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Younger Workers Get Even More Bad News
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. We have ...
RDemocrat 10/01/2009 81 22 - 121
You Interview: Heather Ryan
Along with Kos, I blog on a few different sites. On Bluegrassroots.org, I am lucky enough to be a front-page blogger. This is an awesome Kentucky Progressive blog that is jumping up to try and fill ...
RDemocrat 05/29/2008 12 7 - -
Women to Recieve Concessions From Health Insurers
Visit us at Hillbilly Report. It appears as if women have won a concession on premiums from the Healthcare insurers. Of course, these ...
RDemocrat 05/07/2009 14 12 - 3
Will Republican Liars Pull The Wool Over Our Eyes Again?
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. We all remember the debt-limit "crisis" in which ...
RDemocrat 08/17/2011 2 3 - 31
Will Karl Rove Still be Above the Law?
I know I am a little late to this story, but I was really busy yesterday. We all remember the U.S. Attorney firings, and the firestorm it justifyably created. Of course, nobody ever had to answer ...
RDemocrat 02/24/2009 39 18 - 18
Will Justice Roberts Legislate from the Bench??
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. You know, the hypocrisy of Repubicans has become quite astounding. They whine and moan about welfare ...
RDemocrat 09/07/2009 13 15 1 189
Will Hillary Follow the Lead Once Again?
You know, all throughout this primary for the Democratic nomination, Edwards supporters have repeatedly pointed out how John Edwards has taken the lead on most issues. From healthcare to worker's ...
RDemocrat 12/20/2007 28 21 1 -
Will Corporate Democrats Sink the Public Option??
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. One of the quotes I remember most from the Presidential primary last year was this, "We simply cannot replace ...
RDemocrat 06/12/2009 47 28 - 28
Why Sen. Kennedy Got it Wrong in My Eyes
As a John Edwards supporter it is perplexing to see so much of our establishment shunning what many grassroots Democrats see as our only hope to effect real change in this country. One by one, the ...
RDemocrat 01/28/2008 137 24 1 8
Why Edwards Supporters are Sticking to Their Guns Part II
Well, it appears the influx of impassioned Edwards diaries yesterday, including my own have failed to convince anyone that we are doing what we believe in. Today, this site is ripe with yet more ...
RDemocrat 01/10/2008 289 250 9 20
Why Edwards Supporters are Sticking to Their Guns
One thing that is becoming increasingly aggrevating is the call of other candidate's supporters to the supporters of John Edwards to switch their allegiance and vote against their concience. After ...
RDemocrat 01/09/2008 556 463 10 31
Whose Gonna Take Your Guns??
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Being a life-long Progressive Democrat in a mostly rural Congressional ...
RDemocrat 02/24/2010 221 10 - 21
Who Tripled the Debt??
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. You know, President Obama has disappointed me in a few regards. First, backtracking ...
RDemocrat 10/09/2009 14 15 - 140
Whirlpool Rally Shows What we Should all be Doing
Over at Hillbilly Report, we have been following the Whirlpool plant closing in Evansville, Indiana. This ...
RDemocrat 02/27/2010 23 26 - 38
Where was all This Concern??
The Republican leadership and Conservative talking heads never cease to amaze me. They want to talk about the "wasteful spending" in the stimulus package. The want to rail incessantly about how it ...
RDemocrat 02/13/2009 19 17 2 19
Where Edwards Leads, Hillary Soon Follows
I came across this story today in the news: http://www.comcast.net/news/politics/index.jsp?cat=POLITICS&fn=/2007/08/07/733354....
RDemocrat 08/07/2007 97 20 - 5
What They CAN Afford
Join Hillbilly Report, the forum for rural Progressives, their issues and candidates for the 2010 elections. City slickers welcome too!! Whenever one ...
RDemocrat 04/15/2009 8 8 - -
What is There to Weigh??
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. I found an article today that sums the times up for Progressives quite nicely. It ...
RDemocrat 01/11/2010 7 4 - 9
What I Fight For
Last year I worked for a Congressional candidate who lost in the primary. Despite the fact we lost, I have the utmost of respect for him, and he has become my friend. His name is Eric Streit. You ...
RDemocrat 11/18/2007 6 9 - 2
What Have Republicans Done and What Would They Really Do??
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Here at this site and in many Democratic ...
