing the political solutions to these problems. For starters, we recommend that the 10,000 union locals in the US stop giving money to politicians and form up a “Workers Non Partisan Political Action Club” in each local, making a separate nonprofit 501 C(4) so they can raise money and invite all workers, union members, senior citizens and their family to participate and become members. The clubs are designed to take back control of our government and hold every elected official accountable for every bill, vote and hearing they ‘white wash’. If they do not measure up, fire them. We will be offering seminars in forming the clubs and how to be successful, starting at the grass roots level, how to win primary’s, and how to eliminate safe seats for our elected officials that forgot who put them in office.
  Down the road, the workers will be able to sit at the table with our elected officials and the corporations as equals and find common ground, and make decisions about what is good for this great country.
  Our E-mail address is: .workersnonpartisonpoliticalclubs@yahoo.com. Our mailing address is Workers nonpartisan political action clubs PO BOX 453 Franklin Square N.Y. 11010-0453

  
  

  Posted on May 16, 2007 7:01 AM