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randome

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21. Getting what you wish for is not always a good thing, 'tis true.

Reply to a geek named Bob (Reply #20)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 09:06 AM

Dec 2012

But I'm still rooting for the collapse of the GOP. It won't ever be 'over' in the sense of a firm timeline we can all point to before historians research it, but before it reaches its zenith, I think we'll see some Republicans only too happy to vote with Democrats against the Tea Party faction.

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Eric Cantor is the Speaker of the House...GOP Civil War Time!!!! [View all] BrentWil Dec 2012 OP

I expected the GOP to go down... just not this fast... a geek named Bob Dec 2012 #1

Either the sane ones win the war... BrentWil Dec 2012 #2

ARE there any sane ones left? n/t a geek named Bob Dec 2012 #8

I've been saying for some time they will go down just as the Soviet Union went down. randome Dec 2012 #16

times like these... a geek named Bob Dec 2012 #20

Getting what you wish for is not always a good thing, 'tis true. randome Dec 2012 #21

When the GOP has fewer than a 30% share of the house, and the same in the senate... a geek named Bob Dec 2012 #22

A 30% share sounds like a good time to ring the death knell. randome Dec 2012 #23

I'll make a prediction that the remnants of the Tea-GOP-crazy coalition a geek named Bob Dec 2012 #24

If Cantor takes speakership, rustydog Dec 2012 #3

That's why it could easily go the other way BrentWil Dec 2012 #6

Cantor mimi85 Dec 2012 #19

There will be no moderate kwolf68 Dec 2012 #4

Should rephrase .... BrentWil Dec 2012 #5

That is what I'm saying! TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #11

I think its Paulie Boy. I think he has the nuts lined up Tutonic Dec 2012 #7

I would love for Democrats to take the House back but can we stand two years of Idiot Cant'er? Thinkingabout Dec 2012 #9

President Cantor... BrentWil Dec 2012 #13

may it be long and bloody. with few survivors. lastlib Dec 2012 #10

Yes. R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2012 #12

I just hope the tea party loses. NT BrentWil Dec 2012 #14

Sorry, Laguardia's been dead for years. leftlibdem420 Dec 2012 #15

Howard Cosell's ghost: Down goes Boehner! Down goes Boehner! Down goes Boehner! nt PCIntern Dec 2012 #17

The pukes have the gavel. That means that no reasonable legislation will come to a vote amandabeech Dec 2012 #18