(Community Matters) No one has definitive answers to the challenges America is facing.
President Obama’s willingness to listen to all sides, synthesize the best nuggets from many, review all through the prism of strong values, and then experiment, suggests an entrepreneurial mind. And, given that entrepreneurship and shared values are closely linked with America’s historical success, I feel good about this approach.
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(Community Matters) Their keynote in DC, Joe the Plumber.
Intellectual heavy weights of today’s GOP include Gov Bobby Jindal?
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(Community Matters) I like David Brooks description of the Republican response to President Obama’s speech. here
This from a former friend who twice supported Bush:
“Although it is interesting to debate… It really does not matter what the right and left think about the speech and the response. The Dems watched and slobbered over the speech with a Pavlovian predictability, just as the Reps did over Bush. Likewise, both groups clobber the poor sap that has to follow with the response.
It has taken me awhile to figure it out, but the real work in politics is not in the left or the right, but in the middle. Time will tell if the middle feels hurt by the stimulus and if the result is a new migration.
Die hard Dems will always vote their party, so do the die hard Reps. It is those “middle of the road” folk that vote their Heart/Wallet/Family.
-Pat True Die Hard Republican”
2/26 update: The dialogue with this former friend deteriorated further. Despite his promising reference to interests of the “middle,” his positions are unrepentant of GW Bush politics. It’s been years since we worked together. On several levels I’m quite fond of him. I’d forgotten that he relies on talk radio to form his opinions and talking points – as do, unfortuantely, millions. Wish I had more patience and time, but today I don’t. One of my goals is I will. Probably best for us both that I’ve simply unfriended (my first on Facebook – my “loves the sinner, hates the sin” friend probably the next)
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(Community Matters) I don’t get it. Why do Rick Perry & David Dewhurst want to make women get ultrasounds?
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(Community Matters)
Americans can do it – all of us together.
We are not quitters.
There were times during the previous eight years when many Americans were not proud of our country. We are proud again.
Posted from my blackberry
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(Community Matters) Republican Utah Governor John Huntsman, Jr on GOP Congressional leadership
“I don’t even know the congressional leadership.” “I have not met them. I don’t listen or read whatever it is they say because it is inconsequential — completely.” Huntsman added that he would not reject any money from President Obama’s stimulus. While he criticized what he saw as misdirected spending in bill, he said Republicans had no credibility on fiscal responsibility.
“Our moral soapbox was completely taken away from us because of our behavior in the last few years,” he said. “For us to now criticize analogous behavior is hypocrisy. We’ve got to come at it a different way. We’ve got to prove the point. It can’t be as the Chinese would say, ‘fei hua,’ [or] empty words.”
by the way, can we all just agree Michael Steele is a total tool?
Hat Tip: Huffington Post
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(Community Matters) We ought to organize 100,000 to march on Texas’ capitol as a signal to our Governor, Lt. Governor and Speaker that Texans won’t stand by while statewide politicians posture and reject federal unemployment monies which could feed and protect those who have lost their jobs. Women & men, Republicans & Democrats from around the state should descend on the capitol to show our elected leaders we expect them to deploy this federal aid and to adopt the well-thought out & overdue changes to state unemployment policies.
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(Community Matters) In the Anglican tradition of our Episcopal church, we’ll celebrate the day before lent at St. James’ first with a supper of pancakes and sausage, then the burning of palms (though it’s called the burning of hallelujah’s) – which are used for Ash Wednesday services.
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(Community Matters) Sixty percent of Americans approve of how BHO is handling the presidency, and 6 in 10 Republicans believe he’s tried to work with Republicans.
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(Community Matters) Kevin Keim sent this video as a tease to attend Leonard Cohen’s April 2 performance at the Long Center.
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(Community Matters) Response from a favored reader to my posting on Nationalization of Banks
Hell, back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country and our banking system to the same nit-wits who couldn’t make money running a whore house and selling whiskey!”
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(Community Matters) I’m beginning to believe they may be entering a decade long decline. The news just gets more and more weird.
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