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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	There is a plan
	Date:	11/10/2010 9:58:36 AM

Please read Paul Ryan's Roadmap. It is detailed and specific, something you will see even if you don't agree with his ideas. As of right now it has not been embraced by enough members of the GOP out of abject fear. Maybe if both parties would eschew the ridiculous "they just want Grandma to starve" every time cuts are proposed we would get somewhere. But the political reality is there is risk for either side to make the first move and the practical reality is you can't enact your agenda if you get booted out of office because the other party distorts what you say in order to sway the ignorant masses.

I would argue that providing specifics on this show that is only watched by about 30 people, most of whom hate your guts simply because you are a Republican, is exactly the wrong thing to do. That is neither the place nor the time nor the forum for those kinds of proposals. Y'all act as if the world of politics has suddenly vanished with this election. All these shows tend to do is provide quotes and snippets for campaign commercials by your opponents. I wish that weren't the case but it is a reality and hoping it was different is not a strategy.

Rand Paul has grand ideas about what can be accomplished and I hope he is right but I doubt it. He will be a freshman Senator with the Minority party in the most deliberative legislative body known to man. I wish him good luck and God speed on his quest to instill some fiscal and constitutional sanity to that body but I also have very low expectations about what can really be accomplished, particularly in the next two years. What needs to happen is the GOP actually remains true to fiscal conservative principals over the next two years and then in 2012 holds onto the House, picks up several more seats in the Senate and replaces Obama. Only then can anything substantive be accomplished. To expect otherwise as a result of this first step is to only invite disappointment based on unrealistic expectations. I would love to be proven wrong because I am as anxious as you but I refuse to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory by expecting a miracle.