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		<title>By: 2006_personoftheyear</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-91</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rod_Patrick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Wow!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Queen, count me in.&lt;/p&gt;
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<p>Queen, count me in.</p>
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		<title>By: Rod_Patrick</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-89</link>
		<dc:creator>Rod_Patrick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Utah and our friendly pro-Christian/Christian Mormon brothers and sisters always wear the best red suit.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They will get this done. &lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Utah and our friendly pro-Christian/Christian Mormon brothers and sisters always wear the best red suit.</p>
<p>They will get this done. </p>
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		<title>By: Rod_Patrick</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-88</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Rod_Patrick</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-87</link>
		<dc:creator>Rod_Patrick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;On the issue of war alone:&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clinton&#039;s dismal job on national security made the country vulnerable against the terrorists.   Terrorists used the 8 years of Clinton presidency to design their plans for terror here in America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even your Anti-Iraq War House Spooker Pelosi urged your Clinton TO BOMB SADDAM HUSSEIN.  Her reason? Hussein was building nuclear weapon.  And to her credit, she was right before she was wrong.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;War on Terror including Iraq came due to 9/11 Tragedy.  No conservative believed in your theory based on wacko conspiracy theories including Neocon Theory of Harvard nuts and Hollywood flicks like  Farenheit 911.  But one unpublished theory was that 9/11 was fabricated by the Democrat themselves out of their anger due to the loss of their Green President Al Gore. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Haven&#039;t you heard of Soros wanting to destroy GWB? But that&#039;s not theory. That&#039;s a fact. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the beginning of the Cold War, socialists and communists here in America changed their resume into an Anti-War movement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;UN planned designed its Anti-War Movement headed by World Government Al Gore since 2002, reason enough why the War on Terror become so UNPOPULAR in Europe and third world countries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;War on Terror was supported by majority of Americans including the majority of Democrats in the Congress since 2002.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your Obama, who made that &quot;right on at first time&quot; speech, was a disciple of a socialist/communist Third Party. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Conservatives are generally &quot;protectionists&quot; and oppose Wars.  It&#039;s bad to the economy and results to human tragedy.  But when a US President is in war, we support the President outside America and criticize him at the inside. We have records to prove, including Vietnam War and Korean War.   But your democrat leaders are the opposite. They are unequivocably traitors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the number 4000+ soldiers and the alleged 1 trillion dollars of debt are the measure of your disgust on &quot;Bush War&quot; ... then you should hate your Party to the core because of JFK&#039;s Vietnam War.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you blame GWB on the moslem hate to America, you got it wrong.  From the mouth of Khadafi, Hussein, and Bin Laden alone, you should have realized that it was Truman&#039;s foreign policy legacy of One Israel since 1940s that should be blamed for that.  Truman locked us up to that policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don&#039;t blame Reagan either.  Reagan only solved the problem made by Democrats.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;GWB and today&#039;s America only reaped the fruition of Democrats&#039; old foreign relations policy on Middle East.  But it would be too late now to change our course in that direction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;GWB and Cheney&#039;s efforts remain to be the most feasible strategy as of this time wrt Middle East Conflict and national security.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Real sins of GWB?  The sins made by GWB is not against you, Democrats.   You have already been pandered by GWB too much.  Those sins were directed to us, Republicans:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Sin #1:  Poor Communicator since 2005. Because of his pandering to your kind, GWB became a lame leader to us.  He never lifted a finger to your Democrat leaders who were the real culprits in the Financial Crisis in September which has been continuing even today.&lt;/p&gt;
  
