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GOP threatens to hold #highwaybill hostage after #KeystoneXL override fails. (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2015 OP
Highway bill benefits average people so I suspect the American Taliban TeaParTY hates it NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #1
Just another day of Hostage Taking for Wellstone ruled Mar 2015 #2
Can't and won't C_U_L8R Mar 2015 #3
Not since Ike madokie Mar 2015 #6
People need to know about it first daredtowork Mar 2015 #4
Governance by blackmail. JoePhilly Mar 2015 #5
Bullies! MiniMe Mar 2015 #7
non-stop obstruction. 24/7 day in day out. 365 days a year. spanone Mar 2015 #8
This 'toon needs "hostage takers" added and it's good to go.. mahalo riversedge Cha Mar 2015 #9

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
1. Highway bill benefits average people so I suspect the American Taliban TeaParTY hates it
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 06:32 PM
Mar 2015

I keep waiting to turn the tv on when I get home and see millions in the streets burning shit down, not that I want that but what in the hell is it gonna take to get people to wake up.

I keep waiting for everybody who is either poor or close to it, which is most of us now, to all of a sudden go

"Holy shit, these guys are trying to destroy the government and right now the government is really fucking needed for us to survive"


I look on American Taliban TeaParTY message boards and see people still defending the killer cop in Ferguson.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Just another day of Hostage Taking for
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 06:45 PM
Mar 2015

the Rethuglicain Party. You could see this coming. Next is the Corporate Tax give away bill that will be marketed as a Simplified Tax Code Bill or Putting America to Work Tax Bill.

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
3. Can't and won't
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 07:24 PM
Mar 2015

Is there anything that Republican CAN do
except fuck everything up ?? !!!
I mean, have they done one single constructive
thing for this country... ever??
I'm coming up empty.
Anyone? Anyone?

daredtowork

(3,732 posts)
4. People need to know about it first
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 07:29 PM
Mar 2015

and understand how bills directly impact their lives.

But chances are most polifical emails go directly to their spam folders because of the over-emphasis on donation begging and under-attempt to actually address needs of and inform constituents. That ratio needs to be adjusted.

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