I cannot go into them all. It is too damn tedious. BUT I will address one.
He said "We have the highest corporate tax in the world and I'll cut that and then they will have more money to create new jobs. BS John.
We have the 2nd highest corporate tax rate in the world, but we HAVE THE LOWEST COLLECTION RATE. ON AVERAGE CORPORATE AMERICA, LIKE WARREN BUFFETT PAY 17%. Reducing that Tax rate doesn't change a damn thing for Americans. How about if we start COLLECTING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now THAT would make a difference.
and I wrote the same irate response almost a year ago to the same Republican BS.
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/elizabethberry/CZL2
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During Early Voting and on Election Day, it is important for informed Democrats to serve as Poll Watchers, volunteers who are allowed to observe the voting process in the polling place. There are rules and procedures to follow. Your county Democratic Party will offer training to Poll Watchers.
We have poll watchers and poll greeters. Poll watchers are inside the polling place and we are part of the process as observers to make sure that things are done correctly by the Republicans who are in charge of our polling places. Usually one poll watcher is allowed per polling place. {In Texas, the party who won the last General Election is in charge of the polling places.} The Poll watchers are from the other party--that's us.
Poll Greeters are outside the 100-foot marker and their activities are not very restricted. They can electioneer, help voters with ballots, wave candidate signs, and help support Democrats in the voting process as long as they stay outside the 100 ft marker of the polling place. we will need lots of poll greeters too.
FOR DALLAS COUNTY PEOPLE
Dallas County Democratic Party
County Executive Committee Meeting
Thursday, September 11, 2008
6:30 PM
Communications Workers of America Hall
1408 N. Washington Ave.
Dallas, TX
For more information please contact Renee or Steve at 214-821-8331.
YES! I want to walk to help keep Dallas County Blue. The Dallas County Democratic Party is walking precincts on Saturdays through the election in high priority precincts to promote the Obama/Biden ticket,Rick Noriega for Senate and our local slate of Democratic candidates. To volunteer to walk, complete the Volunteer/Contact form at
The cynical way that Republicans deal with social issues is by changing the vocabulary and statistics--not the actual real life situation for Americans.
Take the issue of hunger in our nation--an issue with with few Republicans have first hand experience. Hunger goes hand in hand with poverty and homelessness--more issues that Republicans are famous for turning away from--in spite of the fact that so many of them create it with the legislation that they support.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skVtZBaA8ms&feature=related
The Agence France Presse called attention in 2005 to the fact that the US government tweaked its terminology in referring to the nearly 35 million Americans who face a constant struggle with hunger to refer to them as people with "very low food security."
Read More »Like many of you, I have been working hard on voter registration for weeks now, and plan to continue to do so until midnight, October 6. But registering voters is pointless unless we get those voters to the polls.
Fortunately, in Texas, we have two provisions for early voting. Our Early Voting in Person procedure is quick and easy, and I will discuss it in detail in a separate post. However, for some people voting by mai, or absentee voting, is the only option. The rules are a little stricter here, but are easily complied with by planning and early action.
Want to vote absentee ballot, or obtain one for someone else? Well, here's how it's done in Texas.
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At the Republican convention this week, John McCain and his supporters are adopting the most conservative platform in the history of their party. They're trying to convince Americans across the country that they will deliver the change we need, but they're just offering more of the same -- four or eight more years of George Bush's disastrous policies.
That's why we need to make Barack's message of change heard loud and clear, and I want to let you know about a brand new way to spread the word.
We have a new tool called Neighbor-to-Neighbor that makes it easier than ever to connect with potential supporters in your community by phone or door-to-door.
Neighbor-to-Neighbor gives you the option to make phone calls or knock on doors -- the choice is yours.
Learn more and start making a difference in your neighborhood right now.
Barack is making history by competing in every corner of the country.
It's an aggressive strategy, and only you can make it work.
Joe Klein, TIME's political columnist has said it well:
"Steve Schmidt has decided, for tactical reasons, to slime the press. He wants the public to believe that there is an unfair--sexist (you gotta love it)--personal assault going on against Palin and her family.
