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As you see, the message is - help for seniors! Go Bush!
No mention of any of the hated aspects of the bill among right and left alike.
The reason we are flaming out is the abrogation of responsibility by media, and the failure of Congress to ensure open, even-handed media by restricting the rights of media conglomerates. There is no amount of voting or stumping or campaigning that will help when it is impossible to get balanced, accurate information. That is why there is no labor policy, no immigration policy, no health-care policy, and why we are 1 event from permanent martial law and explicitly militaristic rule.
Go to the Post-Dispatch (stltoday.com) and read about the cozy relationship between Boeing and the government - all this while Airbus is kicking the shit out of American aerospace. Ask yourself if Eisenhower had it right. Ask yourself if feminism and PC has not destroyed the American mind. Ask yourself if a country that can't add or find Arizona can live free.
It is late late in the day at this point to do anything about it. This is the consequence of having a fat, stupid, lazy, and self-indulgently ignorant population. In a real sense, we deserve to fail, and the sooner the better.