Obama quits while Boehner lights up: an allegory?

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  Dec 10, 2010 1:53 AM GMT

  For those who complain of the lack of "change" despite promises, does it ever strike you that "change" is hard to initiate and sustain? Some people don't ever want to change (hence the word "conservative") even when it kills you.
  
  Boehner lights up in the Capitol
  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46209.html
  
  Just say (almost) no
  Obama snuffs out the cigarette
  http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1210/just_say_almost_no_01597260-ee37-4449-9a40-999b7b8f6cef.html
  
  And yet the relapse rate for smoking is close to 75%.
  
  Stages of change:
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  Dec 10, 2010 1:56 AM GMT

  Example: DADT
  
  McCain: precontemplation (specifically, denial and ignorance)
  Collins/Brown: contemplation (ambivalence)
  Lieberman: Preparation (collecting information about change)
  Reid et al: action (which may or may not be successful, but action nonetheless)
  
  

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  Dec 10, 2010 4:13 AM GMT

  More than anything this shows that Boner believes that rules are for the "little people' like taxes or serving in the military.

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