Good guys with cojones. List 'em here.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Keith Olbermann
John Conyers
Cindy Sheehan

Gimme some more!

[bahrbearian]

1. Barbara Boxer ?

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Lawrence O'Donnell, Helen Thomas, Paul Krugman

There aren't that many, when I come to think of it.

Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Congressional Black caucus, Charles Rangel. Seymour Hersh.

[Smarmie Doofus]

16. Oh, yeah... Galloway.

[Hand]

2. Russ Feingold!

Jim Hightower
Fidel Castro
Molly Ivins
Jon Stewart

[usregimechange]

155. Got to love Russ!

[oioioi]

3. Katrina vanden Heuvel

[spindrifter]

4. Maria Cantwell--

She got an improved set in time to fight off the ANWR threat.

[eridani]

89. A rather new addition--

--first time she's asserted herself, and to very good effect. Better late than never.

[AntiCoup2K4]

120. Credit where it's due on that issue, but....

...I'm not ready to put her in the "good guys" column just yet. Certainly not in the company of Boxer, Conyers, etc.

[Glenda]

5. Robert Kennedy, Jr n/t

[DemInDistress]

6. Patrick Fitzgerald.....

[Blue Belle]

110. I'll second Patrick Fitzgerald....

as well as George Clooney and Michael Moore.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Jim McDermott

[ClusterFreak]

8. All right sir....

Jack Murtha
Carl Levin
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Bill Moyers
Cynthia McKinney

...off the top of me head!:hi:
****

edited "John" to "Jack". I'm on crack.

[ticapnews]

9. Wes Clark

John Baldacci
Ted Kennedy
John Kerry

[Dinger]

38. Paul Wellstone, Cindy Sheehan, Wes Clark, RFK Jr., John Conyers, . . .

Barbara Boxer, Rosa Parks, Mary Mapes, Michael Moore, George Galloway, Russ Feingold, Helen Thomas, and my Mom, Dad & family.

[FreedomAngel82]

149. John and Elizabeth Edwards and Teresa Heinz Kerry

[OzarkDem]

10. Dennis Kucinich n/t

[tatertop]

29. Kucinich!!!

[tatertop]

30. TED RALL!!!!!

[nicknameless]

142. Tom Toles & Rob Rogers & Mike Luckovich

edit/spelling

131. Dennis!!!

[MaggieSwanson]

12. Al Sharpton!

(and of course - DENNIS KUCINICH; OzarkDem beat me to it while I answered my phone) :)

[ddeclue]

13. John Kerry, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Barney Frank

[mandyky]

14. There is quite a list

Stephanie Tubbs Jones along with most of the Congressional Black Caucus, esp the women
David Obey
Howard Dean
Maurice Hinchey (Rep NY)
McDermott
Moran
Wexler
Jon Stewart
Bill Mahr (most of the time)
George Galloway (UK MP)
John Dean
Katrina Vanden Huevel

[OldLeftieLawyer]

15. JACK MURTHA, dammit

He's ballsier than all the aforementioned combined.

[Hand]

17. Hugo Chavez! nt

[usedtobesick]

18. Wes Clark

John Kerry
Keith Olbermann
and our own lads... Skinner, Earl G and Elad. It has been a wild year!

[BikeWriter]

19. Miss Molly Ivins.

[Terran]

20. My first thought was a woman

Helen Thomas. I think she has more "balls" than most of the people mentioned here put together, because she's in the trenches and always says what's on her mind.

[Lost-in-FL]

21. With "cojones"... Murtha of course!!! And Liberman...

The last one is a joke!!!!! Forgive me please!!! :evilgrin: :+

[tatertop]

31. I can forgive you, I will NEVER forgive LIEberman

who possibly could?

