S. CON. RES. 26
Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Mr. HARKIN (for himself, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. BOND, and Mr. COCHRAN) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was ordered held at the desk.
One Question: Why Now??????????
Senate Democrats, Why are You not following the President's Agenda?.
President Barack Obama asked the Senate for Health Care/Public Option and etc., Yet the Senate refused.
Please go back and study and learn President Obama Race Speech and then MOVE ON...
The American People Are on the same page, and We all want better lives, healthcare, peace prosperity, and security. The American people are unified and are walking in complete solidarity when it comes to the Great People of the United States of America Advancing to greatness and prominence.
This waterdowned resolution is unwarrented and unnesessary.
To the Writers of this resoultion:You are out of Touch with the American People.
The Resounding answer and reaction to this resolution(in my community) has been Noooo and No Thank You!!!!!
Shocker: Even President Bush gets a shot out in this one.
What in the World Is going on With The Senate.
The Senate Democrats can't even close gitmo and yet they have the audacity to gloss over and gitmo the African-American People ith three measly little paragraphs.
Please drop this motion and please take up the President's Mandate and Call and stop disrespecting him by watering down his plans for The American People, and Stop voting against His Agenda. He Won and You Didn't. The American People trust Him and want his Policies and Resolutions, Not Yours!!!!!!
Senate Deomcrats, In Your Own Minds, You may be sincere, but you are sincerly WRONG.
Thank You President Barack Obama for being a beacon set alight on a Hill!!!
Thank You President Obama for teaching principles and wisdom!!!!
Thank You President Barack Obama for not marginalizing the black and white community!!!
Thank You President Barack Obama for finding your purpose and destiny in life!!!!
Thank You President Barack Obama for not using us (black, white, asian, hispanic, jewish, christian, muslim, hindu, believers, non-believers), nor allowing any of us to be used as bargining chips by the Senate and Congress.
May God Continue to Bless America and May He Continue to Always Bless the United States of America.
President Obama announced a new program today, designed to help unemployed Americans who want to go back to school. The president explained:
In a 21st century economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, education is the single best bet we can make -- not just for our individual success, but for the success of the nation as a whole. The average college graduate earns 80 percent more than those who stopped after high school. So if we want to help people not only get back on their feet today but prosper tomorrow, we need to take a rigorous new approach to higher education and technical training. And that starts by changing senseless rules that discourage displaced workers from getting the education and training they need to find and fill the jobs of the future. So today I'm announcing new steps we are taking to do exactly that -- to give people across America who have lost their jobs the chance to go back to school today to get retrained for the jobs and industries of tomorrow.
Under President Obama's plan, colleges will be encouraged to increase financial aid packages for the unemployed so they can enroll in educational and training programs while keeping their unemployment benefits. CNN reported:
Under Obama's initiative, colleges would consider a person's current financial situation to make it possible for them to receive Pell grants, which are available for low-income students. The unemployed person would not lose any unemployment benefits and the maximum Pell grant would be increased in July by $500 to $5,350.Current unemployment rules create a Catch-22: In most cases, if you are receiving unemployment compensation, you have to be actively looking for a job.If you want to get more education or training, you have to give up unemployment benefits. But if you return to school, you don't qualify for federal education grants since, in most cases, your qualification is based on the previous year's income.
Reposted from Dianne's Post:
Time for everyone to call or email or both: KENT CONRAD, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Washington: (202) 224-2043 email: conrad.senate.gov/contact This guy is bragging about all the millions he's secured for military spending through ARRA. And, is lobbying congress for more spending, but a Chairman of the Budget Committee joins the BLUE DOGS? He's also behind the militarization of the Canada/USA border with predator drones. He's not only a DOG, he's a HAWK!
