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<div>Tim "I'm don't comment much on Vision2020 about the horrendous abuses of the Republican party, but suddenly find religion when the Democrats are in power" Lohrmann indicates below that the "mind boggles" at Nancy Pelosi's decisions.
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<div>For my part, after the Democrats took the US Congress this month, I expressed to several activist political friends the opinion that we should not expect the Democrats to work any miracles, nor did the Democratic victory indicate a sea change in the mindset of the US populace. If the Iraq war was going well, and the Foley scandal not so "badly timed," I think the Republicans would be back in power, and the lies and misguided policy decisions that led the US into war in Iraq, decisions that should not ever be excused or forgotten, would be forgot or excused by many.
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<div>Of course the Democrats are in bed with many of the same corporate fat cat power brokers as the Republicans, and now the Democratic party has become, despite all the rhetoric, just "Republican lite." Of course there is corruption and ethics violations in the Democratic party. You don't have all the millions going down with campaign finance and lobbying and not have corruption and ethics violations somewhere. Where there's lots of money, look for crooks and gangsters to find an angle, even if they have expensive suits and high paying corporate and or political jobs (the revolving door between corporate employment and political life blurs the line between the two), and talk in lofty idealistic terms. Those sorts of gangsters are really the worst, given their pose that deceives so many.
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<div>If this US Congress can get more substantive action taken to address global warming, if nothing else, I'll take it over the previous Republican controlled US Congress. The fate of future generations, and the planet's biosphere, is at stake, and this fate transcends the selfish interests of everyone alive today.
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<div>What's up with Nancy Pelosi?</div>
<div>First she tries unsuccessfully to push the ethically challenged John "Abscam" Murtha into the Majority Leader's seat. </div>
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<div>Now she's apparently considering support for the demonstrably corrupt Rep. Alcee Hastings as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.</div>
<div>It's mind-boggling that Hastings, who was impeached and removed from his Federal judgeship by a Democratic Congress for conspiring to take a $150,000 bribe, is even in Congress much less being considered for a sensitive senior leadership position.
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<div>And will she go on to support Charlie Rangel, who is calling for re-instating the Draft, as Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee as well? </div>
<div>The mind boggles!</div>
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<div>Is this what the new Democrat "change of direction" is all about?</div>
<div>Meet the new boss.......</div>
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