We hear ya, Malloy

[omega minimo]

You warned us what it would mean if Alito was confirmed to the Supreme Court. You filibustered the filibuster with the Young Turks; you may have sent a fax or an email or made a phone call or two. We know you marched and held up signs, back when that mattered.

We were already Through The Looking Glass-- where the hell are we now? Doublethink Land?

Thank you for your rant tonight-- it had to be said. Rather than an indictment of all the efforts that people made, it seemed your point was: Too Little Too Late.

Work. That's the word you used. It's gonna take a lot of work over a long period of time, to bring back the possibility of a united nation, of the people, by the people and for the people.

It won't be an online petition, it won't be a fax blizzard, it won't be "framing," it won't be holding up signs. It will be work, it will be time, it will be local efforts to, as you say:

ORGANIZE ORGANIZE ORGANIZE.

You advised the folks who have watched this trainwreck coming down the tracks for the past two or three decades to share their knowledge with the younger folks; and call for liberal organizations to work with and support college age organizations.

Good thing we're the Reality Based Community :evilgrin:

Thank you for YOUR work.

[shireen]

1. he's got it right!

that Malloy is absolutely amazing! I agree with him 100%. Time for real work.

[arcane1]

2. Mike is the reason I am still sane

relatively speaking, of course :)

[omega minimo]

5. ;)

:bounce: :spray: :bounce:

[WillyT]

7. Matt Baby !!! - You're Still Sane ???

You just ain't tryin, are ya?

LOL!!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:

[arcane1]

8. LMAO

it's more like- he keeps me less insane than I would be without him

how's that? :hi:

[JMDEM]

3. There is a post in the other general discussion

saying WLIB in NY refuses to air his show anymore. Is this true?

[shireen]

4. story is...

AAR needed the cash desperately. ABC radio offered them good money to air some sister talk show. So Mike graciously but unhappily stepped aside. But he says AAR is trying to get him on another local radio station.

Why AAR is still struggling right now? Good question....

[LSK]

15. because AAR is trying to buy as many radio stations as possible

And they got royally screwed by VC's very early in their business. See Left of the Dial.

[pstans]

6. Music to my ears Mr. Malloy

Mike says that even if we do pick up a couple seats in 2006, we will still have Lieberman and the other 19 traitors and the DLC to contend with. If we want real change, we have to do what the Republicans did in 1964. They didn't go out waving protest signs and signing online petitions. They organized locally. They met with their neighbors, organized around issues, and ran for local elections. Get out their and organize. GO! Go! Go! And by the way, has Malloy said how much he hates these bastards?

[omega minimo]

10. Yep, they spread like a bad rash

Time for the ointment

[helderheid]

28. That is exactly what needs to happen.

[Nutmegger]

9. We need to organize

Karl Rove's goal is a permanent Repuke majority - let's try to stop that.

[omega minimo]

11. Well, owning all three branches of government is a start

:sarcasm:

[upi402]

12. All you pansie-ass DINO apoligists just STFU!

Get in the back of the line!

You've had the party long enough. You can pretend everything is okay if you want.
But do it from the back of the line.
Fuck your make-nice.
Look what it has brought us.

[omega minimo]

13. Yeah an all u freaking freeper frigging freeptard freeks, 2!!!!!!!!!!!11

:rofl:

[NI4NI]

14. At my age, I may not get there

with you to see the day that America reappears, but I'll keep fighting so that my 4 grandkids will. So, teach your children well, the same as Saul Alinsky was taught in "that you just can't walk away when you see something is wrong"!

[upi402]

16. Thank you.

And I bet for so much that I don't know of.
I'm so sorry we couldn't hold our Republic.
I'll keep fighting.
That's how I am.

[PBass]

20. What can we do starting NOW, for this coming November?

Obviously we need to work harder, work smarter, and just generally be a whole lot better than the opposition party.

What can we start doing NOW, to get more seats in November, as many as possible?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea:
and call for liberal organizations to work with and support college age organizations.

The younger generation has to be engaged in the process, A.S.A.P. for the November elections. They have the most at stake, I think. Many of the younger generation have not yet realized they have a stake in the process.

Rather than a last-minute flurry of activity in October, what should we be doing NOW?

