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Topic: The Awesome Republican Primary Thread
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Dr Adequate
Member (Idle past 307 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: 07-20-2006
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Message 886 of 1485 (708320)
10-08-2013 11:57 AM
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frako
Member (Idle past 328 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: 09-04-2010
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Message 887 of 1485 (708323)
10-08-2013 12:40 PM
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Reply to: Message 885 by onifre
10-08-2013 11:23 AM
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Re: Sheesh... the noise you babies make...
Too many Germans Well the Turks are fixing that, and if you look on the bright side of that all we have to do now is transform Hitler's spinning motion in his grave to electricity and the worlds energy crisis is solved.
Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand What are the Christians gonna do to me ..... Forgive me, good luck with that.
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Dr Adequate
Member (Idle past 307 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: 07-20-2006
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Re: Congress FUBAR
The government has shut down 17 times since 1976, and no productive citizen even noticed. Government shutdowns are not liked by 2 groups. 1.) people who suck a living off the work of others through taxes. 2.) Authoritarian Socialist Pigs who have a "better" plan for your life than you do, and use government to enforce it upon you. Productive people would only notice a government shutdown if during one, taxes were no longer collected. You're so right.
Worthless parasites suffer:
The shuttering of large parts of the federal government on Oct. 1 amid a fight over funding President Barack Obama’s health-care law is hurting businesses big and small. Some, such as Thevenin’s, have already taken a hit to their bottom line. Others will suffer from slowed economic activity -- stocks declined yesterday, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index at almost a one-month low, and a Gallup poll released Oct. 4 showed consumer confidence had dropped to its lowest point since December 2011. The shutdown cost $1.6 billion last week in lost economic output, according to IHS Inc. (IHS), a Lexington, Massachusetts-based global market-research firm. As the showdown enters its eighth day, the office closures are now draining an average of $160 million each workday from the $15.7 trillion economy. "Productive people" are unaffected:
A House aide confirmed to ThinkProgress that the House member’s gym is open. The House gym features a swimming pool, basketball courts, paddleball courts, a sauna, a steam room and flat screen TVs. While towel service is unavailable, taxpayers remain on the hook for cleaning and maintenance, which has been performed daily throughout the shutdown. There are also costs associated with the power required to heat the pools and keep the lights on. According to the aide, the decision to keep the gym open even while other critical government services were shelved came directly from Speaker Boehner’s office. It's lucky we've got you around to do political analysis for us, or we might get all confused.
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yenmor
Member (Idle past 3678 days) Posts: 145 Joined: 07-01-2013
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Re: Congress FUBAR
Message deleted... I disclosed something I probably shouldn't have due to company policy. Sorry. Edited by yenmor, : No reason given. Edited by yenmor, : No reason given.
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AZPaul3
Member Posts: 8536 From: Phoenix Joined: 11-06-2006 Member Rating: 5.0
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Message 890 of 1485 (708356)
10-08-2013 9:19 PM
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yenmor
Member (Idle past 3678 days) Posts: 145 Joined: 07-01-2013
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Message 891 of 1485 (708359)
10-08-2013 10:25 PM
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Reply to: Message 890 by AZPaul3
10-08-2013 9:19 PM
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Haha. Fox News Poll Finds Disapproval Of GOP Skyrocketing After They Shut Down Government
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Bad News is everywhere for the Republican Party. Even the Fox News poll has found disapproval of the Republican Party jumping to 59% in their latest poll. According to the Fox News poll, disapproval of the Republican Party has jumped from 46% in September of 2012 to 59% today. Disapproval of the GOP has climbed from 54% in January to 56% in April to nearing 60% today. Approval of the Republican Party has fallen from 45% to 35%. In contrast, Democratic Party unfavorability has stayed stable in the Fox poll at between 48% and 49% all through 2013. Support for repealing the ACA has dropped from 39% in June to 30% today. This could mean that the linking of funding the government to defunding or delaying the ACA has completely backfired on the Republican Party. The number of Americans who think that they will be better off under Obamacare has risen by 7 points from 34% to 41%, and by a margin of 36%-19% respondents thought that Ted Cruz’s fake filibuster hurt efforts to repeal the ACA. Eighty one percent think the government shutdown is a serious problem, and they are blaming John Boehner and Ted Cruz (42%) more than they are blaming Harry Reid and President Obama (32%). A new CBS News poll confirmed the Fox News poll by finding that 44% of Americans blame Boehner and the Republicans for the shutdown, while 35% blame Obama and the Democrats. The behavior of House Republicans isn’t just hurting their 2014 chances. It is damaging the whole Republican Party. When a Fox News poll finds a sizable margin of people are blaming the Republicans things are really bad. The Fox News polls have always shaded their questions with loaded terms, so it means a lot when a poll that is normally friendly to the GOP finds things going this badly. Republicans dismiss most polls as rigged by the liberal media, but it is difficult for them to ignore a poll that cones from the supposed only real news source that they trust. The government shutdown isn’t just bad for Republicans. It’s disastrous.
