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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:09 AM Original message |
Obama, Democrats abandon stimulus for austerity |
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burnsei sensei (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
1. You call this austerity? |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
2. The big banks and wall street seem to be doing well, |
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dpbrown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
3. What about Defense??? |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Oh, MIC cuts are off the table, US has to have presence in 80 countries, |
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azul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Pin the writing on the wal onto your rep's foreheads: |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
4. Dear god if they fuck around with social security and medicare |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Frankly, I'm starting to think they don't know what the F they are doing. Further, |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. He is a constitutional lawyer |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:40 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. +1, n/t |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. +1 nt |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
23. You're right that it's depressingly predictable, but enough pretending he doesn't get it. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:51 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. No he was told to hire them |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:56 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Whatever. He's the president, he makes the appointments. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:58 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. The last real President we had |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:13 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. And I had once thought he would be some combination of FDR and JFK. n/t |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:20 AM Response to Reply #29 |
36. Yup... |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:21 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. None of them are pure |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #29 |
47. the last real one may have died in '63, but the last honest one was Carter. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:33 AM Response to Reply #25 |
40. Your expectations are improperly low. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:35 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. Bush isn't an idiot |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Bush knew how to talk to the idiot factor of this nation and worked that well. I agree, |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:48 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Before running for President |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:30 PM Response to Reply #41 |
50. Hear, hear. Bush is evil, but not dumb. n/t |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-11-10 02:56 AM Response to Reply #41 |
53. That really doesn't answer the point. Even if Bush is smarter than he acted... |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #25 |
42. The buck stops where? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:51 AM Response to Reply #42 |
45. Didn't say he wasn't a willing party |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
35. I am too... |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:24 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Yep, never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter, the nation that |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I'm wondering if the new UK leadership |
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loudsue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
6. We spend TRILLIONS more on the military machine than we do on our people and keeping them |
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avogadro (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Since when |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:40 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Will you make it past one post??? nt |
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avogadro (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:44 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Yes.... |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:46 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Come on give it your best for #3. nt |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:46 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. When they were responsible for getting them over there so they don't get us here nt. |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:41 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Since they use OUR tax dollars. They don't have |
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avogadro (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:56 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. Now this is a good reply... |
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loudsue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:42 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Since when did it become the responsibility of the taxpayers to |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:49 AM Response to Reply #11 |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:55 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. +1, n/t |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:01 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. The old boy really had staying power. |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
39. They do it for every single soldier |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
51. ... |
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NoNothing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:09 AM Response to Reply #6 |
32. What do you mean by that |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
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ananda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
12. OK. Where are the cuts to war spending? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #12 |
31. Same place as the cuts to corporate subsidies nt. |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
22. Idiots...n/t |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
34. More austerity for the already poor. They got theirs already. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
48. Raise taxes on the richest 100k or fuck 30 million people? |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
49. This can't be right. If so, it is insane. n/t |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-10-10 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
52. Motherfucking motherfuckers can't seem to stop spending for MILITARY bullshit! |
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