Rep. Waters: Republicans Dead in Water

[stephanie]

:cuckoo:

Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 11:29 am
Column: David Swanson

Rep. Waters: Republicans Dead in Water, Put Our Feet on Their Necks and Drown Them
By David Swanson

The Take Back America Conference in Washington DC on Tuesday included a panel discussion of "Poverty and Politics: Katrina's Clarion Call." Arlene Holt Md. Professor Peter Edelman began by stressing how little attention is paid in this country to poverty and race, and how much is needed. Edelman recommended this report:

He said the response to Katrina was a question of race, but a lot of solutions are race and gender neutral: wages, EITC, refundable child tax credit, etc. But we also, he said, have structural racism. We have a criminal justice system that arrests more, processes more, incarcerates more people of color. It's a racial issue and we're going to fight it as such. Schools too. The worst schools are the schools provided for people of color. Gentrification too.

Maude Hurd, President of ACORN, said that ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has over 350,000 families in its membership. We have to have low-income folks at the table where decisions are made to get real change. In 1982 an organizer knocked on Hurd's door and it was the first time anyone had asked her what her concerns were. Everyone else had always told her what the concerns were. She and her neighbors joined ACORN, paid dues, held a meeting, cleaned up a vacant lot, dumped the trash at City Hall, and established a program to clean up publicly owned vacant lots. She's been active in ACORN ever since. Hurd also described Acorn's efforts to register and turn out voters. They knocked on 1.5 million doors to turn out voters in 20 states in the last elections.

read the rest of this drivel at...http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00265.htm

[nevadamedic]

:cuckoo:

Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 11:29 am
Column: David Swanson

Rep. Waters: Republicans Dead in Water, Put Our Feet on Their Necks and Drown Them
By David Swanson

The Take Back America Conference in Washington DC on Tuesday included a panel discussion of "Poverty and Politics: Katrina's Clarion Call." Arlene Holt Md. Professor Peter Edelman began by stressing how little attention is paid in this country to poverty and race, and how much is needed. Edelman recommended this report:

He said the response to Katrina was a question of race, but a lot of solutions are race and gender neutral: wages, EITC, refundable child tax credit, etc. But we also, he said, have structural racism. We have a criminal justice system that arrests more, processes more, incarcerates more people of color. It's a racial issue and we're going to fight it as such. Schools too. The worst schools are the schools provided for people of color. Gentrification too.

Maude Hurd, President of ACORN, said that ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has over 350,000 families in its membership. We have to have low-income folks at the table where decisions are made to get real change. In 1982 an organizer knocked on Hurd's door and it was the first time anyone had asked her what her concerns were. Everyone else had always told her what the concerns were. She and her neighbors joined ACORN, paid dues, held a meeting, cleaned up a vacant lot, dumped the trash at City Hall, and established a program to clean up publicly owned vacant lots. She's been active in ACORN ever since. Hurd also described Acorn's efforts to register and turn out voters. They knocked on 1.5 million doors to turn out voters in 20 states in the last elections.

read the rest of this drivel at...http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0706/S00265.htm

Low income and poverty isn't the the Democratic motto?

[avatar4321]

You know if people want to stop being arrested... they should stop committing crimes.

[nevadamedic]

You know if people want to stop being arrested... they should stop committing crimes.

I wonder what the Dems excuse is going to be when we shaughter them in the campaign?!?!?!?!?!?!? :laugh2:

[avatar4321]

I wonder what the Dems excuse is going to be when we shaughter them in the campaign?!?!?!?!?!?!? :laugh2:

simple, we stole the election. The American people are stupid. blah blah blah.

[Abbey Marie]

simple, we stole the election. The American people are stupid. blah blah blah.

You and I should volunteer to examine the Philly voting machines when they arrive at the polling places. Make sure they are empty of all those Dem votes. :rolleyes:

[GW in Ohio]

I wonder what the Dems excuse is going to be when we shaughter them in the campaign?!?!?!?!?!?!? :laugh2:

Well, Dem excuses weren't needed in '06 and I don't anticipate they'll be needed next year.

Listen, my right-wing friends, you guys are notorious for seeing politics through rose-colored glasses. Let me try and give you a reality check.


