A Democrat breaks with tradition

Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 30, 2003 | P. Amy MacKinnon

[Monitor]

Well, someone gets it.

[Vigilanteman]

Sort of reminds me that Ronald Reagan carried Massachusetts in back-to-back elections even when they re-elected Ted Kennedy.

[jocon307]

She does indeed get it. Gets it better than some Republicans, even. I don't know how active this woman is in the Dem party, but I wonder if anyone will even speak to her now.

But, from her article, and the strength of her writing, I get the idea she won't care if they don't.

[doxteve]

It's like getting to eat at a church or lodge buffet dinner; someone has to step up first. Then the others will follow. Watch the Democrats surge to the trough like the rest of the Lttle Red Hen's barnyard.

[Wphile]

A GW IN '04 PING!

[small voice in the wilderness]

I hope they don't burn him as a witch~

This may mark the faint stirrings of a mass exodus from the party devastated by the clinton Doctrine of Debauchery. Come out, brave democrats, before it's too late.

[gooleyman]

Gets it better than some Republicans, even.

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She certainly gets it better than ALL of the Third Partiers.

[whereasandsoforth]

Aside: Oil is the blood that pumps through the heart that keeps this world alive. I was in my early 20's during the oil embargo in the 1970's. I'm gonna be 50 in 2004. Why has the situation remained the same? This nation could be self-dependent by now. It is time for a radical approach to address this silliness.

[KantianBurke]

nor his incorporating nuclear power into his energy plan, nor his judgment in appointing an attorney general inclined to sheathe immodest works of art.

Sigh...

[KantianBurke]

Self dependant on what? Can't use our massive deposits of coal. Greens say it pollutes too much. Can't drill for more oil in this country. Greens won't allow it. Can't develop nuclear power, Greens are against it. Even the "environmentally safe" resources are dragged down to their being "eyesores" and "dangerous to birds."

[TheGeezer]

An example of why a Dean candidacy will be a wonderful thing for the nation. In fact, this article explains what is wrong with liberalism a la DemocRat Party today...and why many rational Dems will vote for Bush no matter WHO is the antiAmerican candidate...

[alwaysconservative]

At least she seems to recognize that these are peripheral to the issues of being a leader, and that President Bush leads with integrity on this most crucial of issues. That makes up for a few petty jibes about Ashcroft's supposed prudishness. (She could have gone off on the Patriot Act, for example.)

[DrDeb]

Gets it better than some Republicans, even.

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She certainly gets it better than ALL of the Third Partiers.



. . . both of these comments deserve to be stated again!!!!

[pointsal]

Welcome home, Amy

[edwin hubble]

Oil, coal, wind, nuclear... all of these offend.

NPR this evening, in ponderous tones, articulated their deep, profound concern that Oil Drilling (!!!) was planned for BLM lands adjacent to the ANWAR refuge (!!!).

This reminds me of the fierce hatred of all industry that is instilled in school children in the elementary grades.
Where their parents earn their comfortable paychecks.

The same kids who love their video games and athletic shoes. No clue where these things come from. Their teachers haven't a clue, apparently, because they never connect the dots.

[Senator_Blutarski]

It is very gratifying to find a Democrat who puts her country before her politics. GW may want to hire her to write some stump speeches. This is pretty good stuff.

[dware]

Excellent find. Bookmarked for future review - also sending to all my Democrat friends.

[JBCiejka]

Not only a good post for her, but putting a chronology of incidents, makes it more clear. People are too soon to forget the history footprints along the way.

[hershey]

We need to get busy with cold fusion. Isn't Darryl Hannah driving around in a car propelled by something simple? Only problem then is that the Middle East won't have anything to sell the evil West. They'll be humiliated again. And mad.

[TontoKowalski]

Ashcraft is not a bad/incompetent AG because he covered the "immodest works of art." But he is a pretty assine prude. Hell, if he didn't want marble boobs sharing the stage with him during press conferences, he should have moved the location, and not paid God-knows-what for those fancy draperies.

That's about the only criticism of him that I am in perfect agreement with the liberals on.