Climate Change has sure been the topic of the week.

Internationally, of course, Bush predictably rejected German Chancellor Merkel’s proposals for greenhouse gas reduction benchmarks, but allowed her to attempt to save face by agreeing to some other meaningless promise to look into the matter, once again. Wonder how many backrubs that measly accomodation cost her.

Locally of course, Governor Douglas followed through on his promise to veto the Vermont Legislature’s Climate Change bill, and on news that Al Gore’s aid had been enlisted by the Legislative leadership, Douglas quickly cobbled together his own proposal in a failed attempt to steal Gore’s thunder (instead, I think he may have added to it, based on the prodigious news coverage).

Douglas’s plan at a glance seems odd. A thrown together jumble of half-considered ideas to provide loans to Vermonters for energy efficiency. As if low-income Vermonters will fall in line to heap more debt on themselves (of course, the banks must love it, as these loans would be guaranteed by the state). No idea where the funding for those guarantees will come from (well, we know it won’t be Entergy). As for incentives for renewables, I haven’t heard anything, and exactly what’s supposed to be done with this proposal now that the biennium is done is anyone’s guess. Wait til next year I s’pose. All in all, Douglas couldn’t have piked a clearer way of showing how little regard or concern he has for the issue.

As for the Gore videoconference over Vermont Interactive Television, his remarks can be heard on VNRC’s website. Freyne has a lot of quotes from Shumlin in the brief presser that followed, and he is absolutely right when he says that Shumlin was in top form. Seriously, this was the best he’s sounded in many weeks, as he demonstrated a real command of the room. Symington as well seemed more focused and passionate than usual. I suppose the break has already done both of them some good.

And for a hastily thrown together event, it was surprisingly well-attended at the remote VIT sites around the state. It’s a shame the tech didn’t go off as well, as Gore’s link to the VIT network was routed through the internet, rather than via ISDN or satellite (and we all know how the internet can be). After many fits and starts, Gore’s audio was a mess and out of sync (you’ll hear it if you go to the mp3 link above) – but it was nevertheless audible.

A veto override is still clearly a longshot, but there’s an awful lot of focus and energy around the issue that seems to be snowballing, so contact your legislators if you haven’t already (and maybe you should do it again if you have).

So did everyone get that this “missile defense” project suddenly announced for (ahem) Poland to defend against non-existant Iranian missiles was another of Shrub’s weapons of mass distraction?

It sure got cleared up quick with his buddy Vlad Putin, once the other members of the G-8 summit settled down and gave up on Angela Merkel’s formal, enforceable carbon emissions limits.

And, as usual, the carbon story got buried as U.S. media followed the red flag waving over a “new cold war,” salivating all the way.

Disgusting.

NanuqFC

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here is a interesting read by Time writer Joe Klein.

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Help Support the Iraq Veterans Against the War in their GI Resistance Campaign!

Thanks to the generosity of many people of peace, the fundraising for the IVAW summer bus tour of military bases is well underway. But in order to hit our goal ($3,000 presented to former Marine Sgt Liam Madden from Bellows Falls on Sunday June 10th) ? we need your help!

and, below the fold:

You can donate to this important cause in two ways:
1. Send a check, tax deductible, made out to Iraq Veterans Against the War, to me at: Central Vermont Peace and Justice, PO Box 845, Rutland, VT 05701. We will gather this money and present it to Liam on June 10th at a fundraiser we are holding in Rutland. Please put the greatest amount you can afford in the mail TODAY.

2. Attend the FUNDRAISER on Sunday June 10th at the UU Church of Rutland, from 7:00 ? 8:30pm. Liam Madden will be there to speak about the bus tour and the work that IVAW is doing. At this event, we will be asking people to open their hearts (and checkbooks) and GENEROUSLY SUPPORT this GI Resistance campaign. There will be IVAW buttons and shirts on sale, we will have simple finger food, some music, and maybe another speaker. But the purpose of this event is to raise as much money as possible for the IVAW bus tour.

WHY SHOULD YOU FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THIS CAMPAIGN?
So many of us work hard every single to day to end the war and support peace and justice causes locally and around the globe. Asking any of us to ?do one more thing? is sometimes overwhelming. So WHY am I asking you to financially support the Iraq Vets campaign to encourage active duty servicemen and women to put down their arms and refuse to fight?

