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		<title>By: snoopyrufus</title>
		<link>http://stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/06/of-town-halls-health-care-the-unglued-american-left/comment-page-1/#comment-297</link>
		<dc:creator>snoopyrufus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post! I&#039;ll be stopping by more often.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post! I&#8217;ll be stopping by more often.</p>
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		<title>By: Holly Cairns</title>
		<link>http://stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/06/of-town-halls-health-care-the-unglued-american-left/comment-page-1/#comment-296</link>
		<dc:creator>Holly Cairns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay, so I blogged the importance of refuting the extreme right’s message. hollycairns dot com (Obama... Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

That’s an in general refute to your usual MO, perhaps, unless you aren’t that extreme. I still can’t figure you out, exactly. You’re friends with Chad T and still you seem to be levelheaded. Birds of a feather?

Specifics from your post: Reid is hardworking and can think for himself. Pelosi is a strong woman and does what she thinks is right. Both of these two have their peers behind them.

I don’t know who the “progressives” are and so I cannot refute anything about them or what they do.

The American left consists of many thoughtful, grassroots activists. I consider myself one. Let’s see, IMO, at the heart of this is door knocking to get the candidate’s name and contact information into the hands of the constituent. Community action, community volunteerism… identifying activists and using them appropriately, etc. combined with setting the agenda based on local concern.

Right now I think there are a few big money lobbyists behind the anti-health care reform movement… in effect, to our detriment, astroturfing to get what they want (more money out of us while offering the least in care). They use the right instead of the left, it would appear.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so I blogged the importance of refuting the extreme right’s message. hollycairns dot com (Obama&#8230; Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness</p>
<p>That’s an in general refute to your usual MO, perhaps, unless you aren’t that extreme. I still can’t figure you out, exactly. You’re friends with Chad T and still you seem to be levelheaded. Birds of a feather?</p>
<p>Specifics from your post: Reid is hardworking and can think for himself. Pelosi is a strong woman and does what she thinks is right. Both of these two have their peers behind them.</p>
<p>I don’t know who the “progressives” are and so I cannot refute anything about them or what they do.</p>
<p>The American left consists of many thoughtful, grassroots activists. I consider myself one. Let’s see, IMO, at the heart of this is door knocking to get the candidate’s name and contact information into the hands of the constituent. Community action, community volunteerism… identifying activists and using them appropriately, etc. combined with setting the agenda based on local concern.</p>
<p>Right now I think there are a few big money lobbyists behind the anti-health care reform movement… in effect, to our detriment, astroturfing to get what they want (more money out of us while offering the least in care). They use the right instead of the left, it would appear.</p>
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		<title>By: Holly Cairns</title>
		<link>http://stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/06/of-town-halls-health-care-the-unglued-american-left/comment-page-1/#comment-295</link>
		<dc:creator>Holly Cairns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay, so I blogged the importance of refuting the extreme right&#039;s message.   http://hollycairns.com/?p=189

That&#039;s an in general refute to your usual MO, perhaps, unless you aren&#039;t that extreme.  I still can&#039;t figure you out, exactly.  You&#039;re friends with Chad T and still you seem to be levelheaded.  Birds of a feather?

Specifics from your post:  Reid is hardworking and can think for himself.  Pelosi is a strong woman and does what she thinks is right.  Both of these two have their peers behind them.

I don&#039;t know who the &quot;progressives&quot; are and so I cannot refute anything about them or what they do.

The American left consists of many thoughtful, grassroots activists.  I consider myself one.  Let&#039;s see, IMO, at the heart of this is door knocking to get the candidate&#039;s name and contact information into the hands of the constituent.  Community action, community volunteerism... identifying activists and using them appropriately, etc. combined with setting the agenda based on local concern.

Right now I think there are a few big money lobbyists behind the anti-health care reform movement... in effect, to our detriment, astroturfing to get what they want (more money out of us while offering the least in care).  They use the right instead of the left, it would appear.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so I blogged the importance of refuting the extreme right&#8217;s message.   <a href="http://hollycairns.com/?p=189" rel="nofollow">http://hollycairns.com/?p=189</a></p>
<p>That&#8217;s an in general refute to your usual MO, perhaps, unless you aren&#8217;t that extreme.  I still can&#8217;t figure you out, exactly.  You&#8217;re friends with Chad T and still you seem to be levelheaded.  Birds of a feather?</p>
<p>Specifics from your post:  Reid is hardworking and can think for himself.  Pelosi is a strong woman and does what she thinks is right.  Both of these two have their peers behind them.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know who the &#8220;progressives&#8221; are and so I cannot refute anything about them or what they do.</p>
<p>The American left consists of many thoughtful, grassroots activists.  I consider myself one.  Let&#8217;s see, IMO, at the heart of this is door knocking to get the candidate&#8217;s name and contact information into the hands of the constituent.  Community action, community volunteerism&#8230; identifying activists and using them appropriately, etc. combined with setting the agenda based on local concern.</p>
<p>Right now I think there are a few big money lobbyists behind the anti-health care reform movement&#8230; in effect, to our detriment, astroturfing to get what they want (more money out of us while offering the least in care).  They use the right instead of the left, it would appear.</p>
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		<title>By: Rob</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The whole thing is so stupid.

