Archive for June, 2009
Al Franken declared winner. Norm concedes.
Jun 30, 2009 3 Comments ›› ARDemAbout damn time.Finally, it's over. Coleman's out, Franken's in, and the Democrats have a fillibuster proof majority. Now there's no reason for Democrats to bitch and moan about needing sixty votes to get anything done because, guess what, we've got them. Now the question is are sellouts like Lincoln and Pryor and the Blue Dogs ...
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Jun 30, 2009 No Comments ›› ARDemTalk about hitting the nail on the head.Mike Huckabee: He's a charming, roly-poly former Arkansas governor with hisown talk show on Fox. He used to be fat, then he got skinny, and now he is kindafat again. He is friends with Chuck Norris. A lot of liberals find himsurprisingly tolerable, and he is more than ...
Continue ReadingCurtis Coleman: Crazy
Jun 29, 2009 No Comments ›› ARDemLike I keep saying, Blanche Lincoln always seems to get a nut to run against and this time around will probably be no exception. Curtis Coleman already stepped in it big time with his visa and shots comment. Now he's making it clear that he's certifiably crazy:Curtis Coleman of Little Rock paused and got choked ...
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Jun 29, 2009 No Comments ›› ARDemI'm betting the climate change bill is DOA in the Senate with Lincoln and Pryor being two Democrats to count as nay votes.Blanche Lincoln always gets a, shall we say, colorful Republican to run against. I wonder which nut she gets this time? Will it be the Jew hater, the guy who thinks south-east Arkansas ...
Continue ReadingMike Ross’s latest screw up.
Jun 29, 2009 No Comments ›› ARDemLast week the House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, an energy bill designed to jump start investment in clean, renewable energy like solar and wind and establish a market based cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Now the bill's not perfect, having been heavily watered down by conservative ...
Continue Reading40 years since Stonewall…from someone born long after the riots.
Jun 28, 2009 No Comments ›› ARDemI'm gay. That's not that big a deal to say these days but forty years ago it would have been huge, dangerous for that matter. It's easy to forget just how good we have it today as a group. Sure, it's not perfect-we're not equal under the law, we can be fired in a majority ...
Continue ReadingThe 1st Post.
Jun 27, 2009 2 Comments ›› ARDemARDem here, and welcome to Blue Arkansas. I'm a Democrat...a REAL Democrat, and by that I mean I'm a liberal/progressive Democrat and damn proud of it. It's not easy being a left winger in Arkansas, but it's not just the Republicans that make it so, it's also the endless sea of conservative Democrats, ...
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