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Proud Liberal Dem

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1. The only problem is that their "base" doesn't believe in "positive solutions" to anything
Tue May 28, 2013, 12:45 PM
May 2013

I'm having trouble figuring out what exactly a "positive" solution would look like in today's GOP. They are pretty much only about war, defunding government services (except for the military), defanging government so that it can't really do any meaningful oversight of corporations, ensuring that corporations don't pay much in taxes, and......well....I can't really think of much else. Positive MIGHT be something like a Medicare Drug Plan that is able to negotiate lower prices but that would interfere with corporate profits, so that's a no-no. Stop obstructing health care reform might be nice but President Obama is their nemesis so they don't want his signature piece of legislation to be a success (even though they nominated the guy that actually implemented it while he was governor of Massachusetts). I'm frankly stumped.........

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