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mtasselin

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28. gang

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2013, 07:48 AM

Jun 2013

If this gang of what ever number are suppose to be the intellectuals of the senate that shows you how much trouble this country is really in. When you can not get elected people in the same room because they don't want people to know that they are compromising we have the wrong elected people, time to vote their asses out.

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"I am goddamn sick and fking tired of gangs of five, or eight, or 22, meeting in secret" [View all] kpete Jun 2013 OP

K&R Solly Mack Jun 2013 #1

All these "gangs of" whatever charlyvi Jun 2013 #2

America newfie11 Jun 2013 #3

I think they should settle it like men. With finger-snapping, dance fighting, and a Bernstien score Erose999 Jun 2013 #4

(: ColumbusLib Jun 2013 #32

Good one! maddiemom Jun 2013 #33

The whole piece is worth the read BrotherIvan Jun 2013 #5

No, because it doesn't work if people find out they're being played for fools.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2013 #15

Amen... kentuck Jun 2013 #6

Agreed kenfrequed Jun 2013 #7

Exactly clyrc Jun 2013 #8

It's all about this man... KansDem Jun 2013 #9

"Recall the famous Doonesebury cartoon..." KansDem Jun 2013 #10

I vividly remember that strip... RevStPatrick Jun 2013 #12

I grew up with Vietnam- and Watergate-era Doonesbury. SomeGuyInEagan Jun 2013 #14

Yep. In American political parlance, secret = secret from the American people. Laelth Jun 2013 #16

Voice votes, too ... they are gutless and cowardly, IMO. n/t SomeGuyInEagan Jun 2013 #11

Can you handle the truth? rhett o rick Jun 2013 #13

k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Jun 2013 #17

It's amazing BillyRibs Jun 2013 #18

Oh. Kay. "It wasn't secret...I said, 'Look, here come the bombers.'" Hekate Jun 2013 #19

This is why I support whistleblowers coming out with information,legally or not. mbperrin Jun 2013 #20

This rhymes with Assange's thinking: the more secrecy, the higher the chances that snot Jun 2013 #21

True. avaistheone1 Jun 2013 #22

Tell me about it...Ugh! Kahuna Jun 2013 #23

Anything our government does secretly or keeps secret Mr. Evil Jun 2013 #24

Incumbents must be re-elected Babel_17 Jun 2013 #25

hell yeah. sick of lies, sick of crap imposed on people covertly, sick of the whole sick mess. HiPointDem Jun 2013 #26

k&r n/t RainDog Jun 2013 #27

gang mtasselin Jun 2013 #28

Gangs is what they are, organized criminal outfits. Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #29

Out. Of. The. Park. nt hatrack Jun 2013 #30

How should it be done then? treestar Jun 2013 #31

Totally Agree pmorlan1 Jun 2013 #34