[Clandestine]

Republican answer = = conservative answer + "However, we don't want to seem extreme or we might not get releected, so what the heck, let's rape and pillage another industry just like the liberals want."

Republican answer = Let's rape and pillage MORE industries than the liberals so we can be MORE compassionate!

[mlocher]

so what IS the next industry to go? will it be beef? you know, pit the herbivores against the carnivores and tax the life out of meat ($3/pound) and claim that the money will go to research of heart disease? or research to find a cure for mad cow's disease?