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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 06:44 AM
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Our boots need to be on the ground like never before.
And pound doors and phones like never before to make sure these puke slime bastards are bulldozed out of congress and into a landfill with the rest of the garbage where they belong.

The first domestic priority on our agenda should be to make CRYSTAL clear marching and preaching in the streets that our first bill will be to roll back the millionaire tax cut and to reinstate the estate tax; but keeping the minimum wage increase, the coal miner and extension tax benefits for the 99% of America. And we will use our numbers to ram it through.

Make it unmistakably clear that since the republicans have all of a sudden got a pre-August recess sudden religious urge to pass a few breadcrumbs to the poor, that should please them as well, if they were so genuinely interested they felt it necessary to keep congress in session until 1 AM on a Friday night to do it. Right republicans?

In other words we need to be able to paint simple, easy to understand word pictures so the sham is a real world example people can relate to. We have to make that "light come on" in their heads. That thing that makes them say, why you bastards.

I suggest it is analagous to a republican saying to a minimum wage worker, here, we are going to give you five dollars, take it--it's yours. No go on, you've been waiting for 9 years. We want you to have it. The minimum wage worker meekly reaches out and takes it. The republican then reaches in his back waistband and pulls out a revolver. Now I want a hundred dollars--come on, give me a hundred. We need it to give to our richest corporate masters that we serve. You can keep that five we gave you, so that knocks it down to only 95 you're actually giving up. So hurry up, cough up the hundred. And don't say we never gave you anything. That's exactly what happened with those scum last night.

The next thing we have to bludgeon people with if necessary to get them to understand is that you haven't seen Democratic proposals enacted because we can't even get the Goddamned things to be allowed a vote. This is crucial that the average person understands who doesn't watch C-Span that our measures have been blocked time and time again from even being able to bring them up.

That may seem simple to us here but it in my opinion this is the single biggest thing we have to drive home to the average voters. The common phrase repeated ad infinitum is that we don't have a plan. It isn't that we don't have plans. It's that we have our plans black balled. Make us the majority and watch the fireworks. It will be the renaissance of lifting the middle class up again instead of being mortgaged back into the Great Depression and the tyranny of an insane punk with a desire for world domination. Give us the power to help you. Give us the power to HELP you!!!! Carry that message, shout that message, live and breathe that message from now until November.

Let us march, hup two three four...hup two three four. Like our very life depended on it. Because it does!!
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Lowell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 07:56 AM
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1. Execellent Rant! K&R
And true. Let get busy and roll back all the regressive legislation this administration has shoved down our throats. November just can't come soon enough.
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Justice Is Comin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 02:32 PM
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2. I guess there will be at least two of us then.
The suggestion seems to have the value of a two wheel tricycle to the masses.
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