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Voters Want a Government That Works« Thread Started on Jan 9

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Voters Want a Government That Works« Thread Started on Jan 9

Postby admin » Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:05 am

Voters Want a Government That Works« Thread Started on Jan 9, 2007, 12:39am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Voters Want a Government That WorksBy Harold Ford Jr.The November election results have been called everything from a Democratic landslide, to a mandate on the war in Iraq, to a searing rebuke of President Bush's policies. I believe these conclusions miss the broader and far more compelling point.From the veteran I met in the Little Rebel bar in Jackson, Tenn., to the glass plant manager I met on the other side of the state in Kingsport, people in Tennessee viewed the 2006 election as being, first and foremost, about change. But this wasn't simply about trading a Republican majority for a Democratic one. And it wasn't about who holds the gavel in committee hearings or which party has the power to issue subpoenas. It was about something much simpler and far more profound -- forcing government to live up once again to the social contract that we put in place more than two centuries ago.Above all, this election was about making government work again. read at source> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... _that.html
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