OperaDem
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- 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.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Is Obama a Democrat?
August 03, 2011 10:21PM - It's all about the Money
July 24, 2011 10:31PM - Patriotic Acts
July 06, 2011 09:53PM - Patriotic Acts
July 06, 2011 09:53PM - Republican Cross-roads
June 24, 2011 06:16PM
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Is Obama a Democrat?
“If I were a Republican this would be a night to party.”
Rep Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo,) Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus - 07/31/11 on MSNBC
“We are tying similar handcuff to the next time we raise the debt ceiling.”
Rep Michael Grimm (R-NY) - 07/31/11 on MSNBC… Read full post »
It's all about the Money
"It's unthinkable that this country will not meet its obligations on time. It's just unthinkable we'd ever do that. It's not going to happen.''
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on CNN's "State of the Union" 07/25/2011
"You know, what I really want right now is to -- to get… Read full post »
Patriotic Acts
“Our Country was founded on Dissent!”
The reaction of Ann, a friend of the Operadem, to a yard sign in New York
Ann was reading a homemade yard-sign proclaiming “Dissent is Patriotic,” posted in front of a house in upstate New York. She is right… Read full post »
Patriotic Acts
“Our Country was founded on Dissent!”
The reaction of Ann, a friend of the Operadem, to a yard sign in New York
Ann was reading a homemade yard-sign proclaiming “Dissent is Patriotic,” posted in front of a house in upstate New York. She is right… Read full post »
Obama is the most serious radical threat to traditional America ever to occupy the White House."
-- Newt Gingrich, quoted in a new book, Subversion Inc., as reported by the American Spectator. (http://politicalwire.com/)
The 2012 Republican Presidential campaign is swirling across the n… Read full post »
Telling a good "Narrative"
- John Stewart citing the fact that of 82 of 84 incumbents on the June 8 ballot won.
According to “The Narrative,” incumbents are in trouble.
“The Narrative” is what reporters use to call “the story.” But now/… Read full post »
Glenn Beck Was Right (I hate to admit it)
“He is a citizen of the United States, so I say we uphold the laws and the Constitution on citizens. If you are a citizen, you obey the law and follow the Constitution. [Shahzad] has all the rights under the Constitution. We don't shred the Constitution when it is popular, we… Read full post »
Twenty-Two Pens
Kill the Bill!- Popular Republican slogan from the past
Twenty-Two- The Number of pens Barack Obama used to sign health care reform legislation into law.
On March 23, 2010, Preside… Read full post »
A Man of Character
- Howard Zinn American Historian – 1922 – 2010
Howard Zinn, meet John Edwards.
Few American politicians have self-destructed wit… Read full post »
Cash is King
Out of the Foxhole
“That’s not true.”
- President Obama answering questions at the Republican Congressional Retreat in Baltimore this week.
On Friday, President Obama took the fight to the Republican Congressional delegation at their retreat in B… Read full post »
Napping in Massachusetts
- David Axelrod
David Axelrod was wrong. The Democrats weren’t napping; they were in deep sleep in Massachusetts. Even as the polls tightened weeks before t… Read full post »
Connecting the Dots
[N(N–1)]/2 where N = Number of People- Formula used to calculate the number of communications channels in a group of people.
The terrorist attempt on the Northwest Airlines flight into Detroit over Christmas has a lot of people talking… Read full post »
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 »
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