canuckledragger
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Thu Dec-01-11 04:24 PM
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| 10. I believe what this does.. |
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..is make it that much harder for anyone who wants to run that doesn't have deep pockets or corporate funding for their campaigns
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| -House votes to end public financing of presidential races |
sinkingfeeling |
Dec-01-11 03:33 PM |
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They want to make it cheaper to buy the elections. |
RC |
Dec-01-11 03:50 PM |
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Well, the gloves are off now... No more pretense... Good for the narrow DP Senate majority. |
freshwest |
Dec-01-11 04:20 PM |
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I thought money was speech? Why is the Rethug House limiting my right to speak? |
No Elephants |
Dec-01-11 03:53 PM |
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No presidential candidate is going to accept the matching funds anymore |
Yupster |
Dec-01-11 10:52 PM |
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You are wrong--and selective--on the facts. Obama did not promise unconditionally to accept |
No Elephants |
Dec-02-11 07:48 AM |
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The Republicans are giving us a preview |
Proud Liberal Dem |
Dec-01-11 03:56 PM |
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You are 100% correct...Look at their... |
SkyDaddy7 |
Dec-01-11 04:17 PM |
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Gingrich IS scary. Very definitely! |
Proud Liberal Dem |
Dec-01-11 04:25 PM |
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Gingrich wants to kill the CBO so the GOP can make even more stuff up |
high density |
Dec-01-11 11:11 PM |
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Children are afraid of clowns--and also of people who want them to work as school janitors. |
No Elephants |
Dec-02-11 07:52 AM |
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Absolutely agree - the hand writing is on the wall. |
jwirr |
Dec-01-11 05:26 PM |
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Now that the Supreme Court gave corporations Carte Blanche buying... |
orpupilofnature57 |
Dec-01-11 04:04 PM |
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What savings?? to go to deficit reduction. Assholes. FoxHoles. nm |
rhett o rick |
Dec-01-11 04:06 PM |
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Corporate owned elections only now. Friggin' thieving bastards. nt |
valerief |
Dec-01-11 04:09 PM |
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Little known provision: from this point forward, only people ... |
Scuba |
Dec-01-11 04:12 PM |
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I believe what this does.. |
canuckledragger |
Dec-01-11 04:24 PM |
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My 5 year old great grand daughter was trying to walk backward |
jwirr |
Dec-01-11 05:25 PM |
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Thing is, they not only walk backward, they get about half the U.S. to follow them. |
No Elephants |
Dec-02-11 07:56 AM |
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How about voting to end ALL funding of Presidential Elections. |
AlbertCat |
Dec-01-11 05:33 PM |
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Brilliant, but the Rethugs would probably find a way to circumvent it anyway. |
No Elephants |
Dec-02-11 07:57 AM |
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...Which is why we all need to thank Harry Reid and the Dem-controlled Senate. |
sofa king |
Dec-01-11 06:17 PM |
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Maybe we even have to thank the dreaded filibuster rules because I bet some so-called Dems |
No Elephants |
Dec-02-11 08:02 AM |
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The problem is, we need the filibuster more than they. |
sofa king |
Dec-03-11 08:53 AM |
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We don't need to end public financing - we must enhance it. |
blueclown |
Dec-01-11 06:19 PM |
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Obama didn't accept public financing in 08 after he said he would for one good reason |
Yupster |
Dec-01-11 10:56 PM |
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McCain was not abiding by the rules, so Obama had no obligation to accept public funding. |
No Elephants |
Dec-02-11 08:03 AM |
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Obama's offer to accept public financing was contingent upon his opponent's doing the same. |
No Elephants |
Dec-02-11 08:06 AM |
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They are doing this to spite OWS. |
alfredo |
Dec-01-11 06:24 PM |
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Lie, cheat, steal, kill, blame, pollute, rewrite, fool, trick, abandon, neglect, ignore |
lindysalsagal |
Dec-01-11 08:44 PM |
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I'm so sorry America. I'm so sorry you are going through this. The GOP are a bunch of sick dogs. |
applegrove |
Dec-01-11 09:59 PM |
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"You're going the wrong way!" |
RUMMYisFROSTED |
Dec-02-11 07:19 AM |
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K & R! |
lonestarnot |
Dec-02-11 08:55 AM |
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next step: a law allowing only corporations |
Betty |
Dec-02-11 04:28 PM |
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