This is a smokescreen, intended to divert attention from the very real and responsible vetting that is taking place in the media--about the substance of Palin's record as mayor and governor. Sure, there are a few outliers--and the tabloid press--who have fixed on baby stories. That was inevitable....
There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is "a task from God." The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme."
NOT THIS YEAR NOT THIS TIME. REPUBLICANS DON'T GET TO BULLY AND ACT LIKE THEY ARE VICTIMS.
Americans would do well to stop and consider where the Republican game ends. If the Republicans had their way what will our country look like? We see the outer edges of this picture already and it is not a happy snapshot. After eight years of their rule we have a crumbling infrastructure, rising unemployment, millions of jobs shipped out of this country, a broken budget, gasoline prices that few can afford to pay at the pump, rising healthcare costs and few Americans able to afford health insurance. What does it take for Americans to wake up and see how the Republicans are destroying our nation?
Republicanism carried to its ultimate end will yield a police state. That is where right-wing conservatism ends—in a police state. The tax burden would all be on the middle class and the poor and most would work for corporations at whatever salary the leaders of these monstrosities deemed “appropriate” because there would be no unions and no branches of government to represent the people. Under the ultimate right-wing Republican regime we would have one branch of government—the military/police and the majority of the citizen would be serfs to corporations—that is the true conservative’s wet dream.
Remember, these are the people who built Guantanamo and whose leader told us that the Constitution of the United States of America is nothing but a GD piece of paper. This is who these people really are and they have the nerve to call themselves patriots? Traitor is more like it.
Read More »She is a cultural challenge to Barack Obama.
In her and McCains honor, I made a new video titled UNNECESSARY FORCE.
http://iflizwerequeen.com/?cat=581
And yet....THEY were looked over for the runner-up Miss Alaska 1982!!
This goes so far beyond bizarre.............
Even nuttier than speaking at the Republican Convention, was Lieberman's appearance at Hagee's Christians United for Israel. I think perhaps you need to be a Jew to fully appreciate the utter irony and weirdness of this. If there is a rapture Joe, your a$$ will be in the lake of fire with the rest of us Jews. LOL.
Addressing a group of Christians run by Rev. John Hagee, a paster who was repudiated by John McCain in May because of racists remarks that Hagee had made. The group that Lieberman addressed is called "Christians United for Israel.
Prior to making this address. over 40,000 signatures were delivered to Liebermans office from Jews like me asking Liebermann to not speak at the event. The Executive director of J Street spoke out and said that Hagee and his supporters bear no resemblance to the the consensus of the vast majority of American Jews who support a negotiated two-state resolution with Israel and Palestine.
Among Lieberman's sickening lines from that speech, the two that induced my gag reflex were these: 1) "I am your brother Joseph." and 2) He compared Hagee to Moses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it were not so insane, it would be laughable. Maybe Lieberman is going for the most despised man on this planet. Here is some text from that speech to Hagees followers.
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2008/05/does-lieberman-embrace-a-clerg.html
Republican pollster Frank Luntz, working with the AARP, did some focus groups of "undecided" voters and found some bad news for John McCain:
They don't like his choice of Sarah Palin for vice president. Only one person said Palin made him more likely to vote for McCain; about half the 25-member group raised their hands when asked if Palin made them less likely to vote for McCain. They had a negative impression of Palin by a 2-1 margin ... a fact that was reinforced when they were given hand-dials and asked to react to Palin's speech at her first appearance with McCain on Friday -- the dials remained totally neutral as Palin went through her heart-warming(?) biography, and only blipped upward when she said she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere -- which wasn't quite the truth, as we now know.
Then there was this, from a woman named Teresa, who went to the Democratic convention as a Hillary delegate and is leaning toward voting for McCain -- obviously the target audience for the Palin pick: "His age didn't really bother me until he picked Palin. What if he dies in office and leaves us with her as president? Also she leans toward the rigid right, and I always thought he was a moderate. ... You know, I change my mind almost every day, but right now I'm wondering where the John McCain I really liked in 2000 went. What happened to the moderate? This John McCain has the look of someone who is being manipulated -- probably by Karl Rove."