An Open Letter to Angry Liberals

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Thursday December 09, 2010 · 9:27 AM PST

2010/12/09 · 09:27

Dear Angry Liberals:

I understand your dislike of extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. After 10 years of watching the rich get richer while the working “joe” takes home less and less…I’m angry too. I would much prefer to see those who benefited so much from paying so little for so long, finally pay back a little to the country that allowed them to reach the standard of living that they enjoy so much.

What I don’t understand is why you are directing all of your anger at the President. It seems to me that both the House and Senate should also share equally (if not more so) in blame. After all, they were the ones who kicked the proverbial “can” down the road until after the election to benefit their own chances for re-election. Perhaps if they had been willing to address this issue earlier, the President would have stood firmer IF he had more time to negotiate.

nemokc

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Saturday April 03, 2010 · 11:46 AM PDT

2010/04/03 · 11:46

The very far Right has adopted a quote of Thomas Jefferson lately. You see it on Tea Party signs at protests, hear it quoted on talk radio and read it constantly on the web. (And it’s ironic that while Texas conservatives want to ignore Jefferson in history books, they always seem to remember this one quote from the man). "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants".

In many ways it is a very scary quote. It suggests that there are times when violence against fellow Americans in defense of a minority opinion is justified. What Jefferson mused on paper over 200 years ago has become a bumper sticker. And if you want to have some fun, ask anyone who quotes it to you...."What context did Jefferson say this in?" They’ll look at you blindly, maybe stutter, hem and haw; but few can tell you the answer.

nemokc

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Tuesday March 16, 2010 · 9:34 PM PDT

2010/03/16 · 21:34

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) is back in the news again. You remember him....the Senator who singlehandedly held up passage of the unemployment benefits extension bill while complaining that in doing so he missed the Kentucky basketball game! He then caved when he realized that the Senate was willing to stay all night to pass the bill as soon as he left the chamber.

This time he has put a hold on two more Obama nominees.

nemokc

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Friday March 12, 2010 · 11:57 PM PST

2010/03/12 · 23:57

There’s been considerable discussion on right wing blogs and media lately discussing economic issues. The size of US debt (which is considerable), the dangers of such a high debt (which are true) and the idea that only the GOP can save us from financial disaster through fiscally responsible governing (which is a myth of epic proportions).

"What?" you say. "How can that be when the Obama administration has spent so much and in his FIRST year had the highest deficit ever?" "Pork barrel spending is bankrupting our country!" "Obamacare is going on the credit cards of future generations!"

nemokc

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Wednesday March 10, 2010 · 12:09 PM PST

2010/03/10 · 12:09

Liberals have spent a lot of time over the last two years calling out the Right for both real and alleged racism. Any comment made by a GOP politician or a Right-wing commentator has been played and re-played on cable news. And with good reason, I might add. Racism needs to noted and condemned. That is the right thing to do. And many have condemned the entire conservative movement for their constant silence when members of their own group say tasteless and hateful things. We scream about the Obama/witchdoctor picture, point to Limbaugh’s many sick comments, condemn O’Reilly for his preconceived ideas on how people in a Harlem restaurant will speak and act. And there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong with a party that refuses to acknowledge the problems within it’s membership.

nemokc

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Sunday January 31, 2010 · 11:03 AM PST

2010/01/31 · 11:03

On Friday following the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama made an appearance at the annual GOP House Retreat. His purpose was to address the assembled representatives and answer questions. It was an opportunity for the GOP to show the President's ideas were weak when an honest debate over those ideas took place. And best of all, it was to be televised for all of America to see how lost this President is when it comes to the issues.

At least that was the idea. Instead for 67 minutes, without aides or a teleprompter, the President took full command of the room and spoke about the realities of governing versus the rhetoric of campaigning. I think the quality of his performance was best illustrated by how the three main cable networks (each with thier own partisan bias) covered this meeting. CNN showed it live and in full and then devoted a majority of it's evening coverage to discussing the event. MSNBC showed it live during the afternoon and then devoted a two hour special to it that evening with commentary. Fox News cut away from the questions almost 30 minutes before it ended during the afternoon and then ignored it.

nemokc

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 8:27 AM PST

2010/01/22 · 08:27

Tuesday, January 21, 2010 will go down in history as one of the most pivotal dates in our nation. On this date the Supreme Court altered the legal view of corporations that had been held for the past 100 years. On this date, the Court ruled that corporations are entitled to the same First Amendment rights that you are entitled to as a person.

This may sound unimportant to a nation that is currently billions of dollars in debt, where one out of 10 adults is out of work. But it's not. It is a ruling whose effect will be felt as early as next November and for as long as our nation survives.

nemokc

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Sunday January 03, 2010 · 9:55 PM PST

2010/01/03 · 21:55

I’ve been a fan of Senator McCaskill for some time. I like the fact that while she takes a fairly liberal stance on social issues, she tends to be fairly conservative on fiscal decisions. And what I like best is that when she does vote to spend tax payer money, she wants it well spent. You can catch her on C-Span often during committee meetings where she proves that she was once a state auditor by her obvious understanding of budgets, spread sheets and the hard questions she puts to the people who spend our tax dollars. Later this year she will be heading to Afghanistan to push for stricter controls and greater accountability on the private contractors that are paid by our tax dollars.

nemokc

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Wednesday December 30, 2009 · 9:16 PM PST

2009/12/30 · 21:16

Over the past year I've spent a lot of time blogging about the Tea Party Movement. The gist of the posts revolve around the fact that the movement is silly to watch, they are not as "grass roots" as they would like you to think and that there is significant money to be made off of this group.

Apparently I was right!

nemokc

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 7:11 PM PST

2009/12/15 · 19:11

It began as a wildly improbable dream. A black man, born of a Kenyan father and a Kansas mother, raised in some far off country called Indonesia. We listened to the rhetoric when he told us...."there's not a liberal America and a Conservative America, there's the United States of America".

We danced to Stevie Wonder at the convention...it was "signed, sealed and delivered". We shouted out, "Yes WE Did" on that late November evening as the results came in.

And on a cold January day, we sat back and waited with anticipation for the change we knew was coming.

But as John Kenneth Galbraith once said, "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

nemokc

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Friday December 11, 2009 · 9:10 AM PST

2009/12/11 · 09:10

During the original post, I also mentioned Glenn Beck and how a huge majority of his sponsors were gold sellers. I was told at the time by conservative bloggers that this didn't fit into the same category. Of course gold was going to go up in price during bad economic times, so with or without Mr. Beck's commentary...gold is a good investment!

And it may be....but the price of gold is still dependent upon the demand for gold. And it's in the creation of this demand fueled by Beck's fear-mongering that I objected to.

nemokc

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Wednesday December 09, 2009 · 9:47 AM PST

2009/12/09 · 09:47

I sent this to Sen. Lieberman today by e-mail. I will also be sending a hard copy to his office. I think it's time that we who support health care reform remind the Senator that during the last election we raised huge sums of money through grass roots efforts. We raised enough money that we managed to get elected a relatively unknown, black senator with a muslim-sounding name to President....beating out a well-known, decorated war hero!

Let's make sure Joe knows how we feel!

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