Dave Obey for Wisconsin Governor

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Friday March 04, 2011 · 7:30 AM PST

2011/03/04 · 07:30

Come back and fight alongside us, Dave!

Dave Obey is exactly what we need now in Wisconsin. His progressive principles and integrity are impeccable, and at least as important, he has the courage to fight for them.

Yes, I know he is 70. Yes, I know he is occasionally “irascible.” Yes, I know he said he was tired. So what?

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Should we draft Dave Obey for governor?

31 votes Vote Now!

Should we draft Dave Obey for governor?

Yes

30 votes

0 votes

Keep Walker

1 vote

Enabling Bad Behavior

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Tuesday December 14, 2010 · 6:58 AM PST

2010/12/14 · 06:58

The argument that we should support Obama despite his latest move (and it really is a lesser evil argument), will only lead to continuing contempt from him toward progressives, and more moves rightward This pattern of behavior is the reason Rahm Emmanual said, "Don't worry about the progressives. Where are they going to go?"

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Thursday August 26, 2010 · 11:08 AM PDT

2010/08/26 · 11:08

Raising the retirement age is a 19% theft from all the people who have been paying extra into their Social Security INSURANCE for the last 30 years, and who have thereby created its current surplus.

Raising the Social Security retirement age is a theft of benefits with unfair regressive impact, since it hurts those who are most vulnerable, those who already struggle with inadequate income for existence. Many, through no fault of their own, have no other means of support.

Raising the retirement age is even more despicable theft when it is taken from those who have been especially generous: those who have been unpaid caregivers, those who have taken time from (paid) work to raise the next generation – something very necessary to our future. It is despicable theft from those who have been disadvantaged by social inequities.

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Is this fair?

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Is this fair?

Yes

8 votes

37 votes

Sure, gotta get our wages down below China's

12 votes

Call Congress on SS Age Increase

Sunspots

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Monday August 23, 2010 · 11:08 AM PDT

2010/08/23 · 11:08

Even the good ones don't get it! They urgently need to hear from us, asap.

I talked to my senator this weekend in line at a political picnic, and was horrified. He is one of the really good ones; he is principled and willing to take a stand. No privatization, but he didn't see why raising the age of retirement should be a problem. It's been done before, after all. He didn't know what was meant by the Cat Food Commission. He didn't see it as a benefits cut (15% - 19%). I hope I made a beginning in at least getting him to think harder about this, and I will keep phoning and emailing. But!!!

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Will Congress raise the SS age of retirement again?

41 votes Vote Now!

Will Congress raise the SS age of retirement again?

Yes

32 votes

9 votes

Secret Obama deal to kill the Public Option?

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Thursday March 04, 2010 · 11:18 AM PST

2010/03/04 · 11:18

The New York Times has reported, on 8/12/09, in "Obama Is Taking an Active Role in Talks on Health Care Plan" at http://www.nytimes.com/... that President Obama made a secret deal with hospital lobbyists, way back in June of 2009, to ensure that there would be no public option.

Lobbyists for both the drug and hospital industries say that, as early as June, White House officials directed them to work out cost-saving deals with Mr. Baucus’s committee.

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Will there be any vestige of a public option this year?

204 votes Vote Now!

Will there be any vestige of a public option this year?

Yes, with Obama's support after all

17 votes

Yes, without Obama's support

28 votes

50/50 chance

43 votes

No, despite Obama's support after all

23 votes

No, without Obama's support

93 votes

Job, Jobs, Jobs! Jobs now!

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Tuesday February 02, 2010 · 3:33 PM PST

2010/02/02 · 15:33

President Obama:

Real unemployment is about 20% right now. Those are the voters who are suffering most - so far - though they have a lot of friends and relatives, too. They don’t care about GDP estimates, and stock market bubbles only infuriate them. Most voters live in the real world. You can’t sell them happy talk fantasies. Slowing job losses are still job losses.

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Will Obama act directly to provide jobs?

35 votes Vote Now!

Will Obama act directly to provide jobs?

Yes

11 votes

Maybe a few

10 votes

Next year

0 votes

After the economy crashes again

6 votes

8 votes

Choosing to fail, throwing the fight

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 2:21 PM PST

2010/01/22 · 14:21

President Obama:

You are choosing to fail. You are throwing the fight with all our lives at stake.

Stop groveling and stop making excuses. Stop sucking up to right-wingers, and please stop sneering at your supporters. Stop delaying. Just stop the whining, and start to do your job. You’ve already wasted a whole year.