[Posteritatis]

22. Roméo Dallaire (n/t)

[wryter2000]

113. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Hand]

136. Hear Hear! And welcome to DU...

Another Nova Scotian! Cead mille failte, eh? :hi:

[omega minimo]

23. Why do you insist on exclusive, not inclusive, language?

MM somehow I thought more of you than that.


Dems need more women and fewer boneheads.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

25. Did you look at who I started the list with? Sigh... I only used the term

as a colloquialism. I agree that Helen Thomas alone has more cajones than most of the people listed added together.

[omega minimo]

27. Using inclusive terms seems a simple thing and a simple way to

indicate what Dems stand for, where we're comin from, where we're goin and who we're takin with us.

:hi: Happy New Year :toast:

[Name removed]

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Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[EstimatedProphet]

24. George Clooney

[chat_noir]

123. George Clooney quotes

"We moved away from what we were going after which was the al-Qaeda and there's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq, which we know, we spent a lot of time trying to prove it and it didn't happen. And we're going to go into a war and we're going to kill a lot of innocent people."



"What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something."

They tell us we're going to war and no one's saying 'Bullshit' loud enough. And the language! Listen to the language! 'Evil.' 'Evil'? 'Nexus of evil'? 'Evil-doer'? That's my favourite, 'evil-doer'! What's wrong with their vocabulary: couldn't they come up with 'schmuck'?"


"The problem is we elected a manager, and we need a leader," Clooney tells the magazine. "Let's face it: Bush is just dim."

[Rocknrule]

26. Howard Stern

[choicevoice]

28. How about Ann Richards

[Cha]

32. Somebody's gotta do it..so I will.

Howard Dean.

[Auntie Bush]

36. Wes Clark! And I second Howard Dean. He's got 'em.

[Maru Kitteh]

33. Wesley Clark

Guess that's what keeps him afloat on all those morning swims, 'cause it ain't the body fat.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

34. Malloy! n/t

[LincolnMcGrath]

100. 2nd that

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

122. Fuck yeah! n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

153. Randi Rhodes and all the progressive talk hosts!

[applegrove]

35. Hillary Clinton spoke about big oil funding elections. Obama is cool.

Krughman, Pitt, Fitz, etc.

John Stewart, Colbert, Maher, the news agencies that spoke up during Katrina, & lots more!!

[Redstone]

37. "Cojones," not "Cajones." No letter 'a' in that word.

Just so know.

Redstone

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

39. oops

[Redstone]

40. But your post was righteous, notwithstanding the spelling error.

Just so you know that.

Redstone

[Cleita]

41. Barbara Boxer! n/t

[EFerrari]

42. 41 responses and NOT ONE VOTE?

Here's one grateful one -- for cojones. :)

[MelissaB]

101. I just made it #10. This is a wonderful list.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

107. It really is!

:kick:

[Patsy Stone]

43. To this fine list

(Go, Keith!)

I add Richard Clarke and Joe Wilson.

[EFerrari]

46. So right, Patsy.

:thumbsup:

[FreedomAngel82]

154. Don't forget Valerie and Brewster Jennings!

They tried to stop Bush from invading.

[EFerrari]

44. Seymour Hersh, Journalist.

:toast:

[leftofthedial]

47. Dennis Kucinich

John Conyers

[EFerrari]

48. Please kick and recommend. What a great list!

:bounce:

[JohnyCanuck]

49. Sibel Edmonds

What’s the Deal With Sibel Edmonds?
Feds, Supreme Court silence an FBI translator who knew too much
by James Ridgeway
November 29th, 2005 3:37 PM
Village Voice

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The latest rebuke to Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator who has been trying unsuccessfully to make public what she knows about the FBI’s 9-11-related operations, comes from the Supreme Court.

It has declined to hear her court case, thereby letting stand decisions of the lower courts that enforce a silence imposed upon her by the federal government.

The ACLU represented Edmonds. “Sibel Edmonds is a true patriot who deserved her day in court," said ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson, in an official statement. "We are disappointed that the Supreme Court did not see the ongoing danger of allowing the FBI to hide its blunders behind the 'states secrets' privilege."

