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Petitions and Feedback Commentaries from Our Members Liberals and Democrats Links to the
Beef Many Issues
Are Ignored by Democratic Candidates* Darcy
Burner Opposes Earmarks* State and Local Links to the
Beef Condo
Conversions and Affordable Housing* Catholic
Community Services’ Values Should
Legislators Fund Education First?* Why
Washington Needs Universal Access to Health Care A New Approach
to Improving Access to Health Care* Nation and World
Links to the Beef What Type
of Stimulus Does Our Economy Need?* Which Bush
Untruth Has Been Most Damaging?* 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 More
on Conservative opposition to our American Dream See
Nancy Pelosi’s political priorities Quote of the Week Fall
seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverb
Calendar of Events
Friday, January 25 at 6:30 PM at
Friday, January 25 at 7 PM
at King County Library Administration Building (960 Newport Way NW, Issaquah) –
5th Legislative District Movie Night Sicko, A film by Michael Moore on America’s failing health care
system
Saturday, January 26 at
6:30 PM at Columbia City Gallery (
Monday, January 28 at 4 PM
at Main Library (
Friday, February 1 at 6:30
PM at the Rainier UU Center (
Wednesday, February 6 at
5:30 PM and February 7 at Hilton Seattle
(
Saturday, February 9 at 10
AM at
Saturday February 9, 2008 at 1:30 – Democratic
Precinct Caucuses. Find your caucus location.
Sunday, February 10 at 7 PM at University of Washington Kane Hall Room 120 – Panel:
The Effects of Uninsuranace on our Communities, with Jim McDermott, Mike
Kreidler, and Brent Asplin, sponsored by Physicians for a National Health
Program, Western Washington Chapter
Saturday, February 16 at 1
PM at East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church (
Saturday, February 16 at 6
PM at Town Hall (
Saturday, February 23-24
at IBEW Hall (
Saturday, March 22 at 10
AM at
Legislative District Conventions - Saturday April 5, 2008
County Conventions - Saturday April 19, 2008
Congressional District Conventions - Saturday May 17, 2008
Washington State Convention - June 14 & 15, 2008 - Spokane, Washington
Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback
Opportunities
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2007 Cascadia Scorecard. See other
research that they share with our politicians.
Order Lester Brown’s Plan
B, #3.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
For more.
Learn about micro-targeting for
political campaigns.
Learn about Working Assets, a
phone company that donates to liberal advocacy groups.
Join GoPetition to easily create your own
petitions. Great tool for advocacy groups.
Petitions and
Donations
Join congressman Wexler’s call for
supporting Dennis Kucinich’s bill to impeach Dick Cheney. (video)
Ask Wolf
Blitzer and Tim Russert to ask about global warming in presidential forums
called debates.
Petition top lenders
to stop preying on sub prime mortgage borrowers.
Ask
the Bureau of Land Management to protect Utah lands from mining and ORVs.
Ask
your state legislator to enact
public oversight over insurance rate increases.
Petition
Governor Gregoire and your state legislators to support expansion of gay
rights.
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Press Release from Linda Boyd
SJM 8016 PASSED COMMITTEE VOTE! Senator Eric
Oemig's bill, SJM 8016, asking Congress to impeach George Bush and Richard
Cheney was voted to proceed out of the Senate Gov't and Op's Committee today.
It will now proceed to the Senate Rules Committee.
What: SJM 8016-2007-08, Senator Oemig's
revised petition calling for a full investigation and trial of alleged misdeeds
by President Bush and Vice President Cheney passed a vote in the Senate
Government and Operations Committee.
When: Monday, January 21, 2008. Where: State
Capitol Campus in
Committee Chair: Senator Darlene Fairley (D) , Bill
sponsor and vice chair: Senator Eric Oemig (D), Committee members voting in
favor of SJM 8016: Senator Eric Oemig , Senator Darlene Fairley, Senator
Adam Kline; Senator Joe McDermott; Senator Craig Pridemore
SJM 8016 2007-08, revised for 2008, calls on
Congress to initiate impeachment hearings for the President and Vice
President. The bill, first introduced Feb. 15, 2007, was heard before the
Senate Government Operations and Elections Committee on March 31st, 2007
with over 500 pro-impeachment citizens in attendance. The bill cites serious allegations of
misdeeds by the Office of the Executive. It includes a long list of
violations to the US Constitution, including domestic wiretapping, manipulating
intelligence to mislead the Congress and the people about the reasons for
attacking
Rep. Maralyn Chase authored a companion bill in the
WA State House, HJM 4027, cosigned by Rep. Hasegawa, Rep. Moeller and Rep.
