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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:11 PM
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Republicans to flee country and move to Puerto Rico says Congresswoman Jenny Brown Waite (R)
Edited on Tue Oct-14-08 07:38 PM by ddeclue


ORLANDO - According to Congresswoman Ginny Brown Waite, her fellow Republicans have all decided that in the event that Obama is elected President of the United States that they would all flee to the nearby country of Puerto Rico during the duration of his term. She went on to say that although it is a foreign country, it still has excellent warm weather, low real estate costs, plenty of business opportunities and low taxes and a good number of the locals there speak English.


Doug D.
Orlando, FL


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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:12 PM
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1. I'm volunteering to help any of them pack.
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:12 PM
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2. interesting... Puerto Rico is a foreign country?
:banghead:
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:13 PM
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4. Yeah she actually said that on the floor of the house on Jan 29th of this year..
you just can't make this stuff up...

:rofl:
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:40 PM
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27. Wow!
Won't the Puerto Ricans be surprised by that. Here they thought they were part of the USA.
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:46 PM
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28. This is send up... JBW called PR's foreigners on the House floor last Jan 29th.
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:49 PM
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30. Thanks.
As always, I'm clueless. :7
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:12 PM
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3. Puerto Rico is a foreign country?
:rofl:

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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:14 PM
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6. Republicans...(sigh)
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:18 PM
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14. Bonus:
they couldn't vote for President. :rofl:

dg
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:13 PM
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5. Is this the Onion, or your own creation?
Or, pleasepleaseplease, actually true?
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:15 PM
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9. My own stuff...except for the part where Ginny Brown Waite called Puerto Ricans foreigners..
she actually said that on the floor of the house on January 29th, 2008.

She' a parochial Florida Republican idiot.

Doug D.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:18 PM
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13. .
:thumbsup:

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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:15 PM
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7. Today a tropical paradise
tomorrow a wasteland
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:15 PM
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8. That's right, toss America in the crapper, then run and hide...
No wonder most Americans revile the chickenhawk republicon FAIL freaks.
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:15 PM
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10. Nice... the very country she insulted!!!
I ' m sure she will be welcomed. :evilgrin:

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2008/02/puerto-ricans-t.html


he comments by U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite that Puerto Ricans living on the island are “foreign citizens” who should not receive the benefits of the economic stimulus plan that Congress is considering have touched a firestorm.

Even the government of Puerto Rico, a United States territory since 1898 whose people have U.S. citizenship since since 1917, issued what is sort of a reprimand letter to Brown-Waite on Thursday through Eduardo Bhatia, its representative in Washington, D.C.

Bhatia told her: “your comments … published in the Orlando Sentinel complaining that Puerto Ricans are ‘foreign citizens’ and should not benefit from the federal economic stimulus plan were not only wrong but also highly insensitive.”

He wondered if her comments “stemmed from sheer ignorance about Puerto Rico” and listed some helpful facts for the next time Brown-Waite decides to comment on island issues.
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:16 PM
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11. It's my parody of her idiotic comments that you've obvious done the Google on...
:rofl:

Doug D.
Orlando, FL
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:24 PM
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17. I remembered that very well...
I liked your parody tho... I almost choked. :hi:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:17 PM
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12. Before or after Hurricane Omar?
:rofl:
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:20 PM
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15. Pity Puerto Rico. Such a beautiful place with so much nature to plow under
for their golf courses and "gated communities".

OTOH it would probably end their desire to become a state.



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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:23 PM
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16. So a US Territory is a foreign country?
What? They'll join the Puerto Rico Independent party?
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:25 PM
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19. Or form it! LOL
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prayin4rain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:24 PM
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18. YYYEEEAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! Please, please, please do that. n/t
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:27 PM
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20. Wait'll they find out that Puerto Rico is a US territory.
:evilgrin:
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:30 PM
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21. That's the whole joke.. Ginny Brown Waite said that PR's were foreigners on the house floor
last Jan 29th.
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:32 PM
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23. Why does Ginny Brown Waite hate America?
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:31 PM
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22. Don't let the door smack you in the ass on the way out!
Second thought, Let the damn door smack you in the ass. You deserve it! :dem:
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onfiredem Donating Member (67 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:34 PM
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24. Good riddance . . .
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:34 PM
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25. Why does Ginny Brown Waite hate America?
:evilgrin:
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:39 PM
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26. can we evacuate non republican
Puerto Ricans, and then either...

Use Haarp to whip up a huge massive hurricane that will just hit THEM?
Or Shock and Awe them back to the stone age?
Or...put a big wall up around the island so they cannot go past, then make republicans unwanted illegal immigrants?And if they DARE come back to America, we deport them back to the walled island?
Or could we get helicopters and hunt them like palin hunts wolves?
Like shooting pigs in a poke! But more fun.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:47 PM
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29. Will they institute "English Only"?!1 n/t
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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-08 07:53 PM
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31. Good. They'll still be paying taxes to the US Government.
But, it will be a good argument for keeping them from statehood. Dumbass Republicans.
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