  &lt;p&gt;Sin #2:  Wasteful spending.   GWB has become just like any other Democrat (yes, like your own leaders) based on the standards of the Conservatives.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Now, go and have an enjoyable 4-year term of your Obama. &lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the issue of war alone:</p>
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<p>Clinton&#8217;s dismal job on national security made the country vulnerable against the terrorists.   Terrorists used the 8 years of Clinton presidency to design their plans for terror here in America.</p>
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<p>Even your Anti-Iraq War House Spooker Pelosi urged your Clinton TO BOMB SADDAM HUSSEIN.  Her reason? Hussein was building nuclear weapon.  And to her credit, she was right before she was wrong.  </p>
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<p>War on Terror including Iraq came due to 9/11 Tragedy.  No conservative believed in your theory based on wacko conspiracy theories including Neocon Theory of Harvard nuts and Hollywood flicks like  Farenheit 911.  But one unpublished theory was that 9/11 was fabricated by the Democrat themselves out of their anger due to the loss of their Green President Al Gore. </p>
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<p>Haven&#8217;t you heard of Soros wanting to destroy GWB? But that&#8217;s not theory. That&#8217;s a fact. </p>
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<p>Since the beginning of the Cold War, socialists and communists here in America changed their resume into an Anti-War movement.</p>
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<p>UN planned designed its Anti-War Movement headed by World Government Al Gore since 2002, reason enough why the War on Terror become so UNPOPULAR in Europe and third world countries.</p>
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<p>War on Terror was supported by majority of Americans including the majority of Democrats in the Congress since 2002.</p>
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<p>Your Obama, who made that &#8220;right on at first time&#8221; speech, was a disciple of a socialist/communist Third Party. </p>
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<p>Conservatives are generally &#8220;protectionists&#8221; and oppose Wars.  It&#8217;s bad to the economy and results to human tragedy.  But when a US President is in war, we support the President outside America and criticize him at the inside. We have records to prove, including Vietnam War and Korean War.   But your democrat leaders are the opposite. They are unequivocably traitors.</p>
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<p>If the number 4000+ soldiers and the alleged 1 trillion dollars of debt are the measure of your disgust on &#8220;Bush War&#8221; &#8230; then you should hate your Party to the core because of JFK&#8217;s Vietnam War.  </p>
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<p>If you blame GWB on the moslem hate to America, you got it wrong.  From the mouth of Khadafi, Hussein, and Bin Laden alone, you should have realized that it was Truman&#8217;s foreign policy legacy of One Israel since 1940s that should be blamed for that.  Truman locked us up to that policy.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t blame Reagan either.  Reagan only solved the problem made by Democrats.  </p>
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<p>GWB and today&#8217;s America only reaped the fruition of Democrats&#8217; old foreign relations policy on Middle East.  But it would be too late now to change our course in that direction.</p>
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<p>GWB and Cheney&#8217;s efforts remain to be the most feasible strategy as of this time wrt Middle East Conflict and national security.</p>
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<p>Real sins of GWB?  The sins made by GWB is not against you, Democrats.   You have already been pandered by GWB too much.  Those sins were directed to us, Republicans:</p>
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<p>Sin #1:  Poor Communicator since 2005. Because of his pandering to your kind, GWB became a lame leader to us.  He never lifted a finger to your Democrat leaders who were the real culprits in the Financial Crisis in September which has been continuing even today.</p>
<p>Sin #2:  Wasteful spending.   GWB has become just like any other Democrat (yes, like your own leaders) based on the standards of the Conservatives.</p>
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<p>Now, go and have an enjoyable 4-year term of your Obama. </p>
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		<title>By: towdogInCal</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-86</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Like John McCain, you mean? Guess you forgot to support him in voting for Obama?
OH! You mean as &lt;em&gt;Conservatives&lt;/em&gt; we should support moderates? Kind of takes away the whole point of being &lt;em&gt;Conservative&lt;/em&gt;, wouldn&#039;t you agree?
Ah, I&#039;m sorry, now I get it. As a liberal you are free to vote as far left as humany possible, but as conservatives we have to vote as far &lt;em&gt;left&lt;/em&gt; as humanly possible.
Wait, I&#039;ve heard this before somewhere.
It was the definition of bi-partisan, that being, you agree with as you put it &quot;Demmocrat&quot;s, and partisan on the other hand is when you adhere to your principles.
How to put this nicely?
Is &quot;No Thank You&quot; nice enough?
