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Eastoff

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Maybe they are tired from working OT all last weekend?
 
I CAN'T HEAR YOU THE TV IS VERY LOUD IN THIS OFFICE.
:ohno:
 
Apparently the Republicans don't remember what happened when Gingrich shut down the government.

barfo
 
It's treason, pure and simple.

They've been taking our money and doing absolutely nothing for over a year now.

Now they are deliberately bringing our government to a halt, costing taxpayers several billions of dollars per day, endangering our lives and the world's security and economic stability, and collecting paychecks for it.

Jail them, bill them for the pay they took under false pretenses, then deport them since they no longer are Americans (if they ever were).

I seriously wonder what party will replace them, because they have just shot themselves in their empty heads.

Stick a fork in the Republican party, 'cause they are done.
 
There's a price to pay for jamming through a piece of legislation via a method so illegitimate, the author of the method decried its use for health care.

On the bright side, with nothing but obstructionism, Congress can't steal another $2.5 trillion of our kids' money.
 
MARIS61 said:
I seriously wonder what party will replace them, because they have just shot themselves in their empty heads.
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Maybe no party will replace them. We will be in a single-party system of government.

a totalitarian state.
 
on AC360 they're talking about all the threats against the dems now!

:ohno:

Sarah Palin's facebook page! :ohno:

a senator slapped a picture of Pelosi! :ohno:
 
maxiep said:
There's a price to pay for jamming through a piece of legislation via a method so illegitimate, the author of the method decried its use for health care.

On the bright side, with nothing but obstructionism, Congress can't steal another $2.5 trillion of our kids' money.
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I know you're not that stupid. :confused: The Repubs are costing our kids far more than that right now.

This is no playground game. It is a war on our country, and most definitely an attack directed at our children. They are the ones who will suffer in the end.

Each and every bill they are obstructing has already cost millions apiece just to get to this point. Their salaries and benefits alone, which they are NOT working for, amount to well over 4 million a week. The backlog of work they have refused to address will cost billions to restart and deal with. Our country's progress has been stopped in it's tracks, and will take years to recover from. Countless people will die or suffer because of their attack on our government. These aren't bills about Girl Scout cookie flavors. They are about lives, and preventing deaths. They are about our children's education and welfare. They are about our wive's and girlfriend's safety and our nation's security. They are about poisons in our food and bombers in our airports.

Treason such as this is unprecedented in our country's history. I'd be perfectly okay with executing each and every one of them by firing squad.
 
are you mad as hell and not going to take it anymore?
 
MARIS61 said:
I know you're not that stupid. :confused: The Repubs are costing our kids far more than that right now.

This is no playground game. It is a war on our country, and most definitely an attack directed at our children. They are the ones who will suffer in the end.

Each and every bill they are obstructing has already cost millions apiece just to get to this point. Their salaries and benefits alone, which they are NOT working for, amount to well over 4 million a week. The backlog of work they have refused to address will cost billions to restart and deal with. Our country's progress has been stopped in it's tracks, and will take years to recover from. Countless people will die or suffer because of their attack on our government. These aren't bills about Girl Scout cookie flavors. They are about lives, and preventing deaths. They are about our children's education and welfare. They are about our wive's and girlfriend's safety and our nation's security. They are about poisons in our food and bombers in our airports.

Treason such as this is unprecedented in our country's history. I'd be perfectly okay with executing each and every one of them by firing squad.
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Lol, crazy old man
 
The problem with this as a threat is that Republicans have been doing this from the start. What's going to change now?

When you start nuclear, you have nowhere left to go to up the ante when you get angry. ;)
 
MARIS61 said:
I know you're not that stupid. :confused: The Repubs are costing our kids far more than that right now.

This is no playground game. It is a war on our country, and most definitely an attack directed at our children. They are the ones who will suffer in the end.

Each and every bill they are obstructing has already cost millions apiece just to get to this point. Their salaries and benefits alone, which they are NOT working for, amount to well over 4 million a week. The backlog of work they have refused to address will cost billions to restart and deal with. Our country's progress has been stopped in it's tracks, and will take years to recover from. Countless people will die or suffer because of their attack on our government. These aren't bills about Girl Scout cookie flavors. They are about lives, and preventing deaths. They are about our children's education and welfare. They are about our wive's and girlfriend's safety and our nation's security. They are about poisons in our food and bombers in our airports.

Treason such as this is unprecedented in our country's history. I'd be perfectly okay with executing each and every one of them by firing squad.
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Ah Maris, where would we be without you? You're like the crazy grandmother from Wedding Crashers.
 
MARIS61 said:
It's treason, pure and simple.

They've been taking our money and doing absolutely nothing for over a year now.

Now they are deliberately bringing our government to a halt, costing taxpayers several billions of dollars per day, endangering our lives and the world's security and economic stability, and collecting paychecks for it.