Even though its own inspector general has found much of what Edmonds has to say to be correct, the Justice Department--first under Attorney General Ashcroft and now under Attorney General Gonzalez--have invoked the arcane States Secrets law to shut her up. The department simply declared everything in her case secret, in the interest of national security.

http://villagevoice.com/news/0548,ridgeway,70491,2.html

www.justacitizen.org

[Pachamama]

74. Sibel Edmonds has my vote!

:kick:

[tofubo]

114. if someone was ever deserving of a congressional medal of freedom...n/t

[cascadiance]

129. Definitely should get JFK Profile of Courage award!

Even though she's not an "elected official" she deserves it just as much as any elected official out there or more.

Other "good guys" perhaps not mentioned here:

Donna Frye - fought the good fight to get more "people" representation here in San Diego, even if she lost the mayoral race.
Peter Coyote - works a lot on getting good progressive documentaries out there.
Bernie Ward - fights the good fight for us on KGO...
Chris Deliso and Scott Horton - working hard to uncover the conspiracies as indy journalists!
Robert Greenwald - a lot of great documentaries to give us the truth about things like Fox News and Wal-Mart!
Naomi Klein - Also helping with a lot of great documentaries (The Take, The Corporation) and other indy journalism
Janeane Garafalo and Sam Sedar - Have the right spirit and carry on the good fight even though they don't need to do so for a living.
Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon - Great activist hollywood couple!
Bill Moyers - still one of the old school journalists that's doing his darndest to preserve decent journalism and equality for all of us!
Paul Rieckhoff - OperationTruth.org founder has helped a lot with getting the right message out on the war, and filling in for Mike Malloy too.
Scott Ritter - my old classmate and a great whistleblower on weapons inspections!

[FreedomAngel82]

156. Ritter was your old classmate?

Seriously? Neat. I think he, Sibel Edmonds and Richard Clarke are very brave too. If it wasn't for Michael Moore I might not be a democrat. So here's to him! :toast:

[cascadiance]

166. I didn't know him then, though I know he was there when I was there

in the same DOD school in Turkey. He was a couple of years behind me and hadn't entered middle school yet, and I think I left there when he did. Kind of like me behing behind Mitch Pileggi (played Skinner of the X-Files) by a few years who was also a student there so I didn't get to know him that closely either, though we were both there too at the same time.

[EFerrari]

50. Kick. Too good to sink

:kick:

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

51. Dennis Kucinich!!

[EFerrari]

52. One more vote?

:kick: for this great list

((((((((((((DU))))))))))))

[SammyBlue]

53. Maurice Hinchney

Raul Grijalva

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

54. Hmmmm. No Jon Stewart Yet?

:)

[Hand]

137. See reply #2 nt

[me b zola]

55. Feingold, Cynthia McKinney, Maxine Waters, +

OMG, I can't remember his name, our favorite Scottsman who spoke/speaks out against the Iraq war, who frickin Norm Coleman brought before Congress to testify about the UN.....someone help me out :dunce:



Plus many of the names already listed by others :)

[EFerrari]

56. The CBC, baby, the best leaders in Congress.

:toast:

And Mr.Galloway

another :toast:

[omega minimo]

61. Was gonna say!! The CBC stood up for America when NO ONE else did

and when it really mattered.

Mr. Galloway, of course, came over to show us the proper use of the Ainglush longuage. :yourock:

[EFerrari]

64. The CBC are the truest Democrats and I'd go on teevee for them.

(And I HATE teevee :scared:)

:)

[omega minimo]

68. Beautiful statement on Symbolman DSM DVD

from _______ (Maxine Waters?) on how, from the Civil Rights Movement, the CBC knows how to STAND UP.