Because in the words of Iraq War Resister Lt. Ehren Watada
?How do you support the troops but not the war? By supporting those who can truly stop it; let them know that resistance to participate in an illegal war is not futile and not without a future.?

That is what this campaign is all about. You and I can financially support the Iraq Veterans to take their message of GI resistance to military bases up and down the east coast and let servicemen and women know that we people of peace will stand with them as they lay down their arms and refuse to fight.

Please do what you can to support this campaign.

Thanks,

Barbara

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There is an ad currently running on Comedy Central for David Spade’s show in which the comic says that Michael Jackson is having a 50 foot robot of himself built which will roam the desert shooting laser beams from it’s eyes. He then asks the viewer, “Wouldn’t we be more shocked if he didn’t?”

Looking around the net this morning and perusing a few of the thousands of “will Bush pardon Scooter?” stories, that ad kept popping into my mind.

I think that Bush will pardon Scooter, I will be shocked if he doesn’t, the real question, for me, is when?

You can be sure the question is being discussed in hushed tones in the West Wing this morning, but the hand wringing is audible out here in the heartland.

“Obviously, there’d be a significant political price to pay,” said William P. Barr, who as attorney general to President George H.W. Bush remembers the controversy raised by the post-election pardons for several Iran-contra figures in 1992. “I personally am very sympathetic to Scooter Libby. But it would be a tough call to do it at this stage.”

In the West Wing, Pardon Is A Topic Too Sensitive to Mention
By Peter Baker – Washington Post

My guess is that the administration is at this very moment pulling out all the stops to gain bail for the poor abused family man and pillar of the community pending his appeal, which, with some luck, will take Cheney/Bush to the end of the term when Bush can issue the pardon just before the oval office door closes behind him.

If they don’t succeed in influencing the court to allow bail, Bush will probably be forced to pardon him. I may be wrong but I don’t think Scooter will remain silent through a long stay in prison.

At the same time, some White House advisers said the president’s political troubles are already so deep that a pardon might not be so damaging. Those most upset by the CIA leak case that led to the Libby conviction already oppose Bush, they noted. “You can’t hang a man twice for the same crime,” a Republican close to the White House said.

In the West Wing, Pardon Is A Topic Too Sensitive to Mention
By Peter Baker – Washington Post

I like that kind of reasoning, it’s just what I’ve learned to expect from this White House, indeed from government in general, the predictably pragmatic cynicism that these guys don every morning with their silk ties, expensive suits and anchorman hairpieces. It’s never an issue of right or wrong, what matters is will we be damaged politically?…How badly?…Is it manageable?… How long will Scooter have to stay in Sicily before this blows over? Wait that was Pacino.

The reaction from the White House: Dana Perino told reporters that the president felt sad for Libby’s family but would have no further comment about the case, the sentence or the possibility of a pardon at this time.
From the War Room by Tim Grieve at Salon

As I said there are thousands of articles this morning on the “Pardon, will he or won’t he?” question, a Technorati blog search returned over 4800 and though I probably won’t try to read them all but I’d like to share my two favorites so far. First from Booman:

Just what might justify pardoning Scooter Libby? I mean, if you are George W. Bush, what principles would you rely upon to rationalize the neutering of the judicial process? The jury was clear, the judge was clear, the case was clear…Scooter Libby intentionally and knowingly lied and obstructed an investigation, which is quite clearly a crime. The federal government payed a great deal of money to investigate the Plame Affair and jurors (grand, and otherwise) dedicated months of their lives to ascertaining the facts. The Justice system did its job and concluded that Scooter Libby deserves to do two and a half years in prison for the crimes that he committed. If you are going to wipe that away, you must have some theory about how, ultimately, this sentence is a miscarriage of justice.

From Booman Tribune by Booman

Booman makes a good argument that the government, having concluded that a crime was committed is going to expect someone to pay, if that person is not Scooter than the crime must lie at the feet of those he lied to protect, Cheney? Bush?
He concludes:

No matter how you look at it, there is no way to justify pardoning Scooter Libby without it being an admission of guilt by the President.

Any innocent President would be furious with Libby and wouldn’t pardon him in a million years.

