What Happens When We DON’T pull the plug on Grandma

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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 9:32 AM PDT

2009/09/09 · 09:32

Teabaggers would have us believe withholding heroic lifesaving efforts at the end of life is an outrage.
What. A. Joke.
Here’s what really happens.

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Wednesday June 25, 2008 · 3:00 PM PDT

2008/06/25 · 15:00

It’s been comments like this one that have got me wondering about the fate of the republican party. With so many loser ideas (virtually on the wrong side of every issues from domestic to foreign policy) what’s it gotta take to stick a fork into this dead elephant?

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What Political Party will replace Republicans

A far left party

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A centrist party

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Peak oil party

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Daily Kos Party

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Tonight I"m gonna party like it's 1999 party

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50 State Strategy: Help Defeat Greg Walden in the Oregon 2nd CD

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Monday February 04, 2008 · 1:58 PM PST

2008/02/04 · 13:58

Much of the focus on Oregon progressive political blogs (esp. Blue Oregon and Loaded Oregon) has been on the Senate Democratic primary race of Steve Novick and Jeff Merkley. Both of these candidates are 100 times (at least) better than Gordon Smith. I believe the energy and passion both sides have put forth in this contest will ultimately be good for the victor, leading us to an energized run against Smith.

While it is great to see real excitement and energy generated with this race, I worry that other issues important to the future of the party in Oregon are being ignored or overlooked. Here I am talking about the 50 state strategy, espoused by Howard Dean, chairman of the DNC and the second congressional district seat currently held by republican Greg Walden.

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 11:50 AM PST

2008/01/27 · 11:50

Race Baiting. The Race Card. Southern Strategy. State’s Rights. All are code words for racism. The Democratic party is at a historic time regarding race: we aren’t dependent on the racists in the former Southern Democratic party to help us win elections. We can own the race issue.

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Don't Care

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Oregon Community Health Care Bill Fails to Deliver

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Saturday January 26, 2008 · 2:15 PM PST

2008/01/26 · 14:15

The Oregon Community Health Care Bill purports to reform health care and health insurance in Oregon. Its primary sponsor, Richard Ellmyer is a John Frohnmayer supporter and features Frohnmayer on the same website that posts a version of OCHCB. Frohnmayer is an independent candidate for US Senate, running against Gordon Smith.

[x-posted at Loaded Orygun and Portland Nursing Blog]

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Wednesday January 23, 2008 · 9:36 AM PST

2008/01/23 · 09:36

I was going to call part two of this series ‘Building the movement" but in the course of my readings I realized that many don’t have a sense of why building movements are important. Why have a long term strategy? Who cares as long as we win the next election. Right?

Uh, no. The real answer is so we have something to stand for besides ‘not republican’. Defining a party or movement by what it is not paints only half the picture.

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Tuesday January 08, 2008 · 8:05 AM PST

2008/01/08 · 08:05

After graduating nursing school in mid Dec, I have felt a bit of an intellectual letdown. While in school, one of my classes required me to write two treatises on the health care system. This got me thinking about politics and the progressive movement. Since graduating, I’ve turned to reading about politics for amusement/edification, primarily Daily Kos, Krugman’s Conscience of a Liberal and William Vollman’s Europe Central, which contrasts communism and fascism during WWII.

All of these things I’ve been reading got me thinking; who is proposing a long term progressive strategy? What is the progressives’ answer to what Krugman calls movement conservatism. Winning, while essential for progressives to govern, is not a philosophy in itself, so what is progressivism really about? What should it be about?

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What Happens When We DON’T pull the plug on Grandma

The end of the Republican Party: Lessons from the Demise of the Whig Party (1833-1856)

50 State Strategy: Help Defeat Greg Walden in the Oregon 2nd CD

Progressives Own the Race Issue.

Oregon Community Health Care Bill Fails to Deliver

Progressive Manifesto Part II..Thinking Beyond the Two Year Election Cycle

Progressive Manifesto..Part I