To: All MoveOn members, President Donald Trump, and The United States Senate
11th hour wake up call
Okay Folks, here's your 11th hour wake up call! Sitting on the precipice of complacency on the eve of mid term elections invites horrors far greater than anyone could dare conjure up on the eve of Halloween: the real risk of losing the Democratic majority in the U.S. senate to the Republicans of the frightful right fringe. Lest we become souls feasted upon by the corporate media desperate to spread fairy dust in the hopes of creating collective apathy and amnesia among voters sitting center and left of center, our antidote only need be a brief reflection from whence we proudly came six short years ago with the historic election of a black president who said 'yes we can' and the Democratic majority senate he brought in with him.
Little did we know that together they would face on day one of the new administration the most inept and intransigent Republican-controlled House determined to say no to any and all proposed legislation. No Congress in American history has been more unproductive and obstructionist, even mean-spirited and openly disrespectful. Despite him facing these barriers at home, inheriting a foreign landscape fraught with two on going wars and mounting international terrorism, and dealing with a corporate media anxious to announce his troubles, while loathe to tout his successes, it is we who championed him in November of 2008 that must take the time now to revisit and marvel at what can only be described as a most impressive list of accomplishments, even had they occurred in the best of circumstances. Doing so will give us a renewed perspective and appreciation for what in reality is what we all accomplished, for it was him who challenged us to make him accountable to our demands. Of course we didn't get all of our or his wishes and demands met, but just look at what did happen. http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/ We, who still sit, must rise up and do all we can to get involved and ensure that we and our friends and neighbors and social media contacts get out and vote to guarantee that we maintain the Democratic majority in the senate. If we do this, we then allow Obama to continue in earnest building a progressive legacy driven by our demands that not only honors his hard work and vision over these last tough six years but also helps to bury the ghosts and goblins of the nightmarish right.
Little did we know that together they would face on day one of the new administration the most inept and intransigent Republican-controlled House determined to say no to any and all proposed legislation. No Congress in American history has been more unproductive and obstructionist, even mean-spirited and openly disrespectful. Despite him facing these barriers at home, inheriting a foreign landscape fraught with two on going wars and mounting international terrorism, and dealing with a corporate media anxious to announce his troubles, while loathe to tout his successes, it is we who championed him in November of 2008 that must take the time now to revisit and marvel at what can only be described as a most impressive list of accomplishments, even had they occurred in the best of circumstances. Doing so will give us a renewed perspective and appreciation for what in reality is what we all accomplished, for it was him who challenged us to make him accountable to our demands. Of course we didn't get all of our or his wishes and demands met, but just look at what did happen. http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/ We, who still sit, must rise up and do all we can to get involved and ensure that we and our friends and neighbors and social media contacts get out and vote to guarantee that we maintain the Democratic majority in the senate. If we do this, we then allow Obama to continue in earnest building a progressive legacy driven by our demands that not only honors his hard work and vision over these last tough six years but also helps to bury the ghosts and goblins of the nightmarish right.
Why is this important?
For our collective future