Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. March 21, 2008. In claiming that American attitudes only matter every four years, Perino leaves out one inconvenient fact: the 2006 mid-term elections.
Steve Fraser, Tomdispatch.com. February 24, 2007. We've already been swamped by 2008 presidential madness -- by Hillary, by Obama(mania), by Fox News smears and Republican pandering to religious extremists -- which suggests that a turning-point election is on the way.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. January 15, 2007. The Democrats' passage of tough budget rules in Congress mark another step in righting the course of GOP profligacy.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. December 28, 2006. The voters had their way: Now there are reasons to be cheerful -- and vigilant -- about a Democratic Congress.
William Greider, The Nation. December 5, 2006. The November election was indeed the watershed we hoped: The conservative order has ended, and Democrats have a chance to reshape politics for the next generation, starting with Iraq and economic reform.
Ellen Goodman, Truthdig. November 24, 2006. If men had been the only voters in Missouri, Montana or Virginia, we'd have a Republican Senate. It's time for the Dems to listen to what women were voting for in the 2006 elections.
Stephanie Mencimer, TomPaine.com. November 17, 2006. Lobbyists and are gearing up once again to push for tort reforms in Washington. Will the Dems cave in to their demands?
Roberto Lovato, New America Media. November 16, 2006. This election showed Republicans' staunch anti-immigration stance is finally coming back to haunt them.
Molly Ivins, AlterNet. November 15, 2006. Apparently, the people of this country did not elect liberals to Congress last week. Nope, they elected populists!
Robert Scheer, AlterNet. November 15, 2006. Murtha, a leftist? Maybe on Iraq, but his record on everything from abortion to gun control to Pentagon budgets makes him an old-school conservative Democrat.
David Sirota, In These Times. November 13, 2006. Voters in Connecticut in the end went for Joe Lieberman. But Ned Lamont's insurgent anti-war campaign was a step forward for progressive forces building for the future.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. November 10, 2006. It's a tricky issue to bring up the possibility of voter fraud in 2006 because most election protection activists are liberals who have waited six years for the Bush administration to be stopped.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. November 10, 2006. Jack Murtha's leadership on Iraq sparked the first Democratic majority in 12 years. As House Majority Leader, he just might get us out of the Iraq disaster.
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