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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:20 PM
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The GOP insanity is mind numbing. On Al Sharpton's show Michael Steele said
that the poor and middle class were moving up into the one percent. He also said this after saying his ideas were economics 101.
Steele obviously doesn't understand simple math. If the some of the 99% were moving up into the 1% bracket the 1% would have to increase to
2%, 3% or 'whatever' %. Steele is annoying and not very smart.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:24 PM
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1. They're completely out of touch with reality.
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:27 PM
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3. They really, really are.
I don't know if this person was kidding or not (I surely hope so), but since he's a Fox/Limbaugh person, I'm not so sure...but he just said if you listen to CNN (evil librul mouthpiece, of course :eyes:) you'd think everything is falling apart, "but I can get great Egyptian cotton sheets at Wal-Mart for $50!".

:wow:

:shrug:
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-11 07:31 PM
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17. No - they're in touch with reality, they don't give a shit.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:26 PM
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2. Sure they are!
See, if you just expand the income threshold of the 1% from, say, a million dollars a year down to about $20,000 a year, we're all one percenters! Whoo hoo, I'm rich! Rich, I tells ya! And it's all thanks to Republican policies! I gotta go change my voter registration. Thank you, Michael Steele.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:29 PM
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4. He's was even denying the Bush tax cut
The other guest had to bring it to his attention.
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micraphone Donating Member (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-11 01:40 AM
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14. LOL facts are pesky critters!
Repugs - every day perfecting the art of lying when breathing.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:29 PM
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5. Yet all over the country...
GOPTeaBaggers are saying,"Yeah! That's what I'm saying!"

:banghead:
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:30 PM
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6. Repukes will be the death of us all.
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 06:01 PM
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10. When it should be the other way around.
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Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:32 PM
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7. OMG, what insanity. Pls follow up with LINKS. n/t
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:46 PM
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8. I will. I think Sharpton's show repeats. I'll be watching Bill Mahr tonight.
Norquist will hopefully be toast.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 05:48 PM
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9. A few people did hit the lottery...
however, more of the middle class lost ground than gained ground.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 06:29 PM
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11. Al set the table perfectly on that.
He starts out with a graphic comparing Bush and Clinton on tax policy. Clinton raised taxes and we got 23MM jobs. Bush cut taxes and barely kept up with population growth. After that graphic, Steele was left to explain why anyone would think taxcuts creates jobs. Predictably, he couldn't. He was trying to say lots of middle class people move up to the 1%...but that really couldn't happen unless others in the 1% fell out of the club. I doubt Steele really believes this bullshit, but he's paid to promote Republicanism and we all know that has no linkage with reality.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 06:59 PM
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12. THIS is THE Big Lie that keeps people voting "R": that they, too, might be rich some day.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 11:59 PM
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13. sound bites never have to even be in the same universe as
reality ...

all that's important is that he gets the sound bite out there ... reality be damned ...
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tex-wyo-dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-11 10:05 AM
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15. When you're carrying water for wealthy interests....
and getting paid handsomely to say stupid irrational shit that serves said wealthy interests, you're going to say stupid irrational shit, no matter how stupid and irrational it is.

The GOP has completely lost any remnants of a moral compass they may have ever possessed.
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-11 07:28 PM
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16. Conservatives are bad at math
but are good at lying.
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