For Progressive Dem / Progressive Indy Alliance

by: jeffroby

Wed Sep 01, 2010 at 10:38:04 AM EDT

For Progressive Dem / Progressive Indy Alliance

We've hashed over the same old 3rd party arguments pro-and-con for years and years. But in promoting the Full Court Press ( http://www.docudharma.com/diar... ), I realized that some of the people I've been talking with are progressive Democrats and some are independents and some are both. Yet we are all saying remarkably similar things. I'm not regarded as a sellout for pushing Democratic primaries, and they are not wild-eyed radicals. There is a new realism among independents, including at least respect for the Full Court Press, and Democrats are no longer all saying my party right or wrong, remember how bad the Republicans are.

Julia Williams for Congress, Green independent for Michigan 12 -- Reflections

by: jeffroby

Sat Aug 21, 2010 at 13:29:20 PM EDT

Does anyone remember -- or want to remember -- the insane amount of energy spent for months on end for that piece of shit known as healthcare reform?  Hour-by-hour, vote-by-vote, blunder-by-blunder, broken promise-by-broken promise?  The desperate hope that some pathetic fragment of a public option would make it into the final bill?  The obscene celebration at the signing?

Does anyone remember -- or can remember -- that Obama & Co. wanted to get healthcare done with because the big issue on everyone's minds was jobs?  The obscene unemployment rate?  Do we remember that it was only a few weeks ago that they passed one more extension -- one that completely ignored those who had exhausted their 99 weeks of benefits?  That cut benefits by $25?  And expires in November?

Jobs was supposed to be the next big fight, but it ended up more like a pair of mangy mutts yapping in an alley.  Tickets half-price.  There was no serious push for having the government actually create jobs for the unemployed, jobs to rebuild a country whose infrastructure, as everyone knows, is falling apart.