But Bush is not innocent. Libby lied for the President. And if Bush pardons Libby then we will know for certain that the President himself is the one that should be doing jail time for the crime that Libby covered up.

From Booman Tribune by Booman

I got my first good laugh of the day over Marty Kaplan’s plaintive snarky plea for a pardon at Huffington Post:

I want Bush to pardon Libby.

I want every Republican candidate running for President and Congress to be forced to applaud Libby’s pardon and to inscribe their names alongside Scooter’s other distinguished defenders, from Rumsfeld to Bolton.

I want American history to possess forever a crystalline illustration of Cheney’s whack-ball theory of the unitary executive exempt from the rule of law.

I want the persistent presidential nullification of the Constitution to be perpetually exemplified by an unambiguous act of unmistakable arrogance.

I want Scooter Libby’s fate to be be ironically and irrevocably linked to Paris Hilton.

From Pardon Me by Marty Kaplan at Huff Post

In the grand scheme of things I don’t know whether it matters but yes he should go to jail and the sentence should be significant, after all we like to discourage our senior people from lying to those who might have occasion to investigate their bosses, or do we?

Scooter is a big boy, a lawyer I believe. He knew every step of the way what he was doing, he was aware at once, while he did it, in real time, each time he lied, obstructed and worked to thwart the investigation.

He has not admitted guilt, nor has he offered to do what is the right thing for the country and tell the truth about the entire affair, the reasons for the character assassination of Joe Wilson and the outing of his wife and the various roles played by everyone involved including his bosses. The right thing for history would be to explain to the people who paid his not insignificant salary why he and his bosses felt that lies had to be told to insure our involvement in a war with Iraq.

It may be that Scooter will look at this as a post graduate course in being a stand up guy and despite the trauma to his family keep his chin up and do the time while preparing for a lucrative career on the wing nut lecture circuit or perhaps start a ministry of his own.

That approach seems to have panned out well for Charles Colson, Gordon Liddy and others convicted during the Watergate era.

He, like those before him will walk out of prison and into the arms of the largest and best funded of prison support groups. An entire wing of his party has dedicated itself to helping formerly incarcerated Republicans regain their rightful place in the halls of privilege and power.

These guys stick together.

Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust

If the rumors are true, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is actually considering an Independent run for President (and possibly pumping up to a billion of his own dollars into it), the giant sucking sound you hear may be the sound of moderate Republicans fleeing their Party’s Presidential candidate.

For entertainment value, such a three-way race would be unbeatable, but would Bloomberg be taken seriously? The Rasmussen polling outfit thinks so, and their results suggest he would be a major factor.

In fact, Rasmussen conducted a phone poll and found that 27% of American voters would be “Somewhat” (20%) or “Very likely” (7%) to vote for him.

An even larger number?39%–would consider voting for Bloomberg vote under the right circumstances. Just 28% would not vote for him while 33% are not sure.

These numbers suggest that if Bloomberg can find a message that resonates, he might win some states and deny either major party candidate a majority in the Electoral College. That could lead to Electoral Chaos by creating a deadlock in both the Electoral College and the House of Representatives. Such a process would be unprecedented and unpredictable, sure to be studied by historians and political scientists for generations. There?s also an outside chance it could lead to a President Bloomberg.

Obviously with those numbers, he’s not just pulling GOP votes – even though the Republican officeholder would likely pull from the GOP disproportionately. Still, this scenario makes the prospect of no clear winner in the electoral college a real liklihood, in which case the race goes to the US House.

great! The House will likely still be in Dem hands. And that means a Dem victory, yes? Maybe not, according to Rasmussen again:

The House would then vote, but the result would not be determined by the overall number of Representatives. According to the Constitution, each state gets to cast one vote? and a majority of all the states is required to select a President. That means a candidate needs to get the nod from 26 state delegations before moving into the White House.

In at least 12 state delegations currently controlled by Democrats, the loss of a single representative would either shift control to the Republicans or create a deadlock. If the Democrats lose just a single net seat in any one of those twelve states, they lose control of the ability to select the next President in the House.

Hang on folks, this may get more complicated..

Many of you know that I’m one of the volunteers who helps put together DemocracyFest. This year I’m trying to juggle the task of arranging speakers and trainers.