Also from Dianne's Post:
EVAN BAYH GANG OF 16 Leaders: Evan Bayh IN Blanche Lincoln AK Tom Carper DE Kent Conrad ND, Senate Budget Commitee Chairman Michael Bennett, CO Mark Begich, AK Kay Hagan, NC Herb Kohl, WI Mary Landrieu, LA Joe Lieberman, CT Claire McCaskill, MO Ben Nelson, NE Bill Nelson, FL Jeanne Shaheen, NH Mark Udall, CO Mark Warner, VA
Please email, call and write to these Trojan horses and tell them to support Our President.
By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression. Millions of jobs that Americans relied on just a year ago are gone; millions more of the nest eggs families worked so hard to build have vanished. People everywhere are worried about what tomorrow will bring.
Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes. And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.
So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.
The writer is president of the United States. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020403174.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
The President has a presence on http://www.gather.com. He may be found here:
http://www.barackobama.gather.com
Back in June, 2007, I joined Gather -- an adult social networking site to promote Barack. Recently, I asked the Gather members to share their thoughts about the Inauguaration, and about President Obama.
They link is here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?memberId=364433&articleId=281474977569131&nav=Namespace
I have written a number of other posts about the President. Feel free to peruse them by looking at the posts here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticles.jsp?memberId=364433&nav=Namespace
After November 4, 2008, I thought my work was done on this site. The President and Vice President has advised that we are just getting started, aren't we.
YES, WE CAN!
YES, WE DID!
YES, WE SHALL KEEP ON KEEPING ON!
Hi - this site seems to be doing a rather poor job of transitioning from winning the election to political action. That is not a criticism, it is an observation. The "MyObama" page for my account still has this notice:
"Help Barack get to the finish line by calling voters!
Call Pennsylvania!Call Florida!Call Ohio! "
I had a policy idea today I wanted to communicate and found it to be somwhat ackward. Who are the developers of this site? Will this be one of the primary sites for polical and community action - or will that be done elsewhere?
I have experience in the design of business and social networks. For example see the member section of the California Trade Network: www.caltrade.com/members . Please let me know if I can help.
Rob Gordon
San Diego, CA
Hello everyone and Merry Christmas,
Well, we're doing Obama's Christmas message into as many languages as possible. So far we have people working on Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Japanese, and Tagalog versions. If anyone out there would like to do another language, please let us know. In particular Malay (and any other language spoken in indonesia) and Arabic are wanted.
We're also looking for corporate sponsorship to do this on a weekly basis for the next 8 years, so if a company is interested, please contact us. They would receive acknowledgement in the subtitle. So this might turn into a paid thing if that is successful.
The results will be posted to our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/captionedforobama shortly, with subtitles added as they become available. Also posted at our main site (www.captionedmediaforobama.com)
Michael Novak
mnovak@tertia.us
www.captionedmediaforobama.com
The American People have Spoken, There is no turning back. We Now have a President Who Will Fight for For US All. I Love how President -Elect(using that elect add on term for 35 more plus days) is Working on Our Behalf. Mr. President Obama is Cool and First Lady Michelle is Cooler, but I have got to give all of the props to their kids Malia and Sasha because they are the coolest.
May God Continue to bless Barack Obama and His Family, and May God Continue to Prosper and keep all of The People of the Unitd States of America.
An open invitation to join : President Barack Obama Inauguration Day 2009 - Washington, DC Group!!!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/InaugurationDay2009
Make plans to be in DC on this historical day!
Make plans to be tuned in with TV and/or the Internet.
Be out in public with friends and fellow citizens.
A Grand and Wonderful Celebration!
Here are ten quick ideas for the coming Obama administration. The GSA commissioned this article last year. A PDF version and looong version with international examples is available.
Ten Practical Online Steps for Government Support of Democracy
By Steven CliftChair, E-Democracy.Org and Ashoka Fellow
This article will appear in the upcoming Intergovernmental Solutions newsletter of the U.S. federalGeneral Services Administration: http://tinyurl.com/2dhl9s
Does e-government have anything to do with democracy and citizen participation? Let's getstraight to the point - not yet.
Should it?
Yes. Government should be leading a charge into the increasingly and fundamentally interactiveweb.
