Politics, U.S.
Why are you doing this?
- I want to make a difference
- I want to have input
- When your kids or grandkids ask you: “What did you do?”, what will you say?
- I’m not willing to let others decide what the world will be like.
- All the things my grandparents worked to preserve for the future are being eroded. I want to preserve what’s left for my kids.
By J. Keith Bankston
It’s a tough time for the President.
Bush cronies are faring badly. Bush told “Brownie” how good a job he was doing – one week before Brown left his office while attacking Katrina victims for being the problem. A rash of indictments and federal investigations have occurred or are pending amongst his insiders, including Delay, Frist, Libby, and Rove.
The cost of war in Iraq and the federal deficit are now tightly linked with the tax cuts for the richest of the rich. Republican plans to pay for Katrina by cutting social services needed by disaster victims, instead of removing the tax cuts, stunned moderates and progressives. Recent polls have voters preferring Democrats controlling congress by a significant margin, and gaining ground.
King County Council
Carolyn Edmonds
Bob Ferguson
King County Port Commissioners
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Peter M. Coates and Lloyd Hara
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Jack Jolley
Bothell City Council
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Ernie Bellecy and Del Spivey
Snohomish County Council
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Dave Gossett
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Dave Sommers
Mountlake Terrace City Council
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Eric Teegarden
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By Richard Burrows
On July 23, I attended a house party organized by Representative John Conyers to discuss the leak of the name of CIA agent Valerie Wilson/Plame to the press. Over 8000 people gathered in 300 locations around the country to hear a conference call emceed by radio hosts Stephanie Miller and Randi Rhodes and including Rep. Conyers, Ambassador Joe Wilson, former CIA agent Larry Johnson and others angry about the damage done to the intelligence community not just by the leak but by the Administration's stonewalling of the investigation. It undermines the trust that the government, the intelligence community, and their overseas contacts must have in order to be effective. Agents can't recruit contacts if they can't promise anonymity. And if the administration will not punish the leakers, the agents lack credibility in their assurances, according to Larry Johnson.
To a conservative, an activist judge is anyone who disagrees with him. So the judges who refused to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case were "activist judges." On the other hand, you heard no such complaints about the Supreme Court when it broke all precedents to intervene in the 2000 election in Florida.
There is no danger that John Roberts will turn out to be a closet liberal, despite his pro bono assistance to gay rights activists. But there is just a faint possibility that he will turn out to be the strict constructionist that conservatives have been calling for, and that, as such, he might put them in the position of the dog that chased cars until he caught one.