Jail them, bill them for the pay they took under false pretenses, then deport them since they no longer are Americans (if they ever were).

I seriously wonder what party will replace them, because they have just shot themselves in their empty heads.

Stick a fork in the Republican party, 'cause they are done.
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Was it treason when the dems did this to Bush, Sr?

I didn't think so.
 
The record is pretty clear. With 60 votes in the senate (until recently) and a majority in the house, what has the party in power accomplished?

For about 500 days, nothing.

And what are their priorities?

Extended unemployment insurance because their agenda was to spend ridiculous amounts of money on anything but things that help the people on "main street."

Given a choice of wasteful spending and machine party politics vs. doing nothing and going into debt far less, I choose the latter.

If I were running campaigns for republicans, I'd have a big poster on the wall, "It's the economy stupid."
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
Was it treason when the dems did this to Bush, Sr?

I didn't think so.
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On which votes did the Democrats line up unanimously to vote against Bush? To the contrary, if many of them ever opposed him, he called them out for being unpatriotic and anti-American. They didn't have the adolescent peer pressure emanating from their leadership to vote unanimously on anything, the way Republicans do, which makes Republicans appear so conformist and juvenile when they have not one exception in their voting bloc.

The giant Clinton surpluses were enabled by a vote early in his administration to raise taxes on the rich back to the traditional, pre-Reagan level. Every single Republican voted against it, so Republican revisionists had to later claim that the surpluses were an accident of history, a bubble. When American health stats soon rise above the 47th best in the world, some Republican myth will have to be invented to explain it.
 
jlprk said:
On which votes did the Democrats line up unanimously to vote against Bush? To the contrary, if many of them ever opposed him, he called them out for being unpatriotic and anti-American. They didn't have the adolescent peer pressure emanating from their leadership to vote unanimously on anything, the way Republicans do, which makes Republicans appear so conformist and juvenile when they have not one exception in their voting bloc.

The giant Clinton surpluses were enabled by a vote early in his administration to raise taxes on the rich back to the traditional, pre-Reagan level. Every single Republican voted against it, so Republican revisionists had to later claim that the surpluses were an accident of history, a bubble. When American health stats soon rise above the 47th best in the world, some Republican myth will have to be invented to explain it.
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Read your history. The dems, knowing they would lose again after the Gulf War was so smoothly run by Bush make an open tactic to block everything he wanted to do in his final two years in office. Their obstructionism worked flawlessly. Now the GOP is doing pretty much the same thing. What goes around comes around. I mean, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the dems are not perfect angelic people.

Personally, both sides are flat out wrong to do this. It's bad politics and hurts the country.
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
Read your history. The dems, knowing they would lose again after the Gulf War was so smoothly run by Bush make an open tactic to block everything he wanted to do in his final two years in office.
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I don't need to read history, I lived it. Democrats didn't vote unanimously like Republicans do. Many always cross over, because their party grants them individual freedom. The Republican leadership exerts great conformist pressure on their own.

As for Big Bush's efficient success in the first Iraq War, nope, Republicans were very disappointed that he didn't carry the war past Kuwait to Baghdad. The Warmonger Wing considered the war a failure. This feeling depressed the family, producing a son determined to start another war there. One week into Little Bush's presidency, he had some jets shoot at targets in Iraq for no reason, angering Saddam, just to send a message to him that war would be on its way a couple of years later.
 
jlprk said:
I don't need to read history, I lived it. Democrats didn't vote unanimously like Republicans do. Many always cross over, because their party grants them individual freedom. The Republican leadership exerts great conformist pressure on their own.

As for Big Bush's efficient success in the first Iraq War, nope, Republicans were very disappointed that he didn't carry the war past Kuwait to Baghdad. The Warmonger Wing considered the war a failure. This feeling depressed the family, producing a son determined to start another war there. One week into Little Bush's presidency, he had some jets shoot at targets in Iraq for no reason, angering Saddam, just to send a message to him that war would be on its way a couple of years later.
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meh

You've admited defeat and are just throwing stones.
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
Read your history. The dems, knowing they would lose again after the Gulf War was so smoothly run by Bush make an open tactic to block everything he wanted to do in his final two years in office. Their obstructionism worked flawlessly. Now the GOP is doing pretty much the same thing. What goes around comes around. I mean, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the dems are not perfect angelic people.

Personally, both sides are flat out wrong to do this. It's bad politics and hurts the country.
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As long as obstructionism is based in principle, I have no problem with it from either side. When it's based on politics, then I think it's silly.
 
maxiep said:
As long as obstructionism is based in principle, I have no problem with it from either side. When it's based on politics, then I think it's silly.
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It's always based in politics, when both parties do it. You may be for small government, but neither of the two major parties are. Both parties have identical views of government: limited government when the other party is in power, big government when they, themselves, are in power.

Neither side currently believes in limited government as a principle. Both want to use government for their agenda and decry government when used for another agenda.
 
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