:bounce: one cojone
:bounce: two cojone
:bounce: three cojone
:bounce: four

maybe we need a :spine: :evilgrin:

[me b zola]

71. Woohoo!

Thanks, sfexpat and to Omega Minimo for help with George Gallaway's name! I feel like a :dunce: for not remembering. He even spoke at the Sept 24 ralley in DC :grouphug:

Yes, the CBC have been our most faithful, strongest voices in Congress, with Congressman Conyers at the helm (not in title but in deed).

Oh dear, that made me remember a wonderful new-comer to Congress who has displayed some big-ones herself, Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz.

[Olney Blue]

135. I agree- Wasserman-Schultz showed big ones during

the Schiavo travesty.

[FreedomAngel82]

158. She's great and also Tim Ryan!

I saw a great video of him telling it like it is in Congress once at http://www.onegoodmove.org

[Rob H.]

112. Good call on George Galloway

He's definitely got a pair and they're solid steel. :thumbsup:


Edited to add: Tons of good names on this page!

[earth mom]

57. Michael Moore. John Conyers. Cindy Sheehan.

:yourock:

[snot]

58. Maybe a few others haven't mentioned--

Sorry for repeats or incomplete info.

Lieutenant Kwiatkowski
Joe Wilson
Sibel Edmonds

SEYMOUR HERSH (foretold the whole Iraq debacle in the New Yorker long before we invaded)

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Senator Chas Schumer (D-NY)

Sen. Barney Frank (D-MA)

Senator Byrd

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
House Rep. JOHN CONYERS (!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH)
Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY) (Media Ownership Reform Act of 2005 (H.R.3302) and other good stuff)

Rep. Stepanie Tubbs Jones (the woman who stood up with Conyers to object to certification of the 2004 vote)

Senator Feinstein

Hugo Chavez

Hendrik Hertzberg, also at the New Yorker

Frank Rich at the NYT
Paul Krugman at the NYT
At least a few folks at the LA Times, Chicago Trib, Baltimore Sun, and in Cleveland

[EFerrari]

66. Bob Herbert at the NYTs. I hope he got his flu shot. n/t

[nicknameless]

75. I think you might have meant Senator Feingold, rather than Feinstein.

DiFi may kick Dems in the cojones ... when she isn't stabbing them in the back. (Big time war profiteer, etc.)

Senator Russ Feingold is definitely commendable.

;)

[AntiCoup2K4]

121. God I hope so....

I can't believe someone would put Feinstein, Lieberman, or Hillary anywhere near this list.

[nicknameless]

143. I received a "please send money to Hillary" email from Bill today...

***DELETE!***

[eridani]

90. If you're gointg to mention Chavez--

--please don't forget Evo Morales.

[Twist_U_Up]

59. Randi Rhodes !!!

[EC]

60. Joe Wilson

of course.....

[amitten]

62. Me. n/t

[radio4progressives]

63. Russ Feingold!

:bounce::woohoo::hi::yourock::hi::woohoo::bounce:

[TheBaldyMan]

65. Amy Goodman, Greg Palast, 2 many 2 mention n/t

[petgoat]

67. Yes, Palast.

Also Brad Friedman, Arianna Huffington, Joseph Cannon, Senator Mark Dayton,
Indira Singh, Sibel Edmonds, David Ray Griffin, Paul Thompson, Mike Ruppert,
Rep. Henry Waxman, Daniel Hopsicker, Bob Fitrakis, David Cobb.

Everybody who signed the 911truth statement:

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633

Everyone who signed the WorldCan'tWait statement:



http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=20

[imperial jedi]

69. Wesley Clark

n/t

[Thirtieschild]

70. Wes Clark

[carpetbagger]

72. Spitzer n/t.

[me b zola]

73. HOWARD DEAN!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG, how could we possibly not have listed him much earlier in the thread?! That man has some big ones, and has taken a lot upon his shoulders to do right by ALL of us.

To Dr. Dean :patriot:

[shance]

145. I can't believe he' s not here in masse - HOWARD DEAN

He's got it.

