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To paraphrase, "Ask where most of the funding, who are the biggest
contributors, and where most of the PR for the Democratic party
comes from. And so what conclusion may one draw?"<br>
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My favorite answer would be how BHO sang "The Ballad of Rich
Richman" for his supper last month. Jane Hamsher wrote, "I still
can’t quite wrap my head around it the fact that Obama thought it
was a good idea, in midst of 9.6% unemployment, and on the day after
the census bureau announces that 1 in 7 Americans are living in
poverty, to show up at the gated Connecticut mansion of a guy named
Rich Richman and tell a privileged few at a private $30,000 a plate
[sic] fundraiser [the following:]<br>
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"...after being in this job for two years, I have never been
more optimistic about America. I am optimistic partly because we did
some really tough things that aren't always popular but were the
right things to do. Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get -- to
see the glass as half empty. [Laughter.] If we get an historic
health care bill passed -- oh, well, the public option wasn't there.
If you get the financial reform bill passed -- then, well, I don't
know about this particularly derivatives rule, I'm not sure that I'm
satisfied with that. And gosh, we haven't yet brought about world
peace and -- [laughter.] I thought that was going to happen quicker.
[Laughter.] You know who you are. [Laughter.]<br>
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We should treat that remark with the contempt it deserves - and
conversely. --CGE<br>
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On 10/21/10 2:38 PM, Brussel wrote:
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cite="mid:66CABF1F-FA73-42B4-B68E-0A247FA7D0B0@illinois.edu"
type="cite">Karen,
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<div>Ask Carl where he gets his data (re. his first line below).
Ask where most of the funding, who are the biggest contributors,
and where most of the PR for the Tea party comes from. And so
what conclusion may one draw?</div>
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<div>Don't be surprised if he switches the subject, refuses to
answer, or cannot answer, because he doesn't have reliable
sources. </div>
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<div>--mkb</div>
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<div>On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:18 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Come on, Karen. There
are more anti-war teapartiers than anti-war Democrats.<br>
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Obama's co-option of the anti-war movement meant that
there is no parallel among the Democrats to Ron Paul's
movement of principled opposition to the war, nor to that
of libertarians and paleoconservatives around the website
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://Antiwar.com">Antiwar.com</a>
or the journal <i>The American Conservative</i>. <br>
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As an (actual) socialist, I deplore that fact. <br>
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On 10/21/10 9:30 AM, Karen Medina wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I did notice that there were very few "constitutionalists" around
before the scare tactic of "they are going to give health care to
undocumented immigrants" became popular.
Very few of the tea-partiers are in the anti-war movement.
All I am saying is that it is easy to count the ones that are consistent.
With the ones that are inconsistent, it is harder to count them, but
it is easy to tell if they have read the constitution.
-karen medina</pre>
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