If Republicans Win These Seats…
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 21st, 2010
…they’ll likely gain control of the Senate.
Readers: There are only 13 days left until the election. If you live in Illinois, Washington or Colorado, these states could use your help. Here’s the latest from MoveOn:
Dear MoveOn member:
There are just 13 days left until the election, and with many Democrats trailing in races across the country, Republicans are now within reach of taking over the Senate.
That means Democratic control of the Senate is likely to come down to just a handful of races, including these three which are basically tied but still very winnable:
Illinois-Alexi Giannoulias: Every poll in this race for two months has been tied. It’s the closest Senate race in the country and Alexi is a real progressive fighter.
Washington-Patty Murray: Murray is the highest-ranking Democratic woman in the Senate. She’s been narrowly ahead, but with lots of secret outside money attacking her, her seat is still at serious risk.
Colorado-Michael Bennet: Outside interests are spending $750,000 each day in the race, but Bennet has been gaining on his extreme right-wing opponent, and the polls are now showing a statistical dead heat.
If Republicans win these seats, they’ll likely gain control of the Senate. And big corporations are flooding Illinois, Washington state, and Colorado with campaign cash-Karl Rove’s organization alone has spent more than $5 million on these races in the last two weeks.1
These campaigns are about to make their final spending decisions, so this is the last chance to give. Can you chip in to these three key candidates?
http://pol.moveon.org/give/savethesenate.html?aa=5&id=24444-7572272-702lhBx&t=1
Here’s more about these three candidates in tight races who need our help right now:
We’ve added Alexi Giannoulias to our Progressive Heroes list because this race is so important, and because he’s running a populist campaign focused on taking on the corporate special interests and cleaning up Washington, D.C.
Sen. Patty Murray supported the public option, fought for clean energy jobs, and has worked with other pro-choice Democratic women senators to eliminate egregious gender disparities in insurance coverage. Her Republican challenger significantly out-raised her in the last three months, and Murray needs our help to win.
Sen. Michael Bennet has been steadily closing in on his Republican opponent, Ken Buck, so the race is now a statistical dead heat. Bennet wants to create clean energy jobs for Colorado and improve access to health care.
Can you chip in to these candidates’ campaigns and help stop the takeover?
http://pol.moveon.org/give/savethesenate.html?aa=5&id=24444-7572272-702lhBx&t=2
Thanks for all you do.
-Michael, Anna, Duncan, Peter, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. “Campaign cash: Who’s spending where in 2010-American Crossroads,” The Washington Post, accessed October 20, 2010
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=92636&id=24444-7572272-702lhBx&t=3
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Psst….Do Something. Thanks.
Zen Lill: Hmm…like that Ghandi quote.
Janet: I am aware of the republican strategy, and I hear your concern. They (the republicans) will stop at nothing to win seats. I am glad that you are voting Democrat. Smart girl.
Harriet: I know that probably anything that I say to you is not going to change anything. Your views are way deep into your psyche. Still, I can’t help but say what I am inspired to say because as difficult as it is for you to accept a former slave as the leader of our country, it is simply impossible for me to ever feel the way you and many others feel about otws.
The one thing that I can safely say that we do have in common, is that I too am deathly afraid of fools being at the helm of my government. The last thing I will say, is with Obama in office you will have a chance at having a president and an administration that gives a damn and will work hard for the people. Anything less, you can kiss this country goodbye – Guaranteed we will be hurled into hell in the proverbial hand-basket.
Don’t you think it’s time to let go of the difference in color of ones skin, and recognize this insaneness that you and others allow to rule your life, leading to your own detriment and the loss of our beloved country? Yes, whites love our country so much, they’re willing to love it to death.
Robert: I caught that last night on the news. Unbelievable. Readers: Click here, for those of you who would like to read what Robert is talking about.
Mandy: I agree. I just hope that after you have a good cry you’ll do something more about it.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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October 21st, 2010 at 9:17 am
I don’t like the author of the little book’s definition of cruelty. It is too cute for me. The standard – a callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain and suffering
Will do just fine for me.
“One of the most common and painful fears is the fear of another person’s anger. Someone is scared that another person will angrily punish or reject him/her or leave in hostility.”
When you experience this fear silently say to the mfb “Yes, I am afraid of you, but do you know what?
