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A Haunting Tone Among the Outcries

Republican senator Paul Ryan from Wisconsin is charging people $15.00 to come to his 'town hall' meetings. While he avoids putting it that way, he does it because the protesters in Wisconsin will shout him down, yell, and express their outrage in a way that makes him almost unable to speak. The anger against Paul Ryan is a rage that comes from fear and resentment over his policies and a belief that Paul and others like him are hijacking the job they were voted in to do for another agenda. Democrat Anthony Weiner of New York had a strange and almost teenage pseudo-sexual exchange with women across the country involving photos sent over cell phones. The outrage over his odd behavior, not quite cheating but strangely morally disturbing, got so bad that he resigned his congressional seat under pressure from the minority leader and others. Republican Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota broadcast a response to the presidential State of the Union address speaking for nobody at all and ...