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To: LindyBill who wrote (185611)	11/8/2006 1:29:17 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793883

WE DID NOT JUST LOSE OUR MAJORITY, WE LOST OUR WAY Republicans lost their way sometime around when Dick Armey and Bob Walker retired. When they left I knew the revolution of 94 was over, they were the last of the idea guys. The colleagues they left behind were more interested in consolidating power than advancing the ideas they ran on. So now Republicans have two years to reconnoiter, but I'm not too optimistic. This time they don't have anyone with the stature of Gingrich, Armey or Walker to lead a revolution.

To: LindyBill who wrote (185611)	11/8/2006 7:11:46 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793883

Pence has it pegged. The below has it in a nutshell. Time to rid the GOP of porkers and Democrat wannabee's... While the scandals of the 109th Congress harmed our cause, the greatest scandal in Washington, D.C. is runaway federal spending. After 1994, we were a majority committed to balanced federal budgets, entitlement reform and advancing the principles of limited government. In recent years, our majority voted to expand the federal government's role in education, entitlements and pursued spending policies that created record deficits and national debt. This was not in the Contract with America and Republican voters said, "enough is enough." Our opponents will say that the American people rejected our Republican vision. I say the American people didn't quit on the Contract with America, we did. And in so doing, we severed the bonds of trust between our party and millions of our most ardent supporters.