Five Liberals Who Made a Difference in 2005

After more than four years of silently suffering under the reign of King...er, President Bush, and after devastating Democratic losses in the November 2004 elections, no one expected liberal leadership to suddenly blossom and bloom profusely in 2005. But it did.

Liberal leaders finally stood up in 2005 and firmly told the Bush Administration and Republican-led Congress that....

-- The directionless, bankrupting War in Iraq is immoral and unacceptable, and that an exit timetable must be established now.

-- Lying to the American people and the world in order to make war, or for any reason, is immoral and unacceptable.

-- The President's privatization plan to kill Social Security is immoral and unacceptable.

-- Torture is immoral and unacceptable under all circumstances.

-- Portions of the Patriot Act are unacceptably intrusive into the private and personal lives of millions of innocent Americans.

-- Oil drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is immoral and unacceptable.

-- Depriving US citizens of the right and ability to vote, and suppressing their votes, are immoral and unacceptable.

-- Cutting education, health care, support for local fire fighters and police, foster care, child support enforcement, subsidies for starving farmers and the like to make room for rich tax cuts for people making over $200,000 a year is immoral and unacceptable.

Liberals leaders...many politicians and even more grassroots leaders....made a difference in 2005. They fought the good fight for the historic American values of fairness and equality for all. They strove to keep alive our forefathers' vision that "all men are created equal," and that all are "endowed by the their Creator" with the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

The five leaders included in this article all stood courageously and consistently throughout 2005, against unprecedented criticism and unimaginable pressures, to speak out passionately and uniquely for what is right.

Hats off to the five American patriots in my article, Five Liberals Who Made a Difference in 2005. May their vision and courage inspire us to more action and more victories for the American people in 2006.
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-- The Political Year in Review, by Kathy Gill, About.com Guide to US Politics
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