Agreed that the left, ranging from the liberals to the hard left, isn't doing so well these days either in the ideas department. But we have been known to have had an idea from time to time. Who knows, it might happen again.
Andie
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Conservatism
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org, lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 3:02 PM
> At 12:15 PM 9/14/2009, Doug Henwood
> wrote:
>
> >>contemporary
> >>conservatism is pretty much brain dead,
> >>so no surprises there.
> >
> >Well yeah, but the left ain't cooking with gas now
> either.
>
>
> Per your suggestion I just took a look at People's Daily
> World where
> I found this insightful comment from John Sweeney:
>
> http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/16995/
>
> "A reporter asked outgoing federation President John
> Sweeney about
> news of a decision by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., to reverse
> himself
> and come out now in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act.
> "It's
> amazing how elected officials will sometimes do things that
> like
> that, isn't it?" Sweeney responded."
>
>
>
>
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