This Thursday, Accountability Now sets off a money bomb, which will target democrats who side with the Bush Administration and the right wing Republicans on matters of civil liberties, like FISA and immunity for lawbreaking telecoms, to health care, to ending the war in Iraq. At the same time the money will be used to help Democrats who vote to protect our civil liberties, who support universal health care and renewable energy, and who are working to end the war. Greenwald:
Grounded in the premise that the Democrats are going to control both houses of Congress for the foreseeable future — a premise virtually nobody disputes — the primary objective has to be to alter the behavior of those who control the Congress.
Increasing the Democrats’ margin of control doesn’t achieve that goal. It does the opposite. Conveying to Democrats that you will support all of them no matter what they do, no matter how egregiously they trample on your values, only ensures that they will ignore your political priorities and values even more. Working to expand the margin of control Steny Hoyer, Rahm Emmanuel and Harry Reid already enjoy — further entrenching them in power — only ensures that they will be less responsive and accountable. Only by attaching a serious price to their enabling of these extremist, destructive policies will their behavior change. If they are rewarded with greater control and greater comfort for doing what they’ve been doing, then it’s just guaranteed that they’ll continue to do the same thing. Only if they suffer losses and have their power threatened from this behavior will the behavior change.”
As a first step, they’re launching an ad campaign demanding that Congress open an investigation into the verrrrrry fishy “suicide” of Bruce Ivins, the government scientist accused of being the Anthrax mailer, instead of the Iraqi terrorist ABC claimed at the time, the source of which demonstrable false claim ABC refuses to reveal.
If you support this strategy like I do, please dig in and pledge. I don’t often ask people to pony up, but this is something I think is truly worth it.
http://www.accountabilitynowpac.com/.
The big day is Thursday: that’s 2 days, so if you were thinking of pledging, I hope you’ll choose to annoy the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Harry Reid, and the rest of the enabling disgraces in Congress! And please pass this along to all your friends!