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Democratic senator : Voting for ObamaCare was “political folly”
Hot Air ^ | MARCH 30, 2010 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 03/30/2010 6:01:52 PM PDT by RobinMasters

You know it and I know it, but it’s always been an open question whether they know it too. I think Obama and Pelosi do. This was their chance to set the country on the path to welfare-state nirvana and they calculated — quite astutely — that it was worth sacrificing their majority to do so. Control of Congress will come and go, but a dependent electorate is forever. Whether the caucus and their idiot base calculated the same way or whether they really convinced themselves that the boondoggle to end all boondoggles was a political winner is more of a mystery. Or was. Via Geraghty, a tidbit from Howard Fineman:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; dopeydems
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1 posted on 03/30/2010 6:01:52 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; Altera; ...

Ping


2 posted on 03/30/2010 6:02:04 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

We the people have been duped.


3 posted on 03/30/2010 6:03:31 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: RobinMasters

Actually, it was treason and everyone who voted for it is a traitor.


4 posted on 03/30/2010 6:03:54 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Socialism is for people who've given up.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

to b ad the media are in full compliance of this. they could have stopped this. they hold the supreme power. without the news help the message gets out to slow. now its light speed


5 posted on 03/30/2010 6:05:43 PM PDT by truthbetold11 (truthbetold11)
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To: RobinMasters

The American people won’t stand for it and it will be repealed. Pelosi et al. are Traitors and TOAST.


6 posted on 03/30/2010 6:06:05 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: RobinMasters

I wonder what Senator said this...hmmm...Nelson?


7 posted on 03/30/2010 6:06:48 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: tractorman

How about “They the people have been duped,” instead?

This is a Health Holocaust.


8 posted on 03/30/2010 6:07:19 PM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: truthbetold11
to b ad the media are in full compliance of this. they could have stopped this

The media are our enemies. Never forget this.

9 posted on 03/30/2010 6:09:10 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

We shouldn’t expect less than prosecutions once the GOP regains power. It just might help keep them on the straight and narrow too.


10 posted on 03/30/2010 6:10:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Psycho_Bunny

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BUMP!


11 posted on 03/30/2010 6:12:24 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: RatsDawg

“Actually, it was treason and everyone who voted for it is a traitor”.

Mussolini, Ceausescu...These traitor were snuffed, YES WE CAN!


12 posted on 03/30/2010 6:13:39 PM PDT by outhousepatrol
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To: tractorman

Speak for yourself. I wasn’t duped.


13 posted on 03/30/2010 6:15:22 PM PDT by svcw (Religion is like giving someone who is dying of thirst mouthwash.)
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To: tractorman
We the people have been duped.

A clear majority hated this bill, even from the bigging. We were *****ed, but not duped.

14 posted on 03/30/2010 6:18:45 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: Rocko

“beginning”


15 posted on 03/30/2010 6:19:