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		<title>By: nivlem</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20473</link>
		<dc:creator>nivlem</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice, polite girl on the phone, however, she was noncommittal.  Probably 
because I let her know I was from his district.  
This is getting all so ridiculous.  It&#039;s going to take more than blogging to stop
this snowball backed by a zamboni machine.  
I hate to be aggressive and nasty, but I am beginning to believe in the
&quot;squeeky wheel gets the grease&quot; applies to politics as well.  I always
thought integrity and caring about the people you represent would carry us 
through these challenges.  I am stongly doubting it more strongly every
day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice, polite girl on the phone, however, she was noncommittal.  Probably<br />
because I let her know I was from his district.<br />
This is getting all so ridiculous.  It&#8217;s going to take more than blogging to stop<br />
this snowball backed by a zamboni machine.<br />
I hate to be aggressive and nasty, but I am beginning to believe in the<br />
&#8220;squeeky wheel gets the grease&#8221; applies to politics as well.  I always<br />
thought integrity and caring about the people you represent would carry us<br />
through these challenges.  I am stongly doubting it more strongly every<br />
day.</p>
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		<title>By: Praveen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Praveen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Realize that if you keep losing these battles you might not survive to win the war.

If Hitler was stopped when he targetted Sudetenland the world would have actually avoided a larger war....

I was reading a story to my kid yesterday... might make sense...

&quot;You fool!&quot; croaked the frog, &quot;Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?&quot; The scorpion shrugged. &quot;I could not help myself. It is my nature.&quot; Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river. 

Self destruction - &quot;Its my Nature&quot;, said the Scorpion...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Realize that if you keep losing these battles you might not survive to win the war.</p>
<p>If Hitler was stopped when he targetted Sudetenland the world would have actually avoided a larger war&#8230;.</p>
<p>I was reading a story to my kid yesterday&#8230; might make sense&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;You fool!&#8221; croaked the frog, &#8220;Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?&#8221; The scorpion shrugged. &#8220;I could not help myself. It is my nature.&#8221; Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river. </p>
<p>Self destruction &#8211; &#8220;Its my Nature&#8221;, said the Scorpion&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Moe Lane</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20468</link>
		<dc:creator>Moe Lane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not randy&#039;s fault that you went and lied to a Congressman about what was the best thing for him to do tonight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not randy&#8217;s fault that you went and lied to a Congressman about what was the best thing for him to do tonight.</p>
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		<title>By: Jack</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20467</link>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Randy you are the answer to what is wrong with conservatism.  We are just reactive.  No long distance strategies, no thinking beyond tomorrow.  You were here with all your genius while we got our heads handed to us.

Anymore wise thoughts from you and we will be meeting in secret places and running from the light.  

You don&#039;t seem to get it.  Maybe you can&#039;t get it or just being stupid is easier for you.

We lost the schools, we lost the media.  The liberals were patient they massed their forces and sat and watched.  They proposed no legislation.  They just sat and waited.  They got funding from labor unions and billionaires intent on the most radical agendas.

They cared nothing for legislation.  They wanted power.  They needed the schools to spit out sheep.  They needed labor unions for muscle and for money.  They never got involved in fights they could not win or in the long run come to win over time.

They let legislation get passed and then criticized it night and day even when the legislation we bipartisan.  The most obvious one was the Patriot Act.

Either we develop a long term strategy or we get used to losing.  Some like you sir seem to love be in the minority.  Being the loyal opposition.  It is easier to just say no then to lead.  It is easier to just sit and be a pest.  

The Democrats were smart enough to get people like you out of the way or marginalized.   If you were not in for the long haul then you would be no use to them.

Don&#039;t read Sun Tzu read Giap, or Rommel, or Franks.  I am not here to win battles I am here to win a war.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Randy you are the answer to what is wrong with conservatism.  We are just reactive.  No long distance strategies, no thinking beyond tomorrow.  You were here with all your genius while we got our heads handed to us.</p>
<p>Anymore wise thoughts from you and we will be meeting in secret places and running from the light.  </p>
<p>You don&#8217;t seem to get it.  Maybe you can&#8217;t get it or just being stupid is easier for you.</p>
<p>We lost the schools, we lost the media.  The liberals were patient they massed their forces and sat and watched.  They proposed no legislation.  They just sat and waited.  They got funding from labor unions and billionaires intent on the most radical agendas.</p>
<p>They cared nothing for legislation.  They wanted power.  They needed the schools to spit out sheep.  They needed labor unions for muscle and for money.  They never got involved in fights they could not win or in the long run come to win over time.</p>
<p>They let legislation get passed and then criticized it night and day even when the legislation we bipartisan.  The most obvious one was the Patriot Act.</p>
<p>Either we develop a long term strategy or we get used to losing.  Some like you sir seem to love be in the minority.  Being the loyal opposition.  It is easier to just say no then to lead.  It is easier to just sit and be a pest.  </p>
<p>The Democrats were smart enough to get people like you out of the way or marginalized.   If you were not in for the long haul then you would be no use to them.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t read Sun Tzu read Giap, or Rommel, or Franks.  I am not here to win battles I am here to win a war.</p>
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		<title>By: randy streu</title>
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		<dc:creator>randy streu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>assuming there are any companies left with capital that isn&#039;t mostly taxpayer-funded.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>assuming there are any companies left with capital that isn&#8217;t mostly taxpayer-funded.</p>
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		<title>By: randy streu</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20464</link>
		<dc:creator>randy streu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nt</description>
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		<title>By: randy streu</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20463</link>
		<dc:creator>randy streu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The Social Security and entitlement bomb is set to go off in 4 years and you believe that voting no on a piece of legislation now will impact that.&quot;

