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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts) Wed Oct 16, 2013, 12:09 PM Oct 2013

So in the end, The Tea Baggers got everything they set out to accomplish after all

The House Republicans got everything they set out to accomplish.

They got to sing Amazing Grace on the House floor, "All three verses, without the words written out," Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) told a New York Times reporter. "Isn't that impressive?"

Rep. Steve Southerland (R-IL), who was in charge of leading the morning prayer, broke out in song, and slowly the entire group began to sing along

http://www.christianpost.com/news/ho...eeting-106687/

They got to sing Amazing Grace, and America got it's debt ceiling raised so we can continue to pay our bills.

A Win-Win situation for everyone.

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So in the end, The Tea Baggers got everything they set out to accomplish after all (Original Post) Snake Plissken Oct 2013 OP

jumping j. h. christ! annabanana Oct 2013 #1

They also got to wave a rebel flag in front of the home of the first Black President. Lint Head Oct 2013 #2

And, most importantly, they placed a big bomb in the middle of the Obama Economic Recovery Coyotl Oct 2013 #3

Impressive? catrose Oct 2013 #4

I wonder what REALLY did happen during their shutdown. nt valerief Oct 2013 #5

Don't forget--Boehner got his "conversation" with Obama Pretzel_Warrior Oct 2013 #6

Amazing Grace is a song for funerals Gothmog Oct 2013 #7

Have you ever noticed that all of the songs in kentauros Oct 2013 #9

Rand Paul was right The Baggers won. Snake Plissken Oct 2013 #8

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

1. jumping j. h. christ!

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 12:11 PM

Oct 2013

If we had let them sing in 2010 we could have saved a lot of tsuris...

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)

2. They also got to wave a rebel flag in front of the home of the first Black President.

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 12:14 PM

Oct 2013

That's considered a hate crime in some states. Is burning a cross next?

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

3. And, most importantly, they placed a big bomb in the middle of the Obama Economic Recovery

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 12:16 PM

Oct 2013

Sometimes you need to look for the true motives behind the clown show.

catrose

(5,067 posts)

4. Impressive?

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 12:17 PM

Oct 2013

A science fiction convention panel discovered that we all had some claim to being called singers (during the panel, BTW). And we and the audience all broke into Amazing Grace, all three verses, no words written down, in three-part harmony. Isn't that impressive?

The deck was stacked a little bit by the panel's topic being religion in SF, but my point (and I do have one) is that Amazing Grace is carved into our culture, all three verses, no words written down.