This week, the Senate began consideration of a large number of ultraconservative nominees to the federal courts. Many of the nominees were considered and rejected during President Bush's first term because Senate Democrats had serious concerns about the nominees' records. Unbelievably, President Bush is now resubmitting their names for consideration for appointment to the federal judiciary.
These nominees, if confirmed, will receive LIFETIME appointments. Senators have a Constitutional responsibility to review nominations proposed by the President. They also have the right to engage in spirited debates about the nominees and to use all the tools at their disposal -- including filibuster -- to ensure that only the best jurists are appointed to the courts. But the GOP Senate Leader is considering a change to rules established 200 years ago that would take away the minority party's ability to filibuster candidates!
The relentless rant for war, the slashing of civil liberties, the denial of minority rights. . .
Still, the public rides the government sled of fear on it's slippery slope to fascism afraid hardly to whimper, while the corporate media cheers it greedily on!
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Friday, February 18, 2005
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Urge Reps to Reject Bush Budget!
Urge your reps in Washington to reject the President's Budget and instead support efforts to extend a helping hand to our most vulnerable neighbors!
The budget President Bush released on February 7 proposes record military spending and more tax cuts, yet it throws thousands of poor people off food stamps and slashes the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program which helps poor people pay their heating bills. This cold-hearted proposal comes at a time when the cost of electricity and heating fuel continues to rise and more people are living in, or at the edge, of poverty. And these are just two egregious examples in a budget riddled with cuts to healthcare programs, education funding, environmental protection and a whole host of successful programs.
All this at a time when the president is about to propose spending $80 billion more for the coming year's occupation of Iraq and borrowing trillions more dollars to privatize Social Security. Our government's budget should represent our national priorities. But Mr. Bush's priorities are in the wrong place and the consequence will be suffering for our most vulnerable neighbors.
Please reject this heartless expression of our collective goals, and vote instead to extend a helping hand to the least among us.
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The budget President Bush released on February 7 proposes record military spending and more tax cuts, yet it throws thousands of poor people off food stamps and slashes the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program which helps poor people pay their heating bills. This cold-hearted proposal comes at a time when the cost of electricity and heating fuel continues to rise and more people are living in, or at the edge, of poverty. And these are just two egregious examples in a budget riddled with cuts to healthcare programs, education funding, environmental protection and a whole host of successful programs.
All this at a time when the president is about to propose spending $80 billion more for the coming year's occupation of Iraq and borrowing trillions more dollars to privatize Social Security. Our government's budget should represent our national priorities. But Mr. Bush's priorities are in the wrong place and the consequence will be suffering for our most vulnerable neighbors.
Please reject this heartless expression of our collective goals, and vote instead to extend a helping hand to the least among us.
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Sunday, February 13, 2005
Use Our New 'PEOPLE'S EMAIL NETWORK- CONGRESS ACTION CENTER' Box on the Sidebar Right Here and Speak Your Mind!
An easy way to have your voice heard-->>>>>>>>>>>>
*Just Go to the Sidebar and roll your cursor over the PEOPLE'S EMAIL NETWORK Box and pick your topic. Write a short email message and the Congress Action Center will do the rest!!
There is no excuse for not contacting your representatives on critical issues with this fantastic service now available to you, right here!
Check it Out! It's fun. It's easy. It's important.
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*Just Go to the Sidebar and roll your cursor over the PEOPLE'S EMAIL NETWORK Box and pick your topic. Write a short email message and the Congress Action Center will do the rest!!
There is no excuse for not contacting your representatives on critical issues with this fantastic service now available to you, right here!
Check it Out! It's fun. It's easy. It's important.
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Thursday, February 10, 2005
TAKE ACTION-- No Bush SS Cuts!
The George W. Bush plan to dismantle Social Security has begun. The administration floated a proposal to cut benefits to future retirees by changing the way those benefits are calculated. And these cuts are guaranteed -- whether you opt in to the Bush plan or not.
Here's what the Bush plan will mean for your retirement:
*If you retire in 2022, Bush will cut your benefits by almost 10 percent.
*If you retire in 2042, Bush will cut your benefits by more than 25 percent.
*In 2075, our children and grandchildren will face a staggering cut of 46 ercent to their benefits.
And this is just the first step of the Republican Party's plan to dismantle the entire Social Security system that has kept generations of America's seniors out of poverty. Soon Bush will launch a $40 million TV ad blitz to convince Americans that our grandkids will be left out in the cold if Social Security is not privatized.
We will not stand by and allow that to happen.
Help us take our first step today by writing a letter to the editor of your local paper demanding that President Bush abandon his plan to cut benefits for tomorrow's retirees. Click the link below to write your letter today:
http://www.democrats.org/action
-courtesy of the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (Go Dean!)
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Here's what the Bush plan will mean for your retirement:
*If you retire in 2022, Bush will cut your benefits by almost 10 percent.
*If you retire in 2042, Bush will cut your benefits by more than 25 percent.
*In 2075, our children and grandchildren will face a staggering cut of 46 ercent to their benefits.
And this is just the first step of the Republican Party's plan to dismantle the entire Social Security system that has kept generations of America's seniors out of poverty. Soon Bush will launch a $40 million TV ad blitz to convince Americans that our grandkids will be left out in the cold if Social Security is not privatized.
We will not stand by and allow that to happen.
