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Re: BEST. PHOTOBOMB. EVER.

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Econoline wrote:BEST. PHOTOBOMB. EVER.
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News photo: Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) casts his vote Tuesday.
Yes, that fellow in the back certainly fits my image of the archetypal Democratic voter...

He must have stopped off to vote right before his surgery shift at the hospital... 8-)
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Re: Big Night For The GOP

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Some Republican words of wisdom on last night's results:

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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/02/ ... tions.html

Altruistic yet sinister. For all the good they do the brothers Koch political aspirations are vexing, almost maniacal. I wonder what they want in return?
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Re: Big Night For The GOP

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You don't appear to understand the meaning of the expression "sour grapes". It comes from one of Aesop's' fables. A fox, after trying and trying to reach a bunch of delicious- looking grapes gives up and says "well they were probably sour anyway".

That does to apply here at all. I would prefer it had gone the other way.

schadenfreude is more like it.

You really should read more.

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:lol: :funee:
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Re: Big Night For The GOP

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Maybe the senate now (well come January) can look at the 300 some odd bills the house passed that Reid refused to bring to a vote.

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oldr_n_wsr wrote:Maybe the senate now (well come January) can look at the 300 some odd bills the house passed that Reid refused to bring to a vote.

285 of them were attempts to repeal Obamacare. Now that it is a huge success they are mooted. The rest were tax cuts for the Koch brothers and bills to deport more children.


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Re: Big Night For The GOP

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rubato wrote:
oldr_n_wsr wrote:Maybe the senate now (well come January) can look at the 300 some odd bills the house passed that Reid refused to bring to a vote.

285 of them were attempts to repeal Obamacare. Now that it is a huge success they are mooted. The rest were tax cuts for the Koch brothers and bills to deport more children.


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Got links to what they were?

Here are a few that are not about repealing obama care.
http://kelly.house.gov/house-passed-job ... ion-senate

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"352 bills are sitting on Harry Reid’s desk, awaiting action.

"98 percent of them passed with bipartisan support -- Republicans and Democrats working together to pass legislation.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... hing-sena/
Dems are voting to repeal Obamacare?
"50 percent of the bills passed unanimously, with no opposition.
"70 percent of the bills passed with two-thirds support in the House.
"And over 55 bills were introduced by Democrats.

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oldr_n_wsr wrote:Maybe the senate now (well come January) can look at the 300 some odd bills the house passed that Reid refused to bring to a vote.
299 of them being attempts to repeal The affordable care act :roll: :roll:
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Posting without reading much lately, Guin? :lol:
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:
Minimum wage increases passed in: Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska, South Dakota. "Personhood" failed in Colorado. Mandatory prescription birth control coverage passed in Illinois, and paid sick time was passed in Massachusetts.
Yeah, the mob has finally figured out they can vote themselves money. (The personhood thing seems rather silly to me; probably deserved to fail).

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Been there done that MGM. That's why I'm elected library trustee in my town, to be sure it doesn't happen again. Maybe you should run if there's an equivalent position in your town. I bet there's no natural born citizen requirement… :)

ETA: I thought I posted my earlier comment this morning, prior to rubato's contribution. So no, I didn't read it.
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Jeremiah (31:29) and Ezekiel (18:2) (KJV): "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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ETA: I thought I posted my earlier comment this morning, prior to rubato's contribution. So no, I didn't read it.
Guin, I believe Meade is referring to oldr's sourced breakdown of the bills that were passed, (which quite effectively refutes rube's post) not rube's post.
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Re: LJ. GLOAT NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE

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RayThom wrote:Too many non-thinking, short-sighted, voters out there expect instant gratification.
The Democrats screwed up! Better elect the Republicans!

The Republicans screwed up! Better elect the Democrats!

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Re: Big Night For The GOP

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oldr_n_wsr wrote:Got links to what they were?
All I found was this: The House has voted 54 times in four years on Obamacare. With some of the bills having passed through the Senate and signed by the President. So there's probably not a whole lot of Obamacare bills sitting on Reid's desk.

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Lord Jim wrote:
ETA: I thought I posted my earlier comment this morning, prior to rubato's contribution. So no, I didn't read it.
Guin, I believe Meade is referring to oldr's sourced breakdown of the bills that were passed, (which quite effectively refutes rube's post) not rube's post.
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