[Rhodes22-list] Politics-Palin-Twain

[Robert Skinner]

Bravo!
/Robert, ME

pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net wrote:
> Brad,
> 
> You said:  "Palin didn't get where she is by being a shrinking violet and
> that rubs some people the wrong way.  She was the only one in the race to
> look right straight into the camera and say, "America, you lived beyond
> your means" (paraphrased).  Some people like straight talk and others
> prefer HopenChange."
> 
> This is a big frustration with me.  Where do we think people get the idea
> that living beyond their means is perfectly OK?  Could it be that they see
> the Federal government's policy of deficit spending year after year after
> year after year?  Sometimes when I read some of the stuff on here or see
> the news I just ask myself what in the hell has happened to us?  Whatever
> happened to the incredibly simplistic reality that sooner or later we're
> going to actually have to pay for all of this stuff.  How can so many
> people (congress included) be so incredibly stupid?  Isn't it part of our
> job as citizens to hold our lawmakers accountable?  How do we let people
> like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Christopher Dodd and the biggest joke of
> them all, Barney Frank continue to get away with the things they do?  (Oh
> yeah, and then blame it all on whomever happens to be the current
> temporary resident of the White House.)  It just astounds me.
> 
> Paul
> 
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