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		<title>The DSCC thinks &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; is a bad thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does this strike anybody else as weird? The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (which is run jointly by all of the current Democrats in the US Senate) thinks that all they have to do to persuade folks to vote against Scott Brown is to link him to the Tea Party movement. Maybe it&#8217;s just me. But [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does this strike anybody else as weird?</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.dscc.org/blog?blog_entry_KEY=607" target="_blank">Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee</a> (which is run jointly by all of the current Democrats in the US Senate) thinks that all they have to do to persuade folks to vote against Scott Brown is to link him to the Tea Party movement.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dscc.org/blog?blog_entry_KEY=607" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1394" title="DSCC Scott Brown Tea Party" src="http://redhatrobcom.ipage.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/DSCC-Scott-Brown-Tea-Party.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="525" /></a></p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me. But national polling has shown that the Tea Party movement has higher favorability ratings that either the Republican or the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>While the choir might respond well to this attack, I think the majority of independent voters greet news of Brown&#8217;s affilation with the Tea Party movement as a positive, not a negative.</p>
<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s not just the Coakley campaign in MA that&#8217;s out of touch. From inside the beltway it appears to be axiomatic that Tea Party = Evil.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think most voters agree. We&#8217;re going to find out tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>My teaparty speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The budget deficits incurred by President Bush were excessive, and wrong. The budget deficits enacted in the budgets adopted by the Republican-led Congress from 2000-2006 were excessive, and wrong. President George Bush has completed his two terms of office and will not run for office again. The Republican congressmen who voted for the budgets of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The budget deficits incurred by President Bush were excessive, and wrong.<a href="http://redhatrobcom.ipage.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/obamadebt.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-771" title="obamadebt" src="http://redhatrobcom.ipage.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/obamadebt-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="247" /></a></p>
<p>The budget deficits enacted in the budgets adopted by the Republican-led Congress from 2000-2006 were excessive, and wrong.</p>
<p>President George Bush has completed his two terms of office and will not run for office again.</p>
<p>The Republican congressmen who voted for the budgets of 2000-2006 should be primary-challenged and replaced with fiscal conservatives. The Republican members of congress who voted for the Wall Street bailouts should be primary-challenged and replaced with fiscal conservatives.</p>
<p>The budget deficits already begun and planned for the future by President Barack Obama are outrageous, and unjustifiable.</p>
<p>The Democrats who voted for the budgets of 2006 and onwards should be opposed and defeated by fiscal conservatives. The Democrat members of congress who voted for the Wall Street bailouts should be challenged and replaced with fiscal conservatives.</p>
<p>The federal government of the United States is too large, and has become too oppressive. It violates the rights of citizens and strangles the productivity and creativity of the American workers and the American businessmen.</p>
<p>The ONLY way to increase the prosperity of the people of the United States is for American workers and American businessmen to be set free to use their ingenuity and creativity to produce more value. The biggest obstacle to this is the nanny state &#8211; the oppressively large and bewilderingly complicated regulations of the federal government.</p>
<p>We need less government, not more.</p>
<p>We need less government spending, not more.</p>
<p>We need less government taxation, not more.</p>
<p>The American people are finding their voice. We are crying out for relief. We are looking for leadership.</p>
<p>We do not need speeches about hope and change.</p>
<p>We need leaders with common sense. We need leaders who will reverse the growth of government over the past ten years&#8230; the past twenty years&#8230; the past thirty years.</p>
<p>Ronald Reagan was right. Government is not the solution. Government is the problem.</p>
<p>Where is the Ronald Reagan of 2010?</p>
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