And Chad has never stretched the truth about anything...

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Careful, Burn. You don't want to be coordinating your party work with this "independent" group.

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It doesn't matter, Max: Burn is just a second-rate dogboy for the rich and infamous.

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This is exactly how the wealthy keep sincere left thought, much less policy, which would result in incredible conservative costs.. if we the U.S. could simply go to one of thirty five countries models who all provide care for all at half or better cost than us.

There is no candidate, no discussion, no air time allowed to break through the Blue Dog vs Republican agreement with this non fight/ issue.

Lose lose... we already lost America, Insurance and Pharma won... yet the theatre (commercials) and the ponzi assault continues.

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I think it's fair to tie all democrats to Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and President Obama. When Democratic leaders are telling their party's congress critters to vote for bills without knowing what's in them, there's a big problem. Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and President Obama with his secret Czars running the government (to bypass congressional approval process) have formed a very corrupt and secretive government. Assuming the Republicans take over the house, we can look forward to an era of more open government.

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Viper speaks out of the wrong orifice. That post is wrong on so many levels.

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" Assuming the Republicans take over the house, we can look forward to an era of more open government." Posted by Viper

Thanks for the humor, Viper. That's belly laugh funny!

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"Assuming the Republicans take over the house, we can look forward to an era of more open government."

Heh-heh...Good one.

So how's the weather on Neptune this morning?

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Republicans and open government go together like sardines and ice cream (a combo only a grouch could love)

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Isn't there rap just exposing Kerry as the fraud and traitor he was? Didn't they just expose Kerry for telling a bunch of lies about Vietnam vets, like claiming he saw them kill babies etc., which later turned out to be a complete lie? So I guess big libs have a problem with that, exposing big libs and their lies and double lives. Of course if they would have exposed a Wepublican, they would be considered heroes here.

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1. Is Viper's argument that the Republicans read these bills and voted against them based on sound policy reasons? I have a feeling they followed their party leaders...or just said "NO" since that is their M.O. lately.

2. I don't recall Causey casting a vote on any bill in the last 100 years. Why? HE WAS NOT A CONGRESSMAN!!!!!! Now, if they want to somehow draw some link between his boss and Pelosi, well, I'm so glad to hear that all these people out there regulary stand up to their bosses when told to do something they don't agree with and refuse to do it. What a great work environment you must have where you can tell the boss what you will and won't do!

Let's not confuse the orders of an employer with the positions of the employees.

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Yeah, one only has to review the 8 horrible Bush-Cheney years to see the prime example of the opposite of an open government....it is to laugh.

These Swift Boater are easy to nail. It's just this simple....if you have managed to inherit or steal thru cut-throat business practices, a great amount of money, enough to cover your bills for life 10 times over, you don't give a damn about anyone else. I got mine! Screw you!

They want to screw us because they hate taxes of any kind. Their pea-brains might have figured out how to amass a fortune, but they can't understand that no government on earth exists without taxing the population because government isn't a private business practicing free trade...so called free trade.

These Swift Boaters don't believe no man is an island. In their minds they are an island under attack by taxes which reduce their high profits. Simply...they just don't get how human life on this planet works and worse than that they don't care to learn....they don't want to hear about it. FK Us they sing out loudly!

What the rich folks need to figure out is that they have FK'ed Us to the point we can barely make it. Lower wages, and no benefits swell the ranks of those who need government benefits to merely survive. These rich folks view any non-millionaire as lazy and worthless, again because their profit oriented pea-brains have no cells of understanding or compassion. FK us!

A quick study of world history shows what happens when too many "small people" find it impossible to live on bread crumbs....REVOLUTION comes along and the first targets are the rich folks. Would the Koch brothers like to be drug out of their mansions and beat to bloody pulps.....I rather doubt it.

The real kicker are people like Viper, and the late Harvey-strangelove who probably don't have much more money than I do, but in their delusional world, they invent a connection to the very rich because they truly believe they'll be rich someday and will need the big tax cuts the top 2% enjoy....they'll need the Estate Tax dismantled to protect their mythical, future estate. They'll someday be just like the people who fund Bad Blanche & NOozman.....just hide and watch...they'll be richins someday. Fools!

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“Isn't there rap just exposing Kerry as the fraud and traitor he was?”

If there was you didn’t link to it so we both know better. That Kerry exposed war crimes committed by American soldiers in the Vietnam conflict is proven. That Kerry’s political opponents used nationalism & classism to shout down the truth with lies is also proven. That some are willing carry water for proven liars is something we see (on this blog) all the time.


