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Limbaugh: 'We Need Segregated Buses'

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jpkoch9/20/2009 3:43:57 pm PDT

re: #651 Kobyashi Maru

By Moderates, you mean those wonderful pragmatists such as Dick Lugar, Arlen Specter, Max Bacus, Dennis Hastert, Evan Bayh, Lincoln Chaffee, Ben Gordon, Elizabeth Dole, Blanche Lincoln, Tom Ridge, Jim Shays, …and the list goes on. We include the retired Lowell Weicker, as well as Senator Packwood, or perhaps even Senator Dole.

You see, all of these moderates have or were around since the late 70s, and all of these lawmakers fit to a T what you see as the perfect “Center”. However, under their stewardship the deficits ballooned from $800 billion to now over $11 trillion; the budget itself went from $1.6 billion (2001) to over $3 trillion in 2009. Moderates over the last 3 decades write vague laws that beg for judicial interference; yet, under their leadership we’ve seen an explosion federal involvement in everything from home mortgages to public firm’s accounting practices (think of Mark to Market). The Moderates oversaw everything from the CIA to the FBI. After 9/11 I did not hear one Moderate offer one iota of criticism of the CIA, FBI, or Justice. Quite the opposite; The 9/11 Commission was filled with Moderates who saw nothing wrong with pre 9/11 intel or congressional oversight.

Moderates are not the answer -they are part of the problem