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Old 08-04-2008
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Re: Democrats Adjourn Congress, Republicans Stay and Work

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Originally Posted by Marcus1124 View Post
What does "emergency" have to do with it?
You suggested extreme measures which IMHO could only be justified by an emergency.

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But since you raised it, does it make sense to define "emergency" by the immediacy of the possible solutions rather than by the need for a solution?

Just as many democrats as republicans (if not more) are dubbing gas prices as an "emergency" and "crisis". Yet they left town without acting.
Dubbing something a crisis does not make it so.

It just does not make sense for dems to allow a possibly manufactured short term "crisis" to force an "emergency" vote on what could only be a long term solution with long term negative consequences.
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