RDemocrat 10/20/2010 8 6 2 206
What Has Big Money Donations Really Bought for Clinton and Obama?
You know, with all this talk of who is a viable candidate because of how much money they can raise, and with all this talk of this or that candidate should drop out because they can't raise any money,
RDemocrat 10/01/2007 34 6 - -
What Caroline Kennedy Brings to the Table
Ah, another day another anti-Caroline Kennedy diary on the frontpage of Kos. You would think with the attention given to the NY Senate appointment that this is the most important thing that will ...
RDemocrat 12/27/2008 245 42 1 25
West Kentucky Farmers Beware Rand Paul
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. In his anti-government crusade Rand Paul seeks to leave many folks ...
RDemocrat 07/19/2010 9 11 - 104
Welcome to Whitfield Trucking!!
Welcome to Whitfield Trucking!! Here at Whitfield Trucking, although Trucking Companies within our district are closing their doors, we had a brainstorm. We would buy an empty tractor-trailer, and ...
RDemocrat 09/15/2008 8 14 - 25
We Have a Candidate Running Against Mitch McConnell
While national Democrats have expressed disappointment in the fact that Ashley Judd will not be running against Mitch McConnell and Kentucky Democrats wait for a big name such as Alison Lundergan ...
RDemocrat 04/15/2013 13 27 - -
Wanna See What we Are up Against??
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. They say keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Whether ...
RDemocrat 05/25/2010 21 14 - 11
Waltz Offers Progressive Vision for Campaign Finance Reform
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. After investing much money, passion and time ...
RDemocrat 10/29/2009 8 6 - 51
Unions May Turn the Tables With Capitalism
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. A couple of the things corporate America and the Republican Party are always using to exuse their ...
RDemocrat 05/23/2009 42 34 - 36
Union Mines are Safer and Why
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. The Coal Industry seeks to claim that non-union mines are safer than union ...
RDemocrat 05/04/2010 9 20 - 42
Union Leaders Hitting Back for Working America
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. From the "Things that refresh your day" category we have ...
RDemocrat 06/03/2009 6 15 - 40
Unforgivable???
Mitch McConnell came out and described the behavior of one of his most valued colleagues in the Senate, Larry Craig. Of course, McConnell was all for his fellow rabid right-winger as they were rubber-
RDemocrat 09/01/2007 34 6 - -
Under Edwards: Cities Rising!!
I am from rural, small-town America. That is why I enthusiastically embraced the Rural Recovery Plan put foward by John Edwards. Not only is it badly needed, but it addresses huge swaths of rural ...
RDemocrat 12/02/2007 12 29 1 9
Type 1 Diabetes and Some Real Heros Who Provide Hope
Some of you may have caught my diary yesterday in which I told about recieving the news of having Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. It has opened my eyes to a lot of things in the last several days. One of ...
RDemocrat 02/24/2008 30 21 - 12
Two Ungodly Senators and a "Modest Pittance"
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Unfortunately in Kentucky we can take credit for one thing. Electing the two most unholy and god-awful people that ever "served" a state at the same time in the ...
RDemocrat 03/04/2013 3 9 - -
Two Issues Show Why Edwards Is Our Best Candidate
The primary season that began way to soon in my estimate is winding down. We settled on a nominee way too early last time, and we are doomed to repeat that mistake and make it worse this time. I ...
RDemocrat 12/05/2007 92 61 1 17
Two Great Ladies, Two First Districts: Victory Edition!!
I live in Kentucky's First Congressional District. This year, we have a great Democratic Lady running for our Congressional seat, Heather Ryan. Well, we are not the only first district in the south ...
RDemocrat 03/10/2008 26 15 - 3
Two Great Ladies, Two First Districts: Money Edition
Kentucky and Louisiana both have two Awesome Democratic women running in their respective first districts. Gilda Reed and Heather Ryan both represent the best of what this party has to offer. Ms. ...
RDemocrat 03/20/2008 7 7 - 4
Two Great Ladies in Two First Districts
The First districts of Louisiana and Kentucky both have great Democratic women running to win their seats. Heather Ryan in Kentucky's first, and Gilda Reed in Louisiana's first are definately what ...
RDemocrat 02/17/2008 48 22 2 25
Trumka Warns of the "Forces of Hate" That Smash the Ideal of America
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. It is no secret that in this current ...
