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Two CBO Reports (edited) - TB - 11/11/2012 5:30:01 PM

The History of Veteran's Day. - Jody - 11/11/2012 4:49:35 PM

Single party rule in states - TB - 11/11/2012 4:25:29 PM
- Re: Single party rule in states - Jody - 11/11/2012 4:43:39 PM

Why Romney was so surprised to lose... - BuckGalaxy - 11/11/2012 4:16:22 AM
- A perfect example - ER - 11/11/2012 1:39:59 PM

Just an observation... - TB - 11/10/2012 7:10:52 PM
- Oh so many differences. Which differences do you want us to look at? - alcaray - 11/10/2012 7:12:59 PM
  - Just a speculation... - ER - 11/10/2012 7:26:48 PM
    - The election has spoiled me. - alcaray - 11/10/2012 8:33:42 PM
      - You and me both. - ER - 11/10/2012 8:57:07 PM

Sadly, I must face the reality here... - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 3:05:00 AM
- LOL, pride goeth before the fall - FrankC - 11/10/2012 4:59:15 AM
  - Not hubris, just celebrating an undeniable reality check. - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 6:25:14 AM
    - What I said is that either side will take a fall back position before they admit they are/were wrong - FrankC - 11/10/2012 9:09:22 AM
      - I would spin that in exactly the opposite way. - ER - 11/10/2012 2:40:44 PM
        
        It is also QED that any fallback position will be ridiculed by the other side. - FrankC - 11/10/2012 5:49:27 PM
        
        Re: I would spin that in exactly the opposite way. - TB - 11/10/2012 4:25:58 PM
        
        You're right. We have a Legitimate President. - ER - 11/10/2012 5:01:34 PM

My high school classmate loses her seat in Congress. - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 6:55:00 AM

Obama's second term cabinet - TB - 11/9/2012 9:02:40 PM
- I like Kerry but - BuckGalaxy - 11/9/2012 9:47:34 PM
  - BTW, who would replace Kerry? - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 4:45:34 AM

"An erect penis has no conscience." - bowser - 11/9/2012 8:39:05 PM
- This is a lot more than just another wick dip. - ER - 11/10/2012 3:57:47 AM
- Nice way to slip out the back door - Lindy - 11/10/2012 2:42:27 AM
  - I'd also like to add.... - Lindy - 11/10/2012 2:55:02 AM
- More info... - TB - 11/10/2012 12:36:23 AM
- So, think he'll still be testifying on Benghazi next week? - TB - 11/9/2012 11:04:34 PM
  - There's no reason he can't testify. - ER - 11/10/2012 12:11:35 AM
    - It was just a question. Don't go overboard. - TB - 11/10/2012 12:29:59 AM
- Stupid reason for a valued public servant to resign. - BuckGalaxy - 11/9/2012 9:49:29 PM
  - To keep a high security clearance you have to abstain from any scandal-worthy behavior. - alcaray - 11/10/2012 2:57:11 AM
  - Probably something criminal about it. - bowser - 11/9/2012 10:03:03 PM
    - What if the affair was with a MAN? - Lindy - 11/10/2012 2:49:42 AM
    - Like an intern, or something. - TB - 11/9/2012 10:31:57 PM
- Re: "An erect penis has no conscience." - TB - 11/9/2012 8:42:08 PM

Looks like Washington State may get it's first Republican Governor in 26 years - RobVG - 10/19/2012 2:50:06 AM
- Inslee wins it. - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 2:46:22 AM
- Inslee ahead in polls still - BuckGalaxy - 10/21/2012 8:09:10 PM

And now, California - TB - 11/8/2012 5:54:46 PM
- You missed the great exodus. - SDAI-Tech - 11/9/2012 12:07:36 AM
  - Yea, but GOP ruled states usually are plagued with Mexican drug lords and beheadings in the desert. Stuff like that. - alcaray - 11/9/2012 2:29:13 AM
  - Can't afford to move. - TB - 11/9/2012 1:18:46 AM
- Cali's supermajority bs is idiotic and undemocratic - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 6:01:24 PM
  - I voted for a Democrat last Tuesday. - TB - 11/9/2012 8:56:24 PM
    - Kind of like Boehner running unopposed in the general election? - BuckGalaxy - 11/9/2012 9:45:12 PM
      - That was one election, in 1994. - TB - 11/9/2012 10:46:16 PM
        
        I read he ran unopposed this year. - BuckGalaxy - 11/9/2012 11:47:43 PM
        
        I think you're right. - TB - 11/10/2012 12:08:06 AM
        
        Boehner did turn back a Tea Party primary challenge fairly easily if memory serves me - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 1:05:25 AM
        
        Looks like a Dem ran unopposed in OH 11th as well - BuckGalaxy - 11/10/2012 1:00:14 AM
  - Re: Cali's supermajority bs is idiotic and undemocratic - TB - 11/8/2012 6:03:58 PM
    - Go down to my response on the Maddow thread. - TB - 11/8/2012 6:11:07 PM

Election results map - TB - 11/8/2012 9:09:27 PM
- FL has been called for O. 332 to 206 final electoral count. - BuckGalaxy - 11/9/2012 1:35:20 AM
  - dont dare call it a mandate.... - Tony - 11/9/2012 1:45:58 AM
    - Republicans are forcing him to call it a mandate. Therefore it is. - bowser - 11/9/2012 8:34:25 PM
    - Re: dont dare call it a mandate.... - Jody - 11/9/2012 4:00:57 AM
- Sucking at the federal teat map here. - Tony - 11/8/2012 11:50:11 PM
- This is trotted out every election, TB. - bowser - 11/8/2012 11:29:14 PM

Ouch! - BuckGalaxy - 11/9/2012 6:41:45 PM

Iranian jets attack US drone in international waters. - bowser - 11/8/2012 11:44:23 PM
- All politics aside... - ER - 11/9/2012 12:10:11 AM
  - Didn't say. I assume they did. - bowser - 11/9/2012 5:54:14 AM

The coming GOP civil war! - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 6:18:55 PM
- They'll find a way to lose it. - ER - 11/8/2012 4:56:37 PM
- One of many articles that look at the GOPs coming self examination - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 6:55:06 PM
  - "Extreme" - TB - 11/7/2012 7:34:01 PM
  - Excellent analysis. - ER - 11/7/2012 7:30:03 PM
- Babbitts, bigshots, bigots and brownshirts. - ER - 11/7/2012 6:37:10 PM
  - And that's the battle they face - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 6:42:24 PM
    - See my earlier comment, rephrased: - TB - 11/7/2012 6:50:19 PM
      - What a laugh - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 6:58:24 PM
        
        You're vigorously evading the question. - TB - 11/7/2012 7:24:58 PM
        
        I'm not evading anything - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 2:03:06 AM
        
        No, you didn't. - TB - 11/8/2012 3:27:51 AM
        
        Can't you read? - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 4:52:04 AM
        
        And by the way, - TB - 11/8/2012 5:38:33 AM
        
        "In 2010, with Democrats in full control of both houses, Obama extended ALL the Bush tax cuts." - Tony - 11/8/2012 12:19:45 PM
        
        lol - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 6:03:50 PM
        
        You've been saying for years... - Tony - 11/8/2012 12:13:32 PM
        
        The bottom line - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 7:33:22 AM
        
        A big problem here... - TB - 11/8/2012 6:44:31 PM
        
        Ok - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 7:19:34 AM
        
        A perfect test case: - TB - 11/8/2012 6:48:33 PM
        
        Better than you. - TB - 11/8/2012 5:25:48 AM
        
        Are you kidding me? - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 7:16:56 AM
        
        The 60 votes: - TB - 11/8/2012 7:03:03 PM
- A test of "ideological purity" and "diversity:" - TB - 11/7/2012 6:34:29 PM
  - When was the last time Democrats as a party moved toward the conservative position on anything at all? - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 6:39:03 PM
    - Sorry, Buck. - TB - 11/7/2012 6:42:24 PM

A TON of right wing money down the drain - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 5:58:59 AM
- It's OK, they can afford it. - ER - 11/8/2012 4:31:37 PM
  - And in four years Citizens United might be overturned anyway. - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 6:24:00 PM
    - I just can't get the Wile E Coyote trope out of my mind's eye. - ER - 11/8/2012 6:30:10 PM
  - And just think, most of that right wing advertising budget went straight into the pockets of the Main Stream Media. - ER - 11/8/2012 4:51:52 PM
    - I was thinking about how that $2B spent in the swing states must have been a nice stimulus to the economies there. - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 6:25:07 PM
      - Maybe the Dems should figure out a way to tax it! - ER - 11/8/2012 6:32:26 PM
- Buying elections - TB - 11/8/2012 3:13:24 PM

Rachel Maddow was spot on last night! Must watch segment answers TB's question. - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 4:45:33 PM
- Re: Rachel Maddow was spot on last night! Must watch segment answers TB's question. - Jody - 11/8/2012 5:51:21 PM
- "Debate." Yeah, right. - TB - 11/8/2012 5:31:46 PM
- It's a shame she's gay. I think she's hot! - ER - 11/8/2012 4:53:38 PM