I was going to say &quot;Get Bent&quot; but that wouldn&#039;t have been nice.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like John McCain, you mean? Guess you forgot to support him in voting for Obama?<br />
OH! You mean as <em>Conservatives</em> we should support moderates? Kind of takes away the whole point of being <em>Conservative</em>, wouldn&#8217;t you agree?<br />
Ah, I&#8217;m sorry, now I get it. As a liberal you are free to vote as far left as humany possible, but as conservatives we have to vote as far <em>left</em> as humanly possible.<br />
Wait, I&#8217;ve heard this before somewhere.<br />
It was the definition of bi-partisan, that being, you agree with as you put it &#8220;Demmocrat&#8221;s, and partisan on the other hand is when you adhere to your principles.<br />
How to put this nicely?<br />
Is &#8220;No Thank You&#8221; nice enough?<br />
I was going to say &#8220;Get Bent&#8221; but that wouldn&#8217;t have been nice.</p>
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		<title>By: Herodotus</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-85</link>
		<dc:creator>Herodotus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You showed every American you lack of support for small government when you voted for the bailout.  &lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>By: Herodotus</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-84</link>
		<dc:creator>Herodotus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;materially different from 04&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>By: Herodotus</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-83</link>
		<dc:creator>Herodotus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;description of the bailout.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>By: Herodotus</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-82</link>
		<dc:creator>Herodotus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;under Roe v. Wade.  &lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>By: Spartan4Life</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-81</link>
		<dc:creator>Spartan4Life</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;My one hope was that since liberals got their guy in that maybe they would quit bitching all the time. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Apparently wishful thinking.&lt;/p&gt;
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<p>Apparently wishful thinking.</p>
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		<title>By: dsteiger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Do you really think the house and senate leaders are to blame for your losses?. My God, NOT ONE of you has referred to the corruption of your party. 
Do you really think people will fall for a rube like Palin?. Is that what your base looks like, ignorant of the issues?. What is it with Republicans being attracted to intelectually simple people for their leaders?. You have had 8 years of Bush and you STILL gravitate towards to someone like Palin. 
Here are some reasons you lost.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;1) WAR. NO ONE can claim we neeed to go to Iraq. It was a lie.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;2) Religion. What part of CHOICE do you not udnerstand. Your party loves WAR ( not very pro life ) but claims PRO LIFE.Seperation of Curch and state. Please see consitution.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;3) GUNS. The gun issue has been overblown by the NRA ( the NRA needs you to be very afraid ). No one is taking you deer rifle so get over it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;4) ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID. The Club for Growth and Norquist should be deported. When people see GOP they think Corportae Greeg ( the Dems have plenty to answere to also ).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;5) Limbaugh / Savage / Coulter / ORiely etc. You people need serious, honest, intelectuals instead creeps for your talking points. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;6) LEADERSHIP. This is THE reason Obama won, people saw a steady, smart, curious and Human condidate, he won over Republicans and Independents becuase he showed true leadership. Bush has around a 20% approval rating, LOWER than Nixon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;7) Support moderates. The GOP needs to support them not the Tom Delay whack Jobs. If you just run on the same old worn out, Guns, Fetus, anti gay blah blah blah then keep digging your grave.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As a Demmocrat I do NOT want one party to control but I am sick of mean, racist, homophob, anti choice, pro war Republican&#039;s and frankly the GOP got what it desrerved. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The WORLD is once agin looking to the US for REAL leadership, lets hope Obama can deliver as he has one big mess to clean up. &lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you really think the house and senate leaders are to blame for your losses?. My God, NOT ONE of you has referred to the corruption of your party.<br />
Do you really think people will fall for a rube like Palin?. Is that what your base looks like, ignorant of the issues?. What is it with Republicans being attracted to intelectually simple people for their leaders?. You have had 8 years of Bush and you STILL gravitate towards to someone like Palin.<br />
Here are some reasons you lost.</p>
<p>1) WAR. NO ONE can claim we neeed to go to Iraq. It was a lie.</p>
<p>2) Religion. What part of CHOICE do you not udnerstand. Your party loves WAR ( not very pro life ) but claims PRO LIFE.Seperation of Curch and state. Please see consitution.</p>
<p>3) GUNS. The gun issue has been overblown by the NRA ( the NRA needs you to be very afraid ). No one is taking you deer rifle so get over it.</p>
