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May 10, 2007
A "progressive" domestic Jewish agenda for 2008?
A "progressive" Jewish coalition is soliciting emails to presidential candidates, in support of "A Domestic Jewish Agenda for 2008," a compilation of the predictable liberal Dem list of the past 40 years, along with cliched unexamined descriptions (for example, the male/female wage gap percentage is out of date, NOLA was losing population before Katrina, the frequency of severe hurricanes is probably not increasing, the rape stats also date from my young feminist self-defense instructor days and I know crime has decreased significantly in the US since then), reminding me of a recent quip to the effect that why do people whose ideas are 40 years old call themselves "progressive"? They are the real reactionaries.
Conspicuous by their absence are "homeland security" and "taxes." Half the Dem candidates don't take terrorism seriously. The agenda assumes action by federal government (I told you it was reactionary; it's basically "The Great Society" all over again), which will require raising taxes, but raising taxes is not a goal in itself, and it's unpopular. (I can get behind this issue, libertarian that I am.)
UPDATE: More on Democrats and taxes. IOW, if there was a check-box at the progressive site for taxes, my message would be: don't mess with them, unless you are going to reduce them even more. But I would be wasting my time telling the Dems that.
Judith | 05/10/07 at 09:22 PM | Categories: - GOTV '06 to '08
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We call ourselves progressive while we still advocate for 40 year old ideas because we haven't progressed that much because people like you been fighting these ideas for 40 years.
All Dems take terrorism seriously, that is why we don't want to create more of terrorist in Iraq. All Dems take homeland security seriously and that is why we want to make sure our national guard can respond to the next major natural disaster. All Dems want to provide a strong country for their children and their society.
But regardless of your point of view, the fact is the Bush Administration has spent more money on this failed war in Iraq than the Dems want to spend on a domestic agenda.
Curiously enough, the progressive Jewish agenda includes nothing about Israel. I'd have thought Israel would have been at least on the list somewhere, but then again, I am no longer a progressive.
Alex Bensky | May 11, 2007 07:46 PM
Alex: what part of 'domestic' don't you understand?
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