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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Don’t tell the “kids”, that Santa and the “cliff” are both merely efforts to make them behave, and neither seems to work.
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   We don’t fall off the cliff until after christmas.
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   Uncle Joe said, 5 months ago

   And now, some Republicans are trying to drag budget negotiations out through February or March. The debt ceiling will need to increased again & the GOP think they will have more leverage against Obama. Of course, that plan backfired then, and it’s likely to do even more damage this time.
   
   
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   M Ster said, 5 months ago

   The Republican leaders’ plan will not only fail again and do more damage this time, but even more of the American people will blame them. They are already on a path to becoming a minority party, but this will accelerate it.
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   Wabbit said, 5 months ago

   I sure would love it if the tea partiers went crashing Themselves off the cliff, and took all fuzzy thinking Obama haters with them.
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   braindead08 said, 5 months ago

   Let’s see…
   Last August, Republicans damaged the credit rating of the United States by using the debt ceiling as leverage. Their excuse then was that they were protecting the job creators, even though they couldn’t point to even one, nor could they identify any jobs that had been created.
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   This time, the threat not to raise debt ceiling limit will be used again as leverage to, in Boehner’s words, ‘protect all American taxpayers’.
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   The bill passed in the Senate would keep the Bush tax cuts for 98% of taxpayers.
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   Doing the math, ‘all taxpayers’ minus ‘98% of the taxpayers’ leaves 2% of the American taxpayers that Boehner and the Republicans are protecting.
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   Boehner is once again willing, maybe eager, to damage the credit rating of the United States in order to protect the wealthiest 2% of taxpayers.
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   BTW, those 2% would STILL receive the same Bush tax cuts for ALL their income under 400,000.
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   Eryx said, 5 months ago

   Teabagger splat.
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   vwdualnomand said, 5 months ago

   it got worse today. bayner had to pull his plan on lack of support. he can’t lead his own party. his speakership is jeopardy. house recessed and won’t return until after the holidays when the cliff hits. the gop is in disarray. the whole conservative movement is splintering. the mercenaries versus the missionaries.
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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   @Eryx

   You are calling Santa a ‘teabagger’?
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    Eryx said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    I’ve seen teabaggers wearing all kinds of outlandish costumes. Some even pretend to be responsible public servants.
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    rightisright said, 5 months ago

    Give taxorats everything they want. Make them OWN their failure.
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    Dycel said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    No wrong again tea baggers created the fiscal cliff the splat is just another aftereffect!
    Back to the bus with you!
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    SABRSteve said, 5 months ago

    Obama has shown no leadership on this issue. If the ignoramuses had voted for a businessman, there would be no crisis.
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    ahab said, 5 months ago

    @SABRSteve

    Yes, Bush was sooo successful. Romney left Massachusetts in worse shape than when he started,and needed 1.5 billion dollars of taxpayer federal money to keep the Salt Lake Olympics afloat. Thousands of citizens volunteered at the Olympics, they deserve the credit for it’s success.
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    Eryx said, 5 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    Or CPOs who masquerade as fighting men and have never fired a shot.
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