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spanone

(135,636 posts)
Tue May 8, 2012, 03:38 PM May 2012

senator lugar will most likely be ousted from govt. for being somewhat bipartisan.

that's right...work with democrats, lose your job.

this is what politics have become.

i see no way out of this hole.

Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is under fire for supporting the $700 billion financial bailout passed in 2008, shepherding nuclear arms treaties through the Senate and voting for President Barack Obama’s two Supreme Court nominees.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-08/indiana-voters-to-decide-whether-to-retire-senator-lugar.html

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senator lugar will most likely be ousted from govt. for being somewhat bipartisan. (Original Post) spanone May 2012 OP
Well, there IS a way out. Elect solid Democratic super-majorities in both houses. ~nt 99th_Monkey May 2012 #1
well, that would do it, but it ain't gonna happen. spanone May 2012 #2
Never say never. Occupy the vote. ~nt 99th_Monkey May 2012 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author 99th_Monkey May 2012 #3
More that this is what the republican party is jp11 May 2012 #5

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jp11

(2,104 posts)
5. More that this is what the republican party is
Tue May 8, 2012, 04:41 PM
May 2012

bow to the tea bag nut jobs who don't want anything done if it isn't exactly on their terms. Cross the party line to have government do something like the jobs these people were elected to do and they cry foul.

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