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6. reducing the U.S.' fiscal troubles would be much easier

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 08:07 PM

Sep 2013

if we could just put the teapublicans in straight jackets and lock them in a rubber room.

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Wall Street Pleads With GOP To Put The Debt Ceiling Gun Down [View all] True_Blue Sep 2013 OP

The plutocrats are trying to put the far-right genie back in the bottle YoungDemCA Sep 2013 #1

They've lost control leftynyc Sep 2013 #7

Rethug Response busterbrown Sep 2013 #2

Is this Keating the same cosmicone Sep 2013 #3

No, that was Charles Keating, Jr. HuskiesHowls Sep 2013 #11

No, Charles Keating wasn't a senator he just was the banker. alp227 Sep 2013 #12

Can't someone DO something? AlbertCat Sep 2013 #4

Rich Rethugs with huge stock holdings golfguru Sep 2013 #5

Exactly.. sendero Sep 2013 #19

The problem is that defaulting on the debt will hurt ALL of us! Duppers Oct 2013 #25

That is pure humbug! golfguru Oct 2013 #26

are you not reading DU & news? Duppers Oct 2013 #27

Federal employees ALWAYS get full back pay golfguru Oct 2013 #28

reducing the U.S.' fiscal troubles would be much easier pscot Sep 2013 #6

The Golem will do what the Golem will do. No use crying about it. Kablooie Sep 2013 #8

They're going to insist WE concede durablend Sep 2013 #9

You'd figure Wall St would have learned their lesson the first time around Snake Plissken Sep 2013 #10

"the political stalemate in Washington" PSPS Sep 2013 #13

Maybe the R's in the House Dyedinthewoolliberal Sep 2013 #14

And their strategy works flawlessly Snake Plissken Sep 2013 #18

Suuuure they do. blkmusclmachine Sep 2013 #21

You broke it, you bought it. DeSwiss Sep 2013 #22