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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Anyone notice that the DU Obama doubters are out today.. [View all]seabeckind
(1,957 posts)42. Exactly correct
there will not be a grand bargain.
There'll be little chips.
Like Reid offering to extend the sequester funding levels in the budget. It wasn't mentioned until they needed a talking point against the accusation that the dems don't compromise.
Or the bill to unfurlough the DoD civilians and coincidentally CONTRACTORS that was passed and signed before the shutdown started. Anybody notice that the promise that there would be no piecemealing was already broken before it was made...oh, and the traffic controllers, etc.
Even tho the story of the frog in the boiling water is false...it still works.
Yep, no grand bargain.
How's them new funding streams workin out for us? How about the TPP?
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you got to work 7 days a week for kochs when there's a country to ruin & a president to hate
Sunlei
Oct 2013
#4
I've noticed more than one thread like this one, castigating others for standing up for
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#8
When your fighting for the Country’s welfare sometimes you have to play the part of----
busterbrown
Oct 2013
#11
Go right ahead, and that tag to Obama’s name is obnoxious and non- effective
busterbrown
Oct 2013
#19
President Obama MEANT IT when he said "Your job is to hold my feet to the fire." He NEEDS us to do
Faryn Balyncd
Oct 2013
#30