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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (5893)3/19/2009 12:18:08 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 86350
 
if you'll grant that the GOP can stop that agenda cold with a unified front and a filibuster

The GOP (and the Democratic party as well) is not a unified thing. If some small fraction of either party supports an initiative of the other and it passes then the majority party, and the small faction are responsible, but not the minority party, that's almost unified in opposition, as a whole.

and if you'll grant that the Republicans were responsible for the last 8 years of fiscal profligacy that lead to the largest drop in the DOW since the Great Depression

They bear a strong majority of the responsibility for the profligacy, but not all of it. But the fiscal profligacy was a relatively small factor in the economic and financial situation we faced. Also the Democrats are being even more profligate now.
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