“Only the winners decide what were war crimes.” Gary Wills

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Place a few fruit flies in a bottle with a layer of honey at the bottom, and they will quickly multiply to an enormous number, and then, just as quickly, die off to the very last, poisoned by their wastes. Similarly, add a few yeast cells to grape juice, seal the bottle, and the cells will consume the sugar and turn it into alcohol. When the alcohol rises to 12.5% it will kill off all the yeast, and the wine will be ready for the table.
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Fruit flies and yeast in a bottle are embarked upon suicidal endeavors. They can’t help it. They don’t know any better, lacking the cognitive equipment to “know” anything at all.
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Regarding the domestic and global economy, our leaders are steadfastly ignoring Herbert Stein’s law:

"That which can not go on forever, won’t.”
Wealth continues to “percolate up” from the producers of wealth to the owners of that wealth. Today, one third of the U.S. national wealth is owned by one-percent of the population.

The average Standard and Poors 500 CEO earns in half a day, more than his company’s median worker earns in an entire year. When, if ever, does this trend end? More in an hour? In a minute? Meanwhile, the super-rich pay a smaller fraction of their income in taxes than the average citizen – taxes that pay for the infrastructure, the courts, and the education of the workers upon which their wealth depends. Ever upward climbs the national debt. The Republican “solution” to the economic crisis? More of the same policies that precipitated the crash of August, 2008.

from, "Fruit Flies in a Bottle," by Ernest Partridge

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Not denying that Viet Nam saw war crimes on both sides, but the lies Kerry told were lies. He made up stuff about his fellow vets and war crimes that he lied about and actually did not witness. But I guess that is OK as long as he's a super bed wetting hyper New England lib. That would only be a scandal and important to you if he were a republican.

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Ironyman - I can't say why Republicans voted against the health care bill. There are many reasons. It could have been that they weren't given time to read the bill before the vote. Given that they were not allowed to participate in writing the bill, and they were excluded from making improvements, I can't imagine why it was so unpopular amond Republicans. They might be have been opposed to the Cornhusker kickback, and the bribes to Mary Landrieu, or even the bribes to john Kerry. It could have been the lack of cost containment. It could have been the money diverted from the American taxpayers to shore up union funds. They might even be wondering where in the constitution it gives the federal government the right to take over the health care system.

There are ample reasons to oppose the health care bill.

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To pit Republicans vs. Democrats disdain for closed governance the very day after Obama won a most egregious argument in ninth circuit court... giving him executive abilities (that would make Cheney have a heart battery acid wrenching orgasm) to commit crimes (torture, kidnapping, murder) or cover them up under the guise of secrecy.. just goes beyond the pail on so many levels.

My country has gone insane.

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Whistle Blower against Republicans, big oil or coal company = Hero

Whistle Blower against fraudulent lieing hyper bed wetting libs = Villian

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Unfortunately, ActMax, that damn health bill has over 200 amendments in it proposed by the Republicants and allowed by the Democrats who didn't have the guts to take out every amendment made by anyone who actually voted against the final bill. Maybe we actually could have gotten real healthcare and not more Lobby-proposed garbage.

The only way that we will get cost-effective healthcare is single payer and everyone who actually thinks (present company excepted) knows that. Until then, we will continue to pay double what the most effective countries do and still have a #37 level system. Great if you live near a big med center and have money and an infant mortality rate equivalent to middle Africa if you leave in rural areas. Even in North America, our infant mortality is third behind Canada and Pierre % Miquelon (a former French island off the Canadian coast).

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According to Gallup, the Swift-Boaters at American Crossroads need to buy some
more points so get ready for BIG BLITZ of secretly funded "information ads" :

"PRINCETON, NJ -- A majority of Americans favor letting the tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration expire for the wealthy. While 37% support keeping the tax cuts for all Americans, 44% want them extended only for those making less than $250,000 and 15% think they should expire for all taxpayers.

These results are based on an Aug. 27-30 USA Today/Gallup poll. The fate of the 2001 and 2003 federal income tax cuts that were a centerpiece of Bush administration policy could be a significant campaign issue this fall. The tax cuts are set to expire after this year unless Congress votes to extend them. Congress plans to take up the issue next week when it returns to session."

http://www.gallup.com/poll/142940/American…

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