’)Ben Cardin, Maryland’s junior Senator.
Cardin said the meetings have changed lawmakers, but probably not in the way most of those who shouted the loudest would like.
‘I’m more resolved than ever,’ Cardin, 65, said Thursday after his whirlwind week. ‘I love debating. I’m sorry more of that couldn’t happen this week because of so much of the shouting, but I personally believe the American people still want us to deal with tough problems. We’re not all going to agree, that’s obvious, but we’re at the point we need a specific bill.’
If Cardin’s experience resembles that of other lawmakers, many might return from the August recess with a sharper focus on and a greater personal stake in the issue after intense confrontations with voters close to home.
“You should read Glenn Beck’s book”-Chuck Grassley to Ben Cardin
So do I. And I relish having a debate with someone who doesn’t share my views and is able to put forth a cogent, reasoned argument for their own.
That means arguments not based on lies (“death panels!”),
not full of vagueness (“It’s just going to cost more and do less.”)
or meaningless catchphrases (“Socialism!”).
Alas, all we’ve got are SaveFarris, joaquin, Dennis and the Jays, et al who seem to think that debates are won on volume.
Thomas Paine would be curb-stomping Beck right now, were it not for the fact that he’s been dead for about 200 years. That a mendacious little dick can ‘write’ a book in near diametric opposition to Paine’s beliefs and claim that it was Paine that inspired him reveals that Paine’s atheism is probably well founded; a just God would have set a couple of bears on him by now.
abanterer,
LOL WUT?
I have read both Glenn Beck & Thomas Paine’s Common sense.
Diametric Opposition is not how I would compare the two.
“Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.”
- Thomas Paine
Kinda sounds like Beck to me.
Comparing Beck to Thomas Paine?
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Keep on trolling, I was just interested in how the two books qualify as diametric opposition.
Diametric Opposition is not how I would compare the two.
“Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.”
- Thomas Paine
Kinda sounds like Beck to me.
Orly?
From the wiki:
“He opposed slavery, proposed universal, free public education, progressive taxation, guaranteed minimum income, and other ideas then considered radical.”
Wow. Didn’t realize you were such a raging Socialist Suicidal.
Obama and Sebelius LESS resolved –
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aRqy6w7DFAB0
Jaim, Zython,
Didn’t read the books did you?