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Came across this and thought I'd pass it along. If it's happening here, there are probably similar organizations in other states and areas. This is from their Web site: "Report Right Wing Signature Gathering Activity - Add A Button to Your Site Yesterday, I wrote the following: Progressive activists should be on the lookout for signature gatherers collecting signatures for Initiative 917 and other right wing initiatives. If you see petitioners collecting signatures for any right wing initiative, please use Permanent Defense's new reporting tool to tell us about it so we can more efficiently organize and mobilize. Permanent Defense...

January 28, 2006 -- WASHINGTON — President Bush's spokesman yesterday ridiculed Sen. John Kerry for "yodeling" for a filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito "from a five-star ski resort in the Swiss Alps." "It was a pretty historic day. This was the first time ever that a senator has called for a filibuster from the slopes of Davos, Switzerland," chortled White House press secretary Scott McClellan. "I think, even for a senator, it takes some pretty serious yodeling to call for a filibuster from a five-star ski resort in the Swiss Alps," he added. Kerry phoned in his filibuster...

By Tony Snow Dec 3, 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When Democrats gibber about Republicans' writhing in a culture of corruption, they're on to something -- but not what they think. The Republican Party in Washington is in trouble not because it's overrun by crooks, but because it's packed with cowards -- and has degenerated into a caricature of the party that swept to power 11 years ago promising to take on the federal bureaucracy and liberate the creative genius of American society. The collapse stems from the simplest and most natural of causes, the survival instinct. Within months of seizing...

It is said that a big lie can work if it is repeated often enough. For weeks, leading Democrats have been hammering away at the Big Lie that George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Starting on Veterans Day, Bush, Dick Cheney, and others in the administration embarked on a "pushback," arguing that Bush--and many leading Democrats, including some now part of the Big Lie campaign--accurately characterized the intelligence at the time. Bush, Cheney, and the administration have the truth on their side. Exhaustive and authoritative examinations of the prewar intelligence, by the bipartisan...

Democrats are furious because of the GOP stunt to take Rep. John Murtha at his word and have the vote he called for. Hmmm? What’s going on here? It’s all about controlling the news cycle. Murtha’s statement gave the Democrats the disingenuous public relations platform that the Associated Press ran with. See my earlier post. The Republicans finally got their head in the game and shot back.  They called the Democrats bluff.  The outrage is captured by our friend at the AP Liz Sidoti: Furious Democrats accused the GOP of orchestrating a political stunt, leaving little time for debate and...

"After 11 years of Republican majority, we pared it down pretty good. I am ready to declare ongoing victory. It is still a process."--House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on the federal budget In the presidential campaign last year, Democrats were said to be counting on some misfortune--terrorists attacking on American soil, the Iraq War taking a turn for the worse, the economy going south--to help them beat George W. Bush. That didn't happen, of course. But now disaster has struck, and it's becoming increasingly clear that Democrats are better off for it. In ripping through the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina...

BALTIMORE, Feb. 4 - Conservatives in the House of the Representatives put down their marker in the battle over changing Social Security on Friday, calling for larger individual accounts than President Bush has proposed and promising to fight any tax increases to pay for the benefits to the growing number of retirees. At a retreat here attended by more than 50 representatives in the conservative House Republican Study Committee, its chairman, Representative Mike Pence of Indiana said the members' objections to new or increased taxes to pay for the president's plan was deafening. Mr. Pence said the group also called...

No Party ManI'm not the Republican Paul Begala. The other day I wrote a column offering some suggestions to the Democrats about how they could improve their plight. In response I received a boatload of e-mail. (How many e-mails would fit in a boat anyway?) Many Democrats and liberals told me I should keep my advice to myself because, in the words of one, "Why would Democrats ever take advice from a right-winger like you?!" Meanwhile, many Republicans offered a different point of view. "Why do you want to help the Democrats?" many asked. "Let them fail!" asserted the chorus...

David Karp/Associated Press After President Bush's acceptance of the Republican nomination, workers began the cleanup at Madison Square Garden. Jan Sweeney, a delegate from St. Paul, seems like the kind of steadfast Republican who would go through Hades itself to support her president, but she was not so sure about New York. Ms. Sweeney eventually decided to risk it, but first she put her affairs in order. "I have a 7-year-old son, and I actually had a will made up for the first time," she said on the convention floor before President Bush accepted the nomination on Thursday night....

RINGING the bell of the basement war room of the Metropolitan Republican Club on East 83rd Street - press the "Bunker" button - is likely to bring to the door a convivial woman with a sideline as a jazz singer. She is Lolita Jackson, 36, who was elected president of the century-old political club last year. Ms. Jackson, who lives on the Upper East Side, spends much of her time these days hunkered down in the basement campaign offices, marshaling members to help organize the Republican National Convention, to be held in Manhattan at the end of August. She hopes...

WASH TIMES: President Bush’s immigration initiative has angered conservative Republicans so much that some are refusing to donate to his reelection campaign, according to a Bush fundraiser in Georgia...DEVELOPING....

WASHINGTON - We have finally stopped paying for government this year, but just barely. And if the Bush administration has its way, Americans will pay a lot more next year. Never mind his rhetoric: President Bush is an enthusiastic advocate of big government. The advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform figures the Cost of Government Day was July 11. That's when U.S. citizens finally finished subsidizing government at all levels: taxes, deficits and regulations. Americans spent more than half the year, 193 days, working for politicians rather than themselves and their families. Republicans blame the Democrats. It's not true. The...

"Guillaume McDowell, UVM, Burlington: I was struck by an idea this month: Since college students who register to vote outside their home states risk losing their financial aid, I think that, before the Progressives put up their voter registration tables every fall at UVM, concerned citizens should have a table set up with all the appropriate forms to request an absentee ballot for the students' respective home states. We should make a point of the fact that registering to vote in Vermont will endanger your financial aid if you are an out-of-state student. That way, we couldn't be accused of...