Saturday, September 11, 2010

saturday, the 9th 911 day

An Open Letter From a Liberal to The Tea Party

by rjw78741
Sat Sep 11, 2010 at 01:18:57 PM PDT


Dear Tea Party:

I heard you've been studying the Constitution. That's great! The Left loves the Constitution. We have some common ground there. In fact, liberals have been talking a lot about the Constitution for the last ten years. (You might want to check out a short book by Naomi Wolf called "The End of America: Letters to a Young Patriot," published in 2006.)

I can tell you that the Left is feeling frustrated these days, just like you. Believe it or not, we're not well-represented in Washington. We wanted a green energy policy but that has largely been ignored. We wanted a public health insurance option but that was completely excluded from the health care debate. We wanted secret detentions to stop but they haven't. We wanted out of Iraq and Afghanistan but Obama's digging in deeper. We wanted the people who caused the Great Recession to be brought to accountability but they're still being coddled. We wanted to take back government from corporate control but that hasn't happened. They're just not listening to us liberals in Washington!

rjw78741's diary :: ::

I know many of you are hurting from the financial collapse. You've lost your homes, your jobs and your businesses. Many liberals have suffered the same, and we want to do something about it. You are not happy with the way Washington is operating, and neither are we. We feel your pain.

We have so much in common – where we differ is on the facts. But that's good news, too, because the facts can be ascertained if we just put some effort into finding them. You know what? We should work together. Rarely have so many outsiders had so much motivation to effect change.

But before we can work together, we have to settle four major areas of difference: (Read More)

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