[Golden Raisin]

76. Frank Lautenberg,

Jimmy Carter, Frank Rich, Gore Vidal

[petgoat]

78. Gore Vidal signed the WorldCantWait statement

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=20

I don't know why he hasn't signed the 911truth statement.

His 10-27-02 article called "The Enemy Within" alleges that the Bush
Administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html

Here's a review of the article:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,819931,00.html

[dalloway]

98. I second Lautenberg--glad to call him my senator!

[tonka023]

77. Dahr Jamail

seconds on
Fisk
Chomsky
Romeo Dalair
Amy Goodman

[beltanefauve]

79. Frank Rich, Paul Krugman,

Bob Herbert, Molly Ivins, Helen Thomas, EJ Dionne, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Greg Pallast...
John Conyers, John Lewis, Stephanie Tubb-Jones,John Murtha, George Miller...
Frank Lautenberg, Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold...

more to follow as my brain allows...

[petgoat]

81. Barbara Lee, Aimee Allison

(another WorldCantWait endorser--Allison, not Lee)

http://www.aimeeallison.org/index.php

[beltanefauve]

167. Thanks!

And Barbara Lee is my OWN rep! Duh!

...and Patrick Fitzgerald, and Amy Goodman, and Dennis Kyne, and anyone at the ACLU...

[Tennessee Gal]

80. Al Gore!

Speaking the truth .........

[Twist_U_Up]

82. John Bonifaz !!

[petgoat]

84. Bonifaz, yes! And Ray McGovern!

And Ann Wright, another WorldCantWait endorser.

Maria Ruzicka

[Twist_U_Up]

Bob Fitrakis

[petgoat]

85. Fitrakis, and Arnebeck, and Wasserman, Susan Truitt and Clint Curtis

Reverend Bill Moss

[Chipper Chat]

83. Jim Jeffords

for abandoning the Puke Party.

[flordehinojos]

86. i don't know what MAXINE WATERS has been up to lately..but she surely

belongs in this list. along with Cynthia McKinney and the activist woman from New Orleans who told the Florida House Republican Representative that yes, she knew history, and that while the people in New Orleans were not gassed like the people in germany during hitler were, they, the new orleanians were certainly submitted to a holocaust of their own through the neglect of the federal response towards them and the intimidation towards them by the national guard . (i wish i could remember her name--it belongs in your list, she did not let herself be intimidated by the most intimidating asshole from florida).

[FreedomAngel82]

159. That was great!

She was a community leader and really stud up to them very well. I was cheering for her. She didn't take any bull and she didn't allow any politician to treat her badly because they're an elected official. She was great and they all were too.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

87. Larry Johnson.

[NightOwwl]

88. Viggo Mortenson

[Dervill Crow]

170. Right on, Viggo!

He was the first person, celebrity or otherwise, I heard speaking out against the war on television. It was awesome, even if it was Charlie Rose in the middle of the night.

[chemp]

91. SENATOR JACK REED

I've never been prouder of the Senior Senator from RI

[Tesla]

92. Maureen Dowd

She has started alot of our "names" we give 'em!!

[SkiGuy]

94. DITTO THAT

Now let's work on removing Chafee

[beltanefauve]

169. Great senator

you got there, in my former state! Hope he only gains more clout in 2006!

[MercutioATC]

93. Paul Hackett

www.hackettforohio.com

[jackster]

106. absolutely - first name that came to mind - HACKETT!

n/t

[SkiGuy]

95. Pelosi

[stevedeshazer]

96. Peter DeFazio n/t

[Twist_U_Up]

97. Sheila Jackson Lee,Maxine Waters, HELL the Whole Black Caucus

[dalloway]

99. Rev. Bill Moss from Ohio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_v._Bush

Also Cliff Arnebeck

I'm also going to go out on a limb and put a Republican who deserves to be on this list: Sen. George Voinovich for having the integrity to protest the Bolton appointment.

