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Table of Contents * featured articles Commentaries from Our Members Dave
Upthegrove: For Environmental Protection Peter
Henry: Bush/Cheney exert Extra Powers Jeff
Nygaard: Deceptive Deficit Statistics Jeff
Nygaard: Export Health Care (Cuba) or Arms (US) Liberals and Democrats Links to
the Beef Hispanic
Vote is Increasing, but Must Be Earned. State and Local Links to the
Beef Toward an
Effective Washington Tax System * Nation and World
Links to the Beef What If
Today’s Immigrants Behaved Like Earlier Ones? Is It Your
Money? Can You Spend It Best? * Leapfrogging
the Electoral College Our Liberal Spirit Our Political Priorities ·
Fair Clean Elections and Open Government ·
Fair Taxes and Competent Spending ·
Investment for Productivity ·
Quality Health, Education, Jobs, Income and Retirement ·
Environmental Protection and Energy ·
Personal Security and Equal Rights ·
Justice and Peace Everywhere ·
International Cooperation and Leadership Conservatives
oppose all of these. Let’s End Our National Nightmare Let’s Restore Our American Dream Quote of the Week Legislation is like making sausage. The result might be great, but you surely
don’t want to watch the process. German
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898). More about
sausage.
I
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humor, great music and real heart, Inlaws
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gay and straight to celebrate what we all have in common: we love. For
more.
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Ask
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Petition congress to
give President Bush no more funds for Iraq War.
Petition congress to stop President Bush from starting
another war.
Commentaries From Our
Members
Excerpts from Email from member Dave Upthegrove
Dave Upthegrove won praise
for his work as Chair of the Select Committee on Puget Sound where he
shepherded landmark legislation through the House to
coordinate
Letter from
member
I was heartened to see Linda Boyd's
column on impeachment leading the Nov. 25 Sunday Focus section. Serious
observers on the left and the right see plainly that the Bush/Cheney
administration is asserting extra powers that aren't in the Constitution. To
list just a few:
·
The
power to disregard laws when not convenient.
·
The
power to administratively detain people without trial or review in open court.
·
The
power to use fake military tribunals to try and convict people.
·
The
power to take the
·
The
power to torture people in
·
The
power to kidnap people all over the world and send them to other places to be
tortured.