Liberals have isolated the problem in American politics today: There is just too much democracy. The incessant demands of the unwashed masses are far too distracting for the philosopher kings in the government to get any work done. North Carolina Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue now claims she was joking when she suggested that congressional elections be suspended to remove the inconvenient pressure of public opinion from the backs of harried legislators. "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover," she said this week. "You want people who don't worry about the next election.
Carwin, Clara tells us, is still circulating, and the threats that he represents remain powerful and productive. Because Carwin continually evades normative attempts at classification and comprehension, he is less a threat to emerging Republican political praxis than a living testament to the democratizing power of unrestrained imagination, a power that continually and thrillingly reveals the precariousness of early American distinctions between deviance and normative belonging.5 II. [...] Carwin's escape is a testament to the powers of unrestrained imagination, to the power of words to undermine the often stultifying normative codes that comprise the social contract, and to the power of common men and women to throw into turmoil the social hierarchies that limit the ability for democ...
... hierarchies that limit the ability for democracy to flourish in early America. University of Alabam...
The world is also watching the rise of "new leftist" leaders, such as the strong-willed, if somewhat eccentric Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the embattled indigenous spokesman Evo Morales of Bolivia, who are not only preaching their ideas of a socialist polity, but putting it into action in the form of constitutional amendments and social programs. Most of Latin America by now has abandoned Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)-based economic policies and has become more open and export-oriented, relentlessly following the neo-liberal strategies recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
Buoyed by prospects of gaining political traction in the Show Me State, Democracy for Missouri held its statewide organizing conference yesterday to stoke the fires for the upcoming general election. Local organizers from around the state converged at Carpenter's Local 1925 hall to discuss ways to drive Democratic voters to the polls. The Missouri group is a branch of Democracy for America, an offshoot of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's presidential candidacy that seeks to organize support for local and national candidates who champion a progressive agenda.
WASHINGTON, Cot. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by Roger Hickey, co-director, Campaign for America's Future, on the White House retreat on Davis Bacon: According to press reports, Republican Members of Congress have announced that the White House will reinstate the federal law requiring "prevailing" local wages to be paid on federally funded projects in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area. If these reports are correct, they mean that President Bush has bowed to citizen pressure mobilized by groups like the Campaign for America's Future, America's labor unions, and Democratic members of Congress -- pressure that has forced the White House to reverse a misguided and cruel executive decree issued immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
WASHINGTON, June 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Wake-Up Wal-Mart launched a new legislative and grassroots initiative today to make sure that large companies, like Wal-Mart, provide affordable health care for their workers. The "Make Wal-Mart Care About Health Care" campaign will highlight the high cost American taxpayers pay because Wal- Mart fails to provide their workers with affordable health care. The coordinated grassroots effort, which unites Democracy for America (DFA), the group founded by Governor Howard Dean, and supporters of Wake-Up Wal-Mart, will also include an unprecedented grassroots effort to lobby state leaders to propose "Fair Share Health Care" legislation in all 50 states. High deductibles and expensive premiums -- that's the reality of Wal-Mart health care. Wal-Mart's fail...
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