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wndycty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:03 AM
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I love it. The reading of the Constitution has already become a moment of pure FUCKERY!
LOL. . .

Questions are being raised. Junior is speaking now.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:04 AM
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1. Who is "Junior?"
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JerseyGuy Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:05 AM
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3. Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:04 AM
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2. FEED THE CUBERATS
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:06 AM
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4. Drama queens
Edited on Thu Jan-06-11 11:07 AM by notadmblnd
I wonder if boner is gonna start crying?
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GreatCaesarsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:09 AM
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5. Pelosi had her lines memorized - Boehner and Cantor had to read their lines.
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targetpractice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:13 AM
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6. Boehner should know the preamble by heart...
Maybe he's too old to have watched Schoolhous Rock.
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dragonlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:44 AM
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9. Maybe it's good they read their parts
Remember how a certain chief justice had the hubris to think he could remember the presidential oath by heart and flubbed it?
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jaxx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:19 AM
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7. I thought it was great....the Dems were obstructing.
LOL and the pubs were pissed. Made it worthwhile to have them read it now.
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:44 AM
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8. Day 2. Nothing gets done.
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mstinamotorcity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:47 AM
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10. Stall from
Governing. Confusing their base with nonsense. They are the only one who believes that shit.
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 11:57 AM
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11. I am tired of these ghost shit acts by the rethugs.
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 12:08 PM
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12. I just tuned in, why were they all applauding?
:shrug:

Thanks
:hi:
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Bombero1956 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 12:10 PM
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13. meanwhile the cost of reading it into the record is
$1.1 million. So much for stopping the waste in Washington.
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wndycty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 12:58 PM
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16. While I believe you, how do we get to that number?
:kick:
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Bombero1956 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 08:59 PM
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17. from this
"When one chamber of Congress is in session but not working, we the people still have to pay for members' salaries and expenses, and for their police protection, and for keeping their lights and phones and coffee machines on," Peter Keating explained to Vanity Fair.

"To get this estimate, I took the total FY 2011 costs for House salaries and expenses and House office buildings, then added half the costs of joint House-Senate expenses, the CBO, the Capitol Police and the Capitol power plant," he continued. "Then I divided that sum by 205, the number of days the House was in session last year, then divided again by 24 (the number of hours in a day) and multiplied by 3 (the estimated length in hours of members reading the Constitution)."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/republicans-waste-11-million-reciting-constitution/
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dmr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 12:16 PM
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14. If reading this is so important, then why aren't they all there listening?
Where are they?

I'm sorry, but this is pathetically stupid to me. One by one they approach the podium to read a line or two? This is such a time waster.

I could get behind this if they were there to listen & learn - isn't that what this is being billed as? The importance that each of them read & learn?

:ShakingMyHead:
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 12:20 PM
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15. MSNBC has it as BREAKING NEWS!
Jr High students read the document. Somehow the looting of the nation by war mongers and war criminals is not news-worthy.
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