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To: Road Walker who wrote (358405)	11/14/2007 8:23:21 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573952

Disaster list "Add Hillary Clinton's endorsement of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants ('it makes sense') to a very long list. "The list? A seemingly unending series of bad policy proposals and loopy values that liberals have championed. ... "Whether it was education policy, welfare policy, economic policy, foreign policy or social policy, time after time after time what became the guiding lights of modern American liberalism proved to be utter disasters. ... All too frequently people who were supposed to be helped — were severely harmed. Most disturbingly, the proponents of these policies seemed to simply shrug their shoulders at the results and move straight on to the next disaster." — Jeffrey Lord, writing on "A History of Liberal Disasters," Nov. 6 in the American Spectator Online at www.spectator.org

To: Road Walker who wrote (358405)	11/14/2007 8:26:57 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573952

It sure does seem that we are now a hollow country that elects leaders who promise us all the good things without any of the sacrifice that is required. You only have to look at our budget and trade deficits to see that. I don't see it getting any better. Even if Democrats are elected, they don't have the balls to do what Friedman suggests. If they didn't have the balls to refuse to fund the Iraq war to force Bush to withdraw, then they certainly won't have the balls to increase gas taxes, which will increase the cost of gas for poor Americans from 12% of their take home pay to 16% of their take home pay. It's a tough sacrifice to ask for.

To: Road Walker who wrote (358405)	11/15/2007 2:32:12 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573952

But no, George Bush and Dick Cheney had a better idea. And the Democrats went along for the ride. They were all going to let the market work and not let our government shape that market — like OPEC does. You’d think that one person, just one, running for Congress or the Senate would take a flier and say: “Oh, what the heck. I’m going to lose anyway. Why not tell the truth? I’ll support a gasoline tax.” Not one. Everyone just runs away from the “T-word” and watches our wealth run away to Russia, Venezuela and Iran. There are many smart, knowledgeable people in this country who after 7 years of non stop idiocy have had enough. Tonite, I heard some businessman from a major bank, I think, wants to start a Rebuild America's infrastructure program. People are starting to yell their lungs off because we are not getting heard in DC. I thought I was one of the few telling the Dems "No" when they asked for more money.....telling them not until they stop the war but it turns a lot of people are doing the very same thing. The Republicans didn't want to do an internet/video debate like the Dems did. People screamed their bloody heads and now the GOP is doing. We've got to keep complaining until they get it through their thick skulls that they work for us, and not the other way around.