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Hortensis

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25. I didn't assume that about you, Unblock, your post seemed decent.
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 01:36 PM
Oct 2017

it's just on the list because some here, believe it or not, do. They don't like that word and usually avoid spelling out any secret, when-all-else-fails wishes, but when all the competent, principled, legal maneuvers, clever strategies, constant messages to the electorate, and grueling hard work of our Democratic warriors are dismissed with contempt, copying the corruption of the right is what is left.

My tendency is to assume that the noisiest, most contemptuous complainers about the party now were also among the noisest, most contemptuous less than a year ago now. 2018 will be a second, lesser chance for any who acted out their shabby attitudes on election day to belatedly join the fight and start restoring our democratic laws and systems.

The complainers need to remember that we have the demographic advantage now that forces the Republicans to cheat or lose. We don't need corrupt tactics, we just need people to vote.

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Why do Democrats need 218 votes to pass a bill... yallerdawg Oct 2017 #1
Just 50. Pence is the tie breaker Lochloosa Oct 2017 #3
Yes. yallerdawg Oct 2017 #4
The reconcilliation rules can only be used 3 times (for different things) per fiscal year BumRushDaShow Oct 2017 #8
Yallerdawg, our people don't need to "take notes" from Hortensis Oct 2017 #9
i suspect yallerdawg knows that, and the point was that we need to take the gloves off. unblock Oct 2017 #11
Gloves off? Why? Did we misplace some extra votes in them? Hortensis Oct 2017 #15
Why would think I'm advocating corruption?? unblock Oct 2017 #20
I didn't assume that about you, Unblock, your post seemed decent. Hortensis Oct 2017 #25
You know what's insulting? yallerdawg Oct 2017 #13
With information will come respect, no matter how Hortensis Oct 2017 #16
the budget resolution is a nasty trick. unblock Oct 2017 #10
Dem leadership knows this all too well. harun Oct 2017 #22
Democratic leadership hides behind stuff? Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author kwalter66 Oct 2017 #33
The gloating if this goes through. The Con will be intolerable. CrispyQ Oct 2017 #2
More,,,,, More KY Jelly please sir,,,! Cryptoad Oct 2017 #5
This isn't over yet, is it? yallerdawg Oct 2017 #6
This is the one that trashes Medicare and Medicaid watrwefitinfor Oct 2017 #7
It's not over yet! yallerdawg Oct 2017 #23
They will gut Medicare, Medicaid and SS hibbing Oct 2017 #12
This is what Walmart greeters and auto mechanics and store clerks and office secretaries Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #30
How the hell did it get thru the senate with it that close in the house? Cryptoad Oct 2017 #14
It's actually got to go back to the Senate! yallerdawg Oct 2017 #18
I don't see them holding it up. When it comes to making the super rich harun Oct 2017 #19
8 years of "Repeal Obamacare!" yallerdawg Oct 2017 #21
u would think,,,,, Cryptoad Oct 2017 #26
I'm an eternal optimist! yallerdawg Oct 2017 #28
WTF happen to "regular Order" and cloture on that Banking bill this week??????? Cryptoad Oct 2017 #31
"Tricksy is they." yallerdawg Oct 2017 #35
Geeez,, Cryptoad Oct 2017 #36
I so do not look forward to THAT signing ceremony... forgotmylogin Oct 2017 #17
Well guess what, all of those human beings on Medicare and Medicaid and your kid is on CHiP turbinetree Oct 2017 #24
The House is taking up CHIP next week. yallerdawg Oct 2017 #32
And yet, I have a months salary that says almost all of the idiots vote for them again. Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #34
disgusted beyond words orangecrush Oct 2017 #29
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