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To: Dale Baker who wrote (128789)	1/20/2010 10:08:50 AM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541931

I'm in the same shoes as your brother except two years younger, I don't see how the health care bills would help me. I won't shed any tears if they go down in flames.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (128789)	1/20/2010 10:23:25 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541931

Did your brother work for politicians who support health care change? I'm not being accusatory- I'm just curious as to whether people who don't have health insurance took any responsibility for the passage of change. I know Cogito has been informed and wants change, and certainly worked for change, but I wonder how many other people did. I don't expect much of anything. All I wanted, as I keep saying, was the supreme court to be liberal. I don't look to government to do much- I hope they'll keep the roads up so I can get to work, and I'd like my food inspected....

To: Dale Baker who wrote (128789)	1/20/2010 10:35:54 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541931

<<<It may prompt Obama to be more effective in his executive branch actions, and we can rest easy on judicial appointments and foreign policy.>>> There is nothing here that should have been unexpected. A large part of what Obama has to do is to manage expectations. Ronald Reagan is not a terrific role model except that he was successful at blaming everything that went wrong on Jimmy Carter. To this day we still see Carter as a failure because Ronald Reagan said so. I don't know exactly how I would recommend that Obama handle this situation but blaming George W Bush for everything that has gone wrong is far more justifiable than what Ronald Reagan did to Jimmy Carter. At some time in a street brawl you would have to take off those white gloves.