<p>4) ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID. The Club for Growth and Norquist should be deported. When people see GOP they think Corportae Greeg ( the Dems have plenty to answere to also ).</p>
<p>5) Limbaugh / Savage / Coulter / ORiely etc. You people need serious, honest, intelectuals instead creeps for your talking points. </p>
<p>6) LEADERSHIP. This is THE reason Obama won, people saw a steady, smart, curious and Human condidate, he won over Republicans and Independents becuase he showed true leadership. Bush has around a 20% approval rating, LOWER than Nixon.</p>
<p>7) Support moderates. The GOP needs to support them not the Tom Delay whack Jobs. If you just run on the same old worn out, Guns, Fetus, anti gay blah blah blah then keep digging your grave.</p>
<p>As a Demmocrat I do NOT want one party to control but I am sick of mean, racist, homophob, anti choice, pro war Republican&#8217;s and frankly the GOP got what it desrerved. </p>
<p>The WORLD is once agin looking to the US for REAL leadership, lets hope Obama can deliver as he has one big mess to clean up. </p>
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		<title>By: Ferraro41</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;..it&#039;s time to move on.  It has been a rough 8 years, and we need a fresh perspective.  I respect all you have done and tried to do, but it is time new leadership.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>..it&#8217;s time to move on.  It has been a rough 8 years, and we need a fresh perspective.  I respect all you have done and tried to do, but it is time new leadership.</p>
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		<title>By: Vinnster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am sorry, but I put all the loses squarely at the feet of the Republicans. When we won in 1994 you guys did a great job until about 1999 then you guys went &quot;Washington&quot; and behaved just like Democrats spending all to be *amned and winking as everyone sucked on the earmarks. Do you think we would be sitting here today in the minority if you all had attacked earmarks when you were in power and with that majority eliminated them? NO. I consider the current batch of Republicans no different from the Democrats.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The bailout was a mistake. Again you let the Democrats walk all over you guys as they set up the whole credit debacle.
I would gladly take a full blown depression and be broke only to start over...at least I would be staring over in a country with real opportunity. I personally will not vote for any Republican that belongs to the old group. I did not vote for Dole and she lost. I will not vote for Burr. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If we have to be the majority for 30 years and we move closer to a Socialist state I will put up with it, because we all know the whole financial house of cards of Social Security, Medicare, Prescription drugs are all going to collapse in time. Maybe, maybe after then  will we get people to serve that really do believe in smaller government instead of the same POLITICIANS the current batch of Republicans are today. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;John Boehner, go sell you bag of conservative talking points to some other gullible voter, but you had you chance and failed miserably. You will not fool me again.  &lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am sorry, but I put all the loses squarely at the feet of the Republicans. When we won in 1994 you guys did a great job until about 1999 then you guys went &#8220;Washington&#8221; and behaved just like Democrats spending all to be *amned and winking as everyone sucked on the earmarks. Do you think we would be sitting here today in the minority if you all had attacked earmarks when you were in power and with that majority eliminated them? NO. I consider the current batch of Republicans no different from the Democrats.</p>
<p>The bailout was a mistake. Again you let the Democrats walk all over you guys as they set up the whole credit debacle.<br />
I would gladly take a full blown depression and be broke only to start over&#8230;at least I would be staring over in a country with real opportunity. I personally will not vote for any Republican that belongs to the old group. I did not vote for Dole and she lost. I will not vote for Burr. </p>
<p>If we have to be the majority for 30 years and we move closer to a Socialist state I will put up with it, because we all know the whole financial house of cards of Social Security, Medicare, Prescription drugs are all going to collapse in time. Maybe, maybe after then  will we get people to serve that really do believe in smaller government instead of the same POLITICIANS the current batch of Republicans are today. </p>
<p>John Boehner, go sell you bag of conservative talking points to some other gullible voter, but you had you chance and failed miserably. You will not fool me again.  </p>
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		<title>By: seattle_ite</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-77</link>
