I think you hit the nail on the head. As for me, I'm going to make moves
that will minimize my exposure to the tax increases that are on the way.
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Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978 Cell
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
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To: "Open discussion among iSeries Users" <cpf0000@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "rick baird" <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 11/08/2006 01:51PM
Subject: [CPF0000] election post-mortem
Looks like the dems took both houses. here are my thoughts.
The voters voted for "change" and the Dems offered that. I would
expect that less than 10% of the swing voters actually understand what
they were changing to, but they wanted change, so they're going to get
change. I change my underwear every day, sometimes twice. But they
ran the campaign that guaranteed the win, and the republican without
the credibility to say they were really conservatives couldn't retort,
and to no one's surprise, the dems win and I offer my congratulations.
But to paraphrase Robert Redford in "The Candidate": ok, you won, now
what are you going to do?
One thing is certain, this was not an endorsement of liberal values,
because the democrats running didn't run on liberal values. In fact,
they played up two issues and two issues only - we're not republicans
and we don't like the war. that was plenty. Scenes of democrats
nationwide moving rightward to make themselves electable - invoking
God and Jesus, speaking in church and in redneck bars, avoiding the
issues of taxes, entitlement spending and the economy, except in the
most general terms. Few outside the bluest of blue districts ran on
traditional liberal issues.
Make no mistake, this was much more a rejection of the current crop of
republicans who were more interested in feathering their own nests and
protecting their own asses than they were doing their jobs and
promoting conservative values.
It's a wake up call, so look for the current leadership to be
back-benched. Expect squeaky clean real conservatives such as Mike
Pence and John Shadegg to lead the party for the next few years.
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