Gov't. Accountability Gone
The U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision has moved in tangent with the Executive Branch to end government accountability as we have known it. The Christian Science Monitor reports:
May 29, 2006
In House Races, More G.O.P. Seats Look Vulnerable
The NY Times reports on May 19 - "For months, even in the face of an avalanche of bad news for Republicans, Democratic ambitions for capturing Congress have collided with an electoral map created to protect Republicans from ouster. Despite polls showing rising support for Democrats and scorn for Republicans, analysts have said Democratic hopes for big gains remain remote, because so few seats are in contention. That appears to be changing.
Over the past week, a handful of once-safe Republican Congressional seats have come into play, and other Republican incumbents are facing increasingly stiff re-election battles, according to analysts, pollsters and officials in both parties. The change amounts to a slight but significant shift in the playing field, and a potentially pivotal change in the dynamics of this midterm election."
No-Incumbents.Org has the following advice:
Republicans blame Democrats. Democrats blame Republicans. Nothing gets fixed.
* running for political office yourself
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Republicans going Anti-Incumbent
Liberty Post has an article on how Republicans are replacing GOP incumbents with new Republicans. This is very encouraging news for our democracy and for ending the corruption, and abuse of office including the deficits and debt now completely out of control. Appears Republican primary voters are demanding incumbents return their hijacked party back to true conservative Republicans. Thank you Republican voters for kicking some GOP incumbent ass, and finally demanding your conservative values be restored to your party.
Pa. still in uproar toward Incumbents.
Here is an article about the anti-incumbent movement in Pennsylvania entitled: Voters may use primary for payback: Uproar over legislative pay raise puts some incumbents in danger.
Vote None of the Incumbents
Ashley Tate has a great article called Vote None of the Incumbents here. Way to go Ashley.
May 28, 2006
Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a federal holiday to commemorate the many brave soldiers who have given their lives for our freedom. While, contemporarily, it has been turned into an excuse for a sale, I ask you all to take a moment to remember the brave soldiers who have given their lives for this nation and for you.
May 26, 2006
Vote for Change - Change your Vote!
November 7, 2006 is the day when many Americans will go to the polls, (and more not), to deliver their vote for either incumbents, challengers, or no one. For a great many, it will be one of the most difficult election choices in a long time: for others, the easiest. I commend and respect those who find the choice difficult, but vow to make it nonetheless. For those who will find it the easiest of decisions, shame on you for abrogating your homework.
Those who will find November's choice easiest will be of two kinds. Those loyal to their party who vote straight ticket, and those who have never chosen to vote and will make the same choice in November. I will say it again, shame on you for dodging your citizen duty and responsibility to cast an informed decision based on the issues and how your representatives represented those issues. I won't belabor the point, a paragraph is all such Americans deserve.
May 24, 2006
Illinois Governor to teach children, gambling pays!
Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday proposed selling or leasing the state lottery to raise $10 billion to fund education.Continue reading "Illinois Governor to teach children, gambling pays!" »
May 21, 2006
VOID mentioned, supported in article.
Indie Castle's James Leroy Wilson has an article Against Incumbents of Both Parties, which touts the virtues of Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy.
Thank you James.
May 20, 2006
Voting for Special Children
Often trapped in a day-to-day world--where a simple thing like hope is difficult to keep hold of--parents of children with special needs tend to feel they do not have the time to become educated voters. And yet, they have more incentive to vote responsibly than they might imagine. It's easy to be too overwhelmed, too tired, or too worried about the present to concern oneself with an up-coming election, or the future of this potentially great nation; yet, as we struggle to give our children the best possible opportunity to succeed to the best of their abilities, voting to ensure that they continue to have the opportunity to express their abilities is very important.
May 19, 2006
November Election Potential for Rout.
Washington Post has an excellent map of the races for Senate and House and where the major contests are likely to fall.
The sweep of the House in 1994 by Republicans by a gain of 54 seats demonstrates how fragile the GOP's hold is on the House this November with Democrats only needing 15 seats to take control. Given polls and public sentiment, it is appearing more and more as if a number of incumbents will be getting the boot in November, IF voters turn out to vote.