voting &quot;yes&quot; will make it worse.  Will turning down crap legislation necessarily make things better?  Of course not.  Don&#039;t put words in my mouth.  I never said it would necessarily change things.

But actively trying to make it worse is just stupid.  It&#039;s as stupid as voting for Obama so that we could get a good conservative in 2012.  You don&#039;t actively try to screw things up to make them better.  It never works.

PS... condescension doesn&#039;t suit you.  You don&#039;t have the credibility for it.  Dig?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Social Security and entitlement bomb is set to go off in 4 years and you believe that voting no on a piece of legislation now will impact that.&#8221;</p>
<p>voting &#8220;yes&#8221; will make it worse.  Will turning down crap legislation necessarily make things better?  Of course not.  Don&#8217;t put words in my mouth.  I never said it would necessarily change things.</p>
<p>But actively trying to make it worse is just stupid.  It&#8217;s as stupid as voting for Obama so that we could get a good conservative in 2012.  You don&#8217;t actively try to screw things up to make them better.  It never works.</p>
<p>PS&#8230; condescension doesn&#8217;t suit you.  You don&#8217;t have the credibility for it.  Dig?</p>
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		<title>By: Moe Lane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Moe Lane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>NT</description>
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		<title>By: LJ "Beaglescout" Miller</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20461</link>
		<dc:creator>LJ "Beaglescout" Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course if we really wanted to retire the debt we would find a way to sell off federal lands. I&#039;d start with ANWR if I had my druthers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course if we really wanted to retire the debt we would find a way to sell off federal lands. I&#8217;d start with ANWR if I had my druthers.</p>
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		<title>By: Jack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me get this straight.  I just want to make sure I understand the logic of this.  We have more debt now then at anytime in our history.  If we were applying for membership in the EU we would be turned down due to the debt we have now.  

The grandparents of the children who will pay this off have not been born yet.  The Social Security and entitlement bomb is set to go off in 4 years and you believe that voting no on a piece of legislation now will impact that.  

These people have to be defeated.  They have to be destroyed and here you have a chance to do it and you are worried about adding to a debt that can&#039;t be paid off even if we shut down the government completely and did not spend another dime for the next 6 years.  That is the debt now.  Not with this legislation but now.

Who are the most violent and anti smoking people alive?  Former smokers, and that goes for drinkers, drug addicts, and all of the rest.  Former addicts to become former addicts have to reach bottom and reach it hard.  

America will continue to turn to the government to solve their problems until they come to realize that the government has no answers or solutions, but more problems.  Until they see liberalism at its very worse they will continue to walk to the bar and ask for another drink,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me get this straight.  I just want to make sure I understand the logic of this.  We have more debt now then at anytime in our history.  If we were applying for membership in the EU we would be turned down due to the debt we have now.  </p>
<p>The grandparents of the children who will pay this off have not been born yet.  The Social Security and entitlement bomb is set to go off in 4 years and you believe that voting no on a piece of legislation now will impact that.  </p>
<p>These people have to be defeated.  They have to be destroyed and here you have a chance to do it and you are worried about adding to a debt that can&#8217;t be paid off even if we shut down the government completely and did not spend another dime for the next 6 years.  That is the debt now.  Not with this legislation but now.</p>
<p>Who are the most violent and anti smoking people alive?  Former smokers, and that goes for drinkers, drug addicts, and all of the rest.  Former addicts to become former addicts have to reach bottom and reach it hard.  </p>
<p>America will continue to turn to the government to solve their problems until they come to realize that the government has no answers or solutions, but more problems.  Until they see liberalism at its very worse they will continue to walk to the bar and ask for another drink,</p>
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		<title>By: randy streu</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20459</link>
		<dc:creator>randy streu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>another time, maybe.  Right now is just NOT a good time to allow this to happen.  The Dems want to saddle MY KIDS with a s__tload of debt, and I&#039;m not okay with that.  I&#039;m certainly not going to call them up and ask them to do it.

