Brain cramp-- meant to title Thoughts on the latest controversy
This week I had brought home to me that we must be progressive in our thinking and moderate in our speech.
We progressives and Democrats have been celebrating the outcome of the contraception controversy.
We are proud of our president and hopeful about his overcoming the hate machine.
We are resentful of religious intrusion on civil life, and properly vocal on intrusion in our bedrooms and bodies.
We are outraged about the ignorance of health implications, and the obsession with religious objections.
If we see the big picture, the solution to this controversy was 2 words: single payer.
And that's what I said to a friend, a former county Dem chair, who was emotional and offended at a meeting this week.
The president was moderate in his statements on the subject and in his compromise solution.
We may feel strong emotions and need to vent, but we must be moderate in statements and conversations.
Otherwise we will walk into a trap as surely as the Santorums of this world.
We need Catholic Democrats to know we are not hostile to their faith.
Catholics are the democratic core in small towns and rural areas all over this country.
Jesus was a liberal; it's in the Sermon on the Mount.
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This week I had brought home to me that we must be progressive in our thinking and moderate in our speech.
We progressives and Democrats have been celebrating the outcome of the contraception controversy.
We are proud of our president and hopeful about his overcoming the hate machine.
We are resentful of religious intrusion on civil life, and properly vocal on intrusion in our bedrooms and bodies.
We are outraged about the ignorance of health implications, and the obsession with religious objections.
If we see the big picture, the solution to this controversy was 2 words: single payer.
And that's what I said to a friend, a former county Dem chair, who was emotional and offended at a meeting this week.
The president was moderate in his statements on the subject and in his compromise solution.
We may feel strong emotions and need to vent, but we must be moderate in statements and conversations.
Otherwise we will walk into a trap as surely as the Santorums of this world.
We need Catholic Democrats to know we are not hostile to their faith.
Catholics are the democratic core in small towns and rural areas all over this country.
Jesus was a liberal; it's in the Sermon on the Mount.
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Krugman gets it right, again.
Mitch Daniels, the former Bush budget director who is now Indiana’s governor, made the Republicans’ reply to President Obama’s State of the Union address. His performance was, well, boring. But he did say something thought-provoking — and I mean that in the worst way.
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