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Martin Eden

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86. Will his head will retract into his tortoise shell, out of emabarrassment?

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 08:14 AM

Dec 2012

Nah, MConnell and his cohorts have done so much they should be embarrassed and ashamed about, it's pretty obvious that any form of critical introspection simply is not in their nature.

Come to think of it, can any other type of person actually exist in today's Republican Party?

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