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	<title>Comments on: Total Recall</title>
	<link>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/</link>
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		<title>By: Michael C. Mikulis</title>
		<link>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2059</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael C. Mikulis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2059</guid>
		<description>Where to start:

1. "Approvals are at their lowest levels and Bush’s policy proposals are dead in the water."

     Bush's numbers dropped down for a few days and the left can't stop talking about it, even though the dip in approval has ended and Bush has recovered about five points now.  And Bush's proposals have been delayed by hurricanes, jusidicial nominations, and Congressional recesses.  The left has declared Bush proposals dead on arrival before only to see them pass later, so we'll see what happens in the next year.  

2.  "Gore I remember won the popular vote and the Electoral College was determined otherwise."

     Gore did not get a majority of the popular vote, something which incidentally no Democrat has achieved since Johnson.  Bush won the 2000 election, like previous presidents, through receiving the most votes in enough states to have a majority of the delegates in the electoral college.  

     Gore completely blew the election since if he had won either Clinton's home state, Gore's OWN state, or the state of West Virginia; Gore would have been the president, even if Bush had received a majority of the popular vote.  West Virginia incidentally had only voted Republican three previous times (1956, 1972, 1984) in large Republican landslides.  

3.  "98: reps smashT dems"

     This is the last election that the Republicans blew.  The Republican party tried to run against Clinton, while the Democrats ran alot of local campaigns.  Democrats increased their seats in the House and Senate, took over the California legislature, and went from one state post in California (lieutenant governor) to all but the Insurance Commisioner.  

4.  "Where are the balanced budgets we finally achieved in the 90’s."

     The Democrats spent most of the 1990s fighting against balanced budgets and trying to increase spending by 8% per year.  The Democrats are still fighting today to increase spending.  What's changed is that the Republicans in the Senate are now also increasing spending, and Bush isn't doing enought to stop them.  

     The 1990s balanced budgets is where the Republicans in Congress and Clinton agreed to use all of the Social Security money for general budget purposes instead of worrying about future Social Security payments.  This is how the "surplus" was created, the federal government changed their budget accounting method.  

5.  "Tom Delay won’t be able to deliver from jail."

     Interesting that alot of people jump to the conclusion that Delay is guilty when no evidence has been presented, and the last two politicians this prosecutor went after were political opponents, whom were exonerated.  The Democratic startegy for 2006 seems to be the Republicans are the party of Delay, and this could easily backfire if Delay is also exonerated before the election.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Where to start:</p>
<p>1. &#8220;Approvals are at their lowest levels and Bush’s policy proposals are dead in the water.&#8221;</p>
<p>     Bush&#8217;s numbers dropped down for a few days and the left can&#8217;t stop talking about it, even though the dip in approval has ended and Bush has recovered about five points now.  And Bush&#8217;s proposals have been delayed by hurricanes, jusidicial nominations, and Congressional recesses.  The left has declared Bush proposals dead on arrival before only to see them pass later, so we&#8217;ll see what happens in the next year.  </p>
<p>2.  &#8220;Gore I remember won the popular vote and the Electoral College was determined otherwise.&#8221;</p>
<p>     Gore did not get a majority of the popular vote, something which incidentally no Democrat has achieved since Johnson.  Bush won the 2000 election, like previous presidents, through receiving the most votes in enough states to have a majority of the delegates in the electoral college.  </p>
<p>     Gore completely blew the election since if he had won either Clinton&#8217;s home state, Gore&#8217;s OWN state, or the state of West Virginia; Gore would have been the president, even if Bush had received a majority of the popular vote.  West Virginia incidentally had only voted Republican three previous times (1956, 1972, 1984) in large Republican landslides.  </p>
<p>3.  &#8220;98: reps smashT dems&#8221;</p>
<p>     This is the last election that the Republicans blew.  The Republican party tried to run against Clinton, while the Democrats ran alot of local campaigns.  Democrats increased their seats in the House and Senate, took over the California legislature, and went from one state post in California (lieutenant governor) to all but the Insurance Commisioner.  </p>
<p>4.  &#8220;Where are the balanced budgets we finally achieved in the 90’s.&#8221;</p>
<p>     The Democrats spent most of the 1990s fighting against balanced budgets and trying to increase spending by 8% per year.  The Democrats are still fighting today to increase spending.  What&#8217;s changed is that the Republicans in the Senate are now also increasing spending, and Bush isn&#8217;t doing enought to stop them.  </p>
<p>     The 1990s balanced budgets is where the Republicans in Congress and Clinton agreed to use all of the Social Security money for general budget purposes instead of worrying about future Social Security payments.  This is how the &#8220;surplus&#8221; was created, the federal government changed their budget accounting method.  </p>
<p>5.  &#8220;Tom Delay won’t be able to deliver from jail.&#8221;</p>
<p>     Interesting that alot of people jump to the conclusion that Delay is guilty when no evidence has been presented, and the last two politicians this prosecutor went after were political opponents, whom were exonerated.  The Democratic startegy for 2006 seems to be the Republicans are the party of Delay, and this could easily backfire if Delay is also exonerated before the election.</p>
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		<title>By: smashT</title>
		<link>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2058</link>
		<dc:creator>smashT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2058</guid>
		<description>&lt;blockquote cite="SmashT,

You just got hella-pounded by HB!"&gt;

KTP,

your fanclub membership certificate is in da mail along wiT ur decoder ring. for 50 bux more ill send u an autographed photo 2. till den stay smashT.

