Most Valuable Progressives: Code Pink's Transition

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Most Valuable Progressives: Code Pink's Transition
posted by John Nichols on 01/19/2009 @ 10:00am



During the course of the soon-to-be-former Bush-Cheney interregnum, millions of Americans resisted the worst excesses of a lawless and irresponsible administration that led this country into wars of whim, sanctioned torture and extraordinary rendition, embarked upon a spying regimen that made a mockery of the right to privacy and destroyed the system of checks and balances that was supposed to protect the republic from monarchical abuse.

Each year during a period of democratic decline that was so aptly anticipated by Jefferson with his 18th-century reference to "the reign of the witches," we honored Most Valuable Progressives -- groups and individuals that had boldly challenged the worst policies of an imperial White House and its pliant congresses, as well as an opposition party that frequently failed to oppose. There will, of course, still be MVPs in the new Obama-Biden era; in fact, they will be more needed than ever.

But as Bush and Cheney leave Washington, finally finished and thoroughly discredited (even if they have not been held to account for their high crimes and misdemeanors), it seems appropriate to propose one last Most Valuable Progressive designation.

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At almost every stop on the contemporary underground railroad of righteous rebellion against wrongheaded governance, I found myself in the company of Media Benjamin, Jodie Evans, Gael Murphy and all the other remarkable women who make Code Pink the most valuable progressive organization of the Bush-Cheney years.


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Speaking for CPers everywhere, thanks John.

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1. K&R

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2. Code Pink rocks!

:applause:

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3. I've always been in awe of how they've never missed a beat. An important

hearing, they were there. A peace march anywhere in the country, they were there. They faced down the worst there is; Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld. They're fearless.

Yes, they deserve this.