WOW!!!!! ! What a helluva Lameduck session!!!
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Wed Dec-22-10 03:26 PM
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WOW!!!!! ! What a helluva Lameduck session!!!
Edited on Wed Dec-22-10 03:27 PM by nmbluesky
Repeal DADT, 9/11 health care, and START and more....
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Wed Dec-22-10 03:29 PM
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1. This is the damndest thing I've ever seen.
Seven weeks ago the Democratic Party was over. Today we've won fight after fight and just as we move into a year where the GOP will take the House, I feel more optimistic then I have since the third week in January, 2009.
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Wed Dec-22-10 03:50 PM
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6. I don't think the Democratic Party was about to be over;
The blogs and pundits were just convincing themselves it was, proving that those outside the process can only speculate.
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Wed Dec-22-10 04:02 PM
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9. not quite ;) 7 weeks ago the Jane Hamshers were saying the Party was over.
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Wed Dec-22-10 03:33 PM
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2. I think we need to call this session something other than "Lameduck"
Maybe the "Fire under their ass" session 'cause they know much won't get done over the next 2 years.
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Wed Dec-22-10 03:43 PM
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3. Well this congress didn't go out with a whimper--that is for sure.
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Wed Dec-22-10 04:22 PM
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11. It went out with a BANG instead of a whimper.
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Wed Dec-22-10 03:44 PM
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4. The real lame duck session starts after the new year.
I hope average people and the MSM bother to notice why.
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Wed Dec-22-10 03:46 PM
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Wed Dec-22-10 03:58 PM
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7. That would be the lame ass congress.
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Wed Dec-22-10 05:06 PM
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Wed Dec-22-10 04:00 PM
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8. Anything can pass as long as it doesn't help the economy.
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Wed Dec-22-10 04:21 PM
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10. Noticed that, did you?
Gives me an uneasy feeling as well. Great progress is being made on social issues, but I have to wonder how much of that is hand-waving to take the spotlight off of Powers that would rather pull strings in obscurity.
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Wed Dec-22-10 04:30 PM
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13. A lot of what has been passed this session will bring the equivalent joy of NAFTA
to the American people when the party is over in a year. Then people will realize that all that glistens isn't gold. And short term "feel good" fixes do not solve long-term problems and often make them worse. Oh and big oops! we have taken down the wall between Social Security and the General Fund - well then it's time to CHOP, CHOP, CHOP IT!
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Wed Dec-22-10 04:22 PM
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12. Just shows that people were voting for purely political reasons before the election. nm
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Wed Dec-22-10 04:31 PM
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14. And to think.. it only cost us 1 trillion in ransom.
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Wed Dec-22-10 05:15 PM
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16. I am SO glad that Harry Reid was re-elected.
Thanks to Hispanic brothers and sisters who helped him get there. I hope this small taste of power of the ballot box has been motivating.
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Wed Dec-22-10 05:44 PM
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17. What if Dems had been like this for the past two years?
We would have a public option AND Employee Free Choice!
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Wed Dec-22-10 10:04 PM
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Wed Dec-22-10 10:36 PM
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Good job all around. :thumbsup:
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