Thursday, November 25, 2004

Happy Thanksgiving!

We should take this occasion to recall all the things we still have going for us...

In no particular order,
100 Things (Political) For Which I Am Thankful


  1. The Constitution of the United States
  2. William Jefferson Clinton
  3. The filibuster
  4. Senator Barack Obama
  5. Susan B. Anthony
  6. The 1st Amendment
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. Martin Luther King Jr.
  9. Al Franken
  10. MoveOn.org
  11. Senator Charles Schumer
  12. George Soros
  13. Blogs
  14. Senator Robert Byrd
  15. Paul Krugman
  16. Zell Miller is retiring from the Senate
  17. Joe Conason
  18. John Kerry received more votes than any past presidential candiate in the history of the United States
  19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  20. The New Deal
  21. John F. Kennedy
  22. The United Nations
  23. Maximum number of days Bush is Constitutionally allowed to remain in office: 1515
  24. He could be gone before then
  25. Tom Tomorrow
  26. Justice David Souter
  27. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  28. Justice Stephen Breyer
  29. Justice John Paul Stevens
  30. Eric Alterman
  31. Salon.com
  32. Newt Gingrich is no longer in elected office
  33. We're going to have a new chair of the DNC
  34. Senator Carl Levin
  35. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
  36. Abraham Lincoln
  37. Susan McDougall
  38. Tom DeLay is about to be indicted
  39. Nicholas Kristof
  40. Lawrence and Garner v. Texas
  41. There hasn't been a terrorist attack in the US since 9/11
  42. Antonin Scalia will die someday
  43. The 13th Amendment
  44. The New Yorker
  45. John Ashcroft is no longer the Attorney General
  46. Colin Powell might write a tell-all
  47. Daily Kos
  48. Labor unions
  49. Jon Stewart
  50. Progress always marches forward
  51. Trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt
  52. Michael Moore
  53. The 21st Amendment
  54. Jimmy Carter
  55. Frank Rich
  56. The Atlantic Monthly
  57. Woodward and Bernstein
  58. World leaders who oppose Bush's policies
  59. Arianna Huffington
  60. Civil Rights Act
  61. Medicinal marijuana
  62. Senator Joe Biden
  63. Roe v. Wade
  64. Rock the Vote
  65. The 19th Amendment
  66. Reunification of Germany
  67. History has the final say on Bush's legacy
  68. Paul O'Neill
  69. Reagan isn't on money yet
  70. NASA
  71. C-SPAN
  72. Center for American Progress
  73. John Brady Kiesling
  74. Bill Maher
  75. Mikhail Gorbachev
  76. Lawrence O’Donnell
  77. Senator Ted Kennedy
  78. Edward R. Murrow
  79. Separation of church and state
  80. Stem cell research
  81. Richard Clarke
  82. Joseph N. Welch
  83. Sandy Berger
  84. Nelson Mandela
  85. Howard Dean
  86. The 9th Circuit Court
  87. Al Gore
  88. Horace Greeley
  89. John Hancock
  90. Rosa Parks
  91. Winston Churchill
  92. George Marshall
  93. George Orwell
  94. Thousands of pending lawsuits against Wal-Mart
  95. Checkpoint Charlie is a museum now
  96. Benjamin Franklin
  97. The concept of democracy
  98. All the investigations into Bush's malfeasance
  99. National Public Radio
  100. Throughout history, fact and reason always win... eventually

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