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secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:17 AM
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"Finding Some Shit" on Republicans just makes us more like them.
I,for one, refuse to take part in this. We have just experienced what can be achieved if we all come together, instead of tearing others down.

Let's lead by example!
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:20 AM
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1. We need to find it?
It's just sitting there in great heaping mounds stinking up the countryside.
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SIMPLYB1980 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:20 AM
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2. You think that their will be a Honey moon with republicans?
Not likely. We need shit on them to keep them in line. They are still attacking us and trying to divide us even before Obama takes office. Fight the fascist and work with the few good republicans is my advice.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:21 AM
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3. so you disagree with the concept "equal justice", whereby all people are held accountable under law?
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secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:26 AM
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8. you guys are sounding so much more like the other side! Why not give peace a chance?
Our guy isn't even in the White House, and we are already starting flaming threads about finding dirt on other Republicans. Believe me, we already have people doing that already, without posting about it here.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:33 AM
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12. So you don't think crimes should be prosecuted?
Just because they are republicans?

You do know crimes have been committed don't you?
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secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:42 AM
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19. "crimes" and "shit" are two very separate things
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:48 AM
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25. Do you think crimes have been committed? You need to answer that first
rather than use obtuse language such as shit.
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:38 AM
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16. Rethugs don't understand the word "peace!" They have started their war already..no way we should
get caught off guard..

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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:22 AM
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4. No
Knowing your enemy is the only way to defeat them, if you fail to use the weapons and information at your disposal your enemies will destroy you the first chance they get.

Like the Repukes have tried to do since 1994!
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:23 AM
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5. Unfortunately...we have to dig up dirt on them..that's how they play the game..and it won't change
Edited on Mon Nov-10-08 10:23 AM by Doityourself
because Obama got elected, in fact, I believe it will only intensify on their end.

They are not going to give him or any other Dem a honeymoon, or sit back and play nice. It's not in their blueprint. They lost power and will do anything and everything, no matter how low down or dirty..to get it back.

Sometimes, you have to play hardball.
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secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:24 AM
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6. I am saying that a post that says "Let's find dirt" isn't the way the Obama administration would
want us to go.

I would rather let us start with a clean slate.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:29 AM
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9. You missed a couple of subtle, but very key statements in the campaign regarding the Keating 5,
Edited on Mon Nov-10-08 10:31 AM by blondeatlast
among others.

I'll explain: Obama said he wouldn't go after the Keating 5 story--but he KNEW that bloggers would and the m$m wouldn't.

Just sayin'--subtlety is difficult sometimes, but there was no mistaking our President-Elect's intent...

I might add that the story was talked aout by the public even thought the m$m largely ignored it.
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:30 AM
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10. The only way to get a clean slate is to prosecute
the law breakers which involves in gathering evidence of the law breaking. Most of it was in-our-face law breaking so finding the papers that will prove beyond a reasonable doubt needs to be done.
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:25 AM
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7. The repukes will need to have a cork shoved up their asses to stop the shit.
You can't help but step in their shit because there's so much of it.
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Morning Dew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:36 AM
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13. LMAO
at my own darn "just waking up" eyesight.

that word is - cork -

:rofl:


maybe I need new glasses.
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Doityourself Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:39 AM
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17. Amen!
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:30 AM
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11. You mean it makes us the majority party? I can live with that.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:37 AM
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14. What's to find when they've been flaunting it for the last 8 years?
Edited on Mon Nov-10-08 10:40 AM by NCevilDUer
I say use every fucking thing we got. Clinton tried to play nice and look what they did to him in payback.

We need to see to it that their party and ability to organize is crippled for the next full generation, so that we have time to undo the crap they've left us with.

If we do that, by the time we are done we will have real universal health care (not just some half-assed universal health INSURANCE run by the insurance companies themselves), free public education through college, true separation of church and state, and freedom from the energy blackmail of the middle east.

And I don't care how many revelations of republicans boinking little boys it takes to get there.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:37 AM
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15. I still have photos of you in the koi pond. n/t
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:41 AM
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18. Not if it's real and serious shit
As opposed to the trivial or invented stuff they use against Democrats.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:44 AM
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20. Just tell the truth about them.
It's not our fault if they look shitty.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:45 AM
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21. Your attitude is EXACTLY how we ended up being screwed
by the republican party to the extent that they've almost destroyed our country. After we got rid of Nixon there were cries and vows of "never again'. And then we decided that we could take a break, a breather from watching the criminals in the republican party. We were gonna play nice because everything was all good finally, we'd cleaned house. So we got complacent. We decided to play fair. We were gonna be the nice guys, the ethical party.

And they just crawled back under their rocks and started making plans. Started their 'recovery program' so to speak. Went back into city and state governments and taking offices, starting from scratch. Taking over positions that would let them lay low for years and then when the time came for the zombies and ghouls to come back from the dead they'd have a power base all the way down to the little guy in the election commission. They did this all over the country. And we let 'em. Because we thought we could have an honest, civil discussion about polity and politics in this country.

No complacency. No Nice-Guy politics. No taking our eyes off the ball. Not ever again.
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:46 AM
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22. No, it makes us better able to get a strong Dem majority in 2010 and beyond. Get over yourself.
Edited on Mon Nov-10-08 10:50 AM by ClarkUSA
This ain't a tea party. It's politics -- and President Obama needs a Democratic Congress in order to pass legislation.
Do you really believe the crap you're spouting? Top Republicans like Boehner and the RNC are hellbent on obstructing
any and all attempts by the Obama administration to change this country for the better. The more of them we put out
of office, the better. By any means necessary.
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NorthCarolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:47 AM
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23. The difference is that the shit we find on Republicans is REAL and not fabricated
eom
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:48 AM
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24. Exactly. MAKING SHIT UP would make us like the Republicans... n/t
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crazylikafox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:57 AM
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26. Bingo
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 11:10 AM
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27. After 2008, "Finding shit on" is the old politics
and the old politcs won't work any more.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 11:12 AM
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28. It should be used as counter fire, the way the Keating 5 was used against the William Ayres shit
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 11:15 AM
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30. DC should be treated as a Crime Scene
by BooMan
Mon Nov 10th, 2008 at 01:57:23 AM EST

I want to be clear that I do not expect, or even want, Barack Obama to govern as I would govern. However, if I were president-elect, I would be planning quite an operation on inauguration day. As soon as I was sworn in, I would demand that Robert Mueller submit his resignation. Then I would instruct the FBI to lock down FBI Headquarters, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency offices, the executive suites at the CIA, the National Security Agency's offices, the National Intelligence Agency's offices, and management's offices at the Department of Justice. I would tell them to put yellow police tape around all of these buildings and offices, and I would treat each as a crime scene. I'd have them preserve evidence from every safe, every email cache, every hard-drive. And then I would prosecute every violation to the fullest extent of the law.

more at:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/11/10/15723/324
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 11:14 AM
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29. Hey, a lot of "shit" is corrupt and illegal activities. We need to find it all.
And BURY the Repuke for a generation, so badly that if they ever come back, we won't recognize them.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 11:17 AM
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31. They won't hesitate to find shit on us
About 5 years ago I called into the Hannity radio show to argue with the little bastard. What caused me to call in was his statement "politics is war", and he was right. It's a take no prisoners war, and they will destroy us while we sit on our hands.

Don't become a victim again, because they don't play fair, this past election proves it.
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