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MisterP

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18. and Dem support had a disproportionate effect: before it was something that
Sat Nov 14, 2015, 09:12 PM
Nov 2015

only hardliners and fundies and oillionaires were for--it was a GOP project 100%, plus the likes of Zell and Lieberman; it was a project by babbling neocons who wanted to invade every country twice just so nobody looked funny at us (especially you, Seychelles), the ones who wanted to pen up the petroleum so they could buy that 10-kitchen 90,000-square foot house, the Aquanets and pompadours bawling about witchcraft and tea boxes and left-handed people on TV 3 hours at a stretch

but now it was LEGITIMATE topic of political discourse, something that had managed to "convince the liberals," something that SENSIBLE people could talk about ever so REASONABLY; now it wasn't just a partisan football but national policy, now politics DID "stop at the water's edge," now it was a consensus that only a minority of Senators opposed

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