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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:01 PM Original message |
Teabaggers gutted the Town budget this weekend and their reasons |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. "Government is bad and can not be trusted" ... |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. What a good point! I am seeing so much red that I can't see the simple facts. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I point this out to every moderate Republican I know ... they have no response to it. |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. As a town leader, he is bad and cannot be trusted. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Exactly. |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Damn. This oughta be a campaign ad. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. PLEASE, feel free to use this line of argument ... I want this stated over and over!! |
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du_da (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:48 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Be careful what you ask for |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:50 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Why is "government intervention" the only means to enhance "minimal exposure"? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Can't an authentic standards-based co-operative market do this? nt |
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du_da (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 07:06 PM Response to Reply #20 |
34. My phrasing may be off a bit |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 08:12 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. My apologies! I was thinking in terms of risk management. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:58 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I have no fear of that at all. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:01 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. It absolutely really is easy to refute. Rotten to the core. Full of mediocrity and dishonesty, |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. So let's put the people who hate our government in charge!!! |
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du_da (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 07:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. From their perspective it is a necessary evil |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 04:46 PM Response to Reply #36 |
51. They are an ignorant minority. |
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du_da (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 07:11 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. You are missing the key to their arguement. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 07:56 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Then why has Boehner been screaming "Where are the jobs!!!" at Obama. |
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du_da (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 12:10 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. They actually believe that government doesn't create worthwhile jobs. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 12:35 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Yup - teachers, firemen, police - all worthless jobs |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #45 |
52. OK, how about this argument, along those lines |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 05:17 PM Response to Reply #45 |
53. Then why demand that Obama provide jobs? |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 04:43 PM Response to Reply #23 |
50. The GOP's position is FALSE! nt |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:15 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. I mean, aren't you just PROOVING OP's point here by assuming that excellence cannot |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:18 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Nice way to say it .... when the right says the government can't ever work well ... |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:47 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. It's circular logic. Regulations proliferate in order to reduce legal exposure, so get rid of the |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
46. "Let the people who hate our governemnt run it" |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 05:18 PM Response to Reply #46 |
54. We (Fox News) just honored the Mythical Reagan, not the Actual Reagan. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Absolute fact + "Hire me at six figures a year + expenses, or at least high fives, but |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. An additional point about how "this job can never be done well . . ." is |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 10:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
41. where i live, it's |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 10:34 AM Response to Reply #1 |
42. Selfservatives (GOP/ Teabaggers) do one thing well: PROJECT |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
6. Where is this? Yikes! |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Yeah, where is this....is there a link to the local newspaper? |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
32. I don't want to say and make things worse than they already are. But |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. I can imagine. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. The entire concept is to get people into positions of power everywhere so that they can then prevent |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. P.S. I'm living where this is NOT a theoretical concept. I have experienced it directly and concrete |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 07:29 PM Response to Reply #10 |
37. You hit the nail on the head...gut public works and then give me |
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randr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
12. When the town faces the inevitable lawsuits ask him |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
14. Wow - I knew your neck of the woods was a hotbed of Republicans, |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. The only difference between a tea bagger and a repuke is the tea baggers say what they are |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:59 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. 1+ This and a certain tendency toward Populism are 2 reasons I think we should go after |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
16. I am so glad I live on the other side of the river. condolences. |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. You should already know that it is the lower income neighborhoods that won't get service |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
25. They are what they hate. |
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Generic Other (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
27. A h the good old days when small towns held a lottery in June |
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Sentath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 11:59 AM Response to Reply #27 |
43. John Barleycorn |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
31. (sigh) New Hampshire used to be such a model of old-fashioned Yankee values |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-07-11 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
40. Is there a travel agency that keeps track of these little Somalias? |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
44. So his government will provide for young, rich, Christians only. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
47. Small town politics, small teabagger minds |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-08-11 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
49. Incredible! nt |
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