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stevenleser

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3. I disagree that going further left on Health Care Reform would have kept a single seat in Democratic

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 01:44 PM

Jan 2012

hands.

The die was cast in February 2009 with the decision to form the Tea Parties in response to the stimulus. After that, everything Obama did was characterized as big government socialist. Implementing single payer would not have changed the direction of any of that at all.

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I read through it and am horrified that they are right. We are going to lose the senate and for the stevenleser Jan 2012 #1

Had Obama really come out fighting on the economy rather than on behalf of the JDPriestly Jan 2012 #2

I disagree that going further left on Health Care Reform would have kept a single seat in Democratic stevenleser Jan 2012 #3

I did not write clearly. JDPriestly Jan 2012 #4

My mentor has a saying, if there were two lines, one for health care and one for jobs... stevenleser Jan 2012 #5

The sky has not fallen yet. n/t ellisonz Jan 2012 #6