From now on I am going to let you be as mad at me as you want, but I will no longer tremble under the tyranny of your rage.
I will be free of you. I don’t know as yet how. I will accomplish this, but I do know that I am utterly tired of being afraid of you. I am going to learn how to walk out of the jungle of my own emotional terrors toward you.”
You can learn how to keep yourself safe. One way is to not be fooled by society’s self-flattering labels. If one labels a can of beans as applesauce, it is still beans.
Some mfbs actually believe they are loving, when that is merely the outward label covering a viscous mind.
Organizations claim to operate for the benefit of humanity, hiding their true aim of personal power and wealth. Stop believing in labels. Discover the actual inner condition of individuals, You cannot afford to do otherwise.
October 21st, 2010 at 9:22 am
Michelle, I am going to the polls. How easy is it to make it okay to compel millions of your fellow citizens to die for the lack of medical care so that a few do not have to wait for any medical attention.
Hey, “let’em eat cake.
Me. I’m going to the polls and I am voting Democrat.
Lorri
October 21st, 2010 at 9:26 am
The right can excuse their own when their is no logical excuse. For example when a member of the Right who is a candidate for an office demonstrates he/she is too ignorant about the government or issues to serve the people, the Right claims that person is “one of the people.”
Sane people are left to ponder “WTF does that mean?
The hypocrisy of the Right knows no bounds. Take the 14th Amendment. Since whites don’t want OTWs to dent their numbers at the polls they do everything in their power to prevent this.
What better way than to nib it in the bud. Change the 14th Amendment to take out the part that makes anyone born within the US borders a citizen.
Charles
October 21st, 2010 at 9:28 am
Ditto: And
These are the same people who are always telling us that the Constitution is “sacred.” Yeah, until they want something changed.
October 21st, 2010 at 9:29 am
Ditto -By the way aren’t you tired of hearing that 50% of voters prefer a republican Congress and 43% prefer a democratic one.
Norman
October 21st, 2010 at 9:31 am
What BS! What they really mean is that white people want a republican Congress. They are the same people who because they have a decent insurance policy don’t want to give up a little to allow millions of uninsured to have one.
Claire
October 21st, 2010 at 9:42 am
I received a circular email that touted supporting the republican party because “Obama care” would cause the senders to have to be a bit inconvenienced at their doctor’s office. The senders, like me, have the Cadillac of medical plans.
I am an Orange County native but I draw the line at depriving my fellow Americans of medical assistance so that I don’t have to worry that I may have to wait to see a specialist.
That email made me sick. To see the names of my friends prominently displayed on that email really was nauseating. How so many people who have so much can be so callous towards those who have so little is stunning.
Dahlia
October 21st, 2010 at 10:05 am
Michelle, I read that article about Scalia and Thomas at the Koch seminars. Shameful!
Our Supreme Court has made our Senate and House for sale the highest bidder.
It is a shame that we elected republican presidents that loaded the Court with crooks. Unprincipled men who are not afraid to boldly tell anyone how they intend to vote.
To signal to the country that they will support one side regardless of the issue at law is reprehensible when it comes from a person who sits on the Supreme Court.
These crooked guys are legislating from the bench.
Connie
October 21st, 2010 at 10:12 am
Michelle
Here in Washington the Rossi force is doing everything they can to discourage the OTW vote. They have worked to influence the white vote to turn out. But they are really working on getting the female white vote.
The big secret is that the Republicans are going after the polls here. They are setting up jerry-rigging schemes to steal the vote.
In OTW areas the polls will close sooner and the environment around those polls is designed to scare off OTW voters.
Jerome
October 21st, 2010 at 10:31 am
Robert, Hello.
I have had one or two relationships romantically with one of your “Mean F**king B**tards.” I am more aware of those “self-flattering labels.”
My quote for you today is – “My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.” Ellen Willis
And of course you can play Evelyn
Ruth
October 21st, 2010 at 10:51 am
My complaint is with those that claim most people in America have a health plan that people are comfortable with.
Who but the rich are really comfortable with a health plan that the insurance industry is raising the rates at every opportunity and throwing off customers when they need the service they have been paying for year after year in good faith.
Jerome
October 21st, 2010 at 11:11 am
Thank you Ruth.
My reply would be.
