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This We CAN do!

From Brad Blog:

http://www.bradblog.com/


"It All Comes Down to You! Your Calls Make a Difference. Call Your Representative NOW!

A flood of phone calls from constituents could be all it will take to break the roadblock at this critical moment. Pick up the phone NOW and call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-225-3121. Tell your Representative that Congress must pass HR 6187 before they adjourn, to make sure that every vote will count when voting machines malfunction or count votes incorrectly as they have in every primary this year.

If you don't know your Representative's name, click here and enter your zip code to find out. You can also use this link to find your Representative's direct telephone number on Capitol Hill by clicking on his or her photo, which will appear once you've entered your zip code.

Then Immediately Call Both of Your Senators

As soon as you hang up with your Representative's office, call the Senate switchboard at 202-224-3121 to speak with both of your Senators' offices. Tell them to pass S. 3943 before Congress adjourns to ensure that every vote will count in November. If you don't know both your Senators' names, click here and enter your zip code to find out. You can also use this link to find your Senator's direct telephone number on Capitol Hill by clicking on his or her photo, which will appear once you've entered your zip code.

Every moment counts, so please don't delay. Make those phone calls as if our democracy depended on it — because that's what it comes down to today."

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With Washington closing shop today............... what is it (?) a 91-3 day work-YEAR (?)? with enough clamor, maybe we could get this done in EXTRA SESSION before the NOV. ELECTION!

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3555#more-3555
BLOGGED BY John Gideon ON 9/29/2006 4:54PM
'Daily Voting News' For September 29, 2006
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org

"It appears that the qualification to become a voting system technician in Maryland has gotten a bit tougher. They now require a high school diploma. Class work only will not make the grade any longer. / The Nov. 7 ballot in Belmont Co. Ohio will be 12 pages long. Look for long lines here. / Lou Dobbs of CNN has been doing semi-regular segments on voting machines for several months now. He is now being joined by CBS Evening News and ABC Radio News to name a few. / Boone Co. Missouri is withholding $800,000 from ES&S until the vendor fixes faulty machines it has delivered. / A majority of the House of Representatives has now endorsed HR-550 …


NAtional: Boxer Sends Letter To Brad Blog: Urges Readers to Write Congress Immediately to Build 'Grassroots Support' for Emergency Paper Ballot Legislation! LINK
NAtional: Columnist - Don't trust vunerable [sic] Diebold voting machines, use absentee ballots LINK"

MUCH more.........

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I guess I'm the only CT. POL contributer and this post is about Lamont/Lieberman. I already cast my vote via absentee ballot for NED LAMONT because I sure as HECK know what Lieberman is ALL about! Have for YEARS already!

I sure hope the Republican voters are as disgusted with what is happening in our beloved country as most of us on POL are! If they are, Ned Lamont will win, if not, we ALL Lose!

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/17/193545/08
Lieberman Unleashed, Slaps Dodd
by Matt Stoller, Tue Oct 17, 2006 at 07:35:45 PM EST



Ahh, back in New Haven. Though the leaves are changing color, their hues are obscured by dark and drizzly weather. Remind me never to write fiction, btw. I'm sitting in Starbucks and making calls to piece together the Bolton decision. Lieberman didn't support Bolton, and now he does. Ned Lamont rightly calls him out for changing his position in mid-pander. The question is, why the pivot?

This is a weird choice, because Bolton's nomination is dead. There's no bringing it back. Period. So why did Lieberman back Bolton's nomination, now, opening himself up to inconsistencies not just on Bolton but on WMDs, North Korea, and Iraq, all of have Bolton's ****ed up fingerprints all over them? At first I thought it might be a pander to Jewish conservatives on the Israel issue, but that doesn't make a huge amount of sense. Lieberman has pushed for negotiations on North Korea, something Bolton scuttled, and doesn't quite share Bolton's hypernationalist views on foreign policy. Lieberman's more of a neocon than a Cheney nationalist. In addition, Lieberman personally dislikes Bolton, and voted to sustain a filibuster twice. It could be that Lieberman is feeling pressure from Alan Schlesinger, and now is competing for right-wing votes.

For my money, this is Joe Lieberman slapping Chris Dodd and the Democatic Party in the face. Say what you will about Dodd, but this Dodd cares about John Bolton's nomination. Dodd was the whip on the vote, and successfully blocked Bolton's confirmation. Dodd played the good soldier to Lieberman's campaign in the primary, campaigning for him and starring in one of Joe's ads. Even before the primary ended and while Dodd was campaigning for Joe, Joe stopped taking Dodd's calls, and he wouldn't talk to him on primary night, sending an aide to deal with Dodd as Dodd stood outside Joe's hotel room. Joe hates Dodd because Dodd treated Joe like he deserved to be treated, as the loser of the Democratic primary.

In other words, Joe is angry and vindictive, and is starting his retribution early. Just today he reversed himself and said Democrats should win Congress (he demurred a few days ago), but that Democrats need to change their tone. Lieberman essentially threatened Dodd on Pajamas Media, a right-wing media site. And now on Bolton, Lieberman is just stabbing Dodd and the rest of the Democrats in the front. He's not even bothering to stab us in the back anymore.

Bolton represents everything Democrats dislike about Bush's cowboy policy. It was Bolton's shop at the State Department that pushed the faulty WMD intelligence. You can see video above of Bolton getting grilled and denying responsibility for his underlings' work on this point. Bolton was also atrocious on North Korea, severely damaging our ability to negotiate years ago, and recently putting together a resolution that everyone knows will be ineffective. Bolton doesn't actually believe in diplomacy, and has no achievements to his name. He's also egregiously partisan and vitriolic; the only blog he's granted an interview is a right-wing anti-Islam hate site.

So why would Lieberman adopt Bolton now, after rejecting him twice before? It's probably the same reason Joe is selling out net neutrality, going back on his promise to support it by offering to help Senator Ted Stevens in the lame duck session pass a bill that would in all likelihood get rid of net neutrality.

Spite.

Hey Democrats, time to come out for Lamont. We're all in this together."

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