As you might expect, in the 2 weeks before a big event, it gets really, really busy. It’s kinda important to be able to communicate.

Here is the tale of annoyance that is my life at this moment. There’s no rantiliciousness, juicy gossip, or anything really interesting, just another installment of the bizarre reality I seem to live, below the fold.

I have a part time job, which I’m in the process of leaving, in order to free up time to try to actually build the dang house we keep wanting to build.

So right now, in the midst of the most insane portion of the planning/organizing process for The Big Event, I’m not only doing my job, but training my replacement. She’s great, so it only requires a little extra time, and not so much extra time that I won’t be able to make phone calls and send emails. Ok, so far so good. I can deal.

But, alas, extra work was not a sufficiently curvy curveball for life to toss my way.

Last week, my ISP apparently decided it would be a really good time to upgrade their email servers. This meant email outages, lots of them. For hours at a time (something was misconfigured on the servers). On the second day, when I still couldn’t log into the web mail client, I used their nifty real-time messaging customer support dohickey, and eventually connected with an IT tech, to whom I sent a few linux forum posts about the massage their servers were giving, and how to fix the configuration.

Fast forward a few hours: Yay! Email was back. … but it was painfully slow. However, I figured I could deal with slow. And I did.

Until the cat knocked my laptop out of my lap.

It bounced, sideways, in the middle of a disk access. Aaaaargh! So then it sounded like someone was sending morse code, and my spacebar didn’t work anymore, and I couldn’t save files, and some wouldn’t open, and two really small ones that I really needed to open decided to become 43 MB, making them require more memory than my computer thought it had, even though it did have it. Then the g key didn’t work, but it came back. And it somehow decided that it’s now running the Eastern European version of Windows, but still using English as its language, and the time zone is stuck at some location in the Atlantic ocean.

So I had to get a new computer.

I’m part of a small web dev business with a couple of friends, and we have enough business to cover a replacement, so the money didn’t have to come straight out of my pocket, it’s more a matter of it not going in later, which is sort of OK. I could deal.

So, I muddle through a couple of days, trying to install software and get email running on the new computer, trying to retrieve stuff from the broken one. Juggling phone calls, winging it a lot of the time, because I don’t have all the files I need. It’s going OK. I can deal.

I even made my very first ad, using software built into the laptop! It took like 20 minutes, and that included learning how to run the software and export the mp3 – 24 seconds of me talking really fast.

I don’t have a radio voice. 

So, I sent the script to a radio station in Manchester, NH, who had their in-house production crew record their own version using a person with a radio voice and some music in the background.

In the mean time, we’d been limping along with this phone whose handset is broken (we used the speaker phone), because we didn’t want to go pay for a new phone that we can’t use off the grid, but we did want an answering machine, so we can stop paying for he answering service. Anyway, my husband chose this weekend to surprise me with a new phone (plus he finally rigged up the thermostat for the experimental refrigerator, so we can have refrigerable groceries again).

It’s awesome!  A cordless handset, caller ID, the whole kit & caboodle. With my brand spanking new laptop, a refrigerator, and a “real” phone, I feel like I’ve returned to the 20th century!

Then all of a sudden, yesterday the ISP got weird again. Emails were delayed anywhere from 1 to 28 hours. This, oddly enough, makes it hard to communicate. So I gave up, and switched to a different email address through a different ISP. So, it was OK. I could deal.

Today, the event getting closer, the phone started ringing. A lot.

I was taking calls faster than I could take notes, but it was going well.

Until…

This afternoon, a thunderstorm hit. It was a big storm. The whole house shook from the booms, over and over again. The kids and I started unplugging things, shutting things down, protecting the new refrigerator, the modem, the computer.

My daughter asks, “What will happen if lightning hits?”

I answer, “If we were on the grid, and lightning hit a phone pole or something, a spark could jump through the wires and fry some of the stuff that’s plugged in. In our case, it’s less likely, but if it hit the ground near where the wires run from the solar panels, it could do the same thing.  And least likely of all, since our phone line is underground, the phone could be fried, but that would be really, really unlikely.”

Here’s where life decided to be really, really funny:

Minutes after our conversation, lightning struck right next to the house. The flash and boom were something to behold. And then – a great big blue flash … from the phone connector on the wall. 

