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2016 Postmortem

flpoljunkie

(26,184 posts) Fri Jan 17, 2014, 02:46 PM Jan 2014

Luckovich: Dumped

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Luckovich: Dumped (Original Post) flpoljunkie Jan 2014 OP

I guess "Thrown off a bridge" is the new "Thrown under the bus"? Wounded Bear Jan 2014 #1

And Christie appears to be next! marble falls Jan 2014 #2

Kick for today's failed cloture votes in the Senate to extend unemployment benefits flpoljunkie Feb 2014 #3

Precisely. CBHagman Feb 2014 #4

Wounded Bear

(58,647 posts)

1. I guess "Thrown off a bridge" is the new "Thrown under the bus"?

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 04:35 PM

Jan 2014

Appropriate toon, though.

marble falls

(57,077 posts)

2. And Christie appears to be next!

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 11:13 PM

Jan 2014

flpoljunkie

(26,184 posts)

3. Kick for today's failed cloture votes in the Senate to extend unemployment benefits

Reply to flpoljunkie (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 06:18 PM

Feb 2014

CBHagman

(16,984 posts)

4. Precisely.

Reply to flpoljunkie (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 6, 2014, 11:42 PM

Feb 2014

And the headlines will read Unemployment benefits extension fails in the Senate, when most people won't understand that it's worse than that: It wasn't majority rule, it was a filibuster threat, and moreover all but four GOP senators refused to bring the bill up for a vote.

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