Dickerson. It has been referred to the House Government and Tribal
Affairs Committee. No hearing has been scheduled yet in the House.
“All of us took an oath to defend and protect the
Constitution of the
"State Legislatures have a long standing
tradition of sending requests to Congress," says Linda Boyd,
Director of Washington For Impeachment, "Articles of impeachment against
Dick Cheney were introduced by Congressman Kucinich in the US House in April.
The citizens of
I don’t know who Eridani
is or whether she is a member. But her comment on Washblog is correct.
Liberals and Democrats
Many Issues Are Ignored by Democratic
Candidates
Our Democratic candidates are appearing together at
many forums. But they are ignoring many
important issues. Partly this is because
the moderators of the forums are primarily raising issues concerning which they
hope to provoke controversy among the candidates. But even their campaign speeches and their
proposals on their websites largely neglect the following issues.
Perhaps because they don’t think them
important. Perhaps because they don’t
think our voters care. Perhaps because
they think their views will be unpopular.
Nevertheless, we need to know the extent to which our candidates care
about these issues, what they think about them and what they would do.
·
What global governance do we need to control conflicts between and
within nations and to regulate globalization to our benefit? How should we reform our United Nations and
other global organizations? What role
should our government play in this reform.
·
What role should our
·
How should the Israeli colonization of
·
How should we act toward Arab and other dictatorships? What carrots and sticks should we use?
·
What should we do about are farm subsidies and other economic and trade
policies which negatively affect the workers of other countries? What should we do about immigration?
·
What role should our armed forces play.
Toward what objectives should they be used? What type and size of our armed forces are
needed to achieve these objectives? How
do we avoid the waste that comes from preparing to fight previous wars, of
types that are unlikely today? How do we
avoid the hidden costs of our military, such as environmental pollution and
dealing with long term injuries to our troops.
·
What should we do to encourage innovation, both at home and abroad?
·
What legislation do we need to restore our civil liberties that have
been weakened by our fear of terrorists and by technological change?
These are issues that have been largely neglected
so far. There are others that haven’t
come to mind? We should attempt to
stimulate our candidates to address them.
This would be more likely to occur if we had more political parties to
take positions on these issues. Dave
Thomas
Darcy Burner Opposes Earmarks
In response to my question at our January 48th
Legislative District Democrats meeting, Darcy Burner said that she opposes
earmarks, doesn’t intend to use them, and will attempt to persuade other
congress members to also oppose them.
This would be a welcome contrast to most Congress members, including all
of our Washington Democratic Congress members, who frequently reward their
campaign contributors by requiring government departments to buy things they don’t
want. Another reason to support Darcy
Burner.
There are better ways to get votes than by using
earmarks. There are better ways to fund
campaigns than by becoming indebted to private campaign contributors. We should hope our legislators would focus
upon mobilizing opinion to support legislation that increases our freedoms and
opportunities. And then upon passing
such legislation. Dave Thomas
Here’s the Beef
See
what strategies presidential candidates are using to win on Super Tuesday and
beyond.
Video of Barack Obama's sermon at
Dr. King's church on Sunday, January 20, 2008
An example
of Conservative bad mouthing of Barack Obama.
As he wins, much more can be expected.
Is Hillary Clinton’s
campaign swift–boating Barack Obama?
Read
about her corporate ties.
Read about Bush Dog
Democratic congressional members who support Bush on important issues.
State and
Local
Condo
Conversions and Affordable Housing
On Friday,
January 18th, our
Providing
time and money for relocation of apartment dwellers affected by condo
conversions is important. More important
is providing affordable housing as a long term solution to reducing urban
sprawl, commuting, traffic congestion, pollution, and increasing family time
together. Ron Moe-Lobeda’s suggestion
adds a useful strategy to the many strategies that we need to use to increase
affordable housing.
I wish I
could get the writers of Liberal letters to our newspapers to join our Puget
Sound Liberals. Will anyone volunteer to
call them, ask them to join us, and obtain their email addresses.
Catholic Community Services’ Values
We believe in:
·
every child growing up in a safe, loving and nurturing
environment.