		<dc:creator>seattle_ite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;One minor quibble about your points in the post; no mention of gun rights. Anyone with half a brain knows, after 80 years, that gun control is mush. Controlling criminals is the key, and I&#039;d like not to lose my right to shoot at varmints and paper.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My (hopefully helpful) addendum to your ideas are as follows.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;1) You know that &#039;fire in the belly&#039; your group had over the drilling issue? We need more of that; lots more, and on every issue, until the MSM gets sick of seeing your faces. The base is fed up with you all letting the left define our agenda.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;2)STOP with the one way  bipartisan nonsense. If they truly wanted to work together for the betterment of our Nation, they&#039;d have thrown our side a bone or two, after all these years. Instead, it&#039;s been 20 years of &quot;our turn in the barrel&quot;, if you get my drift.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;3) ARTICULATE THE MESSAGE! You folks have been curiously (and depressingly) silent, while all the malfeasance has been going on, and only Foley and Craig get thrown under the bus??? Hold them all to account. If you have any power over the rules commitee at all, start instituting massive punitive measures for any member, of either party, who are on the take or severely unethical. Sure, lead by example. That&#039;s what we expect from our side. Taking the &#039;high road&#039; is commendable, until you drive us all off the cliff. Y&#039;all expect us to be honest in our dealings with the Government; it is past time that Government returned the favor.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;4) I served in the Reagan era, and got to know his philosophy pretty well. When we catch a member who isn&#039;t living up to that standard, it&#039;s usually too late to do anything about it. You work with this type of hack, and can spot it quicker than we can. Sanctions can work, if they are applied.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;5) Midnight votes on automatic pay raises must be nice, but with the current state of our economy, and the ABYSMAL financial treatment of our troops, it looks quite tacky, from our level. Think about it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;6) While I understand (to a certain extent) the divide within the party over the three legs of the Conservative stool, the opposition has us hogtied with their understanding of party unity. A SoCon who doesn&#039;t support a FisCon or NatSecCon is asking for a smackdown, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I truly don&#039;t mean to sound disrespectful, and I know you&#039;ve probably heard worse. But we are very frustrated with the lackluster performance of the party since &#039;88, when the NE elite took over. We got lucky with eight years of a GOP President who saw the threat from abroad, but you have all dropped the ball on selling the vision. I believe in the GWOT/Preemptive strike strategy, and only wish that Reagan had thought to use it over Tehran or Beirut. Maybe even Tripoli. (Sigh). Lost opportunities are, as always, learning experiences. PLEASE, learn from this loss.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Yours Respectfully, CWD      &lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One minor quibble about your points in the post; no mention of gun rights. Anyone with half a brain knows, after 80 years, that gun control is mush. Controlling criminals is the key, and I&#8217;d like not to lose my right to shoot at varmints and paper.</p>
<p>My (hopefully helpful) addendum to your ideas are as follows.</p>
<p>1) You know that &#8216;fire in the belly&#8217; your group had over the drilling issue? We need more of that; lots more, and on every issue, until the MSM gets sick of seeing your faces. The base is fed up with you all letting the left define our agenda.</p>
<p>2)STOP with the one way  bipartisan nonsense. If they truly wanted to work together for the betterment of our Nation, they&#8217;d have thrown our side a bone or two, after all these years. Instead, it&#8217;s been 20 years of &#8220;our turn in the barrel&#8221;, if you get my drift.</p>
<p>3) ARTICULATE THE MESSAGE! You folks have been curiously (and depressingly) silent, while all the malfeasance has been going on, and only Foley and Craig get thrown under the bus??? Hold them all to account. If you have any power over the rules commitee at all, start instituting massive punitive measures for any member, of either party, who are on the take or severely unethical. Sure, lead by example. That&#8217;s what we expect from our side. Taking the &#8216;high road&#8217; is commendable, until you drive us all off the cliff. Y&#8217;all expect us to be honest in our dealings with the Government; it is past time that Government returned the favor.</p>
<p>4) I served in the Reagan era, and got to know his philosophy pretty well. When we catch a member who isn&#8217;t living up to that standard, it&#8217;s usually too late to do anything about it. You work with this type of hack, and can spot it quicker than we can. Sanctions can work, if they are applied.</p>
<p>5) Midnight votes on automatic pay raises must be nice, but with the current state of our economy, and the ABYSMAL financial treatment of our troops, it looks quite tacky, from our level. Think about it.</p>
<p>6) While I understand (to a certain extent) the divide within the party over the three legs of the Conservative stool, the opposition has us hogtied with their understanding of party unity. A SoCon who doesn&#8217;t support a FisCon or NatSecCon is asking for a smackdown, in my opinion.</p>
<p>I truly don&#8217;t mean to sound disrespectful, and I know you&#8217;ve probably heard worse. But we are very frustrated with the lackluster performance of the party since &#8217;88, when the NE elite took over. We got lucky with eight years of a GOP President who saw the threat from abroad, but you have all dropped the ball on selling the vision. I believe in the GWOT/Preemptive strike strategy, and only wish that Reagan had thought to use it over Tehran or Beirut. Maybe even Tripoli. (Sigh). Lost opportunities are, as always, learning experiences. PLEASE, learn from this loss.</p>
<p>Yours Respectfully, CWD      </p>