RDemocrat 04/08/2010 18 33 - 103
Trumka Defends Stimulus as Social Security Comes Under Fire
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Two things that have taken a lot of heat ...
RDemocrat 06/30/2010 58 20 - 22
Trouble in California?
As everyone knows, in the last few Presidential elections one state that has been consistently blue is California. Despite having a Republican Governor, it seems California can be depended on to ...
RDemocrat 07/31/2007 36 12 - 17
Tragedy Strikes in Western Kentucky
Many of you may know about the devastating ice storm that hit at the end of last month in Kentucky. Many areas, including Western Kentucky were hit particularly hard and many people lost power and ...
RDemocrat 02/12/2009 18 46 - 102
Torture Debate Quite Troubling
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Come join us!! It has been clear for a long time that under the Bush Administration torture was widely ...
RDemocrat 04/26/2009 11 10 - 3
Tom Periello Smeared by Chamber, May be Burned in Effigy
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. The opponents of Progress in our country are showing just what they are made of. There latest target ...
RDemocrat 11/15/2009 14 6 1 178
To The FBI: While You're At It......
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. By now most people have heard about the leaked tapes from the office of Mitch McConnell and the ensuing hissy-fit it drew from the Senator for Communist China. Of ...
RDemocrat 04/10/2013 15 16 1 -
Tipped Workers and the Minimum Wage Fight
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. In my opinion the single most pressing problem for our economy and our Democracy as a whole is the festering cancer of income inequality that has arisen in the ...
RDemocrat 07/20/2012 8 9 1 67
Time to Mobilize for Healthcare Fight
Despite some indications that Universal Healthcare may have an easier path this time around, it appears the status-quo in the Insurance Lobby are saying not so fast. I never believed they would give ...
RDemocrat 12/07/2008 30 14 1 2
Three Virtues of Funding Healthcare Reform
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Well, the Senate Finance Committee has voted to pass the junk ...
RDemocrat 10/13/2009 5 1 - 94
Three Kentucky Races Could Shape the Congress
It is no secret that Kentucky is considered a red state nowadays. However, that wasn't always so. Kentucky has a long Democratic tradition. The Republican Governor we just ousted was the first one ...
RDemocrat 05/27/2008 70 13 - 2
Three Kentucky Races
Kentucky's Democrats are turning the corner. Although we only picked up one Congressional seat in 06, we did win back the Governor's mansion last year. The truth of the matter is that Kentuckians ...
RDemocrat 05/12/2008 28 7 - 13
Thoughts From KY-01
As many know, we have been facing an uphill battle all along in Kentucky's First Congressional District. Ed Whitfield has huge special interest money, and has the Mitch McConnell machine of ...
RDemocrat 08/30/2008 5 12 1 2
Those Terrible Elitist Kennedys
Everyone knows that New York has a Senate seat being vacated by Hillary. Everyone knows also that Caroline Kennedy has expressed an interest in said seat. Now, that interest seems to have erupted in ...
RDemocrat 12/16/2008 384 53 3 24
Those Evil Union Workers Weren't the Problem
Remember just a couple of weeks ago when we were hearing how the Big 3 should not be bailed out because those evil union workers had bankrupted them by daring to aspire to middle-class wages and ...
RDemocrat 12/22/2008 11 10 - -
This is Very Important!!
Hello everyone. While I would love to use my daily diary to promote John Edwards for President, or Greg Stumbo for Ky Senate in 08, a far more pressing issue has come up. I know there are several ...
RDemocrat 08/22/2007 12 6 1 -
Think You Have the Right to Organize? Think Again
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. It is no big secret that the middle-class has become an ...
RDemocrat 04/26/2010 9 22 1 52
Think Progress Fires Back at Rick Scott
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Here at Hillbilly Report we have been following Rick Scott, and his fight to deny millions of Americans the ...
RDemocrat 06/02/2009 6 21 - 22
There is Plenty of Blame For Us Never Having a Chance
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. If Democrats do indeed experience huge losses in ...
RDemocrat 10/25/2010 25 2 - 25
The Unemployed Suffer the Real Cause of Deficits
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. In a sad reminder of the sorry state of our country and ...
RDemocrat 12/01/2010 5 6 - 22
The Superior Domestic Agenda of John Edwards
I recently did a diary detailing why I believe that John Edwards would be the best Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces among any candidate on either side. Well, not only is Edwards superior in ...
