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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: SeachRE who wrote (163909)1/15/2010 9:05:58 AM
From: Hope Praytochange  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
As Pelosi schmoozed in the media glow with GM CEO Ed Whitacre Jr., Fiat-Chrysler chief Sergio Marchionne and United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger, tea party activists protested outside in the cold, objecting to this tilted and unfamiliar world in which the political class in essence runs two-thirds of what was once America's proud Big Three.

While Washington is trying to save for political reasons companies that should be left to live or die on their own, these hardy people were attempting to save a principle that inspired the founding of our nation. And unlike Washington, they don't require the use of other people's money.

Politicians are welcome to visit car shows, as they have every right to attend movies, concerts, plays and sporting events. Their public duties should not bar them from legitimate private amusement. It's OK for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to say he felt "like a kid in a candy shop" at the car show. We get what he meant.

But when the speaker of the House gets "behind the wheel of Detroit's auto show," as the Detroit Free Press reported, and is "thronged by reporters and cameras," it's further confirmation that our republic is losing its way.

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