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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 10:36 PM Oct 2013

Crisis? What Crisis? GOP questions if there really is a problem here.

How House Republicans are convincing themselves that defaulting on the country’s debt wouldn’t be the disaster everybody claims it’d be.

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In the conservative media, this is the biggest story that the lamestream press won’t cover. And it is a story: It doesn’t make sense that some government sites are tagged with “shutdown” closed signs when most of their content is readable. Over the weekend, conservatives puzzled at how the Amber Alert website went offline. The administration explained it as a minor outage; conservatives saw it as an application of the “firemen first” strategy.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/10/house_republicans_debt_default_and_government_shutdown_the_gop_thinks_the.html

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Crisis? What Crisis? GOP questions if there really is a problem here. (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2013 OP
. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #1
Conservative flatulence is a powerful hallucinogen... JHB Oct 2013 #2

JHB

(37,160 posts)
2. Conservative flatulence is a powerful hallucinogen...
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 06:30 AM
Oct 2013

...and the air they breath is thicker with it than weed smoke in Cheech & Chong's lowrider.

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