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TheKentuckian

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14. Compromise buys nothing other than frustration on our end.

Reply to nanabugg (Original post)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 05:28 PM

Sep 2012

The thing that bugs is people actually expecting some fruit from this barren fruit and actually playing upset when things come out EXACTLY as any honest observer of our politics would expect.

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Did anyone catch this little nugget tucked inside Clinton's discussion on welfare reform? [View all] nanabugg Sep 2012 OP

Yep. I caught it. PDJane Sep 2012 #1

I wish Obama would double down on this point tonight and make an ad thereafter to play behind the nanabugg Sep 2012 #4

K&R nt avebury Sep 2012 #2

I noted that. Kind of puts the Republicans in the position, AGAIN, of bitching about compliance with patrice Sep 2012 #3

It takes a lot of brass to do that n/t dragonlady Sep 2012 #9

That little nugget needs to be repeated over and over and over and over. SunSeeker Sep 2012 #5

I agree. And they should name names about who asked for the waivers first. nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #6

Do you know who they were? Let's name them here! SunSeeker Sep 2012 #8

Don't know but the fact-checkers must be busy. I wish Obama would name them tonight. nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #10

It was Sandoval (Nevada) and Herbert (Utah). SunSeeker Sep 2012 #13

Well, a certain governor of Massachusetts asked for one back in 2005: beac Sep 2012 #18

Could the 20% have been negotiable? BadgerKid Sep 2012 #7

let's keep it going and maybe someone will give the names. nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #11

It was Republican Governors Brian Sandoval (Nevada) and Gary Herbert (Utah). SunSeeker Sep 2012 #16

The ramifications will be totally lost on the dittoheads Brother Buzz Sep 2012 #12

Doesn't mean we shouldn't tell them. nt nanabugg Sep 2012 #15

Go ahead and try. I gave up trying to communicate with them years ago Brother Buzz Sep 2012 #17

Compromise buys nothing other than frustration on our end. TheKentuckian Sep 2012 #14

Begins to sound like a setup, mykpart Sep 2012 #19

I don't think it was a set up but something odd happened. I work in the "welfare" office Hamlette Sep 2012 #20