·
healthy family life being affirmed and supported in our
communities.
·
every person having the right to a safe, affordable place to call
home.
·
compassion, love and respect for all people, especially those who
are poor and vulnerable.
·
joining with others to change the systems which oppress,
discriminate or otherwise cause human suffering.
·
employees and volunteers working in an environment which offers
respect, teamwork and excellence.
·
all
these for all people, whatever their color, whatever language they speak or
however they worship.
What do these add to our
Liberal values, beyond specifying essential freedoms and
opportunities?
National Organization for Women (NOW) – Seattle Chapter’s Priorities
|
Advancing
Reproductive Justice |
BECAUSE OUR BODIES ARE
OUR OWN.
NOW affirms that reproductive rights are issues of life and death for women,
not mere matters of choice. NOW fully supports affordable access to safe
and legal abortion, to effective birth control and emergency contraception, to
reproductive health services and education for all women. NOW opposes
restrictions and works to increase access through legislation, litigation, and
direct action.
|
Ensuring Economic
Justice |
BECAUSE WE EARNED
IT. NOW fights for equality in jobs, pay, credit, education, insurance,
fringe benefits, pensions, and Social Security -- through legislation,
negotiation, labor organizing, education and litigation. NOW pledges to help women
break through the "glass ceiling" of the executive suite, and break
loose of the "sticky floor" -- the dead-end wage jobs that keep so
many women in poverty. NOW actively opposes punitive welfare laws that
harm the most vulnerable women and children in our society.
|
Stopping Violence
Against Women |
BECAUSE WE SHOULD BE
SAFE.
NOW is unique in its approach to the issue of violence against women,
emphasizing that there are many interrelated aspects to the issue -- domestic
violence; sexual assault; sexual harassment; violence against abortion clinics;
hate crimes across lines of gender, sexuality and race; the gender bias in our
judicial system that further victimizes survivors of violence; and the violence
of poverty.
|
Winning Lesbian
Rights |
BECAUSE WE LOVE
WHO WE LOVE. NOW is committed to fighting discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity in all areas, including employment, housing,
public accommodations, health services, child custody and military
policies. NOW supports educational efforts that combat the adverse
effects of homophobia, promote positive images in the media and ultimately
ensure civil rights protection. NOW asserts the rights of lesbians, gay
men, bisexuals and transgender people to live their lives with dignity and
security, and the rights of equal marriage for all.
|
Promoting Diversity
and Ending Racism |
BECAUSE WE KNOW WE ARE
ALL DIFFERENT. NOW has always worked to eliminate discrimination and racism and
to promote racial and ethnic diversity. Recognizing that racism stands in
the way of women's empowerment and full equality. NOW pledges to fight to
eradicate it in all of its forms, including individual attitudes and
institutionalized racism.
|
Achieving Equality:
Women in the Constitution |
BECAUSE WE ARE STILL NOT EQUAL. NOW's goals of
full gender equality includes equal rights, equal treatment, and equal
opportunities in every sphere of life. Equality of rights for all women
must be guaranteed in the
What do these add to our
Liberal values, beyond specifying essential freedoms and
opportunities?
Should Our State Legislators Fund Education
First?
Some
Conservatives have proposed that our State Legislators should fund education
first. We could then greatly improve our
education. Preschool education. Smaller
class sizes. Increased teacher salaries
and training. Extra resources for
schools with students requiring extra attention.
But then
we would have too little money left for our other state services, of which
health and human services are the largest part.
The only way to fund them adequately would be to increase taxes. And the only way to fairly increase taxes is
to introduce personal and corporate income taxes, which should also substitute
in part for our regressive sales, property, utilities and business and occupation
taxes.
As long as Conservatives are allowed to keep our tax system one which
produces too little revenue, there is no solution for providing access to all
our residents to quality public services.
To provide more money for some services is to reduce the money available
to others. Let's quit trying to
rearrange the deck chairs.