“I believe because it is impossible.” – Teertullian
You are most welcome Evelyn, Zen Lill, Harris, Michelle and all who are interested.
Robert
October 21st, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Mischa, Robert, et al…
I’m going to go with the infamous German philosopher, Emmanual Kant, on this one: ‘he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals’ and insofar as my own personal observation of this phenomena will defend it, it is true.
Luv, Zen Lill
October 21st, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Stuck-in-a-Seat Stretches for Travelers
Richard D. Guyer, MD
Texas Back Institute
Tis the season to travel — and to sit for hours in a car, plane or train. Problem: Cramped muscles and stiffness in the back and joints create discomfort and increase the risk of falling…
and slowed circulation can lead to dizziness and blood clots. Solution: Do these stretches and exercises hourly while seated (and seat-belted) in a vehicle, repeating each move three times. Stay safe: Move slowly and gently, stretching only as far as you comfortably can. If you are the driver, pull over before doing these moves.
NECK LOOSENER
Turn your head to the right, looking over your right shoulder, and hold for three seconds… repeat, turning to the left. Then, looking ahead and keeping shoulders relaxed, tilt head to the right, bringing ear toward shoulder, and hold for three seconds… repeat, tilting to the left.
ARM CROSS
Partially bend right arm and bring it across your chest as far as possible, placing left hand just above right elbow to pull arm closer… hold for 10 seconds, feeling the stretch in the back of the right shoulder. Repeat with left arm.
SHOULDER ROLL
Roll both shoulders forward in a circling motion five times, starting with small circles and getting progressively bigger. Repeat, rolling shoulders backward.
CORE CONTRACTION
Keeping back straight, inhale and draw in abdominal muscles (as if buttoning tight pants)… hold five seconds… exhale and relax.
MID-BACK MOUNTAIN
Tuck chin into chest and round shoulders forward, allowing your mid-back to curve into a “mountain” shape… hold five seconds. Reverse the curve by straightening up, lifting chin and pushing chest out, allowing mid-back to arch… hold five seconds.
SEATED MARCH
Sit with feet flat on the floor, knees a few inches apart, back straight, abdominal muscles drawn in. Alternately raise right knee and then left knee about six inches, lifting feet one at a time off the floor (as if marching in place). At the same time, bend elbows and swing arms back and forth, as you would when walking. Take 30 “steps,” then rest.
LEG EXTENSION
Sit with feet flat on the floor, knees pressed together, pelvis tucked under to avoid arching low back. Straighten right knee and lift right foot until lower leg is parallel to floor (or as close to this as space permits), foot flexed and toes pointing upward… hold five seconds… lower foot to floor. Repeat with left leg.
Bottom Line/Women’s Health interviewed Richard D. Guyer, MD, orthopedic surgeon and former president of the Texas Back Institute in Plano, Texas. He also is associate clinical professor of orthopedics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, past president of the North American Spine Society and an editorial board member for Spine and The Spine Journal. http://www.TexasBack.com.
October 21st, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Robert, I am a 19 year old white woman. I have been arguing with my parents about what university that I should attend. They want me to enroll at Oral Roberts University.
I got so mad that I showed them the quote you made that white people are so dumb that they have to be told what is good, bad or ugly.
My parents said “what is that nigger talking about?”
I said he is saying that white people have to be told what is in style or what isn’t. We have to be told what is patriotic and what is not. We have to be told who is threatening us. We have to be told what is religiously correct and what is not.
They went livid and said. “We will not support you if you keep reading that Michelle Moquin, she is the Anti-Christ.”
I was shocked. I didn’t know that they knew about Michelle’s blog. Then they said, “Yes, we know who has lead you from the path. Your sister showed us that blasphemous blog.”
My sister who hasn’t met a black dick she could say no to. She is the epitome of another of your quotes Robert. The Hypocrite.
When she is around our parents, she degrades every OTW she can. But when she is out socially, she chases the darkest black man she can. I have never dated a black man while she has slept with only black men since she turned 18 4 years ago.
She brags about it to me and our friends. Yet, she lies to our parents on every occasion. Now she has invaded my privacy and told our parents about my blog activities.
Should I tell them about their favorite daughter’s sexual activities. They think that she is a virgin. She graduated from Oral Roberts University. But lives off her trust fund.
Vickie