Information access, considered the safe starting point for government accountability online nowmostly presents the public a daunting needle in a huge haystack. This system is so complicatedthat the valuable and substantive information that government produces is often ignored in theincreasingly interactive public lives of active citizens. . The lack of real and effective online accessto governance will substantially increase cynicism about and distrust in government among apublic that demands a more participatory representative democracy.
A bit of context: I coordinated e-government for the State of Minnesota in its early days. As acitizen, I independently started E-Democracy.Org which created the world’s first electioninformation and discussion website in 1994. When “services first, democracy later” envelopedmost e-government projects, I went independent in late 1997. Since then, I've spoken andconsulted across 26 countries on "e-democracy.”
Here are the 10 things I would do in government at every level to help rescue our democracy inthe information age.
1. Timely, personalized access to information that matters.
Government decision-making information is not really public or relevant if people cannot act on itwhen it still matters. Give people tools like personalized e-mail alerts based on keywords,location, etc. and eliminate the "nobody told me" backlash government often receives due topoor public outreach. Every government needs a “what’s new” democracy portal or a thematicsection covering all democratic processes as part of their main website.
2. Help elected officials receive and sort, then better understand and respond to email.
E-mail overload is the number one complaint I hear from elected officials around the world. Mostwant to respond effectively, but simply aren't being provided the tools they need. If there everwas an opportunity for open source collaboration among governments, this is it. In general, ourrepresentatives and representative institutions must start to invest in the online infrastructurethey need to connect directly with the public they represent.
3. Dedicate at least 10% of new e-government developments to democracy.
Let’s define democracy starting with public input. In an e-service initiative, the 10% should startwith citizen focus groups to guide the design of the service, usability testing and studies togenerate user input and accountability, and post-transaction user surveys. If the investment is anew content management system for information access, then use the 10% to addpersonalization and survey input features or democratized navigation (those nifty menus thatshow you the top ten articles viewed that day or week).
4. Announce all government public meetings on the Internet in a uniform manner.
All public meeting notices, agendas, handouts, and digital recordings must be online. The systemshould be standards-based and tie state-by-state systems into a national network coveringfederal, state, and local government public meetings. This is the only way for people to ask to bepro-actively notified of any government public meetings within a certain geographic areaaddressing specific topics that interest them.
5. Allow citizens to look-up all of their elected officials from the very local to nationalin one search.
Along with the ability to look-up all public meetings, Americans should have the right to easilydetermine who all the elected and appointed officials are who represent them currently. Justbefore elected and appointed officials assume office, every government unit should be requiredto submit contact information for those officials into a national database.
6. Host online public hearings and dialogues (or “e-consultations” as they are knownoutside the U.S.)
As in-person public meetings begin to incorporate live online features, envision more deliberateonline exchanges to improve the outcomes of the decision-making process. If your governmentagency hosts three public hearings across the country or your state, host the fourth hearingonline over a week or two and improve the format in the process. In 10 years, the legislatures,commissions and city councils not holding hearings online will be in the minority.
7. Embrace the rule of law by mandating the most democratically empowering onlineservices and rights across the whole of government.
Technology itself is not forcing real institutional democratic change. I estimate that 90% of thedemocratic innovations online that really share power are based on a political tradition or lawthat existed before the Internet arrived. If we want all citizens to benefit universally from a morewired democracy, then now is time to update our legal requirements and fund core onlinedemocracy services.
8. Promote dissemination through access to raw data from decision-makinginformation systems.
Let’s explode decision-making data, like Congressional information and rulemaking relatedcontent into bits via XML and open standards and make it easy to re-use public government datafrom many sources to create views and searches that provide insight, understanding, andaccountability. Think “Web 2.0” interactivity built on top of government data by those outside ofgovernment.
9. Fund Open Source sharing internationally across e-government.
Sharing and supporting open source software takes resources – a consortium of nationalgovernments need to step up with collaborative funding. The new and less cluttered area of eparticipation tools are an ideal starting point within e-government to reduce technology costs andbuild systems for use by multiple governments.. Efforts to place modules and customizations outfor community use will be key. Government and its vendors must contribute code back for thewheels of reciprocal value to start turning.
