They made sure so many things we take for granted came to be. Think how much better off we would be if corporations and lobbying groups had their way… and shudder. Suburban Guerrilla » Blog Archive » What Socialist Liberals and Bad Evil Government Have Foisted on America 1. 40-hour work week. 2. Paid vacation. 3. Overtime. 4. Unions. 5. Highways. 6. The internet. 7. Clean Air Act. 8. Superfund. 9. School loans and grants. 10. Food and drug inspection. (Okay, it’ll take a while to get back to normal.) 11. Medical and drug research. 12. Public education. 13. Moon…
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@pourmecoffee Of course we knew crap like this went down. But nobody said a word until they could publish their tell-alls. Tom Ridge on National Security After 9/11 – Washington Whispers (usnews.com) Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was “blindsided” by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something…
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I keep finding interesting little factnuggets at Progressive Punch. After the Dems won control of Congress, my Congresscritter Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL8, a former Repub district) still sided with the Bush administration on contingency plans for a possible military operation in Iran in in 2007. ProgressivePunch : War & Peace—Relations with Iran / Bean, Melissa WHAT: All issues : War & Peace : Relations with Iran WHO: All members : IL, District 8 : Bean, Melissa Click below to see the vote description. WAR & PEACE—Relations with Iran Roll Call 364. Fiscal 2008 Defense authorization (H.R. 1585); Rep. Robert Andrews…
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Bruce Bartlett’s thoughtful piece has been making the rounds. The GOPs Misplaced Rage – The Daily Beast David Horsey: We Want Our Country Back In my opinion, conservative activists, who seem to believe that the louder they shout the more correct their beliefs must be, are less angry about Obama’s policies than they are about having lost the White House in 2008. They are primarily Republican Party hacks trying to overturn the election results, not representatives of a true grassroots revolt against liberal policies. If that were the case they would have been out demonstrating against the Medicare drug benefit,…
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Interesting and disturbing, my rep voted with the Repub majority on that Schiavo bill. Really, Melissa? You thought that’s what we wanted for Terry? ProgressivePunch : S. 686. Health Care/Vote on Bill to Grant Parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo the Right to Pursue in Federal Court Their Case to Have Her Feeding Tube Re-Inserted (2005 House Roll Call 90) / Bean, Melissa
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Those damn liberals made his life safer, more comfortable, and cleaner than it might have been if upper class Republicans had their way. Thom Hartmann: Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican | Video Cafe Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed…
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Oh, for the love of Mike, what a maroon moomom moran #Palin is. Evil image of black cat evilly ganked from OneUtah, a blog you should read. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Sarah Palin: Obama’s healthcare ‘evil’: The Swamp After a brief respite from Twritter and all the rest, the early-self-retired-resigned-withdrawn-bowed-out governor of Alaska has returned to Facebook. With fire: Calling President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform “downright evil.” “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’…
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He forgot those 19 lunatics that ruined everything (democracy, civil rights, privacy, 2 wars) because the Bush administration didn’t pass on using 9/11 for its own ends. Glenn Beck pleads with his audience not to resort to violence: “Just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything” | Crooks and Liars These people in Washington have no idea what they have done. They have wakened a sleeping giant. But just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything that everyone has worked so hard for, because these people in Washington won’t pass up the use of an emergency.
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Palin’s farewell as poetry, as performed by the master of the pregnant pause, @WilliamShatner. Shatner Reads Palin As Poetry [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/JCdqRbWYWbU" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] I was just looking for a good play on “iambic pentameter,” but was reminded of a better, deeper meaning that explains much of Sarah Palin’s behavior, and that of her supporters, Rich Lowry and the Starbursters. All this is probably part of some grand, incoherent plan for 2012, as hinted back in October 2008. Check it out (emphasis added in bold): The Limbic System (Paleomammalian brain). In 1952 MacLean first coined the name “limbic system”…
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Charlie Pierce’s “Idiot America.”Dumb as a Blog: Dumb As An Interview: <i>Idiot America</i> Author Charles Pierce on truTV.com Mockery has been an important part of informed citizenry ever since the concept of citizenry was invented. Satire is a weapon of the disenfranchised and the un-empowered. One of the most distressing developments of recent times is that people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are regularly referred to as “satirists,” when, in fact, they are mere bullies on behalf of the established powers. I don’t argue that mockery makes us smarter, but it can make us better citizens. I hope Sarah…