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Linc13

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16. Buisness as usual...

Reply to mythology (Reply #13)

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:50 AM

Jan 2017

has gotten us so much in government this go around? "Tortoise and the Hare" is just a cute children's story. Not a blueprint for success. Politics is a contact sport. Having a ruthless streak and a killer instinct is how the Republicans keep getting the house and senate.

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