Help us take our first step today by writing a letter to the editor of your local paper demanding that President Bush abandon his plan to cut benefits for tomorrow's retirees. Click the link below to write your letter today:
http://www.democrats.org/action
-courtesy of the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (Go Dean!)
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Track Bush's Lies in the 'State of the Union'
WATCH BUSH MISLEAD
During his first State of the Union address of his second term, George W. Bush will do just what he's done for the past four years: mislead America. He'll paint a record of failure as a series of successes and make promises he can't possibly keep. Despite repeated promises not to leave problems for future generations, President Bush's policies have created enormous difficulties for our children and grandchildren. Here's just a sample of where Bush's policies are leaving us.
WEAKENING OUR NATION, ABANDONING OUR NATION'S PROTECTORS
• The tab for Bush's Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is currently $277 billion and counting.
[Washington Post, 1/26/05]
• Bush's plans in Iraq call for troops to be in the Middle East for years. Armed Forces specialists
plan on keeping 120,000 American soldiers deployed in Iraq until at least 2007. [Washington Post, 1/25/05]
• The President says that he will honor our veterans. Meanwhile, according to The Washington
Post, 300,000 veterans are still waiting for necessary health care treatment. [Washington Post,
10/3/04]
FAILING TO CREATE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL AMERICANS
• To pay for Bush's misguided economic agenda, the country's debt has soared. Experts recently
announced that Bush's growing $8 trillion dollar debt translates to roughly $26,000 per person.
[Treasury Department; www.house.gov/budget_democrats]
• While advocating the need to create economic opportunity for all, President Bush has presided
over an economic record that includes the loss of over a million jobs since he took office. [Bureau
of Labor Statistics]
• President Bush will hail his own commitment to creating opportunity for Americans, but the
legacy of his first term is that 4.3 million more Americans are now in poverty. [Census Bureau,
Current Population Survey]
• Bush's most recent budget passed by Congress fell $9.8 billion short of Bush's commitment to
reform America's schools. Overall, the Republicans have fallen $27 billion short of the funding for local schools promised in the No Child Left Behind Act. [House Democratic Leader's Office,
1/7/05]
ABANDONING OUR NATION'S HEALTH
• The President's repeated commitments to health care are simply more lip service. Rather than reducing the number of people without coverage during his first term, 5.2 million more people are uninsured today than in 2000. [Census Bureau, Current Population Survey]
• Under Bush, consumers' medical bills grew 7.6 percent in 2003, the fastest growing area of health care spending. And meanwhile, Bush's health care proposals do nothing to control soaring health care costs. [Pharma Marketletter, 1/12/05]
• More than 130 million Americans breathe dirty, unhealthy air. Instead of working to change this, Bush's Clear Skies legislation would protect polluters and undermine further progress.
[Washington Post, 12/14/04; www.cleartheair.org]
-courtesy of the Democratic National Committee
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During his first State of the Union address of his second term, George W. Bush will do just what he's done for the past four years: mislead America. He'll paint a record of failure as a series of successes and make promises he can't possibly keep. Despite repeated promises not to leave problems for future generations, President Bush's policies have created enormous difficulties for our children and grandchildren. Here's just a sample of where Bush's policies are leaving us.
WEAKENING OUR NATION, ABANDONING OUR NATION'S PROTECTORS
• The tab for Bush's Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is currently $277 billion and counting.
[Washington Post, 1/26/05]
• Bush's plans in Iraq call for troops to be in the Middle East for years. Armed Forces specialists
plan on keeping 120,000 American soldiers deployed in Iraq until at least 2007. [Washington Post, 1/25/05]
• The President says that he will honor our veterans. Meanwhile, according to The Washington
Post, 300,000 veterans are still waiting for necessary health care treatment. [Washington Post,
10/3/04]
FAILING TO CREATE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL AMERICANS
• To pay for Bush's misguided economic agenda, the country's debt has soared. Experts recently
announced that Bush's growing $8 trillion dollar debt translates to roughly $26,000 per person.
[Treasury Department; www.house.gov/budget_democrats]
• While advocating the need to create economic opportunity for all, President Bush has presided
over an economic record that includes the loss of over a million jobs since he took office. [Bureau
of Labor Statistics]
• President Bush will hail his own commitment to creating opportunity for Americans, but the
legacy of his first term is that 4.3 million more Americans are now in poverty. [Census Bureau,
Current Population Survey]
• Bush's most recent budget passed by Congress fell $9.8 billion short of Bush's commitment to
reform America's schools. Overall, the Republicans have fallen $27 billion short of the funding for local schools promised in the No Child Left Behind Act. [House Democratic Leader's Office,
1/7/05]
ABANDONING OUR NATION'S HEALTH
• The President's repeated commitments to health care are simply more lip service. Rather than reducing the number of people without coverage during his first term, 5.2 million more people are uninsured today than in 2000. [Census Bureau, Current Population Survey]
• Under Bush, consumers' medical bills grew 7.6 percent in 2003, the fastest growing area of health care spending. And meanwhile, Bush's health care proposals do nothing to control soaring health care costs. [Pharma Marketletter, 1/12/05]
• More than 130 million Americans breathe dirty, unhealthy air. Instead of working to change this, Bush's Clear Skies legislation would protect polluters and undermine further progress.
[Washington Post, 12/14/04; www.cleartheair.org]
-courtesy of the Democratic National Committee
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