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The Ominous Republican Hold on Congress
The Gilmer Mirror ^ | January 7, 2015 | Sheldon Richman

Posted on 01/07/2015 1:41:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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What would you call someone who thinks Mr. Obama is too far right?
1 posted on 01/07/2015 1:41:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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to push their belligerent global agenda.

I like your posts, 2ndDV, but I stopped right there in the first paragraph.

2 posted on 01/07/2015 1:43:43 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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This guy claims Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapons program!


3 posted on 01/07/2015 1:49:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Yak, yak, YAAAAAAAAAACCCKKKKKK


4 posted on 01/07/2015 1:53:58 PM PST by GilesB
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As we face the new year, the biggest concern for peace lovers is Republican control of the U.S. Senate

The biggest concern?

5 posted on 01/07/2015 2:00:32 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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>> As we face the new year, the biggest concern for peace lovers is Republican control of the U.S. Senate
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> The biggest concern?

Are you concerned with the “democrat agenda”?
If so, then might I suggest that “Republican control” is exactly the same as “Democrat control” insofar as pushing that agenda goes.
(Just look at the push for amnesty right before/after the election, and the spending bill, and the Boehner vote.)


6 posted on 01/07/2015 2:06:47 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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I am going to take the advice of Benjamin Franklin and stop for a moment to pray for the new leadership.


7 posted on 01/07/2015 2:09:50 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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You got that right. Boehner sure had me fooled. Not anymore! He’s just another lying, career politician who is in it for power and $$$$ and wants to be loved by Demoncraps. Boehner says to us Conservatives =F$%&(##)YOU.


8 posted on 01/07/2015 2:11:25 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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Sheldon Richman is vice president and editor at The Future of Freedom fascism Foundation in Fairfax, Va.

fixed it for them

9 posted on 01/07/2015 2:12:48 PM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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Moderator, please add ‘barf alert’ to this tripe. Thank you


10 posted on 01/07/2015 2:15:51 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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Insanity has a blog?


11 posted on 01/07/2015 2:22:29 PM PST by GeronL
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I would call them, at least, somewhat honest.

I’ve pointed out these same issues to friends on the left and they will get real riled and defend him, rather acerbicly, “You just don’t like his successes!”.

I usually chuckle and ask then exaclty, from their point of view and dreams hoped for in 2008/2012 “Define those successes. The way I see it he’s pretty much let you down and continued policies you railed against when it was George Bush.”

They get pissed and resort to their childish antics of calling me a masogynist, racist whatever.

But, they can never illuminate me on his success.

Whole thing is stupid, as are Boehner, McConnell and the other ass hats who enable this dork and save his ego frkm being bruised.


12 posted on 01/07/2015 2:37:30 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Insanity has a blog?

If it does, it's not here.

13 posted on 01/07/2015 2:45:13 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Conservatives by nature take a dim view of “military intervention”, but selectively.

In many situations, the US has no stake in fights, which are limited, mutually bellicose, show little or no sign of expanding beyond their range, and in which both sides engage in horrific acts. Whiny supplications that “the US must act, because innocent people are being killed”, are meaningless, because innocent people are *always* killed in war.

Likewise, the future will likely present the US with situations in which multinational corporations want the US to stomp on some dictator, solely because he is bad for their business. Again, not our problem. Especially when such multinationals do not pay US taxes, do not employ many Americans, and do their best to undercut American companies in US markets.

Jeb Bush might think he works for them, but the rest of us don’t. So, no wars just because the Chamber of Commerce wants them.

However, there are some wars that conservatives fully support. But if a war is fully endorsed by people like John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and Jeb Bush, their endorsement works against conservative support for that war, because they are scoundrels, all of them. If conservatives support a war, it is on behalf of America. Not the UN. Not internationalism. Not multinational corporations. And not because we are busy-bodies.


14 posted on 01/07/2015 2:50:21 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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I’m sure this was written before the events in France today.


15 posted on 01/07/2015 2:52:25 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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As a side note to this discussion, please consider the following.

Patriots need to consider that the Senate may not have the bad reputation that it does if state lawmakers hadn’t ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A), foolishly giving up the voices of state lawmakers in Congress.

In other words, the states need to repeal 17A and include a provision in the repeal amendment to give state lawmakers the power to recall bad-apple senators.

In fact, the 17A repeal amendment should also have provisions to recall bad-apple representatives and kick lawless presidents and justices out of office on a 3/4 state majority vote imo.

16 posted on 01/07/2015 3:09:43 PM PST by Amendment10
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Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
[Sheldon Richman is vice president and editor at The Future of Freedom Foundation in Fairfax, Va.] the Obama administration, under pressure from Israel’s supporters in the United States, seems determined to push Iran further than it could possibly go regarding its ability to enrich uranium for civilian purposes... There is no way to justify the cruel consequences that U.S. sanctions have inflicted on the Iranian people... The American-Israeli-Saudi opponents of U.S.-Iranian reconciliation should be ashamed of themselves. Their cynical political concerns deserve no consideration whatever. If the regimes in Israel and Saudi Arabia fear they will be less important in a Middle East that does not feature a U.S.-Iranian cold war, let them get over it. Peace trumps petty politics.
See? It's the Joooooooos! And their allies the Sunni/Wahhabi/Salafists! Yes, he is a propagandist, and one must wonder what his FR nick is.


17 posted on 01/07/2015 3:32:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Dipshittery

FMDCH(BITS)

18 posted on 01/07/2015 3:58:23 PM PST by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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An opinion piece written by a far-Leftist to his 3 or 4 friends. Who can take this stuff seriously?


19 posted on 01/07/2015 6:07:34 PM PST by Tallguy
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Libertopians for socialism and dhimmitude.


20 posted on 01/07/2015 10:22:04 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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