The Nation is a progressive magazine that I get over week. I got a years subscription for Christmas and it is good stuff. The latest issue's cover story is "An America Restored" alternative to the garbage that'll be Bush's State of the Union.
I don't want to discredit the magazine, but I'll post some of the ideas (for the sake of getting this great mag's name out! :D ). I highly recommend you guys get this issue at a news stand or whatnot if you can. Anyway, here's some of the ideas:
-Voting Rights Ammendment
-Patriot Corporations (my favorite)- "It would give significant tax advantages and shareholder incentives to corporations that agree to create a real partnership with American workers. Patriot Corporations would also move to the front of the line for federal contracts--no small incentive. To qualify, corporations would have to produce at least 90 percent of their US-sold goods and services in the United States. (there are many other awesome progressive ideas in Patriot Corporations, that I'll tell you guys if you can't get this issue).
-Medicare for all
-More media owners
-Employee Free Choice Act- (1) "If a majority of employees sign union cards, they get a union." (2) "either party in an opening contract negotiation can request mediation or binding arbitration within a reason time period." (3) stiffen penalties for labor-law violators
-"destroying or locking up the existing stockpiles of these weapons [WMDs] around the world so that terrorists can't get their hands on them"
-"give companies incentives to develop incentives to develop clean energy technologies while reducing the threat of global warming" "Congress should update our laws to elevate preservation over other uses."
-opposition to free-trade, "calls for strong environmental and food-safety standards in trade agreements
-help small farmers and "fund the production, development, storage, and marketing of all forms of biofuels."
-"increase the federal government's share of public education financing from 8 to 25 percent."
There were other great ideas, and I didn't go into nearly as much detail as there is in the magazine for the ideas I did list, but what bunch of great ideas, huh? Dems need to make those great ideas public and run on them! Do you think all those issues would be at the forefront of a Gore administration?
The Nation was the magazine where Vincent Bugliosi's original article "None Dare Call It Treason" was published in 2001. The article was later expanded upon to make it into a book, The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President, also by Bugliosi.
Bugliosi argued that, regardless of how the Florida vote ultimately came out, whether for Bush or for Gore (the results weren't known yet at the time the original article was published, although Bugliosi gives convincing arguments in the book for why Gore won), the SCOTUS committed high crimes against America that were tantamount to treason when it stopped the Florida recount and handed the election to Bush.
It's maddening to read, but if you haven't read the book or the article, I'd highly recommend both.