Our economy is teetering, and this will push it farther down.  Playing with it like this is NOT the correct approach.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>another time, maybe.  Right now is just NOT a good time to allow this to happen.  The Dems want to saddle MY KIDS with a s__tload of debt, and I&#8217;m not okay with that.  I&#8217;m certainly not going to call them up and ask them to do it.</p>
<p>Our economy is teetering, and this will push it farther down.  Playing with it like this is NOT the correct approach.</p>
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		<title>By: MMAlpha</title>
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		<dc:creator>MMAlpha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I fear that the deficit will be so huge by the time any Republican is in the White House that the only way to neutralise it would involve punitive taxation. While spending can be reversed, accumulated debt and interest of this magnitude will be less manageable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I fear that the deficit will be so huge by the time any Republican is in the White House that the only way to neutralise it would involve punitive taxation. While spending can be reversed, accumulated debt and interest of this magnitude will be less manageable.</p>
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		<title>By: GT350</title>
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		<dc:creator>GT350</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I don&#039;t condone Jack&#039;s approach, there is some wisdom to it.    

Remember that Jimmy Carter&#039;s bad economic &amp; defense policies destroyed liberalism for 28 years.  We had the &quot;Reagan Democrats&quot; among types of people who had voted Democrat for generations.   

Obama is doing his best to emulate the Peanut Farmer.  I agree that Obama&#039;s policies would put the US economy into desperate shape.  I also believe that earis reversible.   We would have decades worth of &quot;Jindal Democrats&quot; voting Republican.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I don&#8217;t condone Jack&#8217;s approach, there is some wisdom to it.    </p>
<p>Remember that Jimmy Carter&#8217;s bad economic &amp; defense policies destroyed liberalism for 28 years.  We had the &#8220;Reagan Democrats&#8221; among types of people who had voted Democrat for generations.   </p>
<p>Obama is doing his best to emulate the Peanut Farmer.  I agree that Obama&#8217;s policies would put the US economy into desperate shape.  I also believe that earis reversible.   We would have decades worth of &#8220;Jindal Democrats&#8221; voting Republican.</p>
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		<title>By: randy streu</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20456</link>
		<dc:creator>randy streu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;You want to play politics and I am concerned about the life and death of this great nation. &quot;

Asking for bad legislation for the sake of, what, ousting the other party IS NOT playing politics, how exactly?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;You want to play politics and I am concerned about the life and death of this great nation. &#8221;</p>
<p>Asking for bad legislation for the sake of, what, ousting the other party IS NOT playing politics, how exactly?</p>
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		<title>By: Jack</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20455</link>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You want to play politics and I am concerned about the life and death of this great nation.  You keep playing politics and whining about how bad things are.  

Also you know nothing of what this country was like in 1978 to 1980.  We had them defeated then but we blew it.   We blew it because they were tougher then us.  They were smarter then us and they had more courage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You want to play politics and I am concerned about the life and death of this great nation.  You keep playing politics and whining about how bad things are.  </p>
<p>Also you know nothing of what this country was like in 1978 to 1980.  We had them defeated then but we blew it.   We blew it because they were tougher then us.  They were smarter then us and they had more courage.</p>
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		<title>By: randy streu</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20454</link>
		<dc:creator>randy streu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How is convincing them to pass bad legislation helpful?  At all?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How is convincing them to pass bad legislation helpful?  At all?</p>
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		<title>By: Jack</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20453</link>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They will not have to put up with or fight liberals or Democrats while working it down.  Democrats won&#039;t change, they won&#039;t bend, we have to defeat and destroy them once and for all.  

My idea of a perfect world?  Liberals meeting in secret and running from the light because the entire world hates and loathes them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They will not have to put up with or fight liberals or Democrats while working it down.  Democrats won&#8217;t change, they won&#8217;t bend, we have to defeat and destroy them once and for all.  </p>
<p>My idea of a perfect world?  Liberals meeting in secret and running from the light because the entire world hates and loathes them.</p>
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		<title>By: MMAlpha</title>
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		<dc:creator>MMAlpha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your children will be paying the interest on this debt forever/</description>
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		<title>By: Jack</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20451</link>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am tired of Liberals and Democrats.  I am tired of them being in control and I want them defeated once and for all.  If that means passing legislation that will handicap this nation for four years so be it.  

Like I told some acquaintances of mine.  Give you enough rope and time and liberalism will be dead in this country for ever and the Democrat party will be just references in history books.

Let them destroy it we can rebuild it.  They are only destroying themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am tired of Liberals and Democrats.  I am tired of them being in control and I want them defeated once and for all.  If that means passing legislation that will handicap this nation for four years so be it.  </p>
<p>Like I told some acquaintances of mine.  Give you enough rope and time and liberalism will be dead in this country for ever and the Democrat party will be just references in history books.</p>
<p>Let them destroy it we can rebuild it.  They are only destroying themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: rosie</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/03/25/we-need-to-get-on-the-phone-asap/comment-page-1/#comment-20450</link>
		<dc:creator>rosie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I called all of them - didn&#039;t feel in the least embarrassed to say I was from their own district. No reason to call my own, here in Silicon Valley.

BTW - operators sounded beleagured</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I called all of them &#8211; didn&#8217;t feel in the least embarrassed to say I was from their own district. No reason to call my own, here in Silicon Valley.</p>
<p>BTW &#8211; operators sounded beleagured</p>
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