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To: Dale Baker who wrote (228145)	7/22/2013 9:09:50 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543214

Poor Paul. There's too much crazy out there on his record. IF the man could have kept his mouth shut a little more, he might have had a shot- but he's had episodes of nutty verbal diarrhea way to often. blogs.ajc.com

To: Dale Baker who wrote (228145)	7/22/2013 9:25:24 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543214

Do nothing, break everything and give away the store to your buddies while all the zealots are standing up and cheering. What a disgusting con game. John Boehner: Judge Republicans by the laws they don’t make By Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake House Speaker John Boehner vehemently defended the strategic approach Republicans have adopted since winning the majority during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, insisting that making more laws is the opposite of the party’s governing philosophy. “We should not be judged by how many new laws we create,” Boehner told CBS’ Bob Schieffer in an interview that aired Sunday. “We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal. We’ve got more laws than the administration could ever enforce.” Here’s Boehner philosophy in a sentence: The government that governs most, governs worst. Or in the immortal words of Kunu (aka Paul Rudd) in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”: “ The less you do, the more you do.” Boehner used that line of argument to defend himself against charges that the repeated attempts to repeal all or part of President Obama’s health care law is a pointless legislative exercise. “The program isn’t ready,” Boehner told Schieffer. “This is not good for the country. And we’re going to stay at it.” Staying at it, of course, will go nowhere as neither Senate Democratic leaders nor the White House has any interest in even taking up any of these House repeal bills — much less acting on them. And that ensures gridlock, which, if you follow Boehner’s logic is better than the alternative — a Democratic president achieving his priorities without any serious opposition from the other side. “We’ve got a divided country,” Boehner explained to Schieffer. “We’ve got a divided government. Democrats have the White House. They have the Senate. American people sent Republicans here to the House. We have divided government.” In essence Boehner is arguing that, in blocking Democratic legislation and pushing GOP-backed bills with no chance at becoming law, he is representing the significant chunk of people who voted for Republican members of the House in 2010 and 2012. “We deal with what the American people want us to deal with,” added Boehner. (Just to play devil’s advocate for a moment: Republicans do control a majority of seats in the House, but they actually won less of the popular vote for House in 2012 than did Democrats. House Democrats won 48.5 percent of all votes, as compared to 47.8 percent for Republicans; the GOP won almost 54 percent of the total seats, however.) Regardless, Republicans not only currently control the House but, due to redistricting, are likely to remain in the majority for the foreseeable future. There are simply very few competitive seats for either party these days and without a national wind, which could always kick up, the status quo (or close to it) seems the most likely outcome. What that electoral reality means is that smart money says not much will be getting done in Washington over the next few years. Which, if you see the world like John Boehner does, is the best possible result from the Obama years.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (228145)	7/22/2013 9:30:53 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543214

<<<<< I think we should all get behind Rand Paul's 2016 run since>>>> So the only people we should listen to are those who became president? Bush! How did that work out Dale? On the most critical decision of the past few decades - Ron Paul stands virtually alone as getting it right. All I'm saying is too bad we didn't listen to him. I'm not saying he should be president, I'm not saying he is always right or even mostly right, I'm saying he showed wisdom when others reacting on their gut impulses allllllllll got it wrong.