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DallasNE

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9. McConnell/Boehner Tied To Obstruction

Reply to herding cats (Original post)

Mon Feb 9, 2015, 03:18 PM

Feb 2015

And that is the opposite of governing so of course when the rubber meets the road they are completely clueless on how to govern making this outcome totally predictable. But thanks to Citizens United American is now an oligarchy and this is the result.

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