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   "Lee Hogan"  wrote in message news:Xns9F1E90F8   
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   > Sarah Palin imploded, Beck is essentially gone, Tea Party rallies struggle to   
   > fill a phone booth   
   > Posted by Tom Rinaldo in General Discussion   
   > Sat Jul 09th 2011, 07:40 PM   
   > FOX news ratings keep dropping and their owner is neck deep in a major   
   > scandal. This is no longer 2010 when American voters decided to give   
   > Republicans a chance out of frustration over the economy.   
   >   
   > Republicans got that chance and they blew it badly. Newly elected Republican   
   > Governors are fighting it out to see who can lose the most voter approval   
   > polling points each month, while recall petitions blossom for them and their   
   > legislative stooges. There isn't a single Republican Presidential candidate   
   > to the left of loony who is generating any grass roots Republican enthusiasm.   
   >   
   > Republicans took power in the House of Representatives over the issue of lost   
   > jobs, then promptly ignored the economy to focus on "social values" issues   
   > and their crusade to strangle government. That included fumbling Republican   
   > assaults on two of the most admired government programs in the country,   
   > Social Security and Medicare. Meanwhile Republicans continued to hitch their   
   > wagon to homophobic outrage while a sea change took place among the   
   > electorate in favor of gay marriages. With unemployment stuck at extremely   
   > painful high levels, the Republican response boiled down to eliminating the   
   > jobs of public workers. The only group of voters who want the national debate   
   > to focus on cutting the deficit rather than adding jobs are tea party   
   > fanatics who keep shrinking in numbers and loosing support from the public   
   > every week.   
   >   
   > So how on Earth, with Democrats perfectly positioned to cash in on the   
   > electorates buyers remorse over having voted in Republicans last time, after   
   > the electorate has vehemently rejected Republican plans to "reform" Social   
   > Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and with Americans clearly demanding more   
   > jobs, rather than more belt tightening, how on earth did we end up in this   
   > place?   
   >   
   > Why is a Democratic Party President agreeing with the increasingly   
   > marginalized Right that deficit reduction is the central debate in America,   
   > with trillions of dollars of spending cuts now one of his highest priorities?   
   > And why the hell did he put Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare back on   
   > the table to face cuts when the public emphatically wants those benefits   
   > preserved?   
   >   
   >   
   > http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Tom%20Rinaldo/437   
   >   
      
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