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To: JohnM who wrote (191782)	6/16/2012 5:26:37 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543695

If you are obsessed with the hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail. If you are obsessed with ideological approaches to issues, it's incomprehensible that anyone out there doesn't line up neatly in one of the camps to join the crusade against the Evil Others on the other side of the divide. As our political debate sucks in more and more people to this dead-end mindset, the quality of the debate just keeps crumbling. Obsessive ideologues don't accomplish things in the world except pounding their drum. Policymakers and politicians don't have a choice if they want to stay in power.

To: JohnM who wrote (191782)	6/16/2012 6:26:20 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543695

Here's a Romney economic adviser: Glenn Hubbard (economist) en.wikipedia.org From February 2001 until March 2003, Hubbard was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush. A supply-side economist, he was instrumental in the design of the 2003 Bush Tax cuts [4] -- an issue which split the economics profession on ideological lines, with those leaning left opposed and those leaning right supportive. See Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts.