I live in CA-19:

California's 19th congressional district is one of the poor foothill districts. The district includes Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera Counties and some of Stanislaus and Fresno Counties. The real heart of the District is the town of Sonora, recently featured on NBC's new show Three Wishes, I never thought I'd live to see the day Sonora got on national television.

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Theirs a beast out there trampling all over the United States. A large evil elephant is ruining the country that elephants name is GOP. But how can we kill this seemingly unbeatable beast? Well first we must understand the the GOP.

The GOP is made up of many components some small some large and some can actually survive if cut off from the party. Lets began with the basic components.

Money Coffers : This component of the GOP is vital to its survival and power, Money is what it uses to direct run and perform every little function the GOP needs in essences its the GOP's Life blood. This Component if made in effective or its money supplies weaken or cut off it would render the GOP Powerless. But before you go attacking it directly, the GOP's Rove component will kill that before it got off the ground.

Well we all know about the Republican voting machines. And thanks to us several states now have laws in place requiring Verified paper ballots. But let that not fool you the RNC still has dirty tricks up its sleeve.

Voter suppression is one of there tactics but now they have a far more dangerous version of it. The new game is Voter Registration. It seems rather unassuming; after all, who could object to keeping accurate records of voter information?

The new databases are to be linked to the master records in the State Capitol and will be linked from there to other state agencies such as the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. There are Loop holes galore throughout this process, and the election officials typically would have no idea what is happening to their databases. It would be to easy to tamper with the information, to render voters ineligible, Like Democrat voters for example.

Base closings affecting Democratic districts as well as republicans ones.

The media says that the base closings are not political for this reason.

The media talks about how certain Repubs will fight to keep bases open.

People think, oh the soldiers will hate Repubs now for the same reason they hated Clinton.

But wait, all might not be as it seems. Next in this fight.

In the Senate:
In Short the Agenda is as follows Security, Opportunity, Responsibility. You read it load and clear, so if someone asks, theres a short and simple one line answer.

here is a shortened list of some of the favorites.

S.11: Guard and Reserve Bill of Rights.

S. 12: Targets the Terrorists More Effectively.

S. 13: Fulfilling Our Duty to America's Veterans.

S. 14: Expanding Economic Opportunity.

S. 15: Quality Education for All.

S. 17: Democracy Begins at Home.

so please next time you have doubts about the Democratic Agenda or those GOP talking points start sounding true just look up the agenda on the Internet.

In Montana there is now a Democrat Majority in a state were there was none before. The Democrats control the state senate the state house and the governers seat. We must learn from there examples.

We need to show them what the grassroots can do. (Wow I'm just filled with Activism tonight and hatred for Tom Delay.)
Hammer the Hammer Fundraiser

We all know him, we've posted diaries and made insulting cartoons. We know who he is and what he does. We go around and around and we know his tactics don't we?

In many regards Karl Rove is a genius, an evil sadistic liar, a foul mouth little bastard and the symbol of all thats bad, but he's still a political mastermind. He knows allot and has a time tested strategy, Divide and Conquer is one and his open charge way of doing it. Now lets thing and lets cover his strategies and cover some counter strategies and maybe find a way to Counter Karl Rove.

I first met Delgado in a classroom at Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California, where he presented a slide show on the atrocities that he himself observed in Southern and Northern Iraq. Delgado acknowledged that the U.S. military did some good things in Iraq. "We deposed Saddam, built some schools and hospitals," he said. But he focused his testimony on the breakdown of moral order within the U.S. military, a pattern of violence and terror that exceeds the bounds of what is legally and morally permissible in time of war.

So remember: America once had a fully privatized system. It failed. That is why we have Social Security. It doesn't make anyone rich, but it prevents many people from being poor. "Personal accounts" are just a slick way of saying: "Tough; you're on your own!"

Many observers, though, hold progressives to a higher standard than they do conservatives. They say it isn't enough to criticize Mr. Bush's proposals; it isn't enough to say merely, "don't do anything." Well, sometimes that should be enough. As the saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."