Karl Rove setting up a "permanent campaign"

[liberal N proud]

Dear MoveOn member,

Karl Rove recently announced that he was setting up a "permanent campaign" -- modeled on Bush/Cheney ‘04 -- to force a sweeping right-wing agenda through Congress. The same corporate donors are donating, the same ground troops are organizing -- even people like the Swift Boat Veterans are back in business, all working together to gut Social Security, confirm extremist judges, and silence the Democrats. It's scary stuff.

We've got to stop them, and together, we will. Our secret weapon? The passion and energy of over 3 million Americans, working together to create change, and a strategic plan to focus that energy in the places where it matters most. But it'll take more than phone calls and emails. That's why next Thursday, we're launching our own permanent campaign -- a national network of neighborhood teams that will take our progressive message to every town in the country. It's a deeper way for you to get involved, and it's a route to real victory in 2006 and beyond.

We need someone in your neighborhood to host a party so that local MoveOn members can get together, form a team, and make a plan of action to fight for a progressive America in Avon. We'll make it really easy to host, and past hosts always tell us it's a lot of fun and a great way to meet some neighbors. Can you provide a space in Avon for this important work to happen?

http://action.moveonpac.org/houseparties/newmeeting.html

Our permanent campaign is built off our experience in Leave No Voter Behind, when tens of thousands of MoveOn volunteers put in a few hours a week each and brought our message to millions of people. Now we're taking that same approach nationwide, and using it to make a difference on critical national issues -- Supreme Court nominees first, and then Social Security and the war in Iraq. And with the 2006 elections on the horizon, we'll reach out to our neighbors to craft a positive agenda and start to focus on winning back Congress using the same grassroots approach.

Our first project will be to oppose right-wing judges. President Bush and the Republican leadership are moving quietly to stack the courts, including the Supreme Court, with judges who favor the rights of corporations over everyday Americans. The key to their plan: before the public notices, change Senate rules to silence Democrats and end the long-standing requirement that lifetime judicial nominees have broad support in Congress.

If they succeed, it will literally be too late to stop Bush from appointing Supreme Court judges who will set efforts to protect the environment, health, civil liberties and workers back 70 years. And we have less than a month to stop them.

After judges, we'll work on other key issues, all the while spreading the message that Republicans are putting corporate donors before everyday Americans. We'll use a whole range of approaches depending on the issue: for example, letters to the editor of your local newspaper on Iraq, news conferences demanding election reform, town meetings on Bush's screwed-up budget priorities, bake sale fundraisers, or meetings between members of Congress and local citizens who can't afford a Social Security benefit cut.

And all the while we'll look toward the 2006 elections, to put pressure on vulnerable Republicans and support progressive candidates, using the techniques that worked well on our Leave No Voter Behind campaign last fall. Even if there's not a close race in your district, we need you to join us in national actions that will show how the Republicans' corporate-leaning policies have abandoned the middle class -- only when that's a national story will voters be willing to shake things up and give someone else a chance.

It all comes down to local action teams. Join together with like-minded friends and neighbors next week to take back our country. Get the ball rolling by signing up to host a house party on Thursday. Sign up now:

http://action.moveonpac.org/houseparties/newmeeting.html

It won't be easy to turn the tide against the Bush administration's plans, with their corporate allies spending hundreds of millions of dollars to back them. Only one thing can stop the onslaught -- a concerted grassroots effort of the kind that MoveOn members can lead. We're counting on you.

Thank you for all that you do. Sincerely,

--Adam, Justin, Matt, and the MoveOn PAC team
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

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[Voltaire]

1. Let's Be In No Ways Scared

Just active. Do what we can and do our best. Its time.

[blm]

2. Bush and Rove have been on permanent campaign since Poppy Bush

took office in Jan.89.

That is part of the problem with the media...they don't KNOW these simple facts. They should read Joe Conason's book, The Hunting of the President. GOP operatives have been at this for decades.

[applegrove]

3. Old News. If moveon.org coming up with new ideas or encouraging

its members to think a little less utopianlike and a little more adult?

[Avalux]

4. Not a surprise

Rove has publicly stated he wants a one party government and wants to change American history forever. The wheels have been turning for a very long time.