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[OmahaBlueDog]

172. No, that's not what I'm saying

Both sides don't do it, but both sides are being blamed. The electorate-at-large is completely fed up with both parties because public perception is that they cannot work together in any productive way. The failure to pass a farm bill is case-in-point.

The current polling I've seen shows the public wants members of congress thrown out, regardless of party,

We have brought government spending down - but in the minds of much of the public, we get no credit for it. We've yet to shed the image of the tax and spend Democrats, despite the fact that the last Democratic President ran surpluses. We need to do a better job of reminding the electorate of that, and also to explain why -- even 5 years later -- yes, it really is Bush's fault.

By the way - we've ended one of Bush's idiotic wars. We've yet to end the second.