Our Republic needs more and better Democrats. Americans have decided that the conservative government of George W. Bush needs to be forcefully opposed.

Yet, most of the Democratic Party leadership has managed to ignore the mandate for change which the public gave to them. These cowards capitulate pointlessly to a loathed President and allow a criminally corrupted Republican Party to continue to call the shots in Washington.

Their continued failure to fight, truly fight for liberal principles will result in worse anger at their betrayal, worse apathy in our Democratic process, and another 8 years of Republican corruption.

For this reason, I've decided to document their atrocities. In 1776 I said, "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way." In 2008 we don't need anymore followers. Lead boldly, or, for the sake of our great Nation, please get the hell out of the way.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Up Against The Wall, Motherfuckers

Submitted by Joshua Wyeth on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 18:11.

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The Blue America community - FireDogLake, Crooks & Liars, Down With Tyranny, Digby & Glenn Greenwald - has launched a kick-ass internet calling tool to get constituents whipping their senators to support the Dodd-Feingold Amendment to strip retroactive immunity from the FISA bill. Christy Hardin Smith at FDL has the intro:

Blue America is launching a call tool today to help you get in touch with Senators regarding the FISA bill. We're trying to make it as easy as possible for everyone to talk with their Senators about the importance of standing up for the constitution, the rule of law -- and standing against telecom immunity.

We have been working hard to put together some tools to make your voice heard -- and there is more to come today.

This first tool allows you to directly contact Senators to tell them to stand up for the rule of law and vote in favor of the Dodd-Feingold-Leahy amendment. (That's S.A.5064 to H.R. 6304 which will come up for a vote on July 8th, 2008.) Not only will this tool help you phone your Senators -- including connecting your call -- but it also gives us the ability to track positions on FISA given your input on what you ascertain during your conversations.

As the ACLU recently said, "no president should have the power to monitor the phones and emails of Americans without a warrant, and telecommunications companies should not be let off the hook." The laws apply to presidents and cronies alike, just like they do to the rest of us. We want to give you the tools needed to tell your Senators just that. And for you to be able to do so today.

DownWithTyranny, Crooks & Liars, and The Seminal have also posted on the call tool.

Quite simply, this is what happens when you piss off the base. The base finds ways to shove its collective foots up the collective corpuscular asses of the Democrats in the Senate. You fuck with us? You hear from us. All day. Every day. Until you take a leadership position and do the job you were elected to do.

Blue America is leading. Chris Dodd is leading. Russ Feingold is leading. Is your Senator leading? Or in the way? Call and find out now!

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