Why is it important that the Democrats win the next election ?

[kentuck]

It's just another election, right? It's not like the Republic depends on it, right? Why is it such a big deal? Is the world going to end if the Republicans win the next election? Does it really matter who wins in November? How will your life be different? Do you really think your life will be better if the Democrats win? Why have you attached such significance to the upcoming election? Is it because you just want to win?

[Selatius]

1. It's about the war in Iraq

No victory, no end to the war.

It'll be a guarantee of at least two more years of bloodshed in Iraq. With the Democrats, the issue is disputed, but with the Republicans, there is no chance for debate. None whatsoever. In fact, they will probably escalate the bombing campaign and the number of troops in a bid to break the resistance through sheer firepower on a platform of "bludgeoning the Iraqis into submission."

[rwheeler31]

2. I want things to change.

We are all criminals now.

[helderheid]

3. READ THIS ---- MEMORIZE THIS!!!`

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/helderheid/87

snippet:

- At least 9 Congressional Progressive Caucus Members would become Committee Chairmen or Chairwomen
- An additional 35 Congressional Progressive Caucus Members would become Subcommittee Chairmen or Chairwomen.

The following Progressive Caucus Members would become Committee Chairs:

- Congressman George Miller, Chairman of Education and Workforce Committee
- Congressman Barney Frank, Chairman of Financial Services
- Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of Government Reform
- Congressman Bennie Thompson, Chairman of Homeland Security Committee
- Congressman Tom Lantos, Chairman of International Relations Committee
- Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of Judiciary Committee
- Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Chairwoman of Rules Committee
- Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Chairwoman of Small Business Committee
- Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman of Ways and Means Committee

The following Progressive Caucus Members would become Subcommittee Chairs:
- Appropriations Subcommittees -- Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro and Marcy Kaptur and Congressmen John Olver, Jose Serrano, and Ed Pastor
- Armed Services Subcommittee, Congressman Neil Abercrombie
- Education and Workforce Subcommittees, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and Congressman Dennis Kucinich
- Energy and Commerce Subcommittees, Congressman Ed Markey and Congresswomen Jan Schakowsky and Hilda Solis
- Financial Services Subcommittee, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congressman Luis Gutierrez
- Government Reform Subcommittees, Congresswoman Diane Watson and Congressmen Dennis Kucinich, Elijah Cummings, Danny Davis of Illinois, and William "Lacy" Clay
- International Relations Subcommittee, Congressman Donald Payne
- Judiciary Subcommittees, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee and Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Melvin Watt
- Interior Subcommittees, Congressmen Raul Grijalva and Tom Udall and Congresswoman Donna Christensen
- Rules Subcommittees, Congressman Jim McGovern
- Small Business Subcommittees, Congresswomen Madeleine Bordallo
- Transportation and Infrastructure, DeFazio, Filner, Holmes-Norton, and C. Brown
- Ways and Means Subcommittees, Congressmen Pete Stark, Jim McDermott, and John Lewis of Georgia



Folks, it is that serious.

[Emit]

4. Bingo. We have a winner!!!

Thank you.

This is it, helderheid, and I have printed this out to pass around to others who are volunteering in my area and to voters.

We have to break the monopoly -- restore the balance in the branches of our government.

This is so important.

[MadMaddie]

5. We need the government to get back to doing it's job

and get back to the basics......and to do that we have to remove the cancerous plague known as the neocon facist repugs.....at least with a Dem led Congress monkey boy will not be able to have his bills walked through Congress......oversight will return and investigations will begin...

[snot]

6. To save the greatest democratic republic human history has known . . .

from those who consider the Constitution just "a piece of paper".

[emulatorloo]

7. IMPORTANT: Senator Pat "cover-up" Roberts will lose his committee chair

You know, the guy who keeps stonewalling phase II investigation into how Bush got us into war. The guy who covers for Bushco and Repugs at every turn.

If Dems take back the senate, the Bush/RNC house of card will fall.

The congress can actually address real issues, rather than flag burning, etc.

[Emit]

9. Another good point -- I'll add that to my 'list' n/t

[blm]

8. Go back to 2000 - would 9-11 have happened?

I doubt it - Gore would have read the Hart-Rudman Report on Global Terror when it was handed to him on Jan 30, 2001.

If Gore still wanted to get tough in Iraq as he said in his campaign, he would have gotten an IWR from the congress and would have ADMINISTERED IT HONESTLY. He would have let the weapons inspectors do their jobs unhindered, and the diplomacy that was working to get Saddam to leave peacefully would have been realized. UN peacekeeping forces would be in place for setting up a transitional government till Iraq could hold its elections.

Go back to 2004 - Kerry would have immediately brought in the UN and NATO, called a summit of all the neighboring countries' leaders and the leaders of the insuergencies to work out differences, and called a summit of the world's religious leaders to come together to seek a greater peace amongst all religions and especially the Islamic religious leaders who never wanted their religion used for violent purpose.

Good chance the bulk of our troops would ahve been home by now, with a smaller force still in Iraq, working with UN and NATO and training Iraqi forces at the permanent bases we turned over to them,