Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don’t fall in the first place.
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
What’s new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It’s not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That’s where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it’s the hen that delivers the goods.
Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn’t make a good landfill.
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I’ve done for Texas, pay attention. That’s no idle threat.
When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.
America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don’t make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
The original Greek word “idiotes” referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.
Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.
Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.
The water won’t clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
It’s hard for the donkeys to win the race if they’re going to carry the elephants on their backs.