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Dr Adequate
Member (Idle past 307 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: 07-20-2006
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Message 892 of 1485 (708360)
10-08-2013 10:37 PM
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Reply to: Message 891 by yenmor
10-08-2013 10:25 PM
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The poll may have been conducted by Fox News, but it was answered by those notorious liberal commienazis the American people. Let's not forget, it was their bad voting that got us into this mess in the first place.
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AZPaul3
Member Posts: 8536 From: Phoenix Joined: 11-06-2006 Member Rating: 5.0
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... bad voting that got us into this mess in the first place. Unfortunately, this is not in jest. We are this government and we now have the government we deserve. Enjoy the show, people; the ineptitude, the sheer st*pid*ty on display. We cast this government in our own image.
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jar
Member (Idle past 416 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 894 of 1485 (708362)
10-08-2013 11:29 PM
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Reply to: Message 893 by AZPaul3
10-08-2013 11:13 PM
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Amen Brother, preach the Gospel
Yup, we have the government we created, the news system we decided to destroy, the health system and education system we decided to emasculate and the debt we wanted.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Dr Adequate
Member (Idle past 307 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: 07-20-2006
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Message 895 of 1485 (708363)
10-09-2013 12:24 AM
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Reply to: Message 893 by AZPaul3
10-08-2013 11:13 PM
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Unfortunately, this is not in jest. We are this government and we now have the government we deserve. Enjoy the show, people; the ineptitude, the sheer st*pid*ty on display. We cast this government in our own image. Not really --- the people voted for a Democratic President, Senate, and House. It's not their fault that the House elections were gerrymandered.
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AZPaul3
Member Posts: 8536 From: Phoenix Joined: 11-06-2006 Member Rating: 5.0
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It's not their fault that the House elections were gerrymandered. Maybe not in your neck of the woods but in my state we elect and re-elect ... and re-elect ... the legislatures that do the gerrymandering. From Dog Catcher to President this is all we the people's doing.
Please don't get me wrong. Having an arrogant, obsessive/compulsive government that reflects the society, not just divided but schizophrenic, is far less intolerable than most alternatives we see most people living under.
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frako
Member (Idle past 328 days) Posts: 2932 From: slovenija Joined: 09-04-2010
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Message 897 of 1485 (708377)
10-09-2013 5:31 AM
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I wonder why Obama when next asked about the shut-down dosent just say america dosent negotiate with terrorists.
Christianity, One woman's lie about an affair that got seriously out of hand What are the Christians gonna do to me ..... Forgive me, good luck with that.
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gene90
Member (Idle past 3845 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: 12-25-2000
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Message 898 of 1485 (708401)
10-09-2013 1:14 PM
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How I learned to stop worrying and default...
The Tea Party wants to default and no amount of expert opinion will dissuade them. Obama is trying to explain these things to them, but that just makes them angrier. Wall Street is trying to explain things to them, but they won't listen to them either. They're like zombies. They don't want to manage the government, or make it more efficient, they want to destroy the government. Small wonder that they're making a mockery of the way the system is supposed to work in the process. They don't seem to realize that they have to win elections before they can impose their agenda. I'm sorry to see that the Republican party has been thoroughly consumed by this movement of populist stupidity. I'd feel much better as a Republican if we could be rid of their movement even though we'd have total Democratic control of government. The Dems at least have a bigger tent and don't have a pathological fear of informed opinion.
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NoNukes
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It's not their fault that the House elections were gerrymandered. In North Carolina, I think we can put some blame democrats for our contribution to this sorry state of affairs. The state is fairy close to evenly split between dems and repubs, but the democrats got involved in a bunch of scandals and lost control of the legislature to republicans just in time for re-districting.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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onifre
Member (Idle past 2973 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: 02-20-2008
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Message 900 of 1485 (708470)
10-10-2013 1:04 PM
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Reply to: Message 898 by gene90
10-09-2013 1:14 PM
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Re: How I learned to stop worrying and default...
I'm sorry to see that the Republican party has been thoroughly consumed by this movement of populist stupidity. It's their own fault for starting up the Tea Party movement to rally up the dummies into voting with nonsense propaganda. Now that movement is out of control and the sensible people in their party (The Romney Republicans vs the Palin Republicans) can't stop it. It's the same thing the Nazis party was created for - to rally up the dummies - and we all know what happened when they went out of control. The Republicans tried a political move and it back fired. Oh well. The Dems stink too. They're progressive when they can be but ultimately answer to the corporations. So they will always make terrible decisions that hurt the people just the same. - Oni Edited by onifre, : No reason given. Edited by onifre, : No reason given.
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