RDemocrat 10/16/2007 97 35 - 16
The Scourge of Child and Forced Labor is Still Very Real
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. With the outsourcing of our middle-class jobs to virtual ...
RDemocrat 09/21/2009 5 9 - 28
The Republican Problem With the Paycheck Fairness Act
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. It is no big secret that in the last several decades ...
RDemocrat 07/20/2010 3 8 - 28
The Republican Model for Labor in America
No matter what your opinion on the auto bailout, one lasting image of that fight was Mitch McConnell, and his fellow facist neo-con flock "informing" Americans how we are too fat and sassy because ...
RDemocrat 01/06/2009 35 23 2 23
The Republican "Good Ole Payback"
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. The Republican vision for America is coming to fruition. After ...
RDemocrat 04/04/2011 1 6 - 59
The Reality Behind Rand Paul's "Halt"
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. The Mad Doctor and Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul is proving that ...
RDemocrat 10/19/2011 8 18 1 144
The Real Weakness of Democrats
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. You know, living in a red area that has a Democratic tradition I constantly hear one thing when trying ...
RDemocrat 10/28/2009 39 20 - 60
The Real Truth About the Employee Free Choice Act
The fight for re-building an American middle-class is soon to be joined. The only way for big business and the status-quo to defeat this common sense approach to the rights of workers to join the ...
RDemocrat 03/10/2009 100 31 1 24
The Real Republican Problem With Libya
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. On Libya the Republican hypocrites are stepping out of the woodwork ...
RDemocrat 03/29/2011 7 6 - 72
The Real Danger of 2010
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Republicans are already salivating at their chances for gains in 2010. In my opinion, I think they ...
RDemocrat 10/17/2009 8 3 - 32
The Real Cost of Social Security Surplus Raiding
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. It seems in these debt limit talks some of the "reckless ...
RDemocrat 07/27/2011 9 10 2 112
The Rand Paul Circus of Idiocy Rolls On...
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Ah Kentucky. Home of Bourbon, basketball and bluegrass. Now ...
RDemocrat 11/14/2010 21 23 - 61
The Put America Back to Work Act of 2011
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. In the budget and ideological battles engulfing the American ...
RDemocrat 06/28/2011 3 7 - 35
The Positive Message of John Edwards Takes Hold Too
I know a lot has been said lately about how John Edwards sounds angry. A lot is being made of Edwards wanting to fight to take our country back from special interests. I for one am more than glad to ...
RDemocrat 12/18/2007 100 150 4 10
The New Paul Ryan Budget is a Sorry Reminder of a Sad Fact
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. It appears as if the Republican "numbers cruncher" Paul Ryan is at it again. Fresh off an election in which his last budget and the numbers therein were widely ...
RDemocrat 03/13/2013 4 6 - -
The Most Compelling Case for John Edwards: UNITY!!
As an Edwards supporter, I can think of about a thousand reasons to vote for John Edwards. In fact, I really wish I had a dollar for every reason to support John Edwards. We would then have the ...
RDemocrat 01/24/2008 33 32 - 28
The Minimum Wage and The Two Americas
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. In the primary of 2004 and 2008 there was a reason I supported the Democrat I supported for President. Despite the eventual personal failings of the candidate the ...
RDemocrat 05/20/2013 5 7 - -
The Mayor of Las Vegas Misses the Point
I am no Obama apolegist. I did not vote for him in the primary and have been troubled by some of his appointments since his election. However, I must rise to his defense against the Mayor of Las ...
RDemocrat 02/11/2009 29 9 - 1
The March Of Mitch McConnell Continues
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Around here we have become used to one thing down through the years. Anytime measures are presented that would save lives and help Americans as a whole Mitch ...
RDemocrat 01/21/2013 9 4 - -
The Historic Lesson on the Bush Tax Cuts
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Now that it is coming down to the wire on the argument of ...
RDemocrat 11/15/2010 22 19 1 206
The Hard Truth of Another Betrayal
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. It is just a sign of the times. Once again Progressives and those of us ...
RDemocrat 09/03/2011 39 12 - 179
The Greed of Romney and Republicans Could Destroy the America We Love
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Mitt Romney and the Republican Party he now "leads" are determined to do one thing. Force average Americans to pay for the economy they crashed and the debt they ...
