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The problem is she's married to a republican. You'll have to excuse the hooray for my team libbers, they are still in a state of shock and denial from last week.



You gotta love it when people evaluate politics based simply on party labels. I guarantee you 95% of them that are pissed they lost Massachusetts have no idea how a national health exchange could cut this country's medical costs.

Then, just a step above that, you have those who are familiar with the ideas behind the issues, but still manage to have just about everything that's good falls into the bucket when they're party had the presidency. And, just about everything that's bad falls into the bucket when the other party had the presidency. I was going to find Burglar some links to how there was a big controversy with hearings in Congress that credit default swaps weren't regulated during Clinton's presidency. And the laws passed during that time enabling people with no money to buy houses because not doing so would be discriminating against them. But meh, just never got around to it. And yes, for the team libbers, Coke belongs in this paragraph as well.

The one thing that would mean the most towards educating children about our political system, if we could just let them know that how the economy is doing is far from necessarily being the result of who is president, that would go a long way towards cutting through a lot of the bullshit rhetoric we have to listen to in politics. There'd be nobody out there to believe it.