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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 03:14 PM
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Geithner: Obama willing to do "difficult political things" to get a deal with Republicans
Geithner urges GOP no to 'walk away' on debt talks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/



Treasury secretary says President Obama is willing to do "difficult political things" to get a deal. Full story
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 03:15 PM
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1. Difficult political things? Politics is not what citizens care about.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 10:28 PM
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19. old people, get ready to starve because President Carebear
cares more about the approval of Nazis than your continued existence. He's going to do hard things? Like what? Fuck him.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 03:19 PM
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2. Translation: "do diffictult poltical things" = Screw the people.
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Big Blue Marble Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 03:22 PM
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3. You got that right!
This "Disaster Capitalism" at its finest.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:45 PM
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6. OhNoNoNO They aren't cuts. Don't say "cuts"! Four Trillion dollars in CHANGES
Edited on Sun Jul-10-11 04:51 PM by kenny blankenship
It's highly dishonest to say "cuts". Cuts would screw the people, as you put it. No. What Obama is trying to arrange instead are merely four trillion dollars in CHANGES. Aren't you happier when you can empty your pockets of a lot of jangly change, and carry only paper money around? How many times have you heard someone say "I've GOT to get rid of all this change!" You'll hardly feel a thing. You'll feel lighter in fact. It won't feel like a screwing at all. There will be some "pain and sacrifice", and it will be very "difficult" especially at first (and we should praise him for having the courage to do difficult things to us against our will!), but nothing rising to the level of a "screwing of the people"! My God, that's so - well it's so dramatic.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:50 PM
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18. yep. synonym for ''hard choices,'' ''being politically responsible," & other DC double talk for
saying ''fuck you'' to the people who elected you.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 03:35 PM
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4. I don't care for the sound of that!
:scared:
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:33 PM
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5. Yet he's never willing to do difficult things to *stand up* to Republicans -- hence the well-earned
...contempt for his administration.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:21 PM
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14. Ding, ding, ding
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:48 PM
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7. And will this deal be good for the people or the country? n/t
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lib2DaBone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 04:54 PM
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8. Once again the Banksters control the talking points....
No one is talking about the Pentagon... which spent $4 Trillion with zero accountability in the last 5 years.

Shame on Mr. Obama for letting the Repukes shift the blame to Senior Citizens, the sick and the working poor.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:06 PM
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9. Difficult things = cover the financial crimes and steal from the middle class and poor
More of the same. Yippee
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:16 PM
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11. Meet the new boss...
...same as the old boss.

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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 05:08 PM
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10. That sounds like an ad on Craigslist.
Didn't they ban the escorts, though?
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:11 PM
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12. And I would do anything for love . . .
But I won't do that.
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theaocp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:17 PM
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13. Makes you wonder if Geithner ever really left
the Republican Party. Some say Lieberman isn't a Republican, either. You be the judge.
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daa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:31 PM
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15. Difficult right it will doom the dems to the wilderness forever nt
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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:35 PM
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16. I'm guessing little timmy really does want to leave the government
Jan 2013, by my reckoning.
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tcaudilllg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-11 06:36 PM
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17. This sounds like a line from Code Geass
or Xenogears.
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