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TheKentuckian

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13. They are doing it to themselves and are getting a fair piece of their way on the path

Reply to babylonsister (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 21, 2012, 02:26 AM

Dec 2012

They also appear to leaving behind a Democratic party largely devoted to their aims minus the bigotry and theocracy.

We also get to deal with their death throes for a generation or two so they aren't like to implode more than the average. They have been a debacle for decades, from at least Watergate on.

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Rachel Maddow: "This is how a negotiation works, right?" [View all] brooklynite Dec 2012 OP

All the freakin' naysayers, re: Obama, the GOP is imploding, babylonsister Dec 2012 #1

Is Nancy Pelosi lying then? She claims that the Chained CPI is not a benefit sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #2

Issue is NOT whether Chained CPI or any other component was "bad"... brooklynite Dec 2012 #3

I'm not following you. Everyone who has a brain cell functioning knows by now sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #4

It's not russian roulette if you know they will never pull the trigger, is it? X_Digger Dec 2012 #5

Please stop. Pelosi was quite clear in her statements this week. sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #8

She knew it would never be accepted, so could afford to give them the rope to hang themselves. n/t X_Digger Dec 2012 #10

Oh please, that is pure nonsense. sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #11

So your solution is that the President says what he'll agree to and nothing more? brooklynite Dec 2012 #6

Apparently you don't understand what I am proposing. I know it is sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #7

Politics has been around for about 3,000 years... brooklynite Dec 2012 #9

How defeatist. I thought we were electing a president who was NOT sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #12

They are doing it to themselves and are getting a fair piece of their way on the path TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #13