This says is all (below the fold is the full text).
Personally, I'm thankful for Cobb and Badnarik for keeping the flame alive.
For Viktor Yushchenko for showing us how it's done.
For Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Jello Biafra, and Molly Ivins.
And for Kos et al for making a place to vent, rant, think, plan, strategize, energize, write, cry and hope.
From Christy Harvey, Judd Legum, & Jonathan Baskin of the Center for
American Progress...
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"This Thanksgiving, progressives have a lot to be thankful for...
We're thankful for our country's troops.
We're thankful for California's trailblazing on stem-cell research.
We're thankful that when Vice President Cheney decided to 'change the
tone' in Washington small children were not present.
We're thankful for Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett, Jack Ryan, and Tom
DeLay for helping us understand conservative moral values.
We're thankful for Costco, for showing Wal-Mart that you can offer
rock-bottom prices without paying rock-bottom wages.
We're thankful for presidential term limits.
We're thankful for Canada, for picking up the slack and providing
affordable drugs to America's seniors.
We're thankful for John Ashcroft finally making us saferby resigning.
We're thankful for the Arctic National Wildlife Refugefor now.
We're thankful for Gen. Shinseki, Bunny Greenhouse and Eliot Spitzer
for speaking truth to power.
We're thankful to President Bush for all of his hard work. 'Cause "no
doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard."
We're thankful for policy wonks who read the fine print of the
omnibus and stopped the turkeys in Congress from reading our income
tax returns.
We're thankful for Starbucks, for providing health care to temporary
employees, insider information to friendly progressives, and caffeine
to the bleary-eyed Progress Report team.
We're thankful for Poland - we will remember you, always.
We're thankful for Air America for taking on conservative talk
radioand winning.
We're thankful for Jon Stewart for using comedy to highlight the
essential truths - about the media, politicians, and - especially -
Tucker Carlson.
We're thankful for the students, religious leaders and activists who
have kept the spotlight on the Sudan while the rest of the world was
riveted by Barry Bonds and Scott Peterson.
We're thankful that Halliburton isn't cooking our Thanksgiving dinner.
We're thankful for Republicans like Sens. Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel and
John McCain for putting principles over partisanship.
We're thankful to David Graham for having the guts to take on the
pharmaceutical industry.
And last but not least: We're thankful to the Progress Report readers
for their tips, energy and support.
Happy Thanksgiving! - The Progress Report Team.
P.S. Remember, if you are short on cash over the holiday shopping
season, a gift subscription to the Progress Report is free."
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