May 18, 2006
Baghdad ER - The Movie
The Independent reports: "This Sunday, subscribers to the American cable channel Home Box Office will be treated to a film about the Iraq war unlike any other. Almost at the start, you see a medical orderly carrying a human arm, amputated above the elbow, which he puts into a red plastic bag."
I am reminded of my time as a combat medic working as a psychiatric technician at Brooke Army Medical Center during the Viet Nam war. I had occasion to head over to the burn unit where debrising tubs (vats of antiseptic water in which burn patients were placed in order to cut from their bodies the dead and dying flesh) were mostly empty. Only one patient as I recall was in a tub. There were no screams, as there often were there. I was spared that bone chilling experience. But, I can never, ever, get the smell of the burn unit out of my memory.
May 16, 2006
Border Security
What do you think? Will sending 6000 national guard to our Southern Border to provide administrative and logistical support to the Border Patrol really secure that border?
Will it make a dent in illegal immigration?
Will Congress' foot the bill for Bush's plan or will they see it as a waste of tax dollars?
May 13, 2006
Liberty lost: The Path
Many Americans and organizations fight for so called "inconsequential" minor points of liberty because collectively, over time, small incremental losses of liberty equal a precipice of fallen and lost freedom.
Hitler did not set out a single dictum to enslave the German people into a mindless mob mentality. That would never have worked. He did it incrementally, bit by bit, requiring the people to rationalize that yes, this is not so good, but, it is only temporary or, just a small infringement for a greater cause.
Freedom lovers take that lesson of history in with every breath throughout their lives. Liberty is more easily lost in inconsequential baby steps, than by a massive revocation of freedoms. The former has the consent of those losing their freedoms, the latter has to fight intense resistance. Beware those asking for small sacrifices of liberty! A little here, a little there, enslaves us all eventually.
All Americans should be asking themselves: How many small sacrifices of liberty and freedom in our war against terror can we accept? When is one more too much? When is one more too late? When does one more send us vaulting down a slippery slope we can never climb up again?
I urge you all, my friends and family, to register and vote this November. Vote for liberty in whichever candidate you believe promises most to protect it. The stakes could not be higher, nor the cause more important to America's future.
May 10, 2006
American Education still Slipping
Some colleges are reporting double-digit drops in the average SAT scores of applicants this yearThis is just one of many signs that America is not moving in the right direction for ourselves and our children's futures. President Clinton left President Bush a 5.65 trillion dollar national debt. President Bush and Congress have increased that amount to 8.3 trillion dollars and projections now have it at 11 Trillion by the beginning of 2009 based on legislation already passed and policy decisions already made.
Incumbent politicians are responsible for this and many other problems which keep getting worse, not better, like illegal immigration, purchase power of wages going down, energy inflation, and health care costs which have spiralled entirely out of control. These issues did not spring up over night. They have been plaguing us for a decade or more, and our incumbent politicians prefer to bicker and infight and play 'gotcha' rather than provide real solutions. Voting Out Incumbents for Democracy is the only way we, the people, are going to regain control of our government. Register to vote. And be sure to vote. Plan ahead, vote early with an absentee ballot, but vote.
And please, please, continue supporting VOID with dollars, words of encouragement, and sharing the news about a real choice at the polls this November, with your family, friends, and acquaintances.
How To Manual ready!
Good day to you all, Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy supporters.
The 1st phase of our Local VOID Group's 'How To Manual' is completed and was sent to some prospective organizers around the country. For those of you interested in forming a Local VOID Group in your state or district, email us at one of the Email Links above or in the right column of this page and we will send the step by step How To Guide to you.
For those of you supporters who are not able or, inclined to organize locally, we ask that you think about who you know who might be interested and pass the word on. All politics is local is the oft quoted wisdom, and VOID must now move to the grassroots phase.
My sincerest thanks to you all for your support and words of encouragement. It is daunting what we have undertaken here, but, our progress in 6 short months has been nothing short of amazing considering VOID began as a blog last October.
May 5, 2006
4-30-2006 Minutes
Minutes April 30, 2006
Meeting was convened by conference call at 7:30PM. All board members were in attendance.
Old Business:
-Minutes for previous meeting were adopted.
-Remer submitted for Board review recommended changes to the Local Void Group Instruction manual.
