Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
A blog grows one reader at a time. If you like what you read here, please consider forwarding the link.
Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
Thanks for reading Texas Liberal.
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Is this where we get out the blue pompoms and wave them just because the leadership is now blue? Or is there something in your argument that is compelling to support?
Right now, we’ve seen rhetoric from congress and the president as there hasn’t been enough time to accomplish anything meaningful. You can’t rally around just words.
I just thought based on what I was told by our leaders after 9/11, that we were supposed to support our President regardless. That was the message I got. Instead of trying to make any kind of reasoned argument what we heard was crap about God and country and things that had nothing to do with the issues at hand. So I was just wondering if when a Democrat is in charge during hard times, if that kind of thinkng we saw during the Bush years was a two way street.
I do agree that there was a sentiment that we had to support the president as he ‘knows best’ after 9/11, considering the sensitivity of the information that the public could not see. I also agree it was over-the-top to some extent.
On the other side, we are not talking about military action with security sensitivity here, we’re talking throwing billions (or trillions) of dollars at a problem, and that is where the president will meet with resistance from Republicans and the general populace if it looks like handouts, as much of it has (including before Obama took office).
But let’s face it. The job of president has to be the toughest in the world. I’ll agree some of the same people who claimed we needed to blindly follow the pres 2-7 years ago are the same ones differing from that strategy now. We as a people need to respect the office, no matter what are party is as all presidents truly want what they think is best for the country an overwelming majority of the time, and can’t please everyone all of the time. However, it is also our job as a people not to be lazy, and just allow our public servants to risk our safety and money. We do need to speak up.