Just to show that I give equal time to acknowledgement, as I do to censure, I have written to Harry Reid to thank him for maneuvering to cancel the Thanksgiving Recess. This is as momentous a step as Senator Daschle's engineering of what I call the Jeffords Jump (when Tom Daschle talked Jim Jeffords into leaving the Republican Party, thereby changing the makeup of the Senate, which reverted - unfortunately, for a short period of time - to Democratic Majority.)

"Thank you Senator Reid, for putting a grain on the GOOD side of the
balance: preventing Bush from installing other ideologues in key positions in government. I call you on every BAD move you've made and constantly write you to take actions that put your tenure in peril, so I thought it was only fair to congratulate you when you take a difficult step (I am aware that you walk a tightrope as leader of the Senate) that is the right thing to do, given the situation this White House has taken to use every possible dodge of the Law to further their nefarious agenda.

I have joined a group of Democrats who have put a moratorium on our
donations and volunteering to the Democratic Party, until you put an end to the War. We have pledged to continue donating both time and money to those Democratic candidates who back our Democratic values. In honor of your bold move, I am donating to the amount I would have given to the DSC to your campaign.

Happy Thanksgivingless RecessThanksgiving to you!"

I hope those of you who read this blog take similar actions. Thanks to quick Internet activism, we were able to stop Dianne Feinstein (so far!) from taking immunity for the telco's to the FISA law revision (unfortunately that fight is still going on in the Senate, please join the efforts to stop another chink in the Constitution) so we have the power to change what these politicos do. Please join the struggle to repair Checks and Balances so admirably put together in our Constitution, which has been the foundation of this "noble experiment in Democracy" for over 200 years and BushCo - in but 7 years (a brief period of time that has felt like aeons!) has put well on its way to annulment.   Read More »