We are being scattered to the wind, I have an idea. PLEASE READ & COMMENT

[debbierlus]

Too many scandals. Too much to keep up. Not enough people involved. No wonder people on the board are 'anxious' today. I think we need to regroup.

I think a good idea would be for all of us to pick one thing we work on each week, month, three month period. Together. It would be very empowering. I know we have the DU corps but I believe that we can do more.

My first idea for a project is this - and it is a big one. I think we should petition Moveon to sponsor a national training for people across the states to do teach ins on the voter fraud and the need for election reform. The majority of America has NO IDEA what is going on. We can work on this board to develop a training curriculum that could then be taught across the nation in town meetings, lectures, colleges, schools, wherever we can get in. Moveon can draw from their pool of vast volunteers. If this works well - Moveon could sponsor maybe quarterly or bi-annual meetings on important subjects:

NSA warrantless spying
Iraq War - current state & history - actions to end the war
Environmental cover-ups - global warming - the reality versus the spin

Etc.....

We do not have to pick this as a project. Everyone is welcome to submit an idea. We could vote on what we want to do. A group leader to oversee the project. People who would develop and outreach the idea. Leg work people.

We have so much talent. I think we should extend our talents and knowledge of this board, and bring it to our communities.

Just an idea. Post your responses and ideas here - and feel free to personal message me.

Thanks all.

[cmd]

1. I'll take Ohio, but I'll need a LOT of help

We have become the Mother of Scandals.

[OhioBlue]

2. Very true.

so much so that i think people are actually getting immune to the scandals. They don't even seem to care anymore if pols do something dirty - they almost expect it.

[emulatorloo]

3. A good read to back you up - SCANDAL FATIGUE, CATNIP & THE 'ANGRY' LEFT

Peter Daou

SCANDAL FATIGUE, CATNIP & THE 'ANGRY' LEFT

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This half-decade tsunami of scandals has had the intended effect: overload the senses, short circuit the outrage, dizzy the opposition. How many times have Bush's opponents simply thrown their hands up in disgust, overwhelmed by the enormity of the administration's over-reach? How many times have bloggers railed against reporters for going about the business of burying scandals and muddying waters? How many times have Americans watched in amazement as a missing girl in Aruba receives weeks of blanket coverage while lies that led to war and law-breaking at the highest levels of government get a yawn from the media?

From a purely sensory perspective, it's natural to chase the flak. We're conditioned to respond to incoming fire. It's reflexive. But when the fire is coming from all sides, and coming relentlessly, the urge is to stop defending and curl up and give up. This is a process the Cheneys and Roves of this world understand all too well. It's no accident that the scandals get more and more outrageous - after all, the whole point is to have the opposition frantically racing around, chasing stories, distracted and exhausted, wearing itself out like a kitten in a catnip-doused, mouse-filled room.

The amazing thing is that so many of Bush's opponents continue to play along. The sheer inability to put on blinders and drive one scandal home, to take it to its ultimate conclusion, is a failing of magnificent proportions. The warrantless spying fiasco is a perfect example. The day the NSA story broke, it should have been the only issue discussed by Democrats and progressive activists, the only one. Day in, day out. No matter if thirty other scandals intervened.

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http://daoureport.salon.com/synopsis.aspx?synopsisId=e3466497-752a-490e-aff4-f2e0b3bc7765