The phone – a hallmark of our return to the 20th century, was dead. Aaaargh! My phone number is on flyers, on the web site, on people’s speed dial and in their rollodexes. I’m expecting phone calls and I have no PHONE!

So I run out to grab the old broken phone from the deck. I plug it in, and call the answering service – in the 3 minutes of phone-less-ness, we had received 2 calls – one from Obama’s NH campaign office, and one from a panelist who needed travel details.

Oy.

I call back using the tinny speaker phone of the old broken phone we thought we were done with. On the second call, I joke about how they may have to contact me through email if the second phone gets fried by another lightning strike.

I hang up, and start to hang the old phone back on the wall.

Guess what?

Lighting strikes again!

A huge spark shoots out of the phone connector again!

The lightning, of course, fried that phone, too!

Once again, I am phoneless. It’s been less than 5 minutes!

I pile the kids in the car and off we go to the store to buy a new new phone.

We make our purchase, another wireless handset model with caller ID. We wend our way home in the wind and rain. We walk in the door, and the first fried phone is shining its little red “I’m Happy!” light. It’s working again!

So on the table next to me right now are 3 phones: the un-dead zombie phone, the dead dead broken phone, and the new replacement phone, which will go into storage as the emergency backup phone.

It’s been a very strange week.

But, hey, I can deal…

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Okay. So this diary has nothing to do with anything. You’d be advised to move on quickly. Go on. Out. Get going. Move it.

So last night I had this odd dream. I was in my kitchen which was, as usual, totally trashed. I was late for work, but I had to wait for something to be dropped off from Senator Leahy’s office. My 7-year old was wandering around, and I was in the sweats and T-shirt I’d slept in, when I spot the Senator himself walking to my door (which opens into the kitchen).

I think “crap, I don’t want him to see the kitchen,” so I step out to meet him. He hands me the expected envelope, but asks if he can come in for a moment. I’m still thinking “crap,” but I was raised a good southern boy, and he’s a freakin’ Senator, so I let him in and he has a seat at the kitchen table.

He seems to have nothing really to say, and I strain to keep up the small talk, but I start failing, which leads to awkward silences. Still, Leahy just seems content to sit there smiling at me. But I’m stressing. Why is he still here? I’m late. The kitchen’s a mess. I need to shower. Why isn’t my kid at school?… and then I woke up.

Can somebody explain this to me?

So the military judges in Guantanamo have thrown out the charges against two of hte detainees (one of whom was taken into custody when he was 15) on the grounds that the Military Tribunal Act only gives the court jurisdiction over “unlawful enemy combatants” and the military findings that led to these cases had found that the two were “enemy combatants”.

So if they are not unlawful enemy combatants, what are they? Either they are lawful enemy combatants, i.e. prisoners of war, entitled to the full protections of the Geneva Convention, or they are criminals and entitled to due process in a civilian court.

But in the Kafkaesque world of the Bushies, they will instead be returned to their never-neverland of Gitmo, and it looks like the military will repeat the earlier process, this time getting the right answer.

Be afraid for your own rights!

Born on this day in 1934

America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own, they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits, the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
Bill Moyers

I happened to be reading Moyer’s Blog early this morning looking for his interview with Public Citizen’s Joan Claybrook which I missed when it aired on PBS last Friday on “Bill Moyers Journal.”

The subject of the segment was lobbying and lobbyists and their pervasive influence on our political system.

I have a large measure of respect for both Moyers and Claybrook and an enormous loathing for lobbyists and their destructive influence on MY country and I was disappointed to have missed the program.

Fortunately for me I learned from Karl Rove that Al Gore invented the internet a few years back, and that invention led to the discovery of You Tube where I found a clip of the segment and I feel very good about the modern world this morning.

If you are at all interested, as you should be, in the machinations and corruptions of our polical system by the Bob Neys, the Jack Abramoffs, the Billy Tauzins and other disreputable and criminal scum who infest our government and engage in buying and selling it these days I recommend that you watch the video.

Coincidentally, it seems like an appropriate time to once again ponder the the corruption in our government and to seriously consider, again, again… doing something to put an end to the revolving doors and corrupt and unethical congressional behavior, after yesterday’s indictment of another sitting congressman (Louisiana’s own William Jefferson .. hmmm… Billy Tauzin was from Louisiana too) on bribery and racketeering charges.