Where are the Conservative&#039;s demands to:

1) End Medicare (nothing but a government run health care system).

2) End Medicaid (see point 1).

3) End Prescription assistance for hold people (see point 1).

4) End reimbursement for Hospitals if someone shows up at the emergency room who can&#039;t pay - wheel the injured kid out and dump him or her on the sidewalk if the parents can&#039;t pay.

We have to END this system of GOVERNMENT SPONSORED HEALTHCARE COMPLETELY - or it will ONLY grow!!!

Come on all of you wanna-be Conservative-Free Marketers it is time to stand up and be counted and DEMAND FULL CHANGE - not this BS that these nuts at the Town Halls are yelling about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The whole thing is so stupid.</p>
<p>Where are the Conservative&#8217;s demands to:</p>
<p>1) End Medicare (nothing but a government run health care system).</p>
<p>2) End Medicaid (see point 1).</p>
<p>3) End Prescription assistance for hold people (see point 1).</p>
<p>4) End reimbursement for Hospitals if someone shows up at the emergency room who can&#8217;t pay &#8211; wheel the injured kid out and dump him or her on the sidewalk if the parents can&#8217;t pay.</p>
<p>We have to END this system of GOVERNMENT SPONSORED HEALTHCARE COMPLETELY &#8211; or it will ONLY grow!!!</p>
<p>Come on all of you wanna-be Conservative-Free Marketers it is time to stand up and be counted and DEMAND FULL CHANGE &#8211; not this BS that these nuts at the Town Halls are yelling about.</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>joseph aucoin: Your admonishment over a simple spelling error lost a lot of oomph when you abandoned punctuation. If you are going to feign intellectual superiority you should at least brush up on the first grade writing skills.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>joseph aucoin: Your admonishment over a simple spelling error lost a lot of oomph when you abandoned punctuation. If you are going to feign intellectual superiority you should at least brush up on the first grade writing skills.</p>
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		<title>By: MoogieP</title>
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		<dc:creator>MoogieP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When Peggy Noonan starts advising the libs to back off, you know there&#039;s trouble in paradise.  I&#039;d be willing to get clocked by a union goon if it&#039;d cause the scales to fall from more sets of eyes.  Okay -- it&#039;d have to be a small, wimpy union goon.  With a limp. http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Peggy Noonan starts advising the libs to back off, you know there&#8217;s trouble in paradise.  I&#8217;d be willing to get clocked by a union goon if it&#8217;d cause the scales to fall from more sets of eyes.  Okay &#8212; it&#8217;d have to be a small, wimpy union goon.  With a limp. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: versionthirteen</title>
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		<dc:creator>versionthirteen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hahha! Nice writeup! As far as &quot;I won&quot; Obama and his liberal sychophants go - &quot;you can have a whole room full of mouse turds, but they&#039;re still going to be mouse turds.&quot; If Middle America thinks you just gamed them with a smooth talking punk that lies, you are now about to get one planted on your keister that will &quot;unseat&quot; you.  Say hello to 2010, fools.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hahha! Nice writeup! As far as &#8220;I won&#8221; Obama and his liberal sychophants go &#8211; &#8220;you can have a whole room full of mouse turds, but they&#8217;re still going to be mouse turds.&#8221; If Middle America thinks you just gamed them with a smooth talking punk that lies, you are now about to get one planted on your keister that will &#8220;unseat&#8221; you.  Say hello to 2010, fools.</p>
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		<title>By: sinanju</title>
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		<dc:creator>sinanju</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alas, the worst part about it is that these noisy townhalls are (Hello?  Knock, knock) mostly DEMOCRAT events, with democrat voters voicing their concerns.

So the dems are now not only waging a bitter war of insults and invective against the American people in general but also against their own electorate.

Not a winning strategy.  Nope.  Nossir.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alas, the worst part about it is that these noisy townhalls are (Hello?  Knock, knock) mostly DEMOCRAT events, with democrat voters voicing their concerns.</p>
<p>So the dems are now not only waging a bitter war of insults and invective against the American people in general but also against their own electorate.</p>
<p>Not a winning strategy.  Nope.  Nossir.</p>
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		<title>By: joseph aucoin</title>
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		<dc:creator>joseph aucoin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it&#039;s their, not they&#039;re.
please learn proper English</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s their, not they&#8217;re.<br />
please learn proper English</p>
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		<title>By: Chuck</title>
		<link>http://stephenkruiser.com/2009/08/06/of-town-halls-health-care-the-unglued-american-left/comment-page-1/#comment-288</link>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Like the posting here, and it is a shame we are so divided here, but not equally. The entire nation is gaining motion here and will not be willing to listen to any more crazy ideas from this new government.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like the posting here, and it is a shame we are so divided here, but not equally. The entire nation is gaining motion here and will not be willing to listen to any more crazy ideas from this new government.</p>
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