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mtnsnake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:32 AM Original message |
I'm tired of the media & a few vocal Democrats, too, who are telling liberals they need to grow up |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. Boehner will not use the word. He knows it is toxic among |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
2. Agreed. I will not compromise with pedophiles, Nazis, or anyone doing harm to my country. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 04:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
40. The Repubs are joking - JOKING - about holding the country hostage and CNN attacks those |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
3. What some consider "being taken to the cleaners" others consider |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:52 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Well yes, But when very basic compromise is taken off the table preemptively, it is surrender |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 10:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
46. And yet, the right wing was screaming bloody murder about the final bill. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. Well then Gibbs was a fool, because the standards that they |
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Scurrilous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. No one likes a whiner. n/t |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 07:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
42. And "whiny babies" are disliked even more |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
5. Let's make this point perfectly clear, there have been NO |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 03:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
62. but compromise is what they are calling it and what they continue to fall for |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
6. Especially given that it was the "liberals" who were right about the issues |
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swilton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
7. Thank you! |
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geckosfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
8. Pleeez - sell out your soul to greed and corruption so we have some company in hell. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
11. What they mean is "give up" but they don't want to say it. n/t |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
12. Fareed Zakaria is basically a Neo-Con (neo-Liberal) Corporatist. He is NOT a liberal |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. He is a pragmatist, he pointed out many truths that are painful to deal with |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. 535 to 1 |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:27 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. We would have single payer if it wasn't for resistance in congress |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. Yep ... |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 08:31 PM Response to Reply #20 |
35. Requiring that we continue to purchase over priced products that we won't be able to use from |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 08:13 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I don't disagree on the points ... |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 08:39 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. He could have vetoed it |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 09:02 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Your kidding, right? |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 10:06 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. "Preserving the private delivery system" |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 01:02 PM Response to Reply #45 |
51. This is the problem with politics |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 08:56 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. I find it amazing that anyone considers this forced support of a system |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 10:21 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. I bet the cancer survivor looking for private coverage would disagree with you |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 10:50 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. I know someone in that situation |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 11:55 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Sadly, you don't even realize you proved my point |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 07:41 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. That change will not make a difference |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-19-11 01:51 PM Response to Reply #35 |
61. the devil is in the details |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 11:51 AM Response to Reply #35 |
64. what part of, the votes weren't there don't you understand? ppl act as if the congress would |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:42 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. If you are a liberal, I have one basic alternative way of looking at these things |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. He's a fucking establishment PROPAGANDIST who defends Corporate Globalism. |
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Fruittree (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 04:58 AM Response to Reply #14 |
50. Agree |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-17-11 01:07 AM Response to Reply #14 |
57. Bullshit |
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mtnsnake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:13 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I never said he was, & it doesn't matter what he is |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:37 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Well it does matter, although I agree with your basic point |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
13. Fareed Zakaria, Spokesperson for the Global Elite |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. However, he knows who runs the world and how its going to work in reality nt |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Yes, I guess he does, since he is a vested part of that elite. n/t |
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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Yes, but marginally. Journalists aren't that much in the elite nt |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. I think his movement within a host of the most notable power circles |
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Maven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 03:55 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. No he knows his elitist AGENDA. Stop equating people like him with the "realist" perspective |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
16. The MSM has an agenda, |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-23-11 10:17 AM Response to Reply #16 |
63. a free market press that awards those who attrack advertising dollars |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
25. Fareed strongly supports conservative neo-liberal economics. He used to be a Republican |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 01:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. Most pundits are establishment tools. |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:25 AM Response to Reply #39 |
49. you know I used to wonder where on earth right-wingers got the idea tha the media was liberal |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
26. The problem is that some will find fault |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Yeah, I guess not having that last 2% of what they wanted really upset the poor dears |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. That's about it. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
27. Zakaria is a typical establishment Globalist Neo-Liberal Corporatist. |
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amb123 (764 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
32. Compromise = Liberals Lose |
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Fearless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-14-11 04:24 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. +1 |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 10:48 PM Response to Reply #32 |
47. "against the encroachments of aggregated wealth"? |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
37. Zakaria's comments infuriated me... |
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Vattel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-15-11 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
41. Why is it so hard for people to understand |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-24-11 08:09 AM Response to Reply #41 |
65. in so much as the strategy motivated by a necessity to reach a compromise with the |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
48. Me, too. Tired of projection in general |
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sudopod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-16-11 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
52. You just don't understand how important it is to stop the Communists in Vietnam. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 07:00 AM Response to Original message |
59. Well that is usually a sign that someone needs to grow up |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 09:04 AM Response to Reply #59 |
60. You're right, everyone should just shut up and be happy with what Washington gives us |
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