10. Local up – a strategic approach to building local democracy online.
To build e-participation momentum, citizens need to experience results they can see and touch.By investing in transferable local models and tools, more people will use the Internet as a tool tostrength their communities, protect and enrich their families and neighborhoods, and be heard ina meaningful way. Every community needs an “online town hall,” E-Democracy.Org calls themIssues Forums, for agenda-setting discussion of public issues. Comparative evaluation of accessand participation related online service and content indicators will introduce efforts for an online"Democracy Tune-up." This same tune-up concept should be applied at the state and federallevel as well.
Conclusion
In the early days, folks thought the Internet was inherently democratic. Parts of it are, but thatmistaken sense of technological determinisms has not carried over to make constitutional andlegally-ground representative processes more open and responsive. Today, “politics as usual”online may actually make things worse. Civically conceived e-participation efforts need to countersuch negative trends rather than being viewed as an extra option. Ultimately, each generationneeds to rebuild democracy with the special tools of their time. Our tools are online and ourdemocracy needs us.
Steven Clift leads the “Online Consultation and E-Participation” online community of practice atDoWire.Org and shares numerous articles on e-democracy from Publicus.Net. An extendedversion of this article with specific examples is available from that site.
A lot of Democrats, like me, are nervous. Our candidate is in great shape. He's run the best, noblest campaign in decades. He's flush with money and is using it like a bludgeon. His opponent is broke. McCain's arguments have lost all credibility, and his running-mate is an embarrassment. While McCain's supporters are filled with dread; Obama's are wildly energized.
We're filled with optimism and anxiety. Because, for two Presidential elections in a row, we know the Presidency has been stolen from us, and we're afraid it will happen again. And let me be clear, if Obama isn't the next President, it will be because it was stolen (in my not-so-humble opinion).
Anyone know of any phone banks set up in Toronto on Nov. 4 (or earlier)? Skype and/or Vonage offers cheap ways to call the US.
The Central Intelligence Agency describes our government type as “Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition.”
The Executive branch consists of a President and Vice President, but, the President is both the Chief of State and Head of Government. There is a bicameral Congress consisting of the Senate (100 seats, 2 members are elected from each state by popular vote to serve six-year terms; one-third [33 seats] are elected every two years) and the House of Representatives (435 seats; members are directly elected by popular vote to serve two-year terms).
The election results from November 7, 2006 were as follows: Senate - seats by party - Democratic Party 49, Republican Party 49, independent 2; House of Representatives - seats by party - Democratic Party 233, Republican Party 202…
They produced the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (Pub.L. 110-81, 121 Stat. 735, enacted September 14, 2007) is a law of the United States federal government that amended parts of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. It strengthens public disclosure requirements concerning lobbying activity and funding, places more restrictions on gifts for members of Congress and their staff, and provides for mandatory disclosure of earmarks in expenditure bills.
Both 2008 presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain introduced and sponsored amendments to the act, although neither were official cosponsors of the final act. The uncontroversial bill passed easily by an 83-14 margin, with Obama voting for and McCain voting against.
Only Republicans are opposed to Honest Leadership and Open Government… Bennett (R-UT), Burr (R-NC), Coburn (R-OK), Cochran (R-MS), Cornyn (R-TX), Craig (R-ID), Crapo (R-ID), DeMint (R-SC), Ensign (R-NV), Graham (R-SC), Inhofe (R-OK), Kyl (R-AZ), Lott (R-MS), Senator John McCain (R-AZ) [the Not-See Republican leader of the trickette ticket to the same failed policies of the war-time criminal administration of George W. Bush].
If the approval rating of Congress is lower than the President’s who along with the Vice President and the rest of the administration for the executive branch are conducting a criminal war-time enterprise that has ruined the global economy as well as our own, there is little argument that suggests Americans should not vote for a Democratic super majority of Americans in the senate and house of representatives in this election cycle.
