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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:43 PM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Ives come to think the author is a favor-Currier...<br><br>(Come on, John. He gave you a bit of a hint...<br>
<br><<a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071910/content/01125106.guest.html" target="_blank">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071910/content/01125106.guest.html</a>>.)</blockquote>
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<div>Ah, well. The hint was too blatant. I thought Wayne was subtler than that.</div>
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<div>I couldn't help but notice this line from Rush's rant: "Washington is dominated politically and socially by Democrats, by the left. The Republicans also live there." Huh? What?</div>
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<div>He's right about the ruling class thing, of course. But NEWS FLASH: In any reasonably complex society on earth, in any time period you care to name, there will ALWAYS be a ruling class.</div>
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<div class="im">On 7/26/10 2:28 PM, John W. wrote:<br></div>
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<div class="im"><br>Uhhhh....the "awful" Frank Rich? Or maybe Jim Hightower?<br><br><br></div>
<div class="im">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM, E.Wayne Johnson <<a href="mailto:ewj@pigs.ag" target="_blank">ewj@pigs.ag</a><br></div>
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<div class="h5"><mailto:<a href="mailto:ewj@pigs.ag" target="_blank">ewj@pigs.ag</a>>> wrote:<br><br>well i meant curiouser and curiouser... But can you guess the author of these<br>words?<br><br>Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind.<br>
Moreover, 2009-10 establishment Republicans sought only to modify the<br>government’s agenda while showing eagerness to join the Democrats in new<br>grand schemes, if only they were allowed to.” Well, this resonated with me<br>
because I plaintively say, “Why do you Republicans continue to accept their<br>premise on everything and then deal with it on the margins? ...Why do we<br>accept the premise that there must be a stimulus package? Why do they set<br>
the agenda?” This piece is partially the answer: They’re all part of the<br>ruling class. The Republicans want to be even more accepted in the ruling<br>class. They want to be even more powerful. They want to be considered part<br>
of it. They want to be in the clique…<br><br>... Now, here we have people like Trent Lott, everybody’s assumed is a<br>conservative all along, now being threatened by the arrival of a Tea Party<br>caucus, ah, ah, ah, ah, “‘We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As<br>
soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.’ But Lott said he’s not<br>expecting a tea-party sweep. ‘I still have faith in the visceral judgment of<br>the American people.’”<br><br>So all of you looking at the Tea Party thinking it’s the Republican Party’s<br>
salvation, the Republican members of the ruling class are just as threatened<br>by the Tea Party as the Democrats are. Because the Tea Party is outsiders;<br>the Tea Party is not in the big clique; the Tea Party does not want to be in<br>
the big clique. The Tea Party wants to wrest power away from the big<br>clique.<br><br>and the author?<br><br>Rush Limbaugh? What?</div></div></blockquote></blockquote>