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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (129018)	1/22/2010 12:49:53 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) of 542054

It looks look these powerful interest groups have won the hearts and minds of many of those that would benefit from reform. Perhaps for some, but I tend to think that people are quite capable of looking at something straight on and rendering judgment on it. The lack of transparancy and backroom deals Dems made to try and get health care reform are repugnant and disheartening....period. No need for someone on the other side to tell me that. Democrats have and are making decisions that will obviously peel off specific groups of voters. What are they thinking? For one, polls show that the majority of people do NOT want taxpayer funded abortion, but Dems have persistently tried to wiggle that into the health care bill anyway. A second decision that has peeled off voters is the decision to surge in Afghanistan. Right or wrong, Obama had created the impression while campaigning that he would be looking for ways to disengage America from the ME as quickly as possible. A third decision that will work to peel off voters is suspension of the Social Security COLA.... maybe even for two years. Added to this is the fact that pharma cos. and health insurers ghoulishly raised prices dramatically to get in front of the health care bill with nary a complaint from Washington. And fourth is the nakedly corrupt dealmaking Dems were making to try and get a health care reform package passed that wasn't even that attractive to start with. And the incoherent, disjointed efforts to shovel money out the door in the name of 'stimulus'....yikes. Plays right into the old caricatures of Dems as being fiscally irresponsible. It's all very discouraging. I find myself often thinking "who are these people, and where are these decisions coming from."

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