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20. Agree -- you can see that in how they vote in Congress. They ARE elected to represent their

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 04:27 PM

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constituents, and invariably they will vote to support something that keeps jobs in their State. Frustrating, but understandable. And the constituents care more about feeding their families than about anything else, which is no surprise.

I remember that Proxmire was hated in Washington State because he successfully thwarted SST travel, and WA wanted to pursue it because of Boeing.

I think the progressives are over a barrel and you're right about the only solution is to bring in other industries, but look at how much the Republicans are resisting any move toward that end.

And I so agree about clean coal -- that's always been my complaint about Schweitzer in Montana. I love him but have always been bothered by his enthusiasm for "clean coal". And of course I realized it's because he lives in Montana.

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