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Having just read this article, I am starting to wonder:

One aide said part of the problem is that Democratic senators haven't felt a groundswell of opposition from constituents. Polls show that Alito's nomination is supported by most Americans.

"People aren't engaged in this fight," one senior aide said. "The reality is this isn't something that American people are calling in droves about. We're getting more calls in on NSA spying than we are on Alito."

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I was listening to interview on Russert with a guy who wrote a book about the 1927 floods and the seismic shift in attitudes about the role of government when it hit me.

Now is the time for us to seize, and completely redefine, "the culture of life" and use it as the anchor of OUR vision for the future.  Reframe!

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Shortly after the immensity of the Katrina disaster became clear last week, I began worrying about what the Bush Administration would do to avoid accountability.  I worried not so much about the short term politics involved, but rather that the GOP's spin control would prevent policy changes that are so badly needed.

Hoping to provide a resource for counter-spin, I put together a new website project called www.TruthAboutKatrina.com.  This website aims to educate visitors about the failures of politics and ideology that led to the catastrophe, and also to serve as a resource for progressive activists and organizations by providing updated links and information about the federal government's failure.

However under Dim Son, FEMA has once again reverted to its incompetent, ineffective self.

Do some research on Hurricane Andrew, and it will remind you that NOLA is not the first time devastation on this scale has occurred here, and that the response at the time was comparably inept--and the key similarity was a Republican government that didn't give a shit about the American people.

When he went biking with Lance Armstrong in Crawford earlier this month, the two, at one point, approached a particularly steep and rocky hill. Bush "wouldn't even contemplate going up it," recalls a senior Bush official. For his part, Armstrong cruised up the incline. A White House military aide made it part of the way up but "Lance just buried him" and Bush was in awe of his stamina.

For Bush it is better to never try than to risk failing and be subject to humiliation.  This is in line with his inability to admit making errors.  It's all about avoiding the humiliation.

Contrast with this:

...we have seen him show up for an 85-mile charity bike ride in a cold, driving rain and finish it, long after the celebrity riders had dropped out.

Now THAT is character.

Boy, THAT was a politically savvy move by NARAL.  One in a string, it seems.

"Robert Seymour, pastor emeritus of Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC wrote the following for 'Village Voices' on 5/9/2005:"

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A number of rationales have been provided for SS privatization: the funding crunch, the "ownership society", better rates of return, etc.  Also it has been described as "welfare for Wall Street".  But none of these address what would be really going on and who the real beneficiaries would be...

Of course it is precisely NOT because of those beliefs per se, but because those beliefs are translated into judicial activism of the worst kind, that these candidates are being opposed by everyone but the so-called "religious" right and their corporatist and neo-con allies.

So what kind of play is this getting overseas?