Deborah's US Liberal Politics Blog May 2005 Archive

A tip o' my hat to say thanks to Avedon Carol for including me in her list of top female liberal bloggers. Those are words of high praise coming from ... Read More

From one of my favorite liberal blogs, Grouchy's Liberaltopia, comes this disturbing quote from an unlikely source.... Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable ... Read More

In November 2006, 33 US Senate seats will be up for election, including seats currently held by 16 Democrats and 1 independent who usually votes with liberals. Of course, in ... Read More

Here's some Memorial Day weekend fun to fill a few minutes.....a 20-question quiz, How Liberal or Conservative Are You? I scored 95% liberal, 5% conservative. Which makes me wonder what ... Read More

Congress recessed for the Memorial Day holiday, and will be back in session on Monday, June 6. Before they all left for hometown barbecues, a few items hit the proverbial ... Read More

The liberal blogosphere is vibrant and influential, and it grows day by day. Next Tuesday, May 31, leading liberal blogger and writer Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo will launch ... Read More

I know I should write about the Senate's confirmation today of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to a lifetime position on the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals. I ... Read More

Now that cooler heads have prevailed, and Senate Democrats have effectively quashed the Bush Administraton's scary grab for one-party power, Congress can get back to the business of running our ... Read More

DNC Chair Howard Dean was the sole guest today for the hour-long NBC News' Meet the Press. I thought he did an excellent job in clearly explaining Democratic viewpoints and ... Read More

With his runaway election this week as Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa catapulted to national prominence as a leading Latino politician and rising Democratic superstar. Although he's a ... Read More

Xenophobia is defined in Webster's as "fear or hatred of foreigners." In this post-9/11 era, public fears have been stoked in response to real and imagined threats. When planes pummeled ... Read More

Just got off the phone from a DNC briefing by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. The briefing was...well, brief. He left the Senate floor, amid debates in progress, for this ... Read More

Tomorrow morning, I will be part of a DNC blogger filibuster "nuclear option" update with Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. I will report here ASAP after the phone conference if ... Read More

Attention backpackers, hunters, campers, day hikers and all who love trout fishing. Plan your trips now to paradise, because much of paradise will soon be spoiled. In a move dubbed ... Read More

This morning, Senator Barbara Boxer ( D-CA) placed a senatorial "hold" on the nomination of John Bolton to be US Ambassador to the UN. That hold will cause a delay ... Read More

I just got off the phone from a Democratic blogger briefing by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), with remarks by DNC Chair Howard Dean. No compromise between Senate Democrats and Republicans ... Read More

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo blog hears rumor that Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) may cut a deal with Senate Democrats behind and around Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) ... Read More

Word around the blogosphere this afternoon is that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid told Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist today that Democrats are ready at any time for the so-called ... Read More

Hey...did you hear the one about the Democrats who got expelled from a Baptist church because they were...well, Democrats? Seriously. It's not a joke. It happened for real last week ... Read More

The Republican party arrogantly tries to lay exclusive political claim to being pro-life when, in fact, there is a small but strong Democratic pro-life faction. The Democrats for Life of ... Read More

Princeton University students are filibustering Senate majority leader Bill Frist's threat to end the Senate filibuster tradition. Senate Democrats plan to filibuster several spectacularly unsuited federal judicial nominees put ... Read More

Two weeks ago, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) delivered a fiery Senate speech to help defeat a bipartisan bill that would have legalized 500,000 farm workers who are now illegally in ... Read More

Iraq is a violent, bloody, deadly, disorganized Bush-created mess. From AP this morning.... "A suicide car bomb exploded at the funeral of Kurdish official in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing 20 ... Read More