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The Obama Achievements Project

Shoq — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:23:25 +0000

We're a Crowd making a list

As the midterm elections approach, there is a need for a list of Obama Achievements that progressives can use for voter and media education efforts. The administration has had far more significant accomplishments than the media have given much notice to, and better information can and will help

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The @GOPleader Boehner Mashup: The Yes We Can’t

Shoq — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:33:12 +0000

Yeah, it's easy to snark Boehner and the #GOP slime weasels, right?

The problem is, the more we snark, the more territory they seem to seize. But he, even so, at least for now, a little snark can be fun.

The @GOPLeader Boehner Mashup Video: "Yes We Can't." (via @shoq) #p2

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Our Real Enemy: Progressive Passivity

Shoq — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:29:48 +0000

This is the very essay I was going to try and tackle this week. These fine folks have done a superb job of writing it for me. You must read it, and then see my note that follows:

How To Do Effective Political Activism: What Always Worked And What Never Did — by Peterson

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Team Progressive: Shaky But Still Able To Win

Shoq — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:48:33 +0000

Preface: I really prefer micro-blogging about short, concise, action-oriented bits of news and information. I am not a journalist, and have never considered myself much of a writer, so forgive me as I stumble through a screed that is far longer and more ambitious than what I first intended, or what I normally offer on

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Concept: What if we just move?

Shoq — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:56:26 +0000

I’m about to tweet this idea. I’m interested in anyone’s comments.

Concept: Just 3-5 million infrastructurally-vital liberals, all moved to just 1 or 2 states, driving them hyper-blue. #p2

Concept: What if we just move?

Volunteer for Coakley. Save Your Country

Shoq — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:58:41 +0000

After months of whining, backstabbing, and sniveling by people who think bashing Obama is the best way to redirect America on a progressive path, the result has been a demoralized and disaffected electorate that is easy polemical pickins for the malicious fascists who got us into this mess.

We have 48 hours to not just save

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Progressive or Liberal: Does the label really matter?

Shoq — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:49:47 +0000

In March of his year, the Seattle Times ran this story about the battle over "Progressivism vs. Liberalism.

With "liberal" out, what's left? Progressive

Mary Helms, 54, whose family raises peanuts and cotton in Dothan, Ala., said she knew what a liberal was: "Someone who doesn't have very good morals."

And a progressive? "I don't really
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Best LTE Ever

Shoq — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:43:50 +0000

To Washington Post Letters: Steven F. Hayward wrote: "The single largest defect of modern conservatism, in my mind, is its insufficient ability to challenge liberalism at the intellectual level. . . ."

No. The single largest defect of modern conservatism is that it has ruined the nation. Conservatives do not have ideas; they have interests.
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Proud To Be A Liberal

Shoq — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:39:28 +0000

Why Liberal values are American values

Brian Elroy McKinley "You are a contentious person….and probably a Liberal," started a recent response to an article I published on abortion rights. Contentious? Possibly. Liberal? Absolutely. Seems these days Conservatives have convinced themselves, and some of the American public, that being a Liberal is akin to being a card-carrying

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Liberal Achievements

Shoq — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:28:20 +0000

All or most were strenuously resisted by conservatives and many Republicans.

Interstate Highway System It wasn't Ike's idea. It was a liberal initiative begun in the '30s. Ike was a liberal.

Almost all of our Labor Laws (and All Child Labor laws)

The Marshall Plan

Environmental Laws

Freedom of Information Act

Workplace safety laws

Social Security

The Space Program

Securities Act of

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