Can Bush Be Ousted? (you bet)

(this is a great piece from Consortiumnews.com -- this isn't a spectator sport. it's OUR country. it's still about voting and winning elections. i like the idea of a DEM SLATE -- a vote for Dems is a vote AGAINST Bush. the 2006 midterms are on the horizon. we must do the work now. every DU'er needs to be checking in on the Election Reform threads and get familiar with voting issues closest to you. no more ohios. no more floridas. no more new mexicos. every vote counted and every vote a vote against CORRUPTION and EXTREMISM. -- brook)


Can Bush Be Ousted?
By Robert Parry

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/093005.html

Can American voters impose any meaningful accountability on George W. Bush, including possibly removing him and his team from office?

That’s a question – implicit in our recent stories about his administration’s failures – that has attracted skepticism from some readers. Several have sent e-mails expressing strong doubts that anything at all can be achieved through the electoral process, given the cowardice of the Democratic Party and the complicity of the mainstream news media.

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What If?
What if the voters acted independently to defeat as many Republicans as possible, not just to put more Democrats in office, but to send a message to both parties that the extremism, the trickery and the corruption personified by the neoconservatives now in charge of the Republican Party will no longer be tolerated?

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Without doubt, these questions don’t fit within today’s conventional wisdom. They don’t reflect the tendency toward modern spectator-sport politics where citizens root for a candidate the way fans cheer for a football team, albeit with a lot more passion for the football team.

They'll profit for years even if he's gone.

we have a military that needs the money more. damn, if we had that money back we could clean some shit up, pronto.

..is a general partner in a Dallas oil firm. Speaking of BushCo stacking the deck for their profit machine...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ax.H5m9e6Cew&refer=top_world_news

"Investments include stock worth between $1,001 and $15,000 in HM Investments, an oil and gas firm based in Dallas, of which she is a general partner."

Gas and oil, hahaha. Haha.

so LET'S GO!!!

:patriot:

Kick and recommended!

they aren't invincible. in fact they are quite vulnerable right now. we're talking classic american corruption which *should* beget a classic american revolt. it's not unheard of. it's our history.

It's time to take it back!

The corporate rulers have all the money and own the airwaves. They have indoctrinated the sheep with constant anti-liberal lies. I really hope enough can see through the smokescreen. To think that 40% approve of the robber barons looting the country is pretty scary.

which will be our advantage for the midterms.

Local radio station's, newspapers, etc. Don't forget to get canidates out and talking at all types of places.

After we clean up our party with people who will support what the majority of the people want (the soliders home!) then we can clean up everything else George Bush has done. I believe we can do it! All we have to do now is get people out and to vote in the midterms!

basically in high boycott mode. we're really freaked about what the natural gas cost is going to be this winter; too cranky to want to go out to bars/restaurants; and simply too happy to be at home together to care. we get provisions once a month and spend our time on the porch.

boycotting everything is a nice way to live. it slows you down.

that most Democrats are predatory towards businesses for no purposeful reason the people who value economic growth will have a very good incentive to vote for republicans. Thus if it is successful you end up harming your cause. If it is unsuccessful you end up harming yourself while no ideological benefit is received.

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>though it's still in progress. Please consider joining and
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>Also, please sign this pledge! (pretty please!)
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>http://www.democracycellproject.net/pledge.shtml

plus -- this site (seems to me) is underused as of this moment. lets change that. we need to take the CELL approach. it's a great concept, and i think could be a powerful tool for DU'ers working positively in the coming months heading up to midterms.

this is the "spread" in the senate:

CURRENTLY: 55 Republicans 44 Democrats and 1 Independent

AT PLAY: are 33 Senate seats: 15 presently held by Republicans, 17 by Democrats, and 1 Independent

Here are the Democrats (17 Seats) (15 Incumbents, 2 Incumbents not running) whose seats are up:

Daniel Akaka – HI
Jeff Bingaman--NM
Robert Byrd--WV
Maria Cantwell-WA
Thomas Carper—DE
Hillary Clinton—NY
Kent Conrad—ND
John Corzine—NJ
Mark Dayton—MN (Not Running)
Diane Feinstein—CA
Edward Kennedy – MA
Herb Kohl—WI
Joseph Lieberman—CN
Bill Nelson—FL
Ben Nelson—NE
Debbie Stabenow--MI
Paul Sarbanes—MD (Not Running)

Independent - 1 Seat (No Incumbents)

James Jeffords VT (Not Running)


Republicans -15 Seats (All 15 are Incumbents)

George Allen – VA
Conrad Burns – MT
Lincoln Chafee--RI
Mike Dewine –OH
John Ensign—NV
Bill Frist – TN
Orrin Hatch--UT
Kay Hutchison – TX
John Kyle—AZ
Trent Lott—MI
Richard Lugar – IN
Rick Santorum—PA
Olympia Snow – ME
James Talent – MO
Thomas Craig --WY

(read the article and tell me -- can we NOT fight for every single on of these seats on the basis of kicking the criminals out? -- brook)

He's announced he won't seek re-election. We have two democrats running for his seat and that is Harold Ford junior and Rosalind Kurita. And two republicans Bob Corker and Van Hallery and someone else I can't remember.

For being new, it has close to 500 members and yet has twenty state (I believe) covered. INCLUDING many Red states.

over the Plame leak?

Visualize it!

if the whole congress and senate consist of democrats. Just show who is boss haha. Spanking can work either way but hey history will put it down as really piss of voters kicking ass.

I whole-heartedly agree that Bush has done - and continues to do - things which are worthy of a vote of no-confidence and impeachment. I just don't want the son of a bitch to become a martyr.

"What if the voters acted independently to defeat as many Republicans as possible, not just to put more Democrats in office..."

well did it occur to you that

THE REPUBLICANS STILL OWN THE VOTING MACHINES????

as long as that's the case, it ain't gonna happen!!! We can't just vote these people out of office. If we could it would have happened last november. we must learn from the past. we have to do something about the voting machines or it's all for nothing. we can't keep saying that all we have to do is vote them out of office.

(this is a great piece from Consortiumnews.com -- this isn't a spectator sport. it's OUR country. it's still about voting and winning elections. i like the idea of a DEM SLATE -- a vote for Dems is a vote AGAINST Bush. the 2006 midterms are on the horizon. we must do the work now. every DU'er needs to be checking in on the Election Reform threads and get familiar with voting issues closest to you. no more ohios. no more floridas. no more new mexicos. every vote counted and every vote a vote against CORRUPTION and EXTREMISM. -- brook)

you really couldn't create a person more aware of ELECTION FRAUD. nothing angers me more than the witch-hunt against election reform here on DU and elsewhere. remember that's where "tin foil hat" most recently got it's power as a term of derision.

we have to have a carrot to get people to OWN the voting machine situation. as long as "we" think the present moment isn't worth thinking about the elections, many people will sit the fence waiting for election day.

well, the fact is we have a lot GAIN in the mid-terms BUT we MUST do the election reform NOW!!!!!

so, lets get excited about our chances. excited enough for each of us to personally OWN fair, transparent and PAPER ballots.

we have to do this NOW -- not a month before the elections.

i am so totally on this. there's some links posted to the Democratic Cell project. This is a terrific place to multiply the ELECTION REFORM message.

is not the optimal plan. A political party needs to send the message that things can change and they will be better when they do. The Republicans have done a good enough job of convincing people that things would be worse if the democrats were in power. Given that this is the case solutions are far better idea.