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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (146128)10/3/2010 2:18:04 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (2) of 540831
 
John;

Whew, it is hard responding to you who is responding to Benen who is responding to what Freidman said, but I'll try. I think you via Benen are missing Friedmans point when you say; All Friedman's problems point to government solutions--more government, not less; yet the tp types are simply angry at government.

Read Freedman again as this is what he said in conclusion;

“These two parties are lying to you. They can’t tell you the truth because they are each trapped in decades of special interests. I am not going to tell you what you want to hear. I am going to tell you what you need to hear if we want to be the world’s leaders, not the new Romans.”

This isn't about the TP - in fact I don't think it was mentioned in either article. It's about a broken government that is being held hostage to special interest, ....We need to stop waiting for Superman and start building a superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now. Pretty good is not even close to good enough today. .....You can blame the TP all you want but that isn't the problem. As Friedman says, Obama did as good as he could and even with good majorities in both houses was unable to get much done that the angry middle want accomplished.
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