Buzzfeed has the story: Howard Dean has had it with President Obama’s budget proposal, saying the plan put forward by the White House might just drive him from the Democratic Party he once led as DNC chair. On Sunday night, Dean tweeted that the restoration of some defense sequestration cuts contained in Obama’s budget proposal [...]
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Susan Patton Revives “MRS. Degree” for Princeton Female Students
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.” – Susan Patton’s Marriage Advice for College Women THERE ARE way too many well-educated, well-meaning professional women these days giving relationship advice that simply don’t [...]
Obama, Democrats, Tea Party Extremists and Those Hapless Republicans
“When I think about what it means to be a Democrat in this day and age, I start with the basic proposition that we are all created equal, that we’re all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights,” Obama told House Democrats on Thursday at a retreat in Virginia, offering a glimpse of what’s [...]
The War for Your Vote
FOR SOME reason people think they have a moral obligation to police your vote. Your vote. In the second decade of the 21st century, nothing is more outdated, with the growth of the independent voter proving this fact. What it reveals is that people are getting increasingly disgruntled with only two choices and the people [...]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Partisans Who are Killing this Country
CONGRESS IS a feckless chamber of Executive Branch fluffers, or if you’re in the minority, a hopeless group of obstructionists. Debbie Wasserman Schultz sadly becomes the example of the former, while yesterday I easily revealed Darrell Issa as the latter. The job of Congress isn’t to do either, but instead to represent the people over [...]
Top Story: Whose Party Is It, Mitt Romney’s or the Religious Right’s?
“Rape is rape and there’s no splitting hairs over rape.” As for the president’s claim that Romney-Ryan will restrict birth control, Ryan calls that ridiculous. “Nobody is proposing to deny birth control to anybody,” says Ryan. Ryan says women won’t fall for these side issues. “And I don’t think they’re going to take the bait [...]
‘Third-Party Vote Likely Helps Obama’
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Maybe it depends on how you understand a “win.” Or just “progress.” If it demands dramatic and relatively rapid successes, then by that understanding of “win,” the kind of persistence and patience required in creating, developing, evolving, maintaining, growing something different won’t be appealing. Actually, [...]
Newt I Love Me Gingrich Suckers Iowa Evangelicals
Gingrich has support from 25 percent of likely Republican caucusgoers, Paul is at 18 percent and Romney at 16 percent. – Iowa Caucuses OMG. OMG! OMG!! So let me get this straight. Flim flam artist, convenient conservative, serial philanderer and cheater, a man who ditches wives when they’re sick with cancer or MS, who’s a [...]
Liberally Independent: “Personhood” at inception. Baby, you have a come a long way.
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. Here it is, 2012 campaign time, and “women’s rights” are still an issue for fairly large numbers. We’re way past the “You’ve come a long way, baby” because “you’ve got your own cigarette” blatant appropriation of “women’s liberation,” but maybe it’s because actual progress has been [...]
‘Throw the Bums Out’ Empowers Grassrootsie Types
(The Liberally Independent ‘Too Few Choices Series’)
Joyce L. Arnold: Liberal, lesbian, Independent, equality activist, writer. “Everybody knows” fictions and fantasies What “everybody knows” about our political system could fill libraries. Or it could be reduced to a sound bite: What “everybody knows” is often the fictions and fantasies we’re told we should “know.” My take on who ultimately does the telling: [...]
Keith Olbermann: Incumbents’ Only Goals are Re-nomination, Re-Election, and the Pursuit of Hypocrisy
Once Mr. Olbermann came to Current TV I made sure our house changed our cable subscription so I could view his show on Al Gore’s network. He has not disappointed, especially last night. While Lawrence O’Donnell bloviated on MSNBC, more worried about trying to dig himself out of bankrupt political analysis he offered on the [...]
Donald Trump’s Sharpie Marker Missive
**UPDATED** Following on Donald Trump’s op-ed in response to Gail Collins’ column, “Trump Gets Weirder,” this latest reaction to another writer, this time it’s Juli Weiner of Vanity Fair, is just too precious not to post, if only for posterity’s sake. At least Trump isn’t boring. He’s also announced he’ll run as an Independent (video [...]
R.I. Dem to Obama: ‘Shove It’
One week away from the midterms, what is the lead story today? Pres. Obama declined to endorse the Democratic candidate for governor in Rhode Island while traveling in the state today. “He can take his endorsement and really shove it”, Caprio told John Depetro and the WPRO morning news. Caprio told WPRO he did not [...]
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