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Then there's a whole other massive expense of energy and goodwill on a health care reform that in the end ran the same course, dribbling down from a mighty message of hope to mealy mouth gesture of an inside deal, selling out the same people it claimed it was helping. It even got them following tri-cornered hats waved around by a PR firm, all to keep powerful health and insurance interests entrenched and train a public to work against their own best interests, by fighting in the streets against universal healthcare.

And now those Tea Party people were going to be running my state? I needed some inspiration. So i wandered through the well-appointed lobby, looking for likeminded Donkey-lovers, searching for some sign it was all going to be all right. With no sign of a sign in sight. That's right, and when i asked for directions, it sounded something like 'over the river and through the woods.' All the length of the lobby and up the escalator there was no further sign of Democrat direction. As if we were hidden from the general public.

Finally up an escalator, and just as you got sight of the second floor, the one and only sign of Democrats in the house came into view. It read:

 

Schizophrenia

Building Awareness

Advancing Understanding

[and the room name in smaller print]

 

AZ Democratic Party

State Committee Meeting

[and the room name in smaller print]

 

AZ Democratic Party

Breakout Sessions

[and so on]

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