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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:34 PM
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Politics won, nothing more. A bunch of shit. My President showed me he'd rather give everything away
than stand up and fight. My President threatened my family's Social Security and Medicare. My President gave the Right almost everything they wanted, and while I struggle to pay my bills every month, his masters light cigars with $100 bills.


It's all bullshit. He's concerned about HIS future not mine.


Hindsight, worthless in politics. At least during the Booshe years, they lied to your face and smiled.


Fucking bullshit, fucking bullshit.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:36 PM
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1. "...give everything away..." Can you elaborate? nt
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:36 PM
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4. Defend him to my ignore list
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 01:12 AM
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19. :)
Edited on Mon Aug-01-11 01:26 AM by Bluebear
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 09:57 AM
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25. And that is the proper way to have a discussion?
Your all-purpose answer to questions you don't like, sticking your fingers in your ears and going "Lalalalalala"?

Republicans do that.

Bachmann does that....Palin does it when she gets asked a question she cannot answer.

Sad, really.

And you want people to take what you say seriously?
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CelticThunder Donating Member (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:36 PM
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2. And I didn't vote for Bush so the screwing didn't feel so personal.
It does now.
Never again.
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:36 PM
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3. What did he give away???
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LonePirate Donating Member (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:38 PM
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6. All of the jobs that will be lost due to the reduced spending
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:40 PM
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10. That's a bullshit answer....a week ago everyone was convinced that entitlements would be cut....
We knew spending would be cut. And now people are running around acting like cuts are the most terrible thing that could happen? It's 100bn a year, which is chump change.
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jeff47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 11:26 PM
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13. Spending cuts = R's get a chance in 2012.
It's a terrible deal because it is exactly wrong for the economy.

The R's know it, and are elated that Obama's economy is going to at best remain crappy until the election. If they're lucky, we can get a double-dip and Gov. Goodhair will get elected.
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indurancevile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 03:49 AM
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21. "chump change". seems to be a talking point. it's the equivalent of eliminating the dept of Health
& human services + the dept of energy. every year, for 10 years.
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_ed_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 09:48 AM
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24. "chump change" is a word that people who only care about politics
and not actual policy use.
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:38 PM
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7. Seriously, which part are you the most pissed about?
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bobdawg Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:38 PM
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8. we live in an ownership society.
tonight we see what it means to be owned.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:39 PM
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9. It's all a game.
With average Americans as the pawns.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:43 PM
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11. "Give everything away" except entitlement spending, which is the one thing the outrage brigade
Edited on Sun Jul-31-11 10:43 PM by Recursion
...said they really cared about.

This meltdown is actually kind of funny to watch at this point.
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jeff47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 11:29 PM
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14. The "outrage brigade" remains pissed because it was incredibly stupid to make a deal at all.
Edited on Sun Jul-31-11 11:30 PM by jeff47
Spending cuts is exactly the wrong thing for the economy right now.

The reason this deal is terrible is not because of anything about entitlements. That would have made it criminally terrible. This meerely terrible deal should be labeled the "give the Republicans a chance in 2012 act".

As for something he actually DID give away, remember how Obama used to demand that the deal contain new taxes? Now we get fed some crap about "we might possibly think about getting some when the 'Super-Congress' makes it's deal." Somehow, not inspiring.
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stklurker Donating Member (138 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 10:43 PM
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12. give away
Specifically on the entitlements you mention, what did he give away?
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neverforget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 11:32 PM
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15. And where is the shared sacrifice?
I'm still looking
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 11:52 PM
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16. A-FUCKING-MEN!!!
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rufus dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-31-11 11:56 PM
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17. I lost nothing in the deal! So fuck you!
No wait I am a Democrat, Fuck YOU OBAMA!

He pissed on the grave of his Mother and what my dying Mother stood for.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:59 AM
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18. Yet, if he had "stood up" and fought, people getting SS checks would be shit out of luck in a...
couple of weeks when there were no longer any Treasury employees on the job printing them out and mailing them.

I believe you're experiencing confirmation bias, my friend.
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indurancevile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 03:46 AM
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20. sure they would. right, like either party is not going to send out SS checks.
no, the quick dive into the boiling water rouses the clueless.

thus the farce we are presently forced to watch in service of the slow rise in temperature.
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Left coast liberal Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:40 AM
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22. i am sad today.
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 08:41 AM
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23. What did he cut to Medicare? I haven't read anything on that yet?
Got a link?
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 10:04 AM
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26. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsleaGuZwCU
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ijiji Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 10:05 AM
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27. quelle surprise!! n/t
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