Why
From section one of SB
6221: The legislature finds that:
·
Nationally and
locally health care costs are inflating faster than the consumer price index
and wages;
·
Since 1980,
health care costs have increased from nine percent to sixteen percent of the
nation's gross domestic product, and are expected to exceed twenty percent by
2016;
·
Other
industrialized nations provide universal health care coverage, but spend much
less. Some spend less than half as much per person;
·
In 2007, the
average annual premium for family coverage was more than twelve thousand
dollars, of which over three thousand dollars are paid by the worker;
·
In 2008, of
Washingtonians under the age of sixty-five, over one million three hundred
thousand will spend more than ten percent of their pretax family income on
health care costs. Eighty-four of these people have insurance;
·
Every thirty
seconds, someone in this country files for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a
serious health problem. Of those who file for bankruptcy, sixty-eight
percent had health insurance;
·
In
·
In 2006, hospitals,
physicians, community clinics, and other providers spent a combined total of
five hundred eighty-four million dollars in uncompensated care for the
uninsured, a twenty-eight percent increase since 2002;
·
The institute
of medicine estimates that between thirty and forty cents associated with every
health care dollar is spent on costs of poor quality - overuse, underuse,
misuse, duplication, system failures, unnecessary repetition, poor
communication, and adverse events attributable to medical errors;
·
Rising costs
have led to a decline in employer-provided health benefits. In
·
In 2007, fewer
than half of small employers in
·
Rising costs
are seriously threatening the physical and fiscal well-being of
Washingtonians, the ability of
A New Approach to Improving Access to Health
Care
Providing
everyone access to health care must be done by our federal government and must
not include the expense and red tape of using private insurers. Our state government can only do a limited
amount, especially if they include private insurers, as they have been doing in
extending health insurance to children.
Our
This
approach extends access to affordable primary health care. When the 24/7 medical clinics identify
serious illnesses, patients who qualify may be referred to Medicaid. Some state subsidies might be provided to
others or those who treat them. It
remains true that providing universal access cannot be provided by the
state. It must be done federally. But substituting access to primary care
clinics instead for emergency room visits and simply delaying treatment might
be cost-beneficial. A specific response
to a specific well recognized problem. Dave
Thomas
Here’s the Beef
Dino Rossi’s State of the State
Address debunked by Democrats (video).
Washington CAN 2008
Legislative Priorities
Lutheran Public Policy Office
2008 Washington State Legislative Priorities
Poverty
Action Network 2008 Legislative Agenda
Washington
State Coalition for the Homeless 2998 Legislative Agenda
ARCH – A Regional
Coalition for Housing helps people buy affordable housing
How
about a state single payer plan financed partly by employer contributions?
Nation
and World
What Type of Stimulus Does Our Economy Need?
President Bush wants to include making his tax cuts
for the rich permanent. The best
stimulus package would be for Bush and Cheney to resign. Nancy Pelosi would become president and many
actions would occur to stimulate our economy.
But this won’t happen.
Our congress will likely find tax cuts too popular
to resist. So we can expect tax cuts,
with the Democrats and Republicans arguing how much to cut taxes for lower and
moderate income people and how much for higher income people and
businesses. Our slowing economy is due
to lack of demand, not supply. So there
is no need for tax cuts for businesses.
But if done quickly, increased government investing
in our physical and social infrastructure would be more beneficial than tax
cuts to increase individual consumption.
John Edwards has been the first (over a month ago) to propose an
investment stimulus package. "To help middle class families get ahead over
the long haul, we need to invest in a clean energy infrastructure that will
create jobs now and pay economic dividends for decades to come. A helping hand
to families facing foreclosure, states in the midst of budget crises, and
long-term unemployed workers will cushion the blow to struggling families and
prevent further economic damage.” For
more.
Barack
Obama’s proposals omit investments in our infrastructure and add tax
cuts. Hillary
Clinton’s proposals focus upon providing money to people affected by high
energy costs, foreclosures, and unemployment.
For
Paul Krugman’s comparison and commentary of both the stimulus proposals of both
the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates. For more. For the best
analysis of which stimulus package would stimulate demand while also
assisting those who need help the most. Barbara Ehrenreich
calls for money for the poor. Besides
spending it quickly, they most need it.
To restore the American Dream, enhance our social
and physical infrastructure and provide spending power to our poor, we much
shift funds from our military
spending which is unnecessary and a temptation to conduct wars, backed by
our Military Industries and Congress members representing districts where these
industries are located.
Also see the argument that interest
rates are already at historically low levels, so cutting them more may not help
our economy. They primarily help
companies that borrow, banks that lend and increase our stock prices, primarily
to the advantage of wealthy stock owners.
Only secondarily will they help some households with debts with indexed
interest rates.
Which Bush Untruth Has Been Most Damaging?
