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To: Lane3 who wrote (4909)	11/4/2005 7:35:36 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541457

Profanity is easy and mindless, and a violation of the SI TOU, FWIW. I see it's too late to edit your post but we can do without that kind of rhetoric here. The TNR piece was very interesting. If I were a Senator or Representative up for reelection next year, I would start working my home state or district network assiduously, and bringing home all the pork I could while distancing myself from the White House on this touchy stuff. I don't think devoted pro-Bush candidates can please the right or the left based on national issues, just too much anger out there. I expect we'll hear a lot of incumbents saying c'mon, y'all know me, I'm not like that, really.....

To: Lane3 who wrote (4909)	11/7/2005 4:36:57 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541457

"More people are working for the federal government than at any point since the end of the Cold War. Also more people are working for the federal government, outside the department of defense, than at any point at any time in our history. I believe its also accurate to say that more civilians are working for the federal government that ever before but I'm not 100% sure that is accurate. Of course, the same thing is true in many presidencies. As the federal government grows you get a lot of new records in spending and employees, so the strength of this argument against Bush is not quite as strong as it seems, still Bush can hardly be called an effect supporter of small government, not even close. Tim