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See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t affor... - 7/13/2011 11:21:42 PM

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"GOP leaders say the nation can't afford to default"

Hope dimming for a broad debt-limit deal, Congress and the White House scrambled Wednesday to salvage deficit-reduction talks while top congressional Republicans said the nation cannot afford to default on its obligations — for economic reasons and their party's own good

How nice that they consider our well being..... as they realize which side of the bread in buttered.

http://news.yahoo.com/gop-leaders-nation-cant-afford-default-202321479.html

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/13/2011 11:41:49 PM

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Everyone involved talks a good line about how 'tough' and hard core they are about it, but none of the parites involved really want to be either the one being seen as responsible for, or the ones actually detonating the government default "suicide vest."

The fallout of a default woudl be in full swing around election time next year, and whoever did whatever in the reign of Bush the Younger and immediately after would be trivial, the voting natives woudl be looking at who was responsible for this current thing.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 4:31:08 AM

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"I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy," McConnell said on a radio talk show, contending that letting the nation go into financial default would give Obama reason to blame Republicans for the negative fallout.

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Damn. And here I thought that McConnell was elected to help the country, not to get reelected.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 7:03:48 AM

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Yeah, THEY can't afford default. I'm telling you, we really were considering putting all the money in a Canadian bank. Should've. Doesn't matter though, it mostly got spent. The worst thing to have is money these days. Now I suppose alot of these high rollers have a good piece of their money in foreign banks. They're not even talking about devaluing their own damn money, they're talking about a political loss. Nice guys.

FQ, not to play spelling police here but I wonder what you meant. I'm thinking maybe "parites" was a typo. As a free spellchacker I offer the following corrections :

Parties - free for all, plural
Pirates - theif, plural

The latter seems more appropriate.

"I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy,"

How's that ? It became pretty clear that they didn't want the Presidency when they ran McCain. A hundred years in Iraq, and I don't even want to restart the banter about Palin. They could've run a whole lot of other peole and had a hell of alot better chance. They didn't want it.

I have alot of confidence in our poliicians, really I do, but that is not meant in a positive way. It's more like the faith I have in predator to hunt. The only way to stop one is to put it in a zoo. Now there's an idea.

In a way, in this case their honesty is refreshing. Perhaps they're getting too stupid to lie. I'm just not so sure that's a good thing.

ETA my own spellcheck : peole; pee hole.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 7:44:51 AM

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GOP "we can`t afford default"

Finally some fucking sense.

If those sensible voices talked more instead of the radical fringe, Republicans could walk off with the next election.

Instead, that party's become an insane asylum.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 7:46:40 AM

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I dont see how, the party has been taken over by the nativists, the know-nothings and the lunatic fringe.

There are not enough sensible republicans to amass a majority of anything.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 7:49:50 AM

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I know.

Remember when you said you and I were the only Republicans left? Not even a joke--dead on.

They've been throwing out the sensible voices for the last few election cycles. But the nutcases left can't see that they aren't going to convince the entire country to be batshit crazy with them. Look at 2006.

If there are any serious people out there wanting to start a viable third party, this would really be the time. At this rate, Republicans could go the way of the once dominant Whigs.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 8:05:32 AM

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I wasn't joking about that, here on this board, you and I seem to stand for the founding principles of the republican party, and the ones that loudly proclaim their 'republicanism' are actually advocating the dregs of radical democratic principles.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 8:12:01 AM

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In 2006, Senator Obama didn’t just vote against raising the debt ceiling he personally demonized President George W. Bush for trying to raise it. He said:

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

The buck now stops with Obama, and his leadership failure was all too obvious yesterday when he walked out of the debate in a huff like a spoiled little brat. Poo poo on you!

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 8:13:47 AM

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Again, it's political theater. It always is. Then the debt ceiling will be raised, as everyone knows it must.

That's as much time as I'm giving to an argument that boils down to "poo poo."

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 8:15:11 AM

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I think that it is a leadership failure in the republican house, since they were sent down there to specifically handle this motherfucker to Americas liking.

Instead they want to fuck around caterwauling about homos.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 9:14:23 AM

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"In 2006, Senator Obama...."

Or playing stupid tit for tat games and childish score-keeping, while Rome burns.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 2:55:00 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

quote:

GOP "we can`t afford default"

Finally some fucking sense.

If those sensible voices talked more instead of the radical fringe, Republicans could walk off with the next election.

Instead, that party's become an insane asylum.

I havent heard anyone in the GOP who says that default would not be a disaster. What some have said is we wont default if the debt limit isnt raised by Geithners 4th drop dead date of 8/2, and they are right.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 3:00:57 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

quote:

ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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GOP "we can`t afford default"

Finally some fucking sense.

If those sensible voices talked more instead of the radical fringe, Republicans could walk off with the next election.

Instead, that party's become an insane asylum.

I havent heard anyone in the GOP who says that default would not be a disaster. What some have said is we wont default if the debt limit isnt raised by Geithners 4th drop dead date of 8/2, and they are right.