The Not-See Republican leader, John McCain was erratic, feisty, and flustered in his exclusive interview on Meet the Press with Tom Brokaw [October 26, 2008]. I did not hear any questions that questioned his voting record on Honest Leadership and Open Government? What’s the fussy old man concerned about?
Fact of the matter is the American electorate has the responsibility in each election cycle to remove the Not-See’s from government; fire and hire honest trustworthy Americans; competent professionals from all backgrounds to serve the public good.
If it takes putting in a Democratic super majority of Americans that will not compromise or corrupt the office they are elected to serve, let’s do it… We need change and the Republicans are opposed. They did not even make a good case to keep them in power four more years.
The Not-See Republicans voting record has made the case why the electorate must replace them with a Democratic Senate majority of 60 seats. Veto proof the agenda that needs to get passed and neutralize the partisan politics of the Republican Party.
Whatever the argument is for or against a super majority by one party or the other, we have to trust the Democratic Party this election cycle. Democrats are the Americans that have won the trust of the people. The Republicans are the cause of the social economic problems of the American people.
The Democrats are united for the cause of the American people – the working class; not the Republicans, who are divided and misguided; out of touch with middle class America.
One word stands out more than any other to describe the Democratic coalition – “mastermind”… the coordination of knowledge and effort in the spirit of harmony between two or more people to attain a definite purpose.
That’s what the 44th Presidency of the United States of America in Congress Assembled must be to confront the challenges facing the nation. It must be a Democratic super majority of Americans committed to working together; for the working class with working families in middle class communities all across America.
That’s what this election cycle is about; finishing the work started by the American electorate in 2006; the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007!
The Republicans have not been totally honest with the American people. Even the die hard party faithful know it and have said so. There are a host of very influential Americans of the Republican brand that make it their cause to speak publicly about how far from the core principles and values the party has shifted. They blame their own leadership. American people must hold them accountable… They must be removed from office. FIRED without any apologies!
Now is our time… November 4, 2008 – Election Day… That is the moment for the American people to turn the page on the Not-See Republican trickettes; hand them the defeat they deserve and take back our government with a Democratic super majority in the senate and house to do the work that needs to be done… YES WE CAN!
CHANGE WE NEED: The 44th Presidency in Congress Assembled Is Sprinting To 350 Electoral College Votes To Finish Strong On Election Day!
Despite the repugnant nefarious comments of Congresswoman Michelle Bachman on Friday October 17, 2008; a record crowd of over 100,000 folks (confirmed by the St. Louis Police Department) gathered on Saturday October 18, 2008; a beautiful fall day alongside the Mississippi river, under the Gateway Arch at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis -- the biggest rally Senator Barack Obama has held in the United States to date. September fundraising was in excess of $150 MILLION!
Michele Bachmann was elected to represent Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District in 2006, making her the first Republican woman to represent Minnesota in the House of Representatives. Strong grassroots support and an agenda of tax relief, responsible government, and Minnesota values propelled Michele to an 8-point victory despite being outspent by Washington special interests 2 to 1.
Missouri is an important battleground state, having voted for the winning president in every election since 1960. It makes me proud to know that Americans in Minnesota will vote to remove Michelle Bachman and all others of her Republican Nazi Cult in the great state of Minnesota. There is no place for her kind in the American body politic of 513,000 offices… It’s people like her that produced a “TORTURING DEMOCRACY” (see video @ www.torturingdemocracy.org)... It’s people like her that are creating a divisive culture of hate, discrimination, and TERRORIZING DEMOCRACY [the investigative documentary that will be released soon as a follow-up... ].
October 16th, 2008 - Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s campaign released poll numbers from an October 12-13th poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, showing that she maintains a strong 11-point lead against her DFL opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg. A poll of 400 likely voters across the district with a margin of error of 4.9% shows her leading her opponents by a healthy margin: 44% Bachmann (R); 33% Tinklenberg (DFL); 8% Anderson (IP).
