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   Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

   How much money was Pelosi’s brother given to spend on ‘green’ energy?
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   Jase99 said, 4 months ago

   Was it any more than Cheney’s Halliburton was given in no-bid government contracts or the missing money they “lost” and can’t account for?
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   Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago

   @Jase99

   Jase, Dude, you keep coming up with the “reason” that it is OK is because a republican did it. If it is wrong for Cheney then it is wrong for Pelosi. If it’s OK for Pelosi then it’s OK for Cheney. See how that works?
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   Urban Space Cowboy said, 4 months ago

   The “debt ceiling” is an artificial manufactured crisis that’s not really important. A Good Cartoon.
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   Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago

   Yes, the “richest” of the members of congress according to some. Net worth estimated in 2011 at some 54 million – though she has lost a bunch of it, real estate values drop you know – and is estimated in 2012 at 26 million.
   
   I often wonder how they make sure great advances in personal wealth on a salary of under 175K a year. And then I remember. Congress. Insider information is legal for them. Family members can get easy access to government funds. In other workds doing stuff that would land the “common” person in the hoosgow.
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   ansonia said, 4 months ago

   @Jase99

   Obama gave Halliburton a no-bid contract in Iraq.
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   ansonia said, 4 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   When you can’t pound facts, blame Bush\Cheney.
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   flake-67121 said, 4 months ago

   @Urban Space Cowboy

   it’s ‘not really important’ the same way your credit card’s limit is not important. And if you could set your own limit, you would be like the government.
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   ansonia said, 4 months ago

   @Urban Space Cowboy

   It is a good cartoon, but I don’t think for the reason you seem to think.
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   Besides, there is that matter of the Constitution, that the Left seems to want to tromp on.
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    Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago

    Congress had a chance to show a change in attitude, but here we are with the Reid & McConnall show co starring Boehnor & Pelosi.
    Sadly,
    C.
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    MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago

    Why not play a bit with the nuclear bomb that is the debt limit? It’s fun! And what could possibly go wrong? The U.S. is run by children and fully paid up members of EXIT…

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    EXIT website
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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago

    @flake-67121

    Yeah, except that the Government’s credit card interest rate is recalculated each and every day (each and every second of eaed).
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    The bond markets know how much money the government is spending and yet they are willing to buy bonds with/at a rate of 3.08% per year!
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    That means that the world markets are confident that the nation will be here in 30 years and that 3.08% per year is a fair trade off for the risk that they are wrong.
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    The Debt Ceiling is only the signature on the check that has already been written. The markets only problem with the USA is the “Willingness” to pay, not the “Ability.” It was the lack of “Willingness” to pay that resulted in the downgrade of the debt (remember that? When the Republicans refused to pass the debt ceiling increase in August and then tried to tar the President as being the reason for the downgrade?).
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    Stop worrying about the symptoms. We have serious work to do on the disease and we can’t do it if you’re going to be irrational.
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    wmconelly said, 4 months ago

    Congress votes to spend the money, then doesn’t want to raise the debt limit to spend what they voted to spend and blames the President. Who’s the psycho in this government? Nancy P? Hello? Hello?
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    mickey1339 said, 4 months ago

    @Respectful Troll

    “Sadly,
    C.”
    

    
    That’s your second post I’ve seen today with that sign-off. Unfortunately I understand your frustration on both points. My disappointment and frustration with this situation is it just shows how politics abound, our “leaders” have lost touch with the real needs of the people over their desire for re-election. It is party independent, they both are complicit right up to their ears. It seems that everything is in constant “crises mode” and everybody stays at this fever pitch, thus nothing of substance gets resolved for the long term
    

    
    Worse yet is the divisiveness I see in our country today. This is worse than Viet Nam and the partisan divide set in place now seems almost too deep to resolve. I hope I’m just being pessimistic and I’m wrong in my assumptions…
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    Radish said, 4 months ago

    
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