Wow. Someone started a website dedicated to my SOTU walkout essay

http://bushwalkout.blogspot.com/

Wow.

and someone mentioned it on Ed Schultz about a half hour ago.

that's kinda odd isn't it?

i also like the walkout idea in response to the 'nuclear option', assuming the banana republicans go that route.

IMO, it's something the founding fathers would have approved of.

:yourock:

Exactly what I was thinking in my previous post! Let's do it and make this a national campaign. I'm game and ready to go! Anyone else ready to make this into a major "Action Item"?

Edit: And that makes 5 --- Off to "Greatest" SG

Standard operating procedure hasn't worked for some years. Good job! I hope at least some people will take yoyr words to heart.

Keep it up.

:thumbsup: :kick:

DemEx

...ummm...nevermind...

;)


It was a great idea. The only place Bush doesn't speak in front of a hand-picked audience is at the SOTU. What better place for a demonstration?

K&R on this one, for sure!

Meant to add it to my blog, too. Thanks for the reminder.

Do you think he may have meant The State of The Union Address?

Yeah, I deffinitely think the Dems should walk out.

like the students did to Alberto Gonzales today at Georgetown University.

How cool would that be?! He deserves NO respect.

A whole bunch of people intentionally making themselves vomit at a Bush event.

Setting up a chain-reaction of "sympathy vomiting."

LOL So many people would vomit because they couldn't help themselves. Gross!

A new more potent version of the "Be-In" It would speak volumes, and just be incredibly gross.

And says it is a great idea. Great job, Will.

God damn I hope they do it. I am pessimistic but hopeful (if that's possible).

Have them all congregate at the DNC HQs, and give their own mini-speeches on the "real state" of things. The DNC can record it in segments, and post them at the website and see if CSpan would carry it.

It will be dramatic and also shake * to the bone for the remainder of his speech.

:yourock:

Place link on blog to your original article and the Walk Out Blog.

Hope it helps.

Kudos to you, Will!

Kudos WP!!!
Proud to know ya!!!

Have you received any feedback from any politician?

Will. Thanks for being on our side.

Our current crisis warrants it.

It's in the article about Harry Reid, I think. I saw it this afternoon while I was reading that site.

I'll see if I can find the link. BRB.

here it is:

It's in the comments to Reid: Bush Has Made America Less Safe article, The 18th post down.

MEMO
To: Congressional Democrats
From: William Rivers Pitt
RE: A bold maneuver

- - - -

I have a wild and crazy idea.

George W. Bush's delivery of the State of the Union address will take place on Tuesday, January 31, a little more than a week from now. It is my strong belief that every single Democrat present in the House chamber for the speech should, at a predetermined moment, stand up and walk out. No yelling. No heated words. Every Democrat should simply stand silently and leave.

Crazy, I know. Crazy, and possibly the best idea ever put before a body of Democrats since the New Deal.

Understand this, congressional Democrats, and understand it well: you are not dealing merely with a body of political opponents in the GOP. You are dealing with a group of people that want you exterminated politically. The days of walking the halls of the Rayburn Building, sharing a bourbon with a colleague from the other side of the aisle, and hammering out a compromise are as dead as Julius Caesar. Collegiality is out. Mutual respect is out. They want you gone for good. Erased. Destroyed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012206A.shtml

Posted by: hozer on January 24, 2006 at 01:42pm
Is this comment abusive? spam?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/01/24/reid-bush-has-made-ameri_n_14362.html

Great feeling.

We exist!

Great idea Will!

:kick:

It is a rallying cry and it is appropriate. I hope this grows exponentially in the coming week.

Kudos to you will, you are more of a voice to us than you realize :)

It will STUN the POTUS! :patriot:

It will become a huge distraction from the Rovian distractions. :D :bounce:

Though the author claims to screen the posts, it only has 19 comments and (I think) at least half of those are negative.

Am I missing something?

Nothing missing there :shrug:

But why do we have over 40 comments on this page and half on that site.

C'mon get over there and post your support.

I'm Julie from Califonia.

on Daily Kos...also received it in an email from one of my email groups. The word is definitely getting out and appears to be very popular. :hi:

you are unlikely to find a single Democratic Congressman or Senator who will do what Will asks.

Sorry, maybe one or at the most, two, but no more!

apparently she hadn't heard--she said how much she liked you, i don't recall exactly what she said about the walkout--i think it was in the last half hour of her show--

maybe call her and talk about it tomorrow?? let her listeners hear about it directly from you...???

on edit: okay--who here is volunteering to send this out to the senators? who has a FAX???

and cook brats and have a keg of beer. Show where their priorities are vis a vis Shrub.

How'd you find out about it so quickly?

Sounds like you are developing a well deserved fan club.

I wish I could write half as elegantly as you.

emailed Tim Carpenter of PDA with the link. Tim sent it to me, and I spent the next few minutes with my jaw on the floor.

dare we hope that it happens? It would be the WALKOUT seen around the world!

Show support.

that would happen, i'd actually watch. otherwise i cannot stand to look at gw let alone listen to the lies pourin out his mouth.