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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (731070)	8/5/2013 4:02:48 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575427

Krugman gets to the crux of the Republican biscuit in today's column: "Think of it this way: For a long time the Republican establishment got its way by playing a con game with the party’s base. Voters would be mobilized as soldiers in an ideological crusade, fired up by warnings that liberals were going to turn the country over to gay married terrorists, not to mention taking your hard-earned dollars and giving them to Those People. Then, once the election was over, the establishment would get on with its real priorities — deregulation and lower taxes on the wealthy. At this point, however, the establishment has lost control. Meanwhile, base voters actually believe the stories they were told — for example, that the government is spending vast sums on things that are a complete waste or at any rate don’t do anything for people like them. (Don’t let the government get its hands on Medicare!) And the party establishment can’t get the base to accept fiscal or political reality without, in effect, admitting to those base voters that they were lied to. The result is what we see now in the House: a party that, as I said, seems unable to participate in even the most basic processes of governing. What makes this frightening is that Republicans do, in fact, have a majority in the House, so America can’t be governed at all unless a sufficient number of those House Republicans are willing to face reality. And that quorum of reasonable Republicans may not exist."

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (731070)	8/5/2013 7:55:18 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575427

>I quickly skimmed the rest of your post after this whopper. >If you want to be taken seriously, you would not treat the other side as "hostage takers." How about the same side treating the other side as hostage takers? rawstory.com It's worse than hostage taking. The ACA is going to save thousands of lives every year. You can't argue that, really. You might argue that it'll cost too much or that it does it in an unfair way. Same with SNAP, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid. Take any of those away, people die. Plain and simple. Not just hostage takers. Hostage takers extraordinaire. >Nor would you declare "victory" so desperately I haven't declared victory. The work is never done. >or give the same old "I care more than you do" bullshit, because this is not a contest over "who cares more," >nor is it winner take all. Tire rims over linguini in a nice anthrax cream sauce? Yeah, it kinda is. -Z