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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-08-09 12:40 PM
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I'm sick of this steady stream of Rs now whining about fiscal responsibility and big government.
Those people were not squeamish about handing * the till and its key for 8 damned years. Now they come before us telling us that we can't afford to make affordable health care available. They can't vote for any reform because it would make the government bigger. I want some pushback on this hypocrisy. I want loud pushback.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-08-09 12:43 PM
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1. I just turned off my Television.......Because Mrs. GreenSpan
was having Republican after Republican Senators spout off the exact same talking points.

So far, I think there has been 3 Republicans interviewed to 1 Democrat.
Talking about the Libarul MSNBC Media, of course!
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-08-09 01:01 PM
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2. The government's only "too big" when Democrats are in charge
Edited on Thu Oct-08-09 01:01 PM by ck4829
They might as well be saying "Only we should have the government, or nobody should have it at all."
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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-08-09 01:04 PM
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3. Yep. They have no credibility.
Edited on Thu Oct-08-09 01:06 PM by moondust
If they had been in the streets and on the TV shows protesting the out-of-control deficit spending of Bush then they would have some credibility now. But they weren't and so they don't.

It's pure politics.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-08-09 01:19 PM
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4. Their Poll ratings have fallen to shocking lows. You would think
they would catch on--That message is not cutting it.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-08-09 03:00 PM
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6. Dude, don't you dare lay the abomination of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney at our feet.
THey created the mess this nation that the Obama administration is trying to sort out. Eight years of destabilizing entire regions of the world, of syphoning money out of the middle class and giving it to their cronies, of lying while looking people straight in the eyes. Don't you dare pull this bullshit argument. I voted against that cretin twice, having read about him and his character in in the 1970s. He was and always will be a self-absorbed bully. Cheney is a hangover from the Nixon era and I'm old enough to remember the disregard for people's rights and the law that adminstration held.

Perhaps you can figure out, in all your infinite certitude that deficit spending is an ill, how to restore America's middle class and to wrench the ill gotten gains of those you supported so fervently from them. We have come to the end of all things. If the disregard for all levels of society the Rs hold stubbornly too continues and we don't stand up for fruits to our labor the you will not have yours either.

Now pitch in and help instead of continuing to try to sell the nation off to the highest bidder and aiding its decline.
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dgillam1975 Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-09-09 10:31 AM
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7. You missed the pont
Im simply asking after 6 years of debates and discussions, how changing the party justifies the same actions "of syphoning money out of the middle class and giving it to their cronies, of lying while looking people straight in the eyes"?

How is the "Murtha international" any different from the bridge to nowhere? Oh yeah, its a Democrat project, so somehow that makes it better. :roll:
Obama's own toadies are admitting that the middle class will be getting a tax hike. Perhaps you dont remember last weeks argument between Stepanopolis and Obama on that?
Obama won an election on having a plan to end the financial crisis, and so far that plan is to continue with the same things his party says caused the crisis.

You want me to help by supporting what Ive been told for 8 years was wrong. You want me to ignore everything Democrats have said about finance and economics since 2000. If Obama's plan sounds just like Bush's, why shouldnt I question? More importantly, Why shouldnt you? If the only difference between the RNC and the DNC is who's receiving the bribes, how is it an improvement?

Obama's "plan" so far can be summed up from a different Bush's campaign slogan "Stay the course".

So, in verbiage that seems so popular here, "WTF?"
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