Bachmann's comments came in a 13-minute interview on MSNBC by Chris Matthews. She asserted the talking points scripted by Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, who Andrea Mitchell, also from MSNBC, reported from reliable sources that “Newt Gingrich is running for President in 2012!”… Newt Gingrich is the founder of a non-partisan 527 group -- “Real Change Requires Real Change” called American Solutions for Winning the Future. Newt Gingrich is the General Chairman of the 527 group, but also serves as an advisor and pundit for the Republican Nazi Clones of the GOP brand along with Karl Rove, a Fox News Channel contributor for the Trickette ticket of Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and the very old U.S. Senator from Arizona, John McCain.
Karl Rove is no myth when it comes to scurrilous tactics to win the General Election for President – he is a columnist for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. The gang of Rove lobbyists that are running the Trickette ticket are leased from the Bush administration. Rove was not only a political strategist, but played a major policy roll in the Bush White House as a leading expert when WAR CRIMES were committed by the Bush Administration. Rove is intimately involved with the CIA leak case, Jack Abramoff government corruption, the firing of Federal prosecutors connected to Voter Fraud and Voter Suppression in battleground states like Ohio and Nevada.
Michelle Bachman however is a chickenhead Trickette ticket supporter appointed by Newt Gingrich to be character assassin of Senator Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senator Harry Reid [code named “RePO”] to pave the way for his 2012 Presidential campaign… Bachmann asserts Obama has a close connection to 1960s radical William Ayers, a theme of the phone calls and recent remarks by McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin. “Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers," Bachmann, a Republican, said. "He had a very strong association with Bill Ayers." Later, when asked by Chris Matthews whether she believes that Obama may have anti-American views, Bachmann replied, "Absolutely. I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views." Bachmann also said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, both Democrats, have "far-leftist views." When asked whether she considered members of Congress anti-American, she said, "The news media should do a penetrating exposé and take a look. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out are they pro-America or anti-America."
On Friday, Bachmann's DFL opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, said Bachmann's comments "undermines our political process. Instead of being able to disagree respectfully, it turns into this kind of vilification. You're just not disagreeing. The other person is un-American." The controversy arose on a day when Palin was quoted by Time magazine online saying, "I don't question at all Barack Obama's love for the great country."
“So!”, what’s the fuss? Senator John McCain is endorsed by War Criminals! His voting record along with verbal debates in the United States Senate and the overall conduct of his presidential campaign makes him suspect of at least Criminal Negligence [eating birthday cake with President George W. Bush after Katrina destroyed the Gulf Coast States in August 2005]. McCain and numerous Republican Congressional members in the Senate and the House who sponsored and voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 are probably involved in numerous acts of Criminal Corruption and could be charged with being an accessory after the fact to commit War Crimes the violate Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.
The Republican Party at large, are persons of interest pertaining to War Crimes. Criminal charges on behalf of 255 or more detainees will be forth coming against the Bush administration because American military officers, intelligence officials, or law enforcement officials violated Geneva Convention rules relating to field conduct, detention conduct or interrogation of detainees.
Therefore, the American people must diligently inquire over the next few days before the General Election on November 4th about Senator John McCain’s authenticity, judgment, temperament, character, honesty, and core values. It is inferred by investigative journalists that he and numerous Republicans were intimately involved in criminal activities which includes using the United States Justice Department to suppress voters in key battleground States on Election Day. All Trickettes of the Republican Party must Cease and Desist the scurrilous tactics used to TERRORIZE DEMOCRACY and fully cooperate with Federal prosecutors and law enforcement authorities.
The American people should be forth coming to fully cooperate with U.S. Government authorities investigating all 513,000 or more offices of our great nation’s body politic, criminally corrupted by the Bush Administration, Karl Rove, the Republican National Committee, Senator John McCain, Speaker Newt Gingrich, and American Solutions for Winning the Future… CHANGE We Need Requires Real Change ! “Eight Years Is ENOUGH!”