[omega minimo]

26. Simple

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/24/diy_bullshit_protect.html

[omega minimo]

17. NYT: In Alito, GOP Reaps Harvest Planted In '82

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x188066

In 1982, the year after Mr. Alito first joined the Reagan administration, that movement was little more than the handful of legal scholars who gathered at Yale for the first meeting of the Federalist Society, a newly formed conservative legal group.

    Judge Alito's ascent to join Chief Justice Roberts on the court "would have been beyond our best expectations," said Spencer Abraham , one of the society's founders, a former secretary of energy under President Bush and now the chairman of the Committee for Justice, one of many conservative organizations set up to support judicial nominees.

    He added, "I don't think we would have put a lot of money on it in a friendly wager."

    Judge Alito's confirmation is also the culmination of a disciplined campaign begun by the Reagan administration to seed the lower federal judiciary with like-minded jurists who could reorient the federal courts toward a view of the Constitution much closer to its 18th-century authors' intent, including a much less expansive view of its application to individual rights and federal power. It was a philosophy promulgated by Edwin Meese III, attorney general in the Reagan administration, that became the gospel of the Federalist Society and the nascent conservative legal movement.

    Both Mr. Roberts and Mr. Alito were among the cadre of young conservative lawyers attracted to the Reagan administration's Justice Department. And both advanced to the pool of promising young jurists whom strategists like C. Boyden Gray, White House counsel in the first Bush administration and an adviser to the current White House, sought to place throughout the federal judiciary to groom for the highest court.

    "It is a Reagan personnel officer's dream come true," said Douglas W. Kmiec, a law professor at Pepperdine University who worked with Mr. Alito and Mr. Roberts in the Reagan administration. "It is a graduation. These individuals have been in study and preparation for these roles all their professional lives."

[upi402]

19. vast rightwing conspiracy is real

i use my tinfoil hat to cover turkey.
maybe IT wont get burned.

[Jack Bone]

18. I agree w/ Mike & you....in a broad sense...

Starting at the bottom is the best place for true fundamental change..but man there's a shitload a things to change...here's just a few off the top of my head...a slightly drunken one @ that..

Campaign Finance..it's never gonna change if the Avg. American donates our $50 per person compared to the ExxonMobile's hundreds of thousands...it just won't change..

Election Reform...who here doesn't know about voting into a black box?

The Media...We've got to make them remember that they are OUR airwaves..the American peoples...not Fox's, GE's or AOLTimeWarner's

I spent much of the weekend watching The Young Turks...and i agree that the coverage of this and many many many many stories are shit...GE I wonder why?

Look @ those that voted for cloture..and look to see how they voted on the bankruptcy bill..on CAFTA..I call them the "Dollar Democrats"...the reason they are sitting in Congress isn't for you & I...it's for big business...and what better Justice could there be for big buisness than Alito?

This whole thing stinks of big business it makes me sick...but if we don't see what were up against..we can win every city council seat from sea to shining sea and nothing....ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL CHANGE!

My God people wake up...Biden isn't any better than Pryor...Pryor isn't any better than Frist..they all have their own piper to pay...sometimes the piper throws the Senator a bone, lets them vote their concience...but when the piper wants paid back...they won't take "no" for an answer...

man this is really turning into a drunken rant...thanx 4 letting me vent...Peace & Good Vibes

[upi402]

21. I liked it and I'm sober as a liberal judge

:toast:

[omega minimo]

22. "sea to shining sea"?

yore knot drunc

[upi402]

23. town council on up, that's one tactic the freepers used

:toast:

[Jack Bone]

24. alrighty..

I'll be attending my 1st Democratic county council meeting this upcoming monday...and I'm goin' in w/ my sleeves rolled up...

[Jack Bone]

25. starting to sober up..

ya should've seen me around 9:30...now I'm getting a headache...off 2 bed 4 me..

Peace & Good Vibes....

[upi402]

27. Best of luck!

I get frustrated at my Democratic Central Committee, precinct meetings spemd tons of time on speakers saying nothing about a non-issue, while our hair is on fire.

I'll speak up from now on. And grab a spine and speak up again.
And grow a...
well anyway
:hi: