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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (44677)	8/4/2010 9:21:52 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

Re: ...Last week, Senate Republicans rejected a bill to aid small business with expanded loan programs and tax breaks. Before that, Republicans tried to block extension of employment benefits and financial regulatory reforms, which finally passed with minimal help from the GOP. These just-say-no tactics can catch up with Republicans — maybe not in time for midterm elections, but perhaps in time for 2012. If you watch what Brown does, not what he wears or drives, it’s clear that he gets it. He’s walking a line that he hopes leads to reelection. It means he can’t vote against every Democratic policy aimed at helping ordinary voters. His vote against extending unemployment benefits was risky business for the junior senator from Massachusetts. That pickup truck only gets him so far. (That seems politically rational.)