<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3f385fa0-4602-4309-aee6-c2127a21e852/3C117F56-28A0-4DF5-B898-0311B8535973/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmYzYzJjMTgzOTU2OGVlZDY1MWJhMDQ3YmQ3NzljMWU=" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmYzYzJjMTgzOTU2OGVlZDY1MWJhMDQ3YmQ3NzljMWU=" style="font-size: 11px;">article.nationalreview.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmYzYzJjMTgzOTU2OGVlZDY1MWJhMDQ3YmQ3NzljMWU=">Promoting this culture of dependency is expected from Democrats, but it is deadly for Republicans. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s comment last year in defense of pork — that individual members of Congress know best where to put traffic lights in the district — illustrated how and why the Republican majority self-destructed. If the public is supposed to look to their member of Congress, not their mayor or city manager, to place traffic lights, then why not just vote for Democrats?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmYzYzJjMTgzOTU2OGVlZDY1MWJhMDQ3YmQ3NzljMWU="><DIV> Porkbusters accurately believe Congress will never get serious about fixing Social Security and Medicare when it’s preoccupied with swimming pools and teapot museums. And until American taxpayers can trust Republicans to correctly handle the “small things,” like Bridges to Nowhere, they will never trust us to handle the “big things,” like Medicare and Social Security.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3C117F56-28A0-4DF5-B898-0311B8535973/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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