"anoter fan smashT"&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote cite="SmashT,</p><p>You just got hella-pounded by HB!"></p>
<p>KTP,</p>
<p>your fanclub membership certificate is in da mail along wiT ur decoder ring. for 50 bux more ill send u an autographed photo 2. till den stay smashT.</p>
<p>&#8220;anoter fan smashT&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: ktp</title>
		<link>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2057</link>
		<dc:creator>ktp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2057</guid>
		<description>SmashT,

You just got hella-pounded by HB!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SmashT,</p>
<p>You just got hella-pounded by HB!</p>
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		<title>By: smashT</title>
		<link>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2056</link>
		<dc:creator>smashT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2056</guid>
		<description>"Keep dodging, because you obviously cannot back up what you say."

keep changing da subject.

stay smashT like all ur lefty fwends. get rdy to cwy some more in a few weeks wen Ahnold crushT's da left in da special election.

"smashT"</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Keep dodging, because you obviously cannot back up what you say.&#8221;</p>
<p>keep changing da subject.</p>
<p>stay smashT like all ur lefty fwends. get rdy to cwy some more in a few weeks wen Ahnold crushT&#8217;s da left in da special election.</p>
<p>&#8220;smashT&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: HB</title>
		<link>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2055</link>
		<dc:creator>HB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2055</guid>
		<description>Those tactics will work, let me assure you, on idiots.

Keep dodging, because you obviously cannot back up what you say.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those tactics will work, let me assure you, on idiots.</p>
<p>Keep dodging, because you obviously cannot back up what you say.</p>
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		<title>By: TigerhawkVok</title>
		<link>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2054</link>
		<dc:creator>TigerhawkVok</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2054</guid>
		<description>Jesus, I couldn't even read through that with that appaling spelling.  Please, since the comments are best used as a tool for intelligent debate, and for people to gain more information about the issues (ideally), please try to avoid the horrid abuse of the English language.  smashT, yes, I'm a Republican; and I'm usually not a &lt;a href="http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20050321.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Grammar Nazi&lt;/a&gt;, but please..... use full sentences with conventional spelling, for all our sakes!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jesus, I couldn&#8217;t even read through that with that appaling spelling.  Please, since the comments are best used as a tool for intelligent debate, and for people to gain more information about the issues (ideally), please try to avoid the horrid abuse of the English language.  smashT, yes, I&#8217;m a Republican; and I&#8217;m usually not a <a href="http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20050321.html" rel="nofollow">Grammar Nazi</a>, but please&#8230;.. use full sentences with conventional spelling, for all our sakes!</p>
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		<title>By: smashT</title>
		<link>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2053</link>
		<dc:creator>smashT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/09/28/total-recall/#comment-2053</guid>
		<description>"You’re overdoing your little clown talk. If u r goi 2 typ lyke dis than at least make coherent sentences. I swear some people."

cwy some more justin T? "i swear some people." is a sentence fragment. crushT

"YOU brought up Hillary and her defeat, called me a democrat, started bragging about how republicans sweep every election and will keep on doing so."

waT about da twuth dont u like? smashT

"You’re just a fucking loser who can’t spell."

sum kids juss cant handle creativity. 

"PS. Regarding the ASUC post. Yes I called you out on bullshit"

glad to see u admit ur arguments are bullshiT. smashT

keep on changing da topic kid... dis shiT is funny as hell ;).

"smashT"</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;You’re overdoing your little clown talk. If u r goi 2 typ lyke dis than at least make coherent sentences. I swear some people.&#8221;</p>
<p>cwy some more justin T? &#8220;i swear some people.&#8221; is a sentence fragment. crushT</p>
<p>&#8220;YOU brought up Hillary and her defeat, called me a democrat, started bragging about how republicans sweep every election and will keep on doing so.&#8221;</p>
<p>waT about da twuth dont u like? smashT</p>
<p>&#8220;You’re just a fucking loser who can’t spell.&#8221;</p>
<p>sum kids juss cant handle creativity. </p>
<p>&#8220;PS. Regarding the ASUC post. Yes I called you out on bullshit&#8221;</p>
<p>glad to see u admit ur arguments are bullshiT. smashT</p>
<p>keep on changing da topic kid&#8230; dis shiT is funny as hell ;).</p>
<p>&#8220;smashT&#8221;</p>
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