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Past Tense

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     There's a tee shirt that says "of course I live in the past -- have you seen the present lately?"  With an unpopular war in the Middle East, high fuel prices, rising inflation, and corruption of all sorts from those high in government, you'd think I was talking about the present.  But as the  NY Times  noted, it was nearly the same 20 years ago as midterms neared:  Back then, congressional Republicans faced the voters at the midpoint of President George W. Bush’s second term, with the public roiled by the war in Iraq, high fuel prices and a series of ugly accusations against members of the G.O.P. majority on Capitol Hill.   The dissatisfaction was large enough for voters to change the GOP control of Congress.  But don't worry, because even if I never pictured our country allowing an 80-year old child to revive the Klu Klux Klan side of our nation, as well as send shivers through so many members of Congress, this post wi...