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Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
While the GOP was willing to let the Big Three fail,
they now wail, weep, worry, whimper & whine
that the President's taking too hard a line on the industry.
Despite coddling contractors cronies & business buddies
the Right now frets government is...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
Conservatives don't want us to take control of banks
as that would involve the gov in the free market
...a market that led to toxic assets & zombie banks.
"Let the market do it's job," they shout --
a market that created outsized compensation,
excessi...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
Drinking Liberally Shot of Truth
We wrote earlier this month about how the Working Families Party is doing some of the best work out there in creating an accessible narrative for progressives in the economic crisis, the most recent example being their use...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
American workers lose jobs & savings
while GOP leaders turn-down stimulus funds
that could create jobs & savings.
Those whose companies collapsed
get big bonuses from bailout bucks.
And while we belatedly caught Bernie Madoff,
every day another gr...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
President Obama wants to grow our economy
by ending subsidies to agri-business giants,
but high-ranking Senate Dems aren't so sure.
The pro-worker Employee Free Choice Act
has a majority of support in the Senate
but the Dem Leader isn't willing to fight i...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
After 8 years of rushing laws through Congress
that squandered our nation's wealth & profited the few,
the GOP now joins Rush in hoping America fails,
& opposing policies to rebuild our country.
After 8 years of letting the greedy steal from the m...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
On a bitter cold February night, close to 100 Chicago area liberals braved the weather to attend “The Nation Guide To Living Liberally”, a night of comedy, music, and guest speakers celebrating liberalism in Chicago and the release of “The Nation’...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
Our last President had used a State of the Union
to offer lies about uranium that conned us into Iraq.
Our new President used his first address to Congress
to talk honestly about the cost of Iraq & about ending it.
Bush used his major annual address
f...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
Drinking Liberally Shot of Truth
As we joked last year, it used to be simple for Drinking Liberally to prep for the State of the Union address: guess where the Bush team would get creative (Human-animal hybrids! A new Mars mission! Uranium from Niger!), g...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
Drinking Liberally is big on our anniversaries. Maybe it comes hand-in-hand with the culture of drinking -- you always want to toast to something.
Now, how about a Weekiversary May seem silly, but our organization's strength has come in the regularity ...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
If our government ran like the banks,
our leaders would resist oversight & transparency
as they wasted and abused public funds & public trust.
If the Prez acted like a bank CEO,
he'd keep in place a team that had failed
& even give them bonuse...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
Two hundred years ago today, a person was born
who would lead the US through our greatest crisis
and in doing so, he would end slavery
& preserve a union of, by & for the people.
Another, also born 200 years ago today,
used science to challenge co...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
If you were to do a quick scan of Drinking Liberally chapters from around this great nation of ours' you would assume that the list would be prolific enough for us. But, after a little research earlier today, I found that we are without Drinking Liberall...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 2 years ago.
Jay Hazen sent us this list of flavor names supposedly submitted to Ben & Jerry's for a Bush themed ice cream. Comment with your favorite one or submit your own!
- Grape Depression
- The Housing Crunch
- Abu Grape
- Cluster Fudge
- Nut'n Accomplished...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 3 years ago.
The values are all there: teamwork; fairplay; a transparent and honest judiciary. By many counts, sports embody liberal values.
So why does it seem like pro sports -- and its apotheosis, last night's Superbowl -- are the domain of conservative thinking...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 3 years ago.
Both parties helped to bail out the banks,
funds that have been unaccounted for & abused,
but when it comes to investing in stimulus,
House Republicans decide to sit it out.
Crossing the aisle, the Prez compromises
from bankruptcy reform to family pla...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 3 years ago.
Liberals,
For those of you who were not there this past Sunday night at the Living Liberally Inaugural Ball you should really consider not missing more events by us! Imagine walking into a three-story club to find a group of 400 liberals listening to Jim ...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 3 years ago.
As we dive head-long into these first 100 days of the Obama administration, we can't help but think of just how whirl-wind the last few months have been - seeing the Obama candidacy become the Obama administration-in-waiting become, as of Noon EST this pa...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 3 years ago.
With a short speech on renewing America,
a new President gave hope to a nation,
a new direction to DC, relief to the world
& a stern rebuke to the man on his way out.
Even before orders to close Guantanamo,
policies about lobbying and White House staf...
Posted by Drinking Liberally 3 years ago.
On Tuesday night, we'll all be raising a glass at one of the many Drinking Liberally parties or other Inaugural Bashes around the country.
But what, exactly, will we be liberally drinking
Many of our chapters offered suggestions for the Official Unoffici...
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