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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9874)	9/29/2009 10:40:55 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

I am so sorry that you don't believe my opposition to the expansion existed or was puny. My comments were not about you personally. I have no idea how extensive your opposition was or that of any other individual. My point was and is that the sum total of the opposition fell way short of effective. Maybe you tried and failed. Maybe you didn't try. That's between you and your conscience. The net effect of the overall failure, though, was to lend credibility to federal government usurpers. The scale of the government expansions during President Bush 43's terms were not as drastic s the massive government takeovers under Obama. It was not nearly as scary. No, not as extensive nor as scary. But perhaps more critical in the grand scheme of things. When even the right supports government takeovers, that's more powerful than support from the left because the latter is expected. Going from "abolish the Department of Education" to "No Child Left Behind" sends a message out of proportion to the actual increment in bureaucracy. When the right caves, even in small increments, there's a lot grease poured on that proverbial slippery slope. The Rs have too big a fault in this to be so unabashed in criticizing the Ds for their takeover efforts. You and I have chatted before about the role of brothers in policing their own. This is an example. A critical example.