Bush has expressed untruths about the:
·
Effects of his tax cuts on our economy and Federal budget
·
Being a Uniter
·
Weapons of mass destruction in
·
Iraqi reaction to our occupation of
·
Preventing anti-American terrorism (War on Terrorism)
·
Support democracy in the Mid-East
·
Competence of FEMA’s response to Katrina
Which do you think have harmed our
Rich Erwin has suggested that besides impeachment,
we might also have a Truth
Commission to investigate the Bush administrations actions, similar to ones
that have been held in
A Truth
Commission could easily get out of hand.
For example, it could extend back before the Bush administration to the
end of World War II, which would deal with both Democratic and Republican
untruths and assumptions in conducting both Cold War and other foreign policy
and domestic policy. It quickly becomes
obvious that Liberals and Conservatives would differ concerning their
understanding of which issues are relevant and what is untrue. It would also be difficult to question our
conventional wisdom. Find much more by
googling ‘United States Truth Commission’.
This whole topic is worth thinking about. Not just Bush’s untruths. But our whole ability to define truth. How does our conventional wisdom contain
untruths? What role do our politicians,
our media and our people play in promulgating truths and untruths. I hope some of you will comment.
We could also raise the question, “Which Bush
administration incompetencies (
Here’s the Beef
Twenty states use
voting machines that can’t be recounted or audited.
Bye bye
regulation. Hello fraud, corruption,
bubbles and collapse.
Economic stimulus
won’t work. Because people still
couldn’t afford to spend. They’ll pay
off debts.
Administration economic
stimulus rewards business, but ignores many poor. Result is little stimulus.
Economic stimulus through public
investment more fiscally responsible than through tax cuts.
What
role do banking deregulation and Iraq Occupation expenditures play in
stimulating stagflation?
Bye bye topsoil. Bye bye water.
Israel creates
humanitarian crisis in Gaza. For more. For more.
U.S. stops U.N. Security
Council resolution condemning Israeli for blocking Gaza humanitarian aid.
Hugo Chavez is building
Venezuela’s social economy. Read the
‘Social Economy’ Section
9.7 million infants and
children still die yearly, many in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
45,000 people die
in Congo War each month. 5.4 million
have died during last 10 years.
Our Liberal Spirit
Discontinuity
and
Escape
When we dream, we experience pain. The pain that our dream may not yet be
realized. That it will be a struggle to
realize. That if realized, it may become
unrealized. We are often tempted to escape
this pain. We may try to avoid our
dream, its obstacles and the strategies and tactics necessary to realize
it. We all know many ways to escape:
sleep, gossip, television, mind numbing drugs, handicrafts and other hobbies,
physical exercise. These are not
necessarily escapes. Only if they are
used to avoid thinking about our dreams and the necessary efforts to realize
them.
At the other extreme, we can suffer if we focus too much
upon a dream and achieving it. We humans
are not good at long marches. We need
discontinuities. We need to change our
attention from one dream to another, or simply to some immediately satisfying
activity. We need a balance between
immediate gratification and investment in delayed gratification.
Besides recharging our energy, we often experience
serendipity when switching from activity to another and from one set of
thoughts to another. Something in one
set of thoughts offers a new perspective to another. We have all experienced solving a problem
while we rest in bed after struggling a long time while focusing upon it. We need discontinuity, but not escape.
Recommended Books –
See our list of books for
liberals
Thomas Friedman, 2002, Longitudes and Attitudes, The World in the
Age of Terrorism
I agree with Thomas
Friedman about many things. I disagree
with Thomas Friedman about many things.
He has clarified the many benefits of globalizations. But he has not emphasized enough the costs of
globalization, to both our less developed and more developed countries,
including our own. He has clarified many
aspects of our
Particularly accurate was
his portrayal on page 274 of what might happen after we occupied
“Think of it this
way: If and when we take the lid off
It could say,
“Congratulations, you’ve just won the Arab Germany – a country with enormous
human talent, enormous natural resources, but with an evil dictator, whom you
have just removed. Now, just add a
little water, a spoonful of democracy and stir, and this will be a normal
country very soon.
Or the envelope could say,
“You’ve just won the Arab Yugoslavia – an artificial country congenitally
divided among Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis, Nasserites, leftists, and a host of
tribes and clans that can only be held together with a Saddam-like iron
fist. Congratulations, you’re the new
Saddam.”
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