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On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:48:40 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:32:56 -0400, hk
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Maybe Ensign won't be indicted. Maybe he will resign in exchange for not
being indicted. Maybe he will serve out his term or even be re-elected.
Would that be any more incredible than anything else we have seen?


After what I have seen in the last 60 years, nothing surprises me in
DC


I'm not quite so ancient.. lol... but the one thing that did surprise me
recently was Obama's election. I really didn't think we had it in us. It
gave me hope for the future.

I was interested in Obama until I figured out he was just more of the
same. In spite of what the right is saying, Obama looks like the 5th
Bush brother to me. His administration is loaded with former Bush and
Clinton people. The policies are not significantly different. Even the
much vaunted health care reform ended up being a stimulus package for
the same people we were allegedly trying to reform.

When did your interest change? Before or after the election? Did you vote
for him?

I disagree that he's loaded his administration as you suggest. He picked
great people for tough jobs, without regard (mostly) for politics.

I know the tea party is a running joke and they have attracted a lot
of whackos but they do ask a fundamental question. How long can we
continue to spend 66% more than we make as a country, borrowing the
rest from people who don't necessarily have our best interests in
mind?

It's a legitimate question, but unfortunately they are so incoherent that
they are a joke.

We may say we are in a recovery but we will need about a 170% growth
rate, just to stay even. We are no where near that and we certainly
can't do it within a carbon cap.

You're just making up numbers. The recession is officially over.
Unemployment has stablized. Things are mending, Iraq is winding down... all
seems pretty good to me. Sure, there are issues, but the sky isn't
falling... sorry, but it isn't.

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