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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:14 PM
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Is it time yet ........... ??? ........... to drop this obsession with bullshit bipartisanship?
They will NEVER cross the aisle on a major issue like this. They didn't with FDR. They didn't with LBJ. And they will NEVER do it with BHO.

Can we just cut the shit and fast forward to a reconciliation vote and get it FUCKING DONE?
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:15 PM
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1. I thought it was time to do so during the passing of the stimulus bill, when
the house repukes were having a circle jerk over voting against it.
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:17 PM
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4. Agreed - it's way past time
and it's time for the Blue Dogs and DLC stooges to be slapped into line.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:26 PM
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11. Yeah .... we need a mad dog to do that
The mad dog was supposed to be Rahm Emanuel, but he turns out to be more blue dog than mad dog.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:16 PM
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2. i believe fuckchuck grassley is the last fucking straw
lyin sonofabitch....lyin to his constituents. lying to america.

slam it through

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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:16 PM
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3. If the Dems haven't learned by now, they never will.
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Joe the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 03:54 AM
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21. +1 n/t
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mth44sc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:17 PM
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5. Yep
design a good bill - pass it in the House and craft a way for it to be passed by 50 votes in the Senate. Make it good and pass it. Let them scream - they will anyway. When it works - everyone will win.

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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:18 PM
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6. Yo Stinky....the final straw is repug Grassely who President
Edited on Wed Aug-12-09 09:36 PM by MadMaddie
Obama praised and then Grassely jumped on the nut bandwagon.

Enough is enough!
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:24 PM
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9. Maddie, if that is not a big enough tipping point, I can't imagine what is.
That old fuck KNEW what as said about him. And he does that.

He's the poster child for repubican recalcitrance.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:38 PM
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14. Agreed!
I am actually pleased with Pelosi's performance lately. She is at least showing some backbone. Reid still sucks...we need to replace him with someone who has guts.
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Glorfindel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:19 PM
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7. Yes, it's time
n/t
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Union Yes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:22 PM
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8. It was time last November.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:25 PM
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10. Obama's "bipartisanship" play is just a front to look good for independents....and...
..to be able to say "I tried".



Don't read too much into it.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:30 PM
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12. I don't even think it needs to be stated, it just is.
If the Republicans want to participate they can, if they don't, fuck em.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:36 PM
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13. Way past time.
If ever there was a reason for this bullshit it was to convince the independents that we Democrats are willing to put the nation's governance about partisan politics. Enough already, they're convinced. Any moron can see the Republicans don't care about anything except getting 'their' country back.
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onestepforward Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:40 PM
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15. Yes. It is time to move forward. n/t
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jdross5 Donating Member (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 09:48 PM
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16. Bipartisanship, is an idea only.
Bipartisanship is a great idea. Our leaders working together on what would be best for the country. But its only an idea. We can see when it comes to major issues, each side stays on their side. There is a lot of debate and news but no progress in helping our nation. I am all for debate for different sides of an issue. Debate allows us to learn all aspects of and issue or idea. But if all we do is debate and not take action then our nation will never grow.

I hope some day we get leaders who understand this idea, embrace it, and become a strong leader!
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 10:15 PM
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17. If it isn't the time, then it never will be.
I'll say it again: You can't compromise with crazy.
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Juche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 10:44 PM
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18. Politically the GOP has everything to lose from effective health reform
If it works, it validates the concept of the welfare state and strong federal government so obviously the GOP is either going to try to derail it or water it down until it fails just so they can say 'see, government doesn't work'. I seriously hope Obama isn't naive enough to not realize this simple fact. I doubt he is, so I have no idea what this bipartisan obsession is about.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 01:42 AM
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19.  Bipartisanship is nothing but failure k*r in the extreme
It's a total bull shit excuse for not pursuing legitimate objectives.

It's a sign of weakness and inexperience.

It's capitulation to the party that deliberately and for it's own benefit drove this country down.

If I see any more if it, I'll realize that the party his lost for good.

Our leaders cannot grow a spine but they can sure act like they have one for a change. Won't cost 'em
a dime but it will do the country a lot of good.

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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 03:27 AM
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20. I won't vote for anyone else who is stupid enough to trust
people like Chuck Ghastly!

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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 06:56 PM
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22. What a loser he is!

"In the House bill, there is counseling for end of life,” Grassley said Wednesday during a town hall in Winterset, Iowa. “You have every right to fear. You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life, you should have done that 20 years before. Should not have a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on grandma."

Sen. Charles "Gastley" Grassley (R-IA)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/08/death_panels_debunked_sen_john.html

"How someone could take an end-of-life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You're putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don't know how that got so mixed up."

Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) author of the so called "death panel" provision.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/08/death_panels_debunked_sen_john.html

Grassley is a deliberate liar and he knows it. What a disgrace he is. I bet he loses. Iowans are too smart to
put up with someone they KNOW is lying.

:hi:
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