The ’08 election was a bargain. You made campaign promises to us, and in return we gave you everything you asked for. We trusted you. Now we expect you to hold up your end of the deal. You are supposed to be a responsible adult.

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Should people be able to buy into Medicare?

58 votes Vote Now!

Should people be able to buy into Medicare?

At 55 - 65

6 votes

55 - 65 tomorrow, 45 - 55 next year, 35 - 45 in 2011, 25 - 35 in 2012, 0 - 25 in 2013

42 votes

10 votes

Destroying the Democratic Party with fake health reform

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 8:53 AM PST

2010/01/20 · 08:53

(1) Back 50 years to coat-hanger abortions again, (2) a regressive middle-class tax increase, and (3) a mandate to buy an excessively expensive product that isn’t required to deliver the care needed. Then (4) insult people by talking about "Cadillac insurance." Fat chance anyone will be able to put lipstick on that pig.

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Give The People what they want?

54 votes Vote Now!

Give The People what they want?

Yes

16 votes

1 vote

Too much trouble

0 votes

Too easy

2 votes

The serfs can't donate as much as Big Pharma

35 votes

Action Item: Buy the Voter Lists!

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Wednesday January 13, 2010 · 10:45 AM PST

2010/01/13 · 10:45

Some Progressive group really should have those voter registration lists available for use. Right now, only OFA has the voter lists, so large-scale voter calling or canvassing is only being organized by OFA. Occasionally.

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Who should have the voter lists?

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Who should have the voter lists?

ActBlue

0 votes

Amnesty International

0 votes

CREDO Action

0 votes

Daily Kos

0 votes

Democracy for America

0 votes

FireDogLake

0 votes

Health Care for America Now

0 votes

League of Conservation Voters

0 votes

MoveOn

0 votes

SEIU

1 vote

True Majority

0 votes

Unions

0 votes

All the above, cooperatively

9 votes

Such stinginess, while Americans are dying!

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Wednesday October 21, 2009 · 10:54 AM PDT

2009/10/21 · 10:54

President Obama:

45,000 Americans will die this year for lack of medical care. Every day, 122 real human beings will die unnecessarily. Can you look those people in the eye as they lie dying, and tell them that saving their lives is not worth adding even one penny to the federal deficit? Can you say it face to face to even one of them? You should be prepared to do that.

It was worth adding to the deficit to support record profits and record bonuses for Goldman Sachs et al, even after they had crashed our world’s economy. They got huge amounts of money from all of us with no delay and no conditions (unlike even emergency food funds). They remain unregulated as they continue playing the same disastrous games today, while more Americans every day lose their jobs, lose their savings, go hungry, become homeless, die of treatable conditions, and sink into despair.

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Are American lives worth adding a penny to the deficit?

36 votes Vote Now!

Are American lives worth adding a penny to the deficit?

Yes

31 votes

5 votes

The Counterinsurgency Fallacy

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Monday October 19, 2009 · 10:58 AM PDT

2009/10/19 · 10:58

Imagine if the United States had been conquered by Afghanistan, and then we had been occupied for the last eight years.

Imagine: The Afghan military has moved ominously around America, heavily armed and armored, for eight years, exchanging fire regularly with American freedom fighters. The Afghanis describe our Resistance fighters as "insurgents," though.

Imagine: Some of the Afghanis are civil, or even friendly. Some of them are brutal. Some pass out Korans to our children. All Americans know someone who has been tortured or who has died in their custody. Many Americans died in the invasion, as collateral damage. Every now and then an Afghan drone blows up a wedding reception, a church supper, or a local bar. Oops. "Regrettable." Americans are hungry, horrified, and afraid.

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Do we have anything to gain by staying in Afghanistan?

48 votes Vote Now!

Do we have anything to gain by staying in Afghanistan?

Yes

6 votes

42 votes

High Time for Courage and Integrity

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 12:13 PM PDT

2009/09/04 · 12:13

I sent this email to President Obama today:

Mr. President,

It's high time for courage and integrity from you. Be brave now. A strong public option, right now, is the rock bottom minimum for real health care reform.

(We worked so hard to get you elected, but you have been a tragic disappointment so far.)

If you sell out adequate, immediate, health care on Wednesday, you betray not only your supporters and those Americans who are suffering and dying right now, you also betray your own potential to be a great president.

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