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To: Paul Smith who wrote (140220)	7/3/2010 12:13:10 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 543149

Bush tried to reform Social Security and his own party wouldn't support him. I have exactly zero faith that the Republicans have either the will or the political consensus within their own movement to address the major problems I listed. Boehner doesn't believe in financial reform, Barton and others are on BP's side, the answer for energy is drill baby drill, etc. That is their track record from their last tenure in power. If they had such great ideas and the willingness to implement them when they controlled both Congress and the White House, we wouldn't have such a long list of chronic ills. But now independents want to put them back into power to gridlock the whole system and get nothing done while all these problems get worse. That's why the electorate is its own worst enemy. They want our big problems fixed but then vote for people with a proven record of not getting anything done in terms of reform. Tax cuts, unfunded wars and unfunded Medicare expansion is not a very inspiring record.