Get ‘em while they’re hot. [pdf]

As you will recall, there was an important hearing in the Northern District of California District Court, Judge Vaughn Walker presiding, on June 3rd. There were significant briefs from both the plaintiffs al-Haramain and the defendant government filed a few days before the hearing. Here now is the tick tock from the transcript of the hearing.

From Crooks & Liars: Please Bail Out California before the IMF

Digby says:

“This bail-out for European banks by the American taxpayer is such a bad idea that they had to attach it to a “support the troops” emergency supplemental in order to get it passed.

Dear President Obama, please help California.

According to Paul Martin of Peace Action, Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) will vote “no” on the supplemental.

That brings the total to 33 Democrats who will vote against passage.   We need 39.

Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers here.

And remember to keep calling.

Rahm Emanuel is threatening Democratic freshmen if they don’t vote for the bill.  We need 39 Democratic votes to defeat it.  Already 32 have committed to oppose it.  Please write your local paper and urge them to support your member of Congress in voting against the supplemental.  (If you don’t know who your member of Congress is, you can look them up here.)

Write letters to the Editor and say “no” to the supplemental

You know there’s trouble brewing when stories about intensely contested campaigns begin with this (from the BBC):”The two main candidates in Iran’s presidential election have claimed victory, after extended voting as huge numbers of people turned out to vote…”

Kent Conrad’s co-op model for health care reform is design to avoid a government sponsored public health care option. But he hasn’t explained how co-ops would solve any of the fundamental problems our health system faces, except the need to get 60 votes.

Democratic leaders told us earlier this year they had agreed we’d only need 51 votes to adopt health care reform. Kent Conrad says that’s not true. We need an explanation from Senate leaders. Is Conrad right? Did you mislead us?

WH putting pressure on Freshmen

What’s the scope of the SSCI investigation and where does that lead us?