RDemocrat 06/17/2012 12 9 2 97
The Great Sadness of Healthcare Reform
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Oh, those poor souls who are crying so hard about the legislation provided for Universal Healthcare in ...
RDemocrat 11/09/2009 12 9 - 120
The Good News and the Bad News on Healthcare Reform
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Well, the bad news on real Healthcare reform is that no compromise has been reached on the Healthcare ...
RDemocrat 07/28/2009 13 14 - 101
The Edwards Obama Flap: Obama Wrong on Fair Trade Too
Well, it seems that the Edwards and Obama camps are going at each other a bit today. It all stemmed from the fact that although Barack Obama has recieved huge celebrity endorsements and money for ...
RDemocrat 12/22/2007 157 43 - 8
The DSCC Comes to Kentucky
The battle to Ditch Mitch is raging hard and there is blood in the water. Somehow, helping to bring about an economic train wreck just doesn't look good on the Resume. It looks as though Mitch ...
RDemocrat 10/09/2008 12 13 - 14
The Democrats in Kentucky's Senate Race
With the Drama Queen Republican Senators and faithful horde ...
RDemocrat 05/19/2009 20 15 1 38
The Culmination of Republican "Ideals"
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. We are seeing it now. The culmination of decades of Republicans "starving the beast" in order to do one thing. Be able to cry wolf about time-honored government ...
RDemocrat 12/03/2012 3 7 1 -
The Cowardly Attack of George W. Bush Speaks Volumes
Is George W. Bush kidding us, or just himself? I know the story of his attack on Barack Obama is known well here. This was wrong on so many different levels, who knows where to begin? I would ...
RDemocrat 05/16/2008 32 15 1 -
The Bill for Republican Rule Comes in the Mail
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Today Americans learned what the total price of giving total control of our government to Republicans ...
RDemocrat 07/20/2009 12 13 - 50
The Audacity of Greed
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. In 2008 we dared to believe in the audacity of hope. And while many of our hopes ...
RDemocrat 06/24/2011 5 8 - 57
The "War on Terror" is Still a Failure
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Like many I was against the War in Iraq, but believed we had some business to conduct operations in ...
RDemocrat 06/19/2009 6 3 - 19
The "Trancendent Issue of Our Era"
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Fresh off their humiliating defeat in the debate about what has really caused the problems that have beset our country Republicans just cannot give up on one thing.
RDemocrat 01/28/2013 4 7 - -
The "Successful" Presidency of George W. Bush
Like millions of my fellow Democrats across this great nation of ours, I have always regarded George W. Bush as a complete imbecile. I felt he was the spoiled-rotten black sheep of an elitist, ...
RDemocrat 07/30/2008 46 15 1 31
The "McConnellization" of Rand Paul Continues as Governor Attacks
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. It is really not taking Rand Paul much ...
RDemocrat 08/26/2010 5 13 - 191
The "Government Run" Sticking Point
It appears likely now that the huge sticking point for Republicans on the issue of healthcare reform is going to be the prescense of a Government run plan. While President Obama has promised to be ...
RDemocrat 03/07/2009 18 11 - 2
Thanks For So Much Bobby
I know there will be many diaries on this subject today. However, the one person that has lived that had the most to do with the fire I possess for history and government was Robert F. Kennedy. He ...
RDemocrat 06/06/2008 8 8 - -
Thank You Maurice Hinchey
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Many of us for a long time have believed that Osama bin-Laden was given a free ...
RDemocrat 12/01/2009 30 15 - 179
Texas Republicans One-Up Kentucky on Teacher Funding
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. This is getting ridiculous. It seems as if Republicans ...
RDemocrat 08/12/2010 9 14 - 40
Tell Whirlpool: Enough is Enough!!
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Across the Ohio River from Kentucky in Indiana is the city of Evansville.
RDemocrat 02/19/2010 55 34 - 31
Tell NBC to Shun Rick Scott's Propaganda
Crossposted from . HillbillyReport. Rick Scott brings ...
RDemocrat 05/29/2009 27 15 - 162
Tell Eric Holder: Stop the Swaps
Crossposted from Hillbilly Report. Everyone knows about the banking industry imploding upon it's own greed and crashing the economy. Everyone also ...
RDemocrat 03/09/2010 7 7 - 17