What We Missed

SirPan

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Monday November 08, 2010 · 10:54 AM PST

2010/11/08 · 10:54

Like many others, I've spent the last week in a kind of daze, stunned by the victory of the Republicans last week. How could our country go so wrong? Why don't others see the disaster they are making? But what I think we ought to be doing is focusing less on the badness of Them, more on where we failed and what we can do about it, less on the badness of Them, more on how they are successful.

What's truly stunning to me is that the political failure is directly connected to the legislative success of the past few years. After eight years of incompetent government, we finally seemed to have a President who knew what needed to be done and could lead Congress to accomplish it. What happened? I think the problem is this: almost no one felt any benefit.

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Have you benefited directly from healthcare, stimulus, or TARP?

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Have you benefited directly from healthcare, stimulus, or TARP?

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Yes, healthcare only

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Yes, healthcare and stimulus

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Yes, healthcare and TARP but not the stimulus

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Yes, healthcare, stimulus and TARP

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Yes, stimulus only

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Yes, TARP only

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