Being Liberal and a Progressive in a RED STATE is not an easy thing these days. I started this blog to vent my frustrations on our lives being taken over by right wing conservatives with their propaganda machines. I have also learned an important lesson in the last year, it is that reading is the only way to get real information, you cannot depend on the news you see on TV.

"I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE"....Howard Beale (NETWORK)

Thursday, February 03, 2005

I Feel Kinda Sorry for Those Poor "Moderate Republicans"

By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; Page A13

Pity the Republican moderates who sat in the chamber last night for President Bush's State of the Union address.

On issue after issue -- Social Security, same-sex marriage, energy, taxes and lawsuit restrictions -- Bush's rhetoric split the House chamber between the throaty roars of Republican conservatives and the stony silence and occasionally outright heckling of the Democrats. That left the small number of GOP moderates sprinkled among the Republicans with a difficult choice: Would they swallow their concerns and cheer for ideas they considered objectionable? Or would they sit on their hands when their president proposed policies they oppose? .....

<>full story:
For Moderates, A Chance for Subtle Protest

posted by Gingersnapp at 2/03/2005 11:55:00 AM

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