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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums42, 18, 6, 217, 2
42: Number of votes conducted to Repeal Obamacare.18: Number of requests for budget conference nominees refused by the House.
6: Number of votes in the house to micromanage funding via CR. Actually there are more, but Thomas is behind due to the shutdown.
217: Number of aye votes for a clean CR.
2: Number of people at the root of this mess, waiting for the orange harvest report before they make their move.
BTW, If anyone is guilty of Sedition, it would be those 2 guys. They gained their influence the old fashioned way: They bought it.
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42, 18, 6, 217, 2 (Original Post)
hootinholler
Oct 2013
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Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)1. In your number '2' - did you include Meadows in there?
Mark Meadows (R-NC) is the Architect of the current shutdown plan
Article here: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/house-tea-party/
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)3. They are not part of the government
Other than they pave the way for those sympathetic to their agenda.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)6. Well perhaps it would have been clear if you named them. Is it the Koch bros?
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)8. Sorry, I thought it obvious
Especially with the Trading Places reference.
babylonsister
(171,090 posts)2. Bingo!
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)4. :P
babylonsister
(171,090 posts)9. Bwhaha!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)13. No, those are Powerball numbers!
(which is up to 108 million)
I should play those numbers and see what happens
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)5. You sunk my battleship.
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)7. Hut, Hut..... Hut!!!
ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)10. If 217 wasn't among the possibilities...
...I'd play those numbers. Maybe I'll play 21 and 7... hmm...
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)11. I think someone is playing those numbers n/t
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)12. Lost?