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8. Maybe all those folks who are calling for them to run in 2016...

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2014, 10:37 AM

Jan 2014

would have better insight. By this time in an anti Clinton thread there would be fifty posts telling us all how different they are. I can almost hear crickets!
Neither one is actually running for president and they still had to compromise their vote and turn their back on the working poor in order to survive. I guess that's politics.

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Because sometimes you have to beachbum bob Jan 2014 #1

So yaaaay! That will make hungry people feel sooooo much better!!!!!!!! djean111 Jan 2014 #3

when Obama compromises.... dennis4868 Jan 2014 #7

You called that right, unfortunately. randome Jan 2014 #13

Why is it that the compromisers are ALWAYS the Democrats? LiberalEsto Jan 2014 #17

The Repukes did compromise. The Democratic controlled Senate approved $4 Billion in cuts. The okaawhatever Jan 2014 #24

Because, perhaps, the whole thing is just a kabuki play. or chess. or some other shit. djean111 Jan 2014 #2

Let me just say ProSense Jan 2014 #5

Oh, I understand the question. djean111 Jan 2014 #6

"Looks to me like progressive have to go along with what are essentially Third Way policies." ProSense Jan 2014 #11

Hey, my choices are that either they had to compromise on hungry people, djean111 Jan 2014 #12

That's easy, they are adults. nt Progressive dog Jan 2014 #4

Maybe all those folks who are calling for them to run in 2016... Walk away Jan 2014 #8

Because no perfect bill has ever been presented for a vote? MineralMan Jan 2014 #9

That's what I am thinking. HappyMe Jan 2014 #10

Me too. Check out who voted against it (from the OP's link) PotatoChip Jan 2014 #14

There's the answer right there. HappyMe Jan 2014 #16

Yeah, and it's interesting the two Democratic Senators from RI voted no. n/t ProSense Jan 2014 #18

I lived in RI for about a year HappyMe Jan 2014 #22

Cruz and Cornyn voted against it so it's TBF Jan 2014 #35

most interesting. n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2014 #38

Bookmarking for future reference. JNelson6563 Jan 2014 #15

They had boxes in their garage and their abandoned girlfriends are pole dancers? nt bemildred Jan 2014 #19

Or maybe they're Paulite racists. ProSense Jan 2014 #20

Exactly. Must be something like that. nt bemildred Jan 2014 #23

Maybe Putin made them do it. JoePhilly Jan 2014 #21

LOL! n/t ProSense Jan 2014 #27

I hear he has remote nipples that spy all over America. n/t Whisp Jan 2014 #29

Did anyone bother reading the articles? Here's the money shot: okaawhatever Jan 2014 #25

Because we stupidly allow all sorts of irrelevant bad stuff to get tacked onto good bills Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2014 #26

Kick...nt SidDithers Jan 2014 #28

Interesting. nt Cali_Democrat Jan 2014 #30

How would you have voted? Union Scribe Jan 2014 #31

You first. n/t ProSense Jan 2014 #32

... Rex Jan 2014 #33

;) adirondacker Jan 2014 #39

Why can't you ever give a straight answer? nt Union Scribe Jan 2014 #36

Why ProSense Jan 2014 #37

They certainly are earning our votes. nt Demo_Chris Jan 2014 #34