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By Jeff Jacoby | Sunday, January 7, 2007 | The Boston Globe

I post this piece not because I agree with the politics of the writer – I do not, and I am holding my nose as I type this one handed ;-). I post it in the name of free speech and diversity, so that all of us here sample and understand the thoughts of conservatives. Here conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby paints a most unflattering and cynical portrait of the issues that our new Democratic majority in Congress successfully ran on in 2006.

Here are all those optimistic new initiatives of the First Hundred Hours campaign, viewed through a green and bilious lens. But don’t dismiss it without reading it. Republicans are not to be underestimated. We must be able to fight back against them using their own weapons: publicity, group discipline, consistency and a bully pulpit backed by well reasoned debate. They listen to us and analyze our weaknesses. This article is a perfect example of that. We must do the same to them if the 110th Congress is to avoid the fatal errors of hubris that brought the once mighty Republicans down…BS

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/01/07/the_debate_shifts_to_the_left/