… on health care and everything else.
Edward Kennedy wanted all Americans to have access to the kind of health care he had and to make sure everyone had a safety net in place that allowed them to take the kind of risks necessary to become a millionaire if that’s what they wanted to do. His conservative enemies,
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Posted by on 16 Feb 2009 by
Rena in
Oklahoma,
Politics and Government
Email from the OKC chapter organizer about Oklahoma’s participation in the lively liberal social networking group.
Any Tulsa readers want to get this going over there? There are resources and a basic how to over on the web site.
Hi All,
There is a blog post on the National Drinking Liberally site “Five Cities We Want” that
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Turns out I’m a big meanie because I won’t open my so-called liberal heart to loving bipartisan accord with Sally Kern and her anti-gay Christian Taliban brigadeĀ (see, I just did it again!).
So I was thinking, what mean things could I do, now that my cover is blown?
How about we distribute the stimulus money, jobs and programs… Read the rest
Recently while being interviewed by Leslie Stahl (of 60 Minutes, she wants you to know), Rachel Maddow tried to explain to her that Chris Matthews is not a liberal. Stahl was adament that he was, pushing it to Maddow like she was an idiot not to realize something so obvious.
Finally Rachel broke it down for Leslie — who… Read the rest
Posted by on 09 Nov 2008 by
Rena in
Oklahoma,
the great divide
The whole world is trying to figure out what’s up with us here in Red Dirt land. Last Tuesday, for good or bad, we certainly took a different tack, and everyone wants to know why.
The great blog Down With Tyranny regularly has insightful posts about Oklahoma politics, with some of the best rants against Inhofe for years now, and… Read the rest
I disagree with some of the finer points (I call myself a progressive, not a liberal, which is a term that came later to mean what it means now), but Herbert is essentially correct here.
September 9, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Hold Your Heads Up
By BOB HERBERT
Ignorance must really be bliss. How else, over so many years,
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