>>>>It's happened.
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>>>has the sky fallen ?
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>>And you can thank the intransigence (sp?) of Harry Reid and Obama for it..
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>The US govt system seems a bit weird from over here. How can you elect a government that can't govern. If the republicans don't like what Obama is doing shouldn't they be ensuring their man (or woman) gets elected next time. As I understand it this tactic usually backfires onto the non president side.
The first great Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, though famous as the consumate crafter of compromise once said after a great slavery debate in 1838 "I'd rather be right than President".
( and of course one of his many political enemies observed "I am sure the gentleman has little chance of being either." )
But Lincoln called him one of the men he most admired.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