[FreedomAngel82]

160. David Cobb!!!

RIP Rev Moss. :(

[IndyOp]

102. David Cobb, Mark Crispin Miller, Thom Hartmann, RFK, Jr --

...and everyone who has had the guts to risk being called a whole bunch of filthy names for telling the truth about the theft of the 2004 Election. (Fitrakis, Bonifaz, Conyers, Stephanie Tubbs Jones have already been mentioned above).

...and a hat tip to John Kerry for coming ever closer to saying 'it' - closer, closer, closer...

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Hey, Howard Dean! Where is the 50-State Plan for Free & Fair Elections?

[MelissaB]

103. Michael Moore

Can't believe he hasn't been listed.

[kansasblue]

104. Brad of Brad Blog

[Cerridwen]

105. Uh, Harry Reid...I can't believe I haven't seen his name up here yet

n/t

[robbedvoter]

108. Wes Clark, Michael Moore, Joe Conason, Barbara Boxer, Joseph Wilson

Sy Hirsch, Randi Rhodes

[tishaLA]

150. very very good list!

[snot]

109. a few more

Noam Chomsky
Stephen F. Freeman (author of the "Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy")
Jimmy Carter
Robert Reich - commentator on NPR's "Marketplace" and former Sec. of Labor under Clinton

[Citrene]

111. SENATOR BYRD!! n/t

[GrpCaptMandrake]

116. I second the Senator Byrd

except when he's voting in favor of Republican bankruptcy bills, estate tax bills, class action "reform" bills, supporting creeps for the supreme court like John Roberts and Sammy BadBreath (m)Alito and having a campaign manager who's a lawyer for the biggest coal interests in WV.

On edit: adding support for right wing freak judges.

[NoPasaran]

115. Ronnie Earle n/t

[UrbScotty]

117. Russ Feingold and Howard Dean (nt)

[chat_noir]

118. David Gregory

Puffy McMoonface hates David almost as much as he hates Helen Thomas.

[FreedomAngel82]

161. He's been doing pretty well lately

Anderson Cooper has also. Anyone who Puffy dislikes deserves to be up on the list. Heh heh.

[Surya Gayatri]

119. The brave doctor in Mississippi

who repeated "F__k you, Mr. Cheney" at least three times during Cheney's tour of the devastated region. Unsung American hero. SG

[IndyOp]

125. Dr. Ben Marble -

Told Cheney to go F*** himself. This is his website:
<http://www.hurricanekatrinasucked.com/>

[Surya Gayatri]

127. Thanks IndyOp...

couldn't remember his name or find it. :hi: SG

[itcfish]

124. George Clooney

Sean Penn

[nicknameless]

144. Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins

Barbra Streisand has a progressive blog:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/

[Ksec]

126. KO, Bartcop, B.Boxer , Ted Kennedy, Conyers, Murtha

Theres lots of them that show courage. They need to make it a habit instead of a once in a while thing. We need to stop worrying about what the RWNM is saying and barrage them with voices . Make it impossible for them to zero into any one person. And might I add we need to protect our people with courage also.

[Nutmegger]

128. Cindy Sheehan

She stood up to the Bush bastards and pushed the "war" back into the TV sets at home.

130. Dan Rather n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

162. Mary Mapes

[walldude]

132. I can't believe that Henry Waxman isn't on the list yet.... n/t

133. Harold Pinter

[Pierre Trudeau]

134. how about Joseph Darby?

Darby is the military policeman who first turned over the Abu Ghraib photos to Army CID investigators.

His name is all but forgotten nowadays. I suspect he's in the Army's version of witness protection.

[Hand]

138. The DU Admins!!!!

:toast: :yourock:

[RepublicanElephant]

139. jim wallis, robin cook (rip). n/t

.

