I'm including a link to Project Vote Smart in the sidebar. This is a great tool for finding out exactly how your elected officials are voting and, at least officially, what they're saying too. I've used it to learn more about my Democratic Congressman David Price. I've learned that unless I learn something about Price that I don't know, I can, in good conscience, work for his reelection. His votes have been on the right side of most of the issues I care about. Moreover, he has come out with a speech castigating the Supreme Court for its terrible, antidemocratic ruling overturning the McCain-Feingold law that had banned corporations from financing political campaigns, and has introduced legislation to take one small step towards mitigating this judicial tsunami by requiring the sponsors of political advertising to identify themselves.
I encourage everyone to take a look at Project Vote Smart to find out where his or her elected officials stand. If you're represented by a Republican, get down to your Democratic Party precinct to find out what you can do to unseat him. If you're represented by a Democrat whose record of votes, speeches and position papers demonstrates that he is a Democrat in name only (Joe Lieberman, I'm looking at you), then don't wait, start talking to everyone you know about alternative candidates who might be positioned to mount a primary challenge.
"But wait," you say, "do we really want to further jeopardize Democratic majorities in Congress by mounting a bunch of primary challenges? Aren't most of these blue dog Republocrats from marginal, right-leaning districts ripe for GOP takeover?" Yes, they are. And yes, if such right-wing Democrats get challenged from the left, it will make it harder for them to win reelection. To which, I say, "Good riddance." If the Congress fails to accomplish a damn thing, as it's threatening to do right now, better that failure be on Republican hands. A voting majority is useless if the members of that majority won't vote with the majority. We need Democrats unafraid to support an activist government, not panderers willing to make any and every concession to conservative, Republican demands simply to keep their seats.
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You're obviously a communist sympathizer. America is NOT communist. All communism has brought to humanity is misery, poverty, torture and death. Hundreds of millions of unwarranted deaths. Corruption, and perversion. Communism is, at it's core, anti-family, anti spiritual and anti freedom. Confiscating the little that people may own and ruling with an iron fist. No thank you. It's the worst possible life for people to endure and worst of all, it's Satanic to it's core. .
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