The American people are totally turned off on Bush. And even if they weren't, after 8 years of one party in the White House , the voters almost invariably turn to the other party.
Because the voters are turned off by Bush and his inept bunch of clowns, they'll be taking it out on Repub candidates next year.
No Republican candidate will want to be seen with Bush at a campaign stop next year. Does that tell you anything, when candidates of one party are running away from a sitting president? It should.


Prepare for a major ass kicking next year, GOPer friends. It won't be pretty.

[Pale Rider]

Well, Dem excuses weren't needed in '06 and I don't anticipate they'll be needed next year.

Listen, my right-wing friends, you guys are notorious for seeing politics through rose-colored glasses. Let me try and give you a reality check.


The American people are totally turned off on Bush. And even if they weren't, after 8 years of one party in the White House , the voters almost invariably turn to the other party.
Because the voters are turned off by Bush and his inept bunch of clowns, they'll be taking it out on Repub candidates next year.
No Republican candidate will want to be seen with Bush at a campaign stop next year. Does that tell you anything, when candidates of one party are running away from a sitting president? It should.


Prepare for a major ass kicking next year, GOPer friends. It won't be pretty.

I got $20 that says there'll be another Republican in the White House.

[Gunny]

Well, Dem excuses weren't needed in '06 and I don't anticipate they'll be needed next year.

Listen, my right-wing friends, you guys are notorious for seeing politics through rose-colored glasses. Let me try and give you a reality check.

The American people are totally turned off on Bush. And even if they weren't, after 8 years of one party in the White House , the voters almost invariably turn to the other party.
Because the voters are turned off by Bush and his inept bunch of clowns, they'll be taking it out on Repub candidates next year.
No Republican candidate will want to be seen with Bush at a campaign stop next year. Does that tell you anything, when candidates of one party are running away from a sitting president? It should.


Prepare for a major ass kicking next year, GOPer friends. It won't be pretty.

:lmao::lmao::lmao:

[Gaffer]

I got $20 that says there'll be another Republican in the White House.

And another 20 says there will be two repubican houses as well. Along with a lot of independents.

[avatar4321]

You and I should volunteer to examine the Philly voting machines when they arrive at the polling places. Make sure they are empty of all those Dem votes. :rolleyes:

they would never let a republican look.

[avatar4321]

Well, Dem excuses weren't needed in '06 and I don't anticipate they'll be needed next year.

Listen, my right-wing friends, you guys are notorious for seeing politics through rose-colored glasses. Let me try and give you a reality check.


The American people are totally turned off on Bush. And even if they weren't, after 8 years of one party in the White House , the voters almost invariably turn to the other party.
Because the voters are turned off by Bush and his inept bunch of clowns, they'll be taking it out on Repub candidates next year.
No Republican candidate will want to be seen with Bush at a campaign stop next year. Does that tell you anything, when candidates of one party are running away from a sitting president? It should.


Prepare for a major ass kicking next year, GOPer friends. It won't be pretty.

Bush isnt on the ballot. Who cares what people think of him? I think history will be alot kinder to him than the last few liberal Presidents.

[nevadamedic]

Well, Dem excuses weren't needed in '06 and I don't anticipate they'll be needed next year.

Listen, my right-wing friends, you guys are notorious for seeing politics through rose-colored glasses. Let me try and give you a reality check.


The American people are totally turned off on Bush. And even if they weren't, after 8 years of one party in the White House , the voters almost invariably turn to the other party.
Because the voters are turned off by Bush and his inept bunch of clowns, they'll be taking it out on Repub candidates next year.
No Republican candidate will want to be seen with Bush at a campaign stop next year. Does that tell you anything, when candidates of one party are running away from a sitting president? It should.


Prepare for a major ass kicking next year, GOPer friends. It won't be pretty.

Your obviously blind. The approval rating of the Democratic Senate they elected are at an all time low which goes to show you that they wont do so well in the next election. The American poeple are already tired of them.

[Abbey Marie]

they would never let a republican look.

Then we'll have to disguise ourselves as Dems. You can be the unemployed anti-war socialist, and I'll be the feminist lesbian college professor. :laugh2: