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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 07:15 AM
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Stupid Never Goes Out Of Style



GOP Senators Invoke Christmas In Order To Pointlessly Obstruct The START Treaty
Jason Linkins
jason@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting
First Posted: 12-15-10 04:58 PM | Updated: 12-15-10 04:58 PM

Senators looking to pointlessly obstruct the re-ratification of the START treaty -- something that virtually everyone outside of Washington's radical-moron set understands to be vital to our national security -- have decided to use Christmas as their excuse in an effort to preserve their precious time off from the work they don't do a good job of doing, ever.

Mind you, no one in the world is asking senators to actually come to work on Christmas. But opponents of START have very strategically marked off the calendar to create a holiday-themed "no-go zone" for considering the treaty. First, we have Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.):
GOP Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl quickly took offense to the notion that legislators might be expected to work after December 25 and accused Reid of potentially "disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians."

"It is impossible to do all of the things that the majority leader laid out without doing -- frankly, without disrespecting the institution and without disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians and the families of all of the Senate, not just the senators themselves but all of the staff," Kyl said in response to Reid's claim that he would force the body to work through the holiday recess in order to vote on a number of key Democratic agenda items including Obama's START nuclear arms treaty, the DREAM Act, a bill that would overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and a highly contentious spending bill that would authorize federal spending for next year.

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mstinamotorcity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 07:19 AM
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1. Stupid never goes out of style
It doesn't wear a suit well either!!!!!:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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peace13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 07:37 AM
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2. Tell it to the troops baby!
You guys are out of this world!
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Ineeda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 09:10 AM
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3. The irony is....
that they object to working during this 'sacred' season on the START bill that has the potential to foster a more peaceful planet. Um, wasn't that Jesus' prime message?
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sammytko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 09:14 AM
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4. They can resign and go home
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Morning Dew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 09:14 AM
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5. So, take Christmas Day off and then go back to work....
like the rest of us.
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lumpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-10 09:19 AM
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6. Kyle is following the "GOP obstructionist plan", i.e. stop the US
government from functioning at any cost,even concerning national security, in order to foil Obama. Kyle and his cohorts are showing themselves to be traitorous anti-Americans.
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