molly ivins dead/AtD pg 93

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

The book sez it's Webb Traverse, but it might as 
well be Molly Ivins, they talk similar 'n all.

He was trying to pass on what he thought they should know, 
when he had a minute, though there never was the time. 
"Here. The most precious thing I own." He took his union 
card from his wallet and showed them, one by one. 
"These words right here"—pointing to the slogan on the 
back of the card—"is what it all comes down to, you won't 
hear it in school, maybe the Gettysburg Address, Declaration 
of Independence and so forth, but if you learn nothing else, 
learn this by heart, what it says here—"Labor produces all 
wealth. Wealth belongs to the producer thereof." Straight talk. 
No double-talking you like the plutes do, 'cause with them 
what you always have to be listening for is the opposite of 
what they say. 'Freedom,' then's the time to watch your back 
in particular—start telling you how free you are, somethin's 
up, next thing you know the gates have been slammed shut 
and there's the Captain givin you them looks. 'Reform'? More 
new snouts at the Trough. "Compassion" means the
population of starving, homeless, and dead is about to take 
another jump. So Forth. Why, you could write a whole foreign 
phrase book just on what Republicans have to say." [page 93]


In a column in mid-January, Ivins urged readers to stand up 
against Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq.

"We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. 
And every single day, every single one of us needs to step 
outside and take some action to help stop this war," Ivins 
wrote in the Jan. 11 column. "We need people in the streets, 
banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/31/national/a160010S74.DTL&type=health

After Patrick J. Buchanan, as a conservative candidate 
for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National 
Convention that the United States was engaged in a 
cultural war, she said his speech “probably sounded 
better in the original German.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/washington/01ivins.html?_r=1&ref=media&oref=slogin