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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (148571)	11/1/2010 10:50:52 AM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543492

So two wrongs make it okay? Thank you Steve. As I know you already understand, the goal should be civil conversation, not name calling and mocking those we disagree with. I understand that all have sinned and nobody's hands are clean, etc. The point is to act in a way that sets an example and not to justify bad behavior by claiming that you aren't the only one involved.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (148571)	11/1/2010 11:46:18 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543492

So two wrongs make it okay? I find the use of the insulting word to be as ugly as anything republicans have done. I disagree, Steve. If the Republicans had shown even one iota of desire for actually stopping their propensity for doing politics by insult and by continually outright lying or at least mightily stretching the truth, then I could agree with you. But they haven't. That Michael Barone piece that Paul put up is just the latest example of stretching the truth--it is all of a piece. The Rs pretend oh so self righteously to be outraged at the public debt and the deficits that are racked up, but it is the Republicans who are responsible for virtually all of it! They pretend that 2009 budget is Obama's budget, lol, and that the deficits that emerge from it are the responsibility of those big-spending Dems--this is pure demagoguery. They say they will attack the deficit by repealing the health care act--lol, what courage! An act that has absolutely nothing to do with the current deficit! They said during the health care "debates" that they are "protecting" Medicare! How noble! The next time they get a president in office with at least one chamber of Congress, they will make yet another attempt to privatize and end both SS and Medicare in the name of "defending" it. Surely you see these things for what they are. Words have consequences. The word "teabagger" has so few consequences compared to the lies these people tell that there simply is no comparison. We cannot begin to deal with our real problems as long as these people keep pretending that fake issues are real and keep lying about real issues.