Just about a year ago, around the time that the Feds were breaking down Jefferson’s office door, I wrote a somewhat awkwardly titled and probably, awkwardly written piece The Mother Of All Public Airings Of The Dirty Skivvies, in which I ranted briefly about the corruption in Washington. I reread it this morning after reading accounts of “Dollar Bill’s” indictment and marveled that I had, at that time, a somewhat hopeful tone, because I fully expected the Democrats to sweep back into Washington at mid term, surfing on a tidal wave of the foul detritus of Republican corruption and really polish up the Washington Monument and everything else in sight.

Those were heady and optimistic days for me, I had survived a heart attack, learned that I would likely survive to a decently old age, Abramoff was singing his heart out, Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney were preparing musical arrangements of their own and it looked like the lid was going to blow right off the old Washington sewer.

I gushed:

Democrats do not wait, do not falter, this day, this very day begin to cleanse your ranks of the filth, of the rot, of all those unworthy to serve the public trust. You know them well, you have ignored and protected and excused them far too long, and they have held us back like a great sea anchor, made from the mainsail of our Ship of State and torn from it’s proud and proper place flying high and boldly before the winds of history.

Take the lead Democrats and do it this day, the gods and the people wait and watch.

I blush as I read it this morning but I was so much younger and idealistic a year ago, and this morning after the last months of watching my Democratic leadership fold on nearly all fronts, from health care and pharmaceuticals to Iraq and ethics reform, watching their cowardly accommodations and their lust for the largesse of the lizards of K Street, I am much older.

The Democrats were voted back into Washington and the several statehouses by the people, to do the work of the people, to put a stop to the corruption, an end to the war, to renew our economy, and return us to a position of respect in the eyes of the world, not to do the bidding of the Big Oil Trust, Big Pharm, the National Association of Manufacturers or the defense industry.

They were elected to throw the moneylenders out of the temple not to grovel by their side and worship Mammon with them.

I’m straying a bit here from “Happy Birthday Bill” I suppose but I set out to pen a small tribute to his work in past years of exposing the kind of corporate and governmental collusion that I believe is at the heart of our public malaise as well as to express my respect for the work of Public Citizen.

From Ms Claybrook:

When corporate lobbyists raise campaign cash or help lawmakers get lucrative lobbying jobs after leaving office, the democratic system is corrupted. It’s also expensive. Lobbyists throw their financial weight around Congress to get tax breaks, contracts, loan guarantees, subsidies and regulatory cutbacks for their corporate clients. Meanwhile, those of us with legitimate concerns about drug safety, global warming and high gas prices have trouble being heard at all.
Joan Claybrook from Public Citizen
The scandals brought on by the criminal relationship between lobbyist Jack Abramoff and members of Congress * like Tom DeLay and Bob Ney * toppled Republicans in 2006. The Democrats came to power on the promise of draining the swamp and ending the culture of corruption.

So where are we now?

We are still fighting for some very modest reforms for transparency in the way that lobbyists and members of Congress conduct business.
See Watchdog Blog

The lobby and ethics reform bills passed by the Senate and House will be joined in a conference committee when Congress returns to work next week. At least one critical reform found in the stronger Senate bill may be in jeopardy: slowing the “revolving door.” This refers to the practice of former lawmakers taking high-paying lobbying jobs after leaving Congress, hired because they know the system and have special access to ask former colleagues for favors.

Under the current law, public officials are prohibited only from “direct” lobbying * and only for one year after office. This means that former lawmakers can run lobbying campaigns for clients as soon as they leave Congress * as long as they don’t pick up the phone or meet personally with a lawmaker. This is completely inadequate.

If I have a point here aside from birthday greetings it is this, the only thing that will save our Democratic Party is extreme pressure from you and I, we, after all are the base, the core and the soul of the party and we must not allow it to become another tool co -opted by the theo – plutocracy.

Write to the Party leadership, piss and moan in the media and in print, loudly, boldly and clearly.
My America, our America, cannot survive without a Democratic Party.

Oh yeah, donate to Public Citizen and to Bill Moyers Journal, it’s his birthday you know.

Bob Higgins
Worldwide Sawdust