"Well as an elected Republican I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more, " McCarty writes in the fund-raising letter.

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Now if we could just figure out exactly what it is that makes some folks mad as hell or at least mad enough to camp on the sidewalk for weeks at a time.

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It was just four short months ago that Americans went to the polls to send the message that we were mad as hell with out of control spending and we were not going to take it any more.

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Lest there be any lingering doubt, however, that politicians need the sort of pointed reminder the Minutemen are currently offering that, as they say in the movies, the American people are "mad as hell and not going to take it any more, " consider the likely scenario on the floor of the United States Senate this week.

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And so, you know, many of the problems that Africa has now with this new generation of leaders, with this newly energized civil society, with people who are saying - you know, like the movie Network, we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore - I mean, there is a new vibrancy among those who want to see a renaissance in the continent.

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