Hello Dave,   
      
   On Wed 2012-May-09 07:51, Dave Drum (1:18/200) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
   DD> I don't get much in the way of live stuff like that since my   
   DD> built-in answering machine gives out a hearty "Bonjour!" and then a   
   DD> bunch of jabber in the Froggish tongue that means 'you know what   
   DD> this is. Wait for the beep'. Sacre Bleu! it cuts down on the live   
   DD> phone solicitors and the like. All my friends know about the French   
   DD> butler and leave a message.   
      
     I can relate.  The one I got hit the most was some   
   "survey" which asked a bunch of questions slanted to support the teabaggers   
   which told me I'd "won a trip to the   
   Bahamas."  Yeah right.  I finally got them to quit calling.   
      
      
   DD> So, I'll just leave it at the thing I told a (successful but likely   
   DD> a one-termer) candidate for congress during a town-hall thing last   
   DD> election cycle when he spewed about needing to create jobs. "You   
   DD> people wouldn't need to create jobs if you hadn't sent all the jobs   
   DD> to China and India and Thailand in pursuit of your personal   
   DD> profits." He was a tea-bagger endorsed candidate who defeated a   
   DD> multi-term moderate Democrat. But, the districts have been redrawn   
   DD> by a Democrat statehouse/legislature. So, he's probably toast.   
   DD> Especially as he hasn't distinguished himself except by going to   
   DD> Washington and staying there. Becoming one of the insiders that he   
   DD> campaigned against.   Bv)=   
      
   That's what they're all about, becoming the insiders they   
   bitch about.   
      
      
   DD> I see that Dick Lugar, one of a dwindling breed, a moderate   
   DD> Republican has gone down in a primary contest to a tea-bagger   
   DD> supported extreme right-winger. The tea-bagger's complaint ... Lugar   
   DD> worked in the Senate to get things done, sometimes compromising   
   DD> (GASP WHEEZE) with the Democrats (UGH PATOOIE) on the other side of   
   DD> the aisle.   
      
   Yeah I'm not surprised.  This is part of what I don't really grok about the   
   new political climate.  Compromise is the way you get from here to there,   
   often the only way.  Nobody gets everything they want, but we get something we   
   can use.  HEll life is about compromise, except in national politics these   
   days.   
      
   DD> It's sad - I see less and less common sense in politics these days   
   DD> ... on either side of the aisle. All anyone wants to do is find   
   DD> fault and scream about problems, asking to be elected to fix those   
   DD> faults and problems without putting forth any positive or practical   
   DD> ideas on how it's to be done without destroying the fabric of our   
   DD> society.   
      
   That's because most of them don't understand that if they   
   get their wish their fortunate positions wouldn't be so   
   fortunate.  We've managed to do what the founding fathers   
   tried to avoid, we've nullified those checks and balances in the system.    
   We've managed to do what I was taught in civics class was nigh on impossible.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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