Who is now the GOP leader and what do they stand for? - BuckGalaxy - 11/8/2012 3:41:11 AM
- They don't stand for anything. - ER - 11/8/2012 5:17:10 PM
- They love martyrdom. They'd rather lose than compromise. - bowser - 11/8/2012 3:45:48 AM

Compromise - TB - 11/7/2012 9:31:53 PM
- It's simple, Republicans want to implement Romney's economic plan. - RobVG - 11/8/2012 2:56:12 AM
- I heard that.... - Lindy - 11/7/2012 10:15:09 PM

Where will the republican party go next? - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 7:38:48 AM
- I think you're seeing a last ditch attempt to preserve the old America from the new. - bowser - 11/7/2012 5:20:29 PM
  - Yeah, check out ER's photos in the comment below. - TB - 11/7/2012 5:37:05 PM
- Wherever it goes, it will have to get there - ER - 11/7/2012 12:25:39 PM
- Define "moderate conservatism." - TB - 11/7/2012 8:14:47 AM
  - For starters - Tony - 11/7/2012 2:09:37 PM
    - Dogmatics - TB - 11/7/2012 5:10:34 PM
      - Oops, missed one on Donnelly - Tony - 11/7/2012 10:49:14 PM
      - P.S. your ISP hailed from Pennsylvania - Tony - 11/7/2012 10:46:34 PM
        
        Nope. Northern California. - TB - 11/7/2012 11:17:01 PM
        
        No Cal? - Tony - 11/8/2012 1:29:20 AM
      - Rubio, Ayotte, Christie, even Ryan - Tony - 11/7/2012 10:40:01 PM
        
        Bob Casey actually supports overturning Roe vs. Wade. - TB - 11/7/2012 11:13:32 PM
        
        explain how Santorum and Toomey got past that....? - Tony - 11/8/2012 1:28:03 AM

Step one: consolidate the power - TB - 11/7/2012 8:28:08 PM
- Hate the idea that Dems learn what the new normal is from Republicans? - alcaray - 11/7/2012 9:58:35 PM
  - That isn't true. - TB - 11/7/2012 10:27:39 PM
    - You are just afraid I'll trot out the shocking filibuster statistics again. - alcaray - 11/7/2012 11:52:33 PM
      - Look... - TB - 11/7/2012 11:58:42 PM

A wake up call to the republican party - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 4:24:35 AM
- Congratulations. - TB - 11/7/2012 5:07:13 AM
  - "dedicate themselves for the next four years to the destruction of the president. Same as last time." - bowser - 11/7/2012 5:10:52 AM
    - Re: "dedicate themselves for the next four years to the destruction of the president. Same as last time." - TB - 11/7/2012 8:19:31 AM
    - It began with a jump to the left. - RobVG - 11/7/2012 5:18:43 AM
      - It began before Obama took office. - alcaray - 11/7/2012 5:58:53 AM
        
        I knew someone would say that. n/t - RobVG - 11/7/2012 6:00:11 AM
        
        I knew you would say that. - alcaray - 11/7/2012 7:16:07 PM
      - No. He doesn't know it. - TB - 11/7/2012 5:54:21 AM
        
        History is whatever you can get people to believe at the moment, isn't it. - bowser - 11/7/2012 7:21:05 AM

Congratulations to Obama. - Jody - 11/7/2012 5:47:05 PM
- Refreshing maturity. :-) - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 6:04:53 PM

The second Battle of Badon Hill. - ER - 11/7/2012 4:38:32 AM
- "...and the land will have an heir to wield Excalibur." - ER - 11/7/2012 4:44:29 AM
  - Congratulations again. - TB - 11/7/2012 5:57:17 AM
    - If you were serious about smaller government and debt reduction, you'd advocate cutting the military in half. - bowser - 11/7/2012 7:15:33 AM
    - Bitter? - Robert - 11/7/2012 7:11:15 AM
    - The Socialist, Kenyan, Muslim, Mau-mau Makaka was elected once again; - ER - 11/7/2012 6:31:23 AM
      - You left out the commie bastard was born in Kenya, educated in Moscow, eats with chopsticks. - bowser - 11/7/2012 7:19:47 AM
  - . - RobVG - 11/7/2012 5:16:31 AM

O! (n/t) - BuckGalaxy - 11/7/2012 4:14:34 AM
- Wish I could congratulate you. n/t - RobVG - 11/7/2012 4:24:14 AM

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