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In reply to the discussion: Can someone tell me the saga of the poster known as "Better Believe It" [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)The quotation marks mean that the DUer making the post was quoting something else -- which was true. It's not at all uncommon for a post to quote verbatim from a linked article, which is what BBI did.
When there's a linked article about an executive order, a verbatim quotation might come from the order or from the article. Here, instead of trying to pack a lot meaning into a colon, it's useful to consider the overall context (the argument the Obama administration has advanced, correctly, in asking the Supreme Court to interpret the ACA to allow the federal subsidies). The context is that the material in quotation marks is "Putting the economy on a permanent war footing". How many people would read that and think that Obama signed an order that contained those words? Even if an order actually did that, no politician would say so.
Continuing my intrepid interpretation, I take Skinner's "Enough is enough" to mean that this post, by itself, would probably not have meant a PPR, but that it was the last straw. Cumulative impact is certainly something the admins should consider in making these decisions. I haven't bothered to look at other BBI posts so I'm neither supporting nor condemning the PPR decision.