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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:41 PM
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Why do GOP Senators hate the troops so much? They blocked the
Webb Amendment to set 'stay at home time' for war-weary troops who have had multiple tours of duty. Yet they cried like babies last January when Nancy told the GOP House members they would have longer work weeks.

Remember Rep. Kingston?


“Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families — that’s what this says.”


What the hell do they think happens to the marriages and families of all those troops they claim to 'support'?
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:42 PM
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1. Just another example of the immense HYPOCRISY that defines the Republicon Party.
And they have the corporate owned, self-serving media to back them up, so they get away with it.
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againes654 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:43 PM
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2. K&R
Very good point
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:43 PM
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3. please write to your papers and point this out...
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rusty quoin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:45 PM
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4. The foul smell of hypocrisy in the Republican party is like: (fill in the blank)
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:46 PM
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5. They don't hate them... they don't care about them at all.
They'll use them when it suits them, or throw them aside when that suits them. They're just another commodity.

Look at Straussian philosophy. The electorate are sheeps to be sheared, no more, no less.
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