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To: Lane3 who wrote (102652)	1/31/2009 5:17:11 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541933

I find reaction is either generally negative - nothing that was done was right or effective, and nothing planned will be either, though the critic rarely if ever has a plan that can be explained with any analytical value, i.e. what would be addressed, how and why - or veers off on to some specific tangent like a particular CEO, politician or even this equal pay law that someone on my other thread jumped on today. I stand by my position that no one with any kind of alternate plan has put together a popular or legislative majority behind it, nor do I see anyone really trying. So this is just pot shots from the duck blinds while someone else is trying to do the heavy lifting. And I agree with John's sentiment that DC will not change overnight, no matter how hard a charismatic new president is trying to move it as fast as possible. We have decades of entrenched bad behavior to overcome. Personally I will give Obama more than a week or two to show what he can do. I saw an interesting point that if he can get some moderate Senate Republicans on board for the stimulus bill, he may get some moderate Republican support in the House when the conference bill version is voted on.