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Old 02-10-2011, 10:46 AM
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I love it. There were plenty of posts on this forum chiding the right for having expectations of Obama that were too high after he was in office for 2 years, while he had majorities in the house and the senate. The Republicans have had control of a single house for 5 weeks, and its time to pronounce failure?

.... Do the rules on the left change based on spin requirements?


You lefties may be enjoying this, but counting out the influence of the tea party is premature imo, and the cuts run counter to the entire left philosophy.

When it happens, it's gonna hurt.

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Old 02-10-2011, 11:08 AM
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You lefties may be enjoying this, but counting out the influence of the tea party is premature imo, and the cuts run counter to the entire left philosophy.

When it happens, it's gonna hurt.

Pete
the tea party is nothing more than the religious right under a new moniker and they did indeed make the boy king's numbers strong enough that the supreme court was able to appoint him.

indeed I have respect for the political might these imbeciles hold
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Old 02-10-2011, 11:23 AM
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I only know a couple of them, and they ain't imbeesyles. Although they're not slick politico types.

As a matter of fact their foreign policy particularly is close to the lefts'. You almost surely have much in common with them on that one

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Old 02-10-2011, 12:30 PM
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You lefties may be enjoying this, but counting out the influence of the tea party is premature imo, and the cuts run counter to the entire left philosophy.

When it happens, it's gonna hurt.

Pete
Which ones would those be, Pete?
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Old 02-10-2011, 12:34 PM
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I only know a couple of them, and they ain't imbeesyles. Although they're not slick politico types.

As a matter of fact their foreign policy particularly is close to the lefts'. You almost surely have much in common with them on that one

Pete
They have a foreign policy? I thought they had one policy. No taxation, representation or not.
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Old 02-10-2011, 12:45 PM
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Cuts will be made, across the board but social programs will get hardest hit. Of course.

Isolationist Eddie. At least from where I'm sitting. But I'd like to hear from a TPer

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Old 02-10-2011, 01:00 PM
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Cuts will be made, across the board but social programs will get hardest hit. Of course.

Isolationist Eddie. At least from where I'm sitting. But I'd like to hear from a TPer

Pete
No real cuts will be made, other than in tax rates. They'll make token cuts in programs they don't like. Heard they're after PBS now. Yeah. That's the problem. Massive PBS spending. We're in a hole- a hole they dug- and their plan is to dig faster.
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Cuts will be made, across the board but social programs will get hardest hit. Of course.

Isolationist Eddie. At least from where I'm sitting. But I'd like to hear from a TPer

Pete
Well, if you mean "Isolationist" as being against the continuance of the so-called "empire" then, I would have to say the TP and I have common ground.

But when you say "social programs", I guess my question would then shift to "whom" the cuts will "hurt" and what is the nature of the "hurt" you predict? In otherwords, what precisely should we expect will be the repercussions of these cuts? What do we have to look forward to?

What sort of "improvements" will ultimately be seen by the average citizen as a result of all of this?

Let's take the long view, shall we?

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Old 02-10-2011, 01:33 PM
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The size of the disparity is massive. Massive cuts are coming a la Europe soon to a country near you

You're asking me for details? Even those at the top don't know. Heck they don't WANT to, won't happen until it's forced.

The improvement comes when we're back to reality. Till then, pain.

If they cut welfare to nothing we can always send the needy to a good libs house

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Certainly be no point in sending them to a repub's house.
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