ANATOMY OF OUR VICTORY
The manager of the party's north Dallas coordinated campaign office, Kirk McPike, has put up the story of what led to a triumphant Election Night 2006 on Burnt Orange Report at "How We Won: Dallas County Turns Blue". You'll probably find out things you didn't know about how well this worked because of our local candidates cooperating with each other and the party. After his narrative, former State Representative Glenn Maxey adds in the comments that our former State Senator Oscar Mauzy "is grinning from above right now", andlongtime Precinct Chair Tom Blackwell adds more about the vicious Republican campaign this year.
OUR NEW LEADER IN WASHINGTON
The sweeping Democratic victory for Congress means that for the first time in U.S. history, the Speaker of the House of Representatives will be a woman. Nancy Pelosi is a 66-year-old San Francisco grandmother of six, who was born in Baltimore (where her father and brother each served as Mayor), and served as California State Democratic Chair before election to Congress in 1987.
Naturally, the Republicans and their loyal cheerleaders in the media began a campaign of attacks on this very threatening role model for equal opportunity. You can read more about how pathetic their venom has been in blogs at Daily Kos and at Unclaimed Territory and at Taylor Marsh and at Media Matters.
Disregarding such wailing, she is proceeding with professional poise. Before the election, she laid out an agenda for the new Congress for their first "One Hundred Hours" (including raising the minimum wage and negotiating lower drug prices). She also made it clear that "Bringing the War to an End is my Highest Priority as Speaker", adding that "...the biggest ethical issue facing our country for the past three and a half years is the war in Iraq." Both polls and election results show most of the nation agrees with her stands.
ALSO ON THE WEB THIS WEEK
The manager of the party's north Dallas coordinated campaign office, Kirk McPike, has put up the story of what led to a triumphant Election Night 2006 on Burnt Orange Report at "How We Won: Dallas County Turns Blue". You'll probably find out things you didn't know about how well this worked because of our local candidates cooperating with each other and the party. After his narrative, former State Representative Glenn Maxey adds in the comments that our former State Senator Oscar Mauzy "is grinning from above right now", andlongtime Precinct Chair Tom Blackwell adds more about the vicious Republican campaign this year.
OUR NEW LEADER IN WASHINGTON
The sweeping Democratic victory for Congress means that for the first time in U.S. history, the Speaker of the House of Representatives will be a woman. Nancy Pelosi is a 66-year-old San Francisco grandmother of six, who was born in Baltimore (where her father and brother each served as Mayor), and served as California State Democratic Chair before election to Congress in 1987.
Naturally, the Republicans and their loyal cheerleaders in the media began a campaign of attacks on this very threatening role model for equal opportunity. You can read more about how pathetic their venom has been in blogs at Daily Kos and at Unclaimed Territory and at Taylor Marsh and at Media Matters.
Disregarding such wailing, she is proceeding with professional poise. Before the election, she laid out an agenda for the new Congress for their first "One Hundred Hours" (including raising the minimum wage and negotiating lower drug prices). She also made it clear that "Bringing the War to an End is my Highest Priority as Speaker", adding that "...the biggest ethical issue facing our country for the past three and a half years is the war in Iraq." Both polls and election results show most of the nation agrees with her stands.
ALSO ON THE WEB THIS WEEK
- Tom Toles uses two cartoons to rewrite Charlie Brown.
- Newly elected Virginia Senator Jim Webb shows his true blue colors in the Wall Street Journal at "Class Struggle".
- And ready to welcome his support is "The Crowded Progressive Caucus", which is moving on "Full Steam Ahead".
- Webb's remarks recalled a Democrat's family friendly tax cut.
- Michael Moore makes "A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives".
- Senator Chris Dodd Introduces Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act to repeal Bush abuses.
- But Dick Cheney is still unapologetic about spying on us.
- Don't forget the Republican cheating -- and bills against robocall abuses are being introduced in several states and in the United State Senate by new Majority Leader Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and by Barack Obama.
- How Al Gore would have reacted differently to the 9/11 warnings.
- Court rules there is still segregation in one Dallas school.
- Finally, a reminder of how far we had to come:
"Many [of the Southern Democratic state parties] were literally bankrupt, the office supplies and machines (typewriters) had been taken for unpaid debt, and padlocks were on the door. ... The Southern States would not allow the release of the franchise to a newly elected Central Committee or Board, because it would be Black. ... When Dean took over the DNC -- this was the condition of about twelve of our State Parties. He actually had to find lawyers to go into court and get the parties out of this kind of "Trusteeship" before he could even begin to reorganize."
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