[OregonBlue]

140. Henry Waxman, Jim McDermott

[Nimrod2005]

141. HOWARD DEAN, Barbara Boxer, Jack Murtha, Mike Melloy

[nicknameless]

146. Rep. George Miller

Joe Conason
Former Senator Bob Graham

Janeane Garofalo & Sam Seder
Rachael Maddow
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Mike Papantonio

[FreedomAngel82]

147. John Kerry, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin

[FreedomAngel82]

148. Bernie Sanders

[FreedomAngel82]

151. Al Gore (for what he did with Katrina)

[FreedomAngel82]

152. Martin Sheen

He went to Camp Casey.

[maveric]

157. My list has more women than men with "cajones".

Barbara Boxer
Cindy Sheehan
Maxine Waters
Nancy Pelosi
Helen Thomas
To name a few.

[donheld]

163. Eliot Spitzer, Barbra Streisand, Kanye West

Arundhati Roy
Vandana Shiva
Rahul Mahajan

[donheld]

164. Laura Flanders, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Nichols

EJ Dionne Jr
Thom Hartmann

[bigwillq]

165. Howard Dean

Conyers, Fitzgerald, Boxer, Sheehan, Olbermann, Dennis K!.......

[Generator]

168. The New Yorker magazine/ aka Seymour Hersch/Talk of the Town too

I know, I know not strictly a peep. BUT the best writing around on the follies of the nightmare years. The COVERS alone are worth it. If you missed the one with the entire feckless administration drowning in their office on the cover...

[Melissa G]

171. Steve Freeman of exit poll fame and TIA and some fine Texans

Like LLoyd Doggett,who was targeted by Delay but won anyway...
Richard Raymond who fought Delay during re redistricting and is one of many suing his behind right now..
Ronnie Earle for indicting Delay and TRMPAC folks..
And a whole slew of DUers who fight all these fights everyday!

DID I MENTION specifically TIA?????Repeat TIA !! Still A DUer at heart I hope..

Hugs to all of them!!!

[Melissa G]

173. Andy Stephenson

[mitchtv]

172. MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOME (D-SF)

Jackie Speier, too. wounded in Jonestown

[mitchtv]

174. Lynne Woolsey , D-Sonoma one of the best

[nicknameless]

175. In CA: State Sen. Debra Bowen and Former Dem SoS Kevin Shelley

Both should be acknowledged for standing up to election fraud & rethug vote-stealing machines.

[Hailtothechimp]

176. Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Michael Stipe,

John Mellencamp, Bonnie Raitt, everyone else on the Rock for Change Tour last fall, and Robert Redford for putting it on Sundance Channel.

[cascadiance]

177. Yup, and Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Dixie Chicks, Neil Young...

Other musicians that have had courage last year to speak their mind against this cabal!

Symbolman (Secret Agent Plame!)
Pearl Jam
John Fogerty
R.E.M.
Willie Nelson
George Michael
Bonnie Raitt
Jackson Browne
Pete Seeger
David Rovics
John McCutcheon
Rage Against the Machine
Edwin Starr (R.I.P.-the start of this war would shake anyone's heart!)
Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens)
Keb Mo
Sum 41
Sheryl Crow
Paris
Fugazi
James Taylor
Dave Matthews
Patti Smith
Lenny Kravitz
Rickie Lee Jones
Radiohead
Rolling Stones
John Cougar Mellencamp
Jello Biafra
Ani DeFranco
Kanye West
Tom Waits
Jynkz
Chuck D. and Public Enemy
Jadakiss
Bad Religion
Billy Bragg and Wilco
Chumbawumba
Holly Near
Saul Williams
No Doubt
Ricky Martin
Robbie Williams
Michael Franti and Spearhead
System of a Down
Outkast
Bright Eyes
Green Day
Sparta
Anti-Flag
Yellow Card
Beastie Boys
Eminem
Cat Power
Sonic Youth
Jonatha Brooke