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8. We need republicans...
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 08:04 PM
Feb 2013

We just need for them to not be in control of the government.

They are the opposition party. Without them; there is nobody to bring up the bad points to any kind of government expansion. We need to have about 40 republican senators and a little less than half of the house filled with republicans.

It doesn't hurt anything to have a republican president every once in a while as long as they don't control congress.

We have a lot of stuff to turn around so democrats need to control the government for a couple of years, but we need an opposition party.

Once the republicans lost control of the government after the Great Depression; they didn't get it back (except a short stint) for a really long time.

The more they argue for this austerity bullshit; the longer they will be out of power - once they've lost power. They aren't going anywhere; they are just going to be out of power.

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