Won’t You Turn Your Purple State Blue?

Long before Wendy Davis entered the national spotlight as a champion for the rights of women and candidate for Governor she spent years fending off Republican attacks in the Texas State Senate time and again.

Texas isn't the only place where Republicans have gone after women and their right to reproductive freedom--and where strong Democrats are standing up to fight back against Tea Party extremism.

From Texas to Virginia, Republicans have passed some of the most outrageous attacks on women nationwide, whether it's transvaginal ultrasounds, defunding Planned Parenthood, or banning birth control.

One of those states where women are under attack is Virginia, where DFA members will be on the ground this week in support of women.

DFA members will be going door-to-door and making phone calls for 5 candidates DFA has endorsed in this November's election.

Folks like Wendy Davis understand what it takes to stand up for progressive values in a Republican-held legislature--and are fighting with us to turn Virginia from purple to blue.

Bernie Sanders Terrifies the Koch Brothers
By Outing Their Role In the
Government Shutdown

By Jason Easley

October 7, 2013–Sen. Sanders put the blame for the government shutdown square on the Koch Brothers, “Let’s not kid ourselves.

No, Bernie, we won't kid ourselves. This crap is too scary.

This shutdown is not something that just came about a couple of weeks ago through Ted Cruz.

We didn't think so.

This has been planned by the Koch brothers and other very, very wealthy people from the day after President Obama was reelected, and what their feeling is

Yeah. we know. They want all the freaken chips. Every last one.

Let us go to the extreme.

We're all ears.

Let us be prepared to shutdown the government, not pay the national debt.

Allrighty, Bernie...But, this is scary.

Let us use every ounce of leverage that we have.

How?

Even if it means catastrophic pain for America and the world, so long as we get our way.”

Hmm...I dunno...not very Christ-like. 

Later Sanders discussed the Koch brothers’ agenda, “If you look at what the Koch brothers agenda is.

We don't want to look at them, Bernie, they're spooky looking.

Look at what many of the extreme right wing people believe.

Those freaks?

Obamacare is just the tip of the iceberg.

This isn't sounding good.

These people want to abolish the concept of the minimum wage.

Not minimum wage!

They want to privatize the Veterans Administration.

Oh no!

They want to privatize Social Security, end Medicare as we know it, massive cuts in Medicaid, wipe out the EPA.

We'll be paupers!

You don’t have an Environmental Protection Agency anymore. Department of Energy, gone. Department of Education, gone.

Wow! It'll be like the old days, but with no hope. None

That is their agenda, and many people don’t understand it.

We understand, Bernie. We're screwed!

Koch brothers have poured hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars into the tea party, and to all other kinds of ancillary organizations to push this agenda.

But why? Do they really need more stuff?

So what you are finding now is a continuation of the class warfare that has been going on this country for the last many years.

The class warfare we're not supposed to notice? The very class warfare that will keep us all groveling for basic needs...like toilet paper?

The rich are getting richer. Poverty, number of people in poverty at an all time high. 

We'll all be beggars...like in Mexico.

Middle class disappearing, and these guys using Citizens United and other forms are now banging away and doing everything they can to get more tax breaks for the people on top, and devastating cuts for working families.”

Now we're getting pi**ed! Do we have to have a revolution? Do We?

The Koch brothers don’t like the kind of attention that Bernie Sanders brings to them.

Well,excuuuuuuuuuse Bernie! Don't get your knickers in a wad!

They want to operate behind closed doors.
(There's that cockroach analogy again.) 

The Koch brothers know that their agenda is doomed if the American people understand what they are trying to accomplish.

We'll try to comply...really...

Charles and David Koch are happy to let their Republican stooges like John Boehner and Ted Cruz take the fall for them.

If it's stooges they're looking for, they've come to the right blog.

As long as they are willing to spend the money, Republican politicians are disposable goods.

Yeah, disposable!

The Koch Brothers are the real power behind the government shutdown.

Hear that you stupid Republicans? And you thought you were driving.

The point that Sen. Sanders made can’t be expressed often enough.

We'll drink to that!

The real ideology and agenda behind the government shutdown belongs to the Koch brothers.

It appears that way, doesn't it?

The Koch boys hate Obamacare because they don’t want the working and middle class people to have the same access to healthcare that they do.

Selfish dix!

They are opposed to anything that empowers working class individuals, because they are seeking a new Gilded Age where the employer controls the lives of their employees.

We'll see about that...you're really starting to bug us now!

Sen. Sanders is one of the few members of congress that is willing to stand up and tell the Koch brothers no.

Or HELL NO!

Bernie Sanders is also doing something that is very important.

He is pulling back the curtain and showing America who is really running the Republican show.

At heart, the Koch brothers are cowards who hide behind Citizens United in order to anonymously advance their agenda.

Yeah. COWARDS!

A senator like Bernie Sanders scares the Koch Brothers.

Yeah, Koch Brothers...BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

He ignores their money and rallies the masses to join the fight.

We're here, Bernie, let us at 'em!

If the American people are ever going to get their government back from the conservative money men, they are going to have to send more people like Bernie Sanders to the House and Senate.

Where will we find them? They're all such a bunch of mealy mouth old farts.