« School of Americas Debated Again | Blog Index | Yearly Kos: Do blogs matter, anyway? »


Advertisement
recent entries McCain's Big Speech: More Prison Cell Than Policy Best Throw Away Line of the Day MoJo Video: Palin Puts the Party Back in GOP What They're Saying at the RNC (And What They're Not) Things To Do With the Price of Cindy McCain's Outfit Obama Fundraising Goes Bonkers After GOP's Day-Long Attack Palin, Giuliani Mocked Obama's Organizing Work, But It Was Sponsored By The Catholic Church Fact-Checking Sarah Palin Maybe It's Not Sexist, But Let's Leave It Alone Anyway

Yearly Kos: "If you really want to do something for marriage, raise the minimum wage..."

Barbara Boxer was today's lunchtime speaker at YKC 06. The junior senator from California was introduced as "the model of what the netroots wants," owing to her liberal voting record and her position on the Iraq war. (She was one of 23 senators who voted against giving the president the go-ahead.)

The speech was rousing enough. The White House is "dangerously incompetent," and congress is "too eager to write the president a blank check and turn a blind eye," leaving an accountability void that bloggers and their readers have stepped in to fill. "You are the most powerful answer to [executive overreach]."

Boxer was good on the GOP's sudden rediscovery of that preeminent threat to American values, the liberal-homosexual war on marriage--"if you really want to do something for marriage, raise the minimum wage, provide people with health-care"--and on the question of whether it's worth Democrats' time to push for George W. Bush's impeachment: not. Republicans control congress, so the idea wouldn't go anywhere; and anyway, the American people would view it as an unhelpful distraction from important issues. "There's only one thing to do," she said. "Change the Congress." Fair enough.

Posted by Julian Brookes on 06/09/06 at 2:18 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg this | de.licio.us

Comments

Dear Lord, how I do wish all the hype was true: that Sen. B. Boxer should be a good egg...
The way I see it, there are two issue that define B.B.
First, the voting machine issue. Now, aren't elections what democracy is all about, yet, so it would seem, nowadays elections go to whomever owns the source code (and didn't they get a great deal!!!)...
And second, there's the electric car issue. Nothing could be more obvious than that the car manufacturers "defeated" CA's Zero Emission Vehicel Mandate by "fudging" a study that inexplicably determined that nobody wants an electric car. Like's that's true!!!
The first issue defines democracy, the second defines the times. Together they define B.B. as a big failure (or what...?)!!!
Isn't the deal that we're supposed to love her because all the other politicians stick to high-Heaven?
Yeah, "change the Congress," including you!!!

Posted by: Michael L. Wagner on 06/10/06 at 3:11 PM

Whatever, I'm struggling financially to make my way through college. The minimum wage is 5.15 an hour. If I work 40 hours a week, I make about enough money to put gas in my car to make it to work and back. Not even to mention the 3,000 dollar healthcare bill I have yet to pay off for my tonsillitis last year(as though I could afford health insurance--HA!) This is a real-life situation that Barbara Boxer is shedding the light on. I wrote a letter to my congressman and he wrote back saying he opposes raising the minimum wage level b/c he thinks it will hurt small business. Meanwhile, I'm eating Top Ramen noodles. My point? Don't bag on Barbara- you don't have to vote for her, but at least she's standing up for the little guy.

recent entries

Yearly Kos: "If you really want to do something for marriage, raise the minimum wage..."

Comments

ARCHIVE

RECENT COMMENTS

THE CURRENT ISSUE

SEARCH MOTHER JONES

PHOTO ESSAYS

TODAY ON...

SPECIAL REPORTS

INTERVIEWS

LETTERS

BLOG LINKS

IN PRINT

DONATE TODAY