Progressive Democrat Issue 134: Thoughts
Another 9/11 passes and we are still way off in the wrong direction. It depresses me each and every year. Just think of what might have been! Had election 2000 not been stolen, the world would be so different.
Bush and Osama bin Laden both tried exploiting 9/11 for their own propoganda this year. Both failed miserably. But we are still stuck in the Iraq quagmire and al-Qaeda is stronger than ever. Even as the Republican party slips further into disarray with even Idaho and Kansas Senate seats looking weak for the Republicans, we still can't get the ball rolling on the most critical issues facing our nation: impeachment, withdrawal from Iraq, fair and honest elections, energy independence and mitigating global warming. The Democrats in Congress have made considerable strides in reversing the horrible Republican agenda, but are still lagging on these key issues. Impeachment and withdrawal AT LEAST are now being discussed, something that was impossible while the Republicans were in charge. But we are still mired in Iraq for no good reason and we still do not have an independent investigation of the Bush/Cheney Administration. Fair and honest elections are being tentatively explored, a nice reversal (mostly) from the attempts by Republicans to make elections LESS fair and LESS honest. But we still see elections threatened all over the country...including good old Florida, the state that got us into this mess in the first place. We have taken several steps closer to a sound energy policy and a sound policy on global warming, but the progress might be too slow to make a difference if we don't hurry it up.
Six years after 9/11 we still have a long, long way to go. Which is why we have to keep fighting. We know 2006 was the turning point. But a turning point isn't victory. Let's hope 2008 can be the year we really make the definitive difference.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
REMEMBERING 9/11
FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE WINNING
THE ARTICLES THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE #5
NY STATE FOCUS: NY-25
CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Preserving our elections
MINNESOTA FOCUS: Al Franken on Energy Policy
Bush and Osama bin Laden both tried exploiting 9/11 for their own propoganda this year. Both failed miserably. But we are still stuck in the Iraq quagmire and al-Qaeda is stronger than ever. Even as the Republican party slips further into disarray with even Idaho and Kansas Senate seats looking weak for the Republicans, we still can't get the ball rolling on the most critical issues facing our nation: impeachment, withdrawal from Iraq, fair and honest elections, energy independence and mitigating global warming. The Democrats in Congress have made considerable strides in reversing the horrible Republican agenda, but are still lagging on these key issues. Impeachment and withdrawal AT LEAST are now being discussed, something that was impossible while the Republicans were in charge. But we are still mired in Iraq for no good reason and we still do not have an independent investigation of the Bush/Cheney Administration. Fair and honest elections are being tentatively explored, a nice reversal (mostly) from the attempts by Republicans to make elections LESS fair and LESS honest. But we still see elections threatened all over the country...including good old Florida, the state that got us into this mess in the first place. We have taken several steps closer to a sound energy policy and a sound policy on global warming, but the progress might be too slow to make a difference if we don't hurry it up.
Six years after 9/11 we still have a long, long way to go. Which is why we have to keep fighting. We know 2006 was the turning point. But a turning point isn't victory. Let's hope 2008 can be the year we really make the definitive difference.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
REMEMBERING 9/11
FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE WINNING
THE ARTICLES THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE #5
NY STATE FOCUS: NY-25
CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Preserving our elections
MINNESOTA FOCUS: Al Franken on Energy Policy
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