OperaDem
- Location
- Oakland, California, USA
- Bio
- Ever since I can remember, I have been a political junkie. One of my first memories is purchasing an anti-Goldwater button that said, "In your Guts, You Know He's Nuts!" I was six at the time. I had a poster from Hubert Humphrey's 1968 campaign on my wall while growing up. From then until now I have closely followed national politics. I am as the old southern saying goes a yellow dog democrat – I would rather vote for a yellow dog before a Republican. My budget hawk stance mixed with my liberal social view puts me in line with the Blue Dog democrats. I guess the two together makes me a green dog democrat. If you know anyone else who made Get-out-the-vote calls for Terry Sanford in 1972, please let me know.
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The New Dan Quayle
“Sarah Palin is the next Ronald Reagan”
- Richard A. Viguerie - September 9, 2008 – Pioneer of political direct mail and a pillar of the modern conservative movement
This time last year, conservatives everywhere wer… Read full post »
Nullification and Health Care Reform
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.- The 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
AmericaCongressional Re… Read full post »
Edward M. Kennedy - 1932-2009
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
“We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. I have lived in a blessed time.”… Read full post »
Bill Clinton Should Know...
What you can't do, or you can, but you shouldn't do -- is start saying things like we want to set up death panels to pull the plug on grandma."
- President Obama in a Town Hall meeting in Grand Junction Colorado. “I don't care how low t… Read full post »
Oh Really? The Cultural Wars are Over?
The cultural climate is far different today, besides. Now, roughly 75 percent of Americans support an end to Don’t Ask, and gay issues are no longer a third rail in American politics. – Frank Rich New York Times 06/28/2009
The cultural wars are over, or at least quiet. We know this… Read full post »
Teheran 2009 – Iran 1979 or Tiananmen Square 1989?
“It has given me back my voice. The amazing thing is that I didn’t know I had one, but now they can never force me to shut up again. Our Government has spilled our blood, that will never change, and we will never stop.”- Hossein… Read full post »
In Defense of Marriage
“I believe that one day either the people or the courts will recognize gay marriage.”
- Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger – an opponent of Prop. 8 - commenting on Tuesday’s California Supreme Court’s ruling
This Tuesda… Read full post »
Nancy Pelosi and the War on Torture
“And Speaker Pelosi has, at times, objected to activities that were approved by the president. Those activities were changed as a result of her objection . . .House Minority Leader John Boehner on CNN’s State of the Union 05/17/2009
J. Dennis Hastert, (R. Ill), Speaker of the House… Read full post »
What is a Republican
"Well, if I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd go with Rush Limbaugh, I think. I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn't know he was still a Republican."- Former Vice-President Dick Cheney on Face the Nation
So what is… Read full post »
A Risk to the Republican "Brand"
“Do you really believe that we lost 18-to-34-year-olds by 19
percent, or we lost Hispanic voters, because we are not
conservative enough? No. This is a ridiculous line of thought. The
truth is we lost young people because our Republican brand is
tainted."
-- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) April 29,… Read full post »
Cleaning The Moral Stain on America
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.”- Edward Burke – letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol 1777.
“By no later than the summer of 2004 the American people had before them the bas… Read full post »
Obama's War
AIG Bonus Rounds
It is with deep regret I submit my notice of resignation from A.I.G Financial Products.- Resignation letter from Jake DeSantis, EVP in AIG Financial Products Group published in the New York Times on March 25, 2009.
Yesterday Jake DeSantis,… Read full post »
Kerry Lauerman
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