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		<title>By: seattle_ite</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-76</link>
		<dc:creator>seattle_ite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Very well said.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>By: seattle_ite</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-75</link>
		<dc:creator>seattle_ite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;We&#039;ve been letting the lefties frame our positions, without hardly a peep to correct them. It&#039;s really easy for both sides to buy a &quot;my opponent is lying&quot; ad on TV or radio, but we do need to be more proactive in furthering our OWN message.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve been letting the lefties frame our positions, without hardly a peep to correct them. It&#8217;s really easy for both sides to buy a &#8220;my opponent is lying&#8221; ad on TV or radio, but we do need to be more proactive in furthering our OWN message.</p>
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		<title>By: onimpulse</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-74</link>
		<dc:creator>onimpulse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;nt&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>By: mom2oneson</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-73</link>
		<dc:creator>mom2oneson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;nt&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>By: mom2oneson</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/2008/11/05/renew-fight-smaller-more-accountable-government/#comment-72</link>
		<dc:creator>mom2oneson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The left are the ones talking about them so why shouldn&#039;t they? The youth are too inexperienced in life to understand the problems the left are pointing out are real but their dem&#039;s solutions are bad. It was the same thing all during history with the industrial revolution and the factories. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When the left blames the right for starving children because of AFDC limits or whatever the right needs to be able to articulate how much a low income single mother of 2 gets in the way of EIC (possibly $5,000!), medicaid, food stamps, pell grants for college/vo-tech, daycare assistance and possibly housing, and how she will continue to recieve food stamps and medicaid until she earns $xxxx per month. I don&#039;t know why McCain didn&#039;t do this with everything Obama said about redistributing the wealth. It already is like that. If just one person would actually respond they could show how what the left is saying isn&#039;t true. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The repub leaders need to ask the youth to join them in doing stuff in the community. The leaders need to show up at the food bank, show up at the colleges, show up at the campus Ronald McDonald fund raiser, at the car wash for the youth group&#039;s mission trip. The youth think we ignore the poor and social problems. They think the repubs don&#039;t care about them because we disagree with the left&#039;s solutions and do not want to fund them. They need to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt;**&lt;/strong&gt; us providing the positive solutions  and just some involvement with the very low income. They repub leaders need to articulate how much help the low income already recieve in specific numbers per household when the left makes those blanket statements about welfare mothers being need help and starving children. The left is so attractive to the youth because we all can change the world at 21 and the left talks about social problems. 
(sorry for the length :) )&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The left are the ones talking about them so why shouldn&#8217;t they? The youth are too inexperienced in life to understand the problems the left are pointing out are real but their dem&#8217;s solutions are bad. It was the same thing all during history with the industrial revolution and the factories. </p>
<p>When the left blames the right for starving children because of AFDC limits or whatever the right needs to be able to articulate how much a low income single mother of 2 gets in the way of EIC (possibly $5,000!), medicaid, food stamps, pell grants for college/vo-tech, daycare assistance and possibly housing, and how she will continue to recieve food stamps and medicaid until she earns $xxxx per month. I don&#8217;t know why McCain didn&#8217;t do this with everything Obama said about redistributing the wealth. It already is like that. If just one person would actually respond they could show how what the left is saying isn&#8217;t true. </p>
<p>The repub leaders need to ask the youth to join them in doing stuff in the community. The leaders need to show up at the food bank, show up at the colleges, show up at the campus Ronald McDonald fund raiser, at the car wash for the youth group&#8217;s mission trip. The youth think we ignore the poor and social problems. They think the repubs don&#8217;t care about them because we disagree with the left&#8217;s solutions and do not want to fund them. They need to <strong><em>see</em>**</strong> us providing the positive solutions  and just some involvement with the very low income. They repub leaders need to articulate how much help the low income already recieve in specific numbers per household when the left makes those blanket statements about welfare mothers being need help and starving children. The left is so attractive to the youth because we all can change the world at 21 and the left talks about social problems.<br />
(sorry for the length <img src='http://www.redstate.com/congressman_john_boehner/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</p>
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