Guess you were not paying attention
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/toomey-top-republicans-not-raising-the-debt-ceiling-no-biggie.php

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/14/2011 3:05:59 PM

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During the Great Depression the country temporarily reversed direction and stopped the New Deal policies, and then things got even worse....

I think we can expect these new austerity measures the Republicans are trying to implement will do the same.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/17/2011 6:45:28 PM

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GOP Leaders Slowly Convincing Newer Members of Importance of Raising Debt Ceiling

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/17/2011 7:32:16 PM

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I know.

Remember when you said you and I were the only Republicans left? Not even a joke--dead on.

They've been throwing out the sensible voices for the last few election cycles. But the nutcases left can't see that they aren't going to convince the entire country to be batshit crazy with them. Look at 2006.

If there are any serious people out there wanting to start a viable third party, this would really be the time. At this rate, Republicans could go the way of the once dominant Whigs.

Which only leads to the question of why you are still a Republican.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/17/2011 7:42:37 PM

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During the Great Depression the country temporarily reversed direction and stopped the New Deal policies, and then things got even worse....

I think we can expect these new austerity measures the Republicans are trying to implement will do the same.

The ratfuckers just don't have a clue. This is exactly the wrong time for 'austerity". This is the time for a new WEP and a new CCC and even more government spending.

For such a "pro-business" party, the moronic Teabilly bastards just don't get that it is CONSUMPTION which is the driver of the economy, not production. Cutting jobs means there is less money for consumption. Which means that there is less demand for goods. Which means that manufacturers lay people off, reduce wages, reduce hours, reduce benefits, or just sit tight. Laid-off people don't spend on fancy haircuts or dining out or non-essential car repairs or cool California flavored olive oils. The people in non-financial service businesses cut back THEIR HIRING AND SPENDING. It's a vicious spiral.

For the dimwits who DON'T think consumption drives the economy, go make some one-legged chairs. Produce 10 million of them. Price them at 3 cents. I can pretty much guarantee that even at that below-cost price, they won't sell too many. Because PRODUCTION does not drive the economy.

I mean, this is so basic even a non-economist like myself gets it. The ratfuckers' austerity addiction will backfire bigtime.

And now the Teabilly dumbfucks want to get rid of minimum wage laws. Yeah, that's fucking brilliant. Pay people nothing, and they can't afford to buy anything. Stupid fucks.

Ya know what it driving all this ratfucker stupidity. It's a bunch of punk Boomers and Gen Xers who had really shitty parenting, where they weren't given any limits, and now they're adult-sized and they still have the 2-year-olds' Gmme! Gimme! mentality and the 2 year-olds' inability to grasp that a society runs on mutual cooperation and the desire to avoid the "Tragedy of the Commons" and "The Race to the Bottom". I mean, read the shit that that bratty little catamite Lockedaway writes and tell me this isn't a screaming little two-year-old.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/17/2011 8:12:58 PM

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Here`s what the kid toucher has to say.....

Nugent starts off with the debt issues then goes bonkers all over the place.

"A nasty, unclean gaggle of Americans read the nonstop reports of mass graves in Mexico, the mountains of dead bodies, the unending exhuming of slaughtered innocents and decapitated citizens and public officials at the hands of evil drug cartels, then nonchalantly purchase another load of the mind- and life-destroying dope that these subhuman heathens peddle. You have to be on dope in order to fail to admit how your illegal or “medical” marijuana consumption creates wanton death and mayhem in your own communities and country. Thanks for nothing, idiots"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/13/you-have-the-right-to-remain-stupid/

He calls himself a teaparty member,btw.

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RE: See`n the crack in the wall....GOP "we can`t a... - 7/17/2011 8:29:01 PM

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Ya know what it driving all this ratfucker stupidity. It's a bunch of punk Boomers and Gen Xers who had really shitty parenting, where they weren't given any limits, and now they're adult-sized and they still have the 2-year-olds' Gmme! Gimme! mentality and the 2 year-olds' inability to grasp that a society runs on mutual cooperation and the desire to avoid the "Tragedy of the Commons" and "The Race to the Bottom". I mean, read the shit that that bratty little catamite Lockedaway writes and tell me this isn't a screaming little two-year-old.

I am a GenXer.... My generation is the first generation that did not believe we would have more than our parents. We are a cynical generation. I hate to say it, but the Baby Boomer sellouts with the "whoever dies with the most toys wins" mentality really screwed the pooch. It is rather sad that all of the peace, love, and drugs didn't last for the Baby Boomers, instead they were the driving force behind the Reagan Revolution... not me and those slightly younger than I am... and anyways who fucking parented us? Baby Boomers for the most part. My parents were slightly older than Boomers... on the tail end of the Silent Generation. Hard working, middle class, nice law abiding people who believed in Unions and Civil Rights... and they were good parents. All of my siblings are Baby Boomer fuckwads, selfish self centered assholes who think it is all about them... the only one who doesn't is me.... and I am not a Baby Boomer... I am the youngest of the pack, the only Gen Xer.

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