New Business:
-Remer advised of a potential sale of WatchBlog, a political debate and editorial web site with a large readership. Discussion took place regarding the pros and cons of VOID buying WatchBlog, continuing its operations while also placing VOID advertising on the WatchBlog site.
The Board agreed that Remer should obtain more details regarding the sale of WatchBlog.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:55 PM.
A Skeptical Supporter
Following is an email from a skeptical supporter for Voting Out Incumbents and my reply.
> Hi,
>
> You need to make some changes in the web site. You don't look like a meaningful cause, almost another third party. Something to ignore..
>
(DR): I have to respectfully disagree on our looking like a third party. Your proposal that we adopt a platform of issues is what would make us a defacto third party in a sea of them. We are a single issue organization, restoring responsiveness of politicians to the voters, instead of lobbyists, special interests and wealthy donors. That is our only issue, and by limiting ourselves to that single issue, we have ability to reach far more citizens who have very differing issues they care about and disappointments in government.
May 4, 2006
Lobby - Ethics reform a sham!
ABC news reports: By 217 to 213 votes, the House of Representatives passed a mediocre lobbyist and ethics reform bill. This was a Republican drafted bill.
"I can't tell you how disappointed I've been this past week," Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., a proponent of stronger reform, said at an earlier news conference. "I don't think Republicans invented corruption, but we're in charge."
All but 8 Democrats opposed this bill in favor of more stringent alternatives. But, knowing they have no control over such legislation, it was easy enough for them to call for stringent alternatives which might have caused them cold sweats if they actually had any possibility of passing. I suspect they took the high moral ground knowing they couldn't hold it in order to reap the Public Relations benefit.
May 3, 2006
Electoral College???
How will the Electoral College affect anti-incumbent voting?
Here is an interesting historical perspective on the Electoral College:
In order to appreciate the reasons for the Electoral College, it is essential to understand its historical context and the problem that the Founding Fathers were trying to solve. They faced the difficult question of how to elect a president in a nation that:* was composed of thirteen large and small States jealous of their own
rights and powers and suspicious of any central national government* contained only 4,000,000 people spread up and down a thousand miles of
Atlantic seaboard barely connected by transportation or communication
(so that national campaigns were impractical even if they had been
thought desirable)* believed, under the influence of such British political thinkers as Henry
St John Bolingbroke, that political parties were mischievous if not
downright evil, and* felt that gentlemen should not campaign for public office (The saying
was "The office should seek the man, the man should not seek the
office.").How, then, to choose a president without political parties, without
national campaigns, and without upsetting the carefully designed balance
between the presidency and the Congress on one hand and between the
States and the federal government on the other?
--emphasis added
In this context, we come up with this very interesting question:
How is it that the Electoral College is used to maintain the two-party system's strangle-hold on American politics?
Polls Support Big Anti-Incumbent Swing
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "The poll showed Democrats leading 54%-39% among registered voters who were asked which party they would prefer in a congressional race."
Now that is what you call Anti-incumbent Sentiment. Be sure to spread some of it around to the Democrats as well, and we just might actually get better government for our tax dollar. -- Vote Out Incumbents for Democracy.
May 2, 2006
These guys have got to GO!
Instapundit has this:
PORKBUSTERS UPDATE:
The playground bully in the Senate _ the Appropriations Committee _ actually took a loss last week at the hands of senators determined to strip so-called pork barrel projects from a bill that's supposed to be devoted to the war in Iraq and hurricane relief.
And the House this week will vote on requiring members to attach their names to "earmarks" _ those hometown projects slipped into spending bills. The idea is that the sunshine of public scrutiny will mean fewer wasteful, silly sounding projects like $500,000 for a teapot museum in Sparta, N.C.
May 1, 2006
Illegal Immigration - Priorities
Illegal and legal immigrants are out to stop America's economy today, in as many places as possible. They are boycotting America in the hopes of convincing Congress and the American people that we can't live without them, and we must keep them here and make them all legal. Further, they want Congress to leave our border open for their extended families and friends in Asia, SE Asia, Central America, S. America, Mexico, and the Middle East to come here at their leisure. Will it work?
America is a nation built on immigration. Legal immigration allows processing of immigrants through centers where their histories are taken, physical exams to protect community health are administered, and decisions are made as to whether the immigrants will be a net asset to America or a net liability. This system made America great.
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