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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:36 AM Original message |
Poll question: Are you glad that a government shutdown was averted |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. Guess I'm selfish... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. Seems like a trick question.... |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'm glad. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:49 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Since when did "standing up for one's values" become "cutting off your nose?" |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. When values cease to have value and spite is the driver. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Why do you think that "spite is the driver?" You read minds? Over the internet? |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 01:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. No, I just read the posts. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 10:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
37. Sounds like a lot of spite alright. But not from whom you're trying to imply. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 03:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. I don't think your President Obama picture is very effective. |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
4. Yes, but did we have to give away the store??? |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. Of course. But at what an unnecessarily high cost!! |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:58 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. It Could Have Been MUCH Worse |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
29. Almost all situations could have been MUCH worse. nt |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 01:02 AM Response to Reply #9 |
38. It Could Have Been Much BETTER. |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Not With This Congress, It Couldn't |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Foregone conclusion, so why try? Why even mount the fight? Why even use the rhetoric? |
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andym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
10. Yes but the price is high, |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 08:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
21. Would you still say 'Yes' if Boehner had gotten everything he'd asked for? |
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andym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 01:43 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. No |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. In my case...it would be. This isn't just about Boehner or the GOP, it's about the American people. |
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Throckmorton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
11. Yes, for a very selfish reason |
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
13. with all the tea party noise a shutdown would've led to a blame Obama drumbeat |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:32 AM Response to Original message |
14. There are people out there that wanted Obama to call bluffs--which means they pushed Gov. shut down. |
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Sky Masterson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 05:53 AM Response to Original message |
15. I hadn't realized the government was ever started. |
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onpatrol98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 06:23 AM Response to Original message |
16. Yep...glad |
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Esurientes (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
17. Selfish me |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
18. Happy for those who will not be furloughed but worried about what we conceded in the meantime |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
19. If I can find a good summary of what is actually in the agreement, maybe I can answer |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
20. Of course.. nothing good could have come from it. |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
22. In exchange for giving the GOP everything they wanted? Not a chance. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I agree. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. When I think of the thousands of homes that would be missing a paycheck or two over this. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 03:05 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Thats the problem. |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 03:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. You have to recognize something... |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:25 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. If we continue lurching to the Right chasing crumbs, |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:07 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. We Can Demand All We Want. We Haven't Got the Votes to Get It |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Do some reseaerch, and find out what LBJ did... |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 06:07 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. LBJ Was An Old Washington Insider Who Knew Where All The Bodies Were Buried |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. "We don't have anyone like that anymore." |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 06:37 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. He Hasn't Been in DC Long Enough to Work The Way LBJ Did |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
40. A shutdown had the potential to screw with lives a lot more than the agreed to cuts, IMO. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 01:37 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. You are in a loop that sacrifices the future and certainly prohibits systemic change |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 07:01 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Spare me your political emo bullshit. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 08:07 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. A pretty weak minded and silly evasion. Creative way to maintain your lil bubble. |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 02:23 AM Response to Reply #44 |
49. I could give a shit because the legislative "crisis" |
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zigzag69 (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
42. Yes and No |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
45. Here in California we've had to take furlough days all last year |
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craigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
46. I'm not sure. We gave away so much just to keep things running. I'm leaning towards no. |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
48. yes because I have an been tentatively offered a job for a largely federally funded project |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
50. If the teabaggers are for it, I'm against it. |
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