IT ONLY HURTS WHEN YOU BREATHE / David Podvin

[Caro]

IT ONLY HURTS WHEN YOU BREATHE



By David Podvin

Roe v. Wade is the revolutionary declaration that defies history to assert women are not brood mares. Although the issue is misrepresented as being exclusively about abortion, the real point of contention has always been female autonomy. Distaff independence is a frighteningly subversive concept so religious traditionalists have waged a terrorist campaign that has effectively negated Roe in most of America. Now, federally guaranteed reproductive freedom will be officially confiscated, the victim of Republican malevolence and Democratic indifference. Soon, other protections for the traditionally oppressed will experience a similar fate courtesy of the Roberts Court…

On the votes that involved the very biggest of issues - the Iraq War and the Supreme Court – eight Senate Democrats aligned with the liberal base: Barbara Boxer, Mark Dayton, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Jack Reed, Paul Sarbanes, and Debbie Stabenow. These are the only senators who voted against invading Iraq and against the Roberts nomination and against invoking cloture on the Alito filibuster, three matters of paramount importance to progressives. By contrast, every Republican senator except one hewed the right wing line…

The relentless treachery of establishment Democrats makes it tempting to become an independent. Sadly, forsaking the party is impractical because no other organization has the potential to stem the right wing tide. And while most Democratic politicians deserve to be abandoned, the liberal base does not. Rank and file Democrats are the Americans who care about bettering humanity. The moral imperative to protect these good people dictates waging a steep uphill fight against the corrupt party power structure.

While this is not the time to quit it also not the time to be delusional. The party’s perpetual cheerleaders have already issued their pep talks, the ones that implore fellow Democrats who are understandably despondent to “be proud that at least our heroes tried to filibuster” and to “fight harder than ever for our great party!” Yet is highly inappropriate to be perky in the face of tragedy, and it is always inappropriate to be estranged from reality. Any rational person realizes that surrendering the high court to reactionaries is an act of betrayal that merits profound bitterness.

It also merits retribution. The retributive process begins in Connecticut, where liberal Ned Lamont is preparing a primary challenge to the Republicans’ very own comfort woman, Joe Lieberman…

Rather than wallowing in victimization, liberal activists should now take Fredo for a boat ride…

Click here for more.

And here’s another good idea. Let’s start a “Not another Nickel” campaign. Refuse to contribute to any PAC that won’t promise never to donate to any member of The Cloture 19.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[Greeby]

1. Take Fredo for a boat ride?

Huh? :shrug:

[Binka]

2. It's a Godfather Reference

In the classic mobster movies of The GodFather series, the day comes when Michael Corleone, the new godfather of the Corleone crime family, decides to eliminate his enemies and settle old scores.

One of the men marked for death is his own brother, Freddie (usually, "Fredo"), who had stupidly made a deal with another family that had led to an unsuccessful hit on Michael. "I didn't know it was going to be a hit!" he had protested to Michael - successfully, he thought.

But on the fatal day, he goes fishing with one of Michael's trusted capos. They putter to the middle of the lake where the capo shoots Fredo dead.

[Greeby]

3. Ah, thanks

:think:

On Edit - Go Lamont! :patriot:

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Only After His Mother Died

Remember, "nothing happens to him while my mother is alive." The settling all family scores thing happened in the first movie. The 2nd movie is where Fredo gets it. He's out on the lake with Neiri's #2.
The Professor

[mom cat]

4. I fully support the "Not Another Nickel" campaign and feel that it is

the best way forward. I made a similiar suggestion right after the Alito was knighted.
I checked out the site. Sincs they have no "contact us" link, I will put my comments here and hopr that they are forwarded to the site.
There are several things that the site needs.
1, An e-mail address
2. A pledge statement that could then be sent to various groups who are uncertain about whether they will be funding any of the Alito traitors.
If there are any future developments of this site, please PM me.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. It's a good article

What, no mention of Kerry trying to filibsuter? He's the only one who stud up for me against Alito.

[mom cat]

6. Kerry did stand up, but I am afraid it was too late. His support

certainly energized the protest movement, but it came too late in the game to swing the "centrist" DLC Dems. His announcement came on the Friday (or Trursday) before the vote the following Monday. Although I appreciated it, it came far too late to turn tha entrenched political system around.

[fooj]

14. Kerry is a DLC Dem...

Perhaps the reason for the untimely entrance...

Just thinking out loud.

peace.

[mom cat]

15. You can think out loud anytime. You have a good bullshit detector.

[enough]

8. Podvin is extremely skeptical of Kerry's attempt to filibuster.

snip>

Reid’s disingenuous little ploy was sabotaged by one of the few human beings who is even more conniving than Hapless Harry. When Kerry called for the parliamentary maneuver to save the Supreme Court, he did so while schmoozing at a Swiss gathering of the monied elite. Instead of holding a Capitol Hill press conference, the senator posted his filibuster announcement on a blog. This cruel hoax deceived some frantic liberals into lobbying their senators even as the Republicans laughingly dismissed Kerry’s transparent publicity stunt.

The callous conduct of Reid and Kerry reflects the Democratic establishment’s infinite disdain for its constituency. In recent years, such contemptuous displays have occurred with increasing frequency. Today, those Senate Democrats who actually respect their supporters comprise one of the world’s most endangered species.

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[Mnemosyne]

7. .

[enough]

9. The truth hurts.

from the article:

snip>

That is the true math of the United States Senate, the actual lay of the land. It is not fifty-five Republicans versus forty-four Democrats. It is fifty-four dependable GOP senators against eight principled Democratic senators. There are also one independent, one occasionally disobedient Republican, one Democrat who was recently appointed, and thirty-five mercenaries who find it expedient to run as Democrats. Given this reality, there is no reason to believe that the outcome of the votes referenced above would have been different had the Democrats controlled the Senate. After all, it was a Democratic Senate that confirmed Clarence Thomas.

snip>

[mom cat]

10. Thanks for that reminder. I had forgotten that!

We need to raise some serious hell about the things that we AND MOST AMERICANS stand for and want. The so called "centrists" do not represent the center. They represent the mega corporations that are squeezing the world dry.
The majority of Americans want action on Global Warming, want single payor health care, are against domestic spying, want clean fair, verifyiable elections, etc. I wish that Democrats WOULD move to the center!It would be farther in the direction of a responsible, caring society than the one that many dem congress critters are voting for now!

[Jujiman]

11. Thanks For the Heads-Up

Ah yes, The "Mega-Corporate Centrists"...have become a huge problem.

I'm very happy they are being outed... finally!

DLC=Mega-Corporate Centrists.

:hi:

[radio4progressives]

13. k&r Excellent post..

:applause: :applause: :applause: