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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Cantor is NOT a “Sancho Panza”!!
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   Richard S. Russell said, 5 months ago

   On Progress
    
   I have dreamed thee too long
   Never seen thee or touched thee but known thee with all of my heart
   Half a prayer, half a song
   Thou hast always been with me though we have been always apart
    
   This is progress, don’t look like Congress
   I see heaven when I see thee in thy new dress
   And thy name is like a prayer an angel whispers
   Make more progress!
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

   Boehner made it back into a thankless job. Barely.
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   dennis17 said, 5 months ago

   Actually this would work as well for a conservative cartoonist. Mr. O gains political points by whacking the rich (who are mostly Democrats), and the trillion dollar annual deficits roll merrily along unaffected.
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   Roundhead remained in use to describe those with republican tendencies up until the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678–1681; the term was then superseded by Whig, initially another term with pejorative connotations. Likewise during Exclusion Bill crisis, the term Cavalier was replaced with Tory, a term introduced by the opponents of the Tories, and also initially a pejorative term.
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   Leo Autodidact said, 5 months ago

   I’ve got PLENTY of “Pejorative” terms for the “rules for thee, but NOT for Me” crowd, Democrat AND Republican!
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   capndunzzl said, 5 months ago

   …at least Boehner’s still a millionare and has taxpayer paid health insurance…perhaps he should consider it a victory.
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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   The same could be said for O making it back to his part-time job, barely.
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   Rockngolfer said, 5 months ago

   The debt ceiling represents what CONgress has already agreed to spend.
   The republicans are using it as an excuse to kill Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and any other program that benefits the 99% of Americans that are not rich.
   Don’t believe anything republicans say.
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    Respectful Troll said, 5 months ago

    A poem my mother taught me-
    “In days of old, when Knights were bold,
    And toilets not invented.
    Knights dropped their load, in the middle of the road,
    And went on quite contented.”
    The Knights of Congress move down the road, and we’re left with the ‘load’.
    I have seen Obama’s five main goals for this next term, and I’ve heard several republicans state their goals for the next two years, and NONE of them have used the word “JOBS”.
    Everyone runs on jobs, but after the elections, its back to social issues and obstructionism if the tribes don’t get what they want.
    George Washington warned us this would happen, so why do we allow it to continue?
    Btw- I have so far sent four emails to my 3 legislators(a total of 12 with only names changed), how are you folks doing?
    Respectfully,
    C.
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    masterskrain said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    BARELY??
    332 to 203 in the Electoral College, a 2.000.000 vote advantage in the popular vote? BARELY??
    If that’s barely, then what did shrub “Win” by in 2000, or 2004?
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    Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

    @masterskrain

    O’s .4% win isn’t anything to brag about. You and your ilk were complain about the electoral college, until it benefits your candidate.
    W did win in 2000 and 2004. I love how you whine about it 8 and 12 years later. :)
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    Fairportfan2 said, 5 months ago

    @Radish

    Huh?
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    masterskrain said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    51% to 47.2% s a LOT more then your mythical ",4%

    65,899,660 to 60,932,152 to be precise.We ALL know you have a very tenuous grip on reality, but at least try to be a LITTLE more accurate in your raving. Thank you.
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    Kip W said, 5 months ago

    4%, .4%, what’s the diff, eh? I suspect Mr. Ima has misplaced the point. As usual.
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