If progressive legislators walk the walk they get what Cynthia McKinney got. Cut off at the knees by the right and abandoned by the left gatekeepers.

When leader of the Senate Reid told Charlie Rose that "HIS" idea of a windfall OIL profit tax was a BAD IDEA, I was stunned. Then when Pelosi failed to get a binding timeline attached to the "EMERGENCY" war profiteering  bill, my faith in the DEM PARTY was irreparably shattered.

The fact that Sanders will not entertain impeachment, at this point is irrelevant since other than Kucinich, nobody on the hill has consistently taken their oath to the constitution seriously. NOBODY!!!

So you say that's the way politics is done inside the beltway. Well then its time to have MAYORS and GOVERNORS take back their authority under FEDERALIST principles. Congress determines the NATIONAL BUDGET for education, scientific research,  Medicare, subsidies for local police and prisons. So that's their leverage over state government. If the representatives fail to deliver on those stipends they will be held accountable by their local constituents. WE THE PEOPLE, the local constituents can authorize our state officials to diss ALL the feds until our representatives start walking the walk.

Let's see how real the polls are about how many WARMONGERS remain. Lets cut away the wheat from the chaff already. These wishy-washy fair-weather progressives that don't deliver on their rhetoric, must be culled.

How can 75% of the populous who are self acknowledged doves, stand idly by as nearly 65% of the GNP is allocated to PENTAGON business annually? That money cant even be audited?

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http://killtown.911review.org/oddities/2001.html

September 10, 2001 - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces that the Pentagon has lost track of $2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS of military spending.

"On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said.
He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.
"In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death," he said.
Rumsfeld promised change but the next day – Sept. 11-- the world changed and in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.
Just last week President Bush announced, "my 2003 budget calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending."
More money for the Pentagon, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports, while its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.
$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America." - CBS (01/29/02)

Rumsfeld: "According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." - DoD (09/10/01)

(See also:  May 4, 2001 - PNAC member Dov Zakheim is sworn in as Comptroller and CFO for the Department of Defense; 9/11 - Pentagon is hit right in the middle of only retrofitted section, important budget information located in the damaged area, attack came near the end of fiscal year, fatalities included civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts; Killtown's: Flight 77 Theories - Motives)

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City and County Council and Related Resolutions Opposing Preemptive/Unilateral War in Iraq

ips.org/ ... citiesforpeace resolutions

Other Resolutions: Universities -- Labor -- International

New York passed

• Buffalo
• Danby
• Greenburgh
• Ithaca
• Mount Vernon
• New Paltz
• New York City
• Nyack
• Plattsburgh
• Rochester
• Rockland County
• Rosendale
• Syracuse
• Tompkins County
• Woodstock
  
• Binghamton
• Brighton

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Cities with Peace Resolutions

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States with Peace Resolutions

California
Iowa
Maryland General Assembly
Massachusetts
Vermont

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State Labor Federations

S.C. AFL-CIO Resolution in Support of Military Troops
South Carolina AFL-CIO

Washington State Labor Council calls for an end to the United States occupation of Iraq
by David Groves, WA State Labor Council

Ohio AFL-CIO Takes Antiwar Stand and expresses interest in USLAW National Labor Conference Against the War in Iraq

Oregon State Federation of Labor Resolution Supporting the Troops and in Solidarity with Iraqi Unions
Oregon State Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
October 28th, 2005

Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Calls for End to War and Occupation
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
July 7th, 2005

IN SUPPORT OF LABOR RIGHTS IN IRAQ Resolution Adopted by Wisconsin AFL-CIO
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
July 7th, 2005

Resolutions adopted by the Conventions of the Washington State Federation of Labor and the American Postal Workers Union, August, 2004, both introduced by the Seattle local of the APWU
September 9th, 2004

BUILD UNITY AND TRUST AMONG WORKERS WORLDWIDE
25th Biennial Convention of the CA State Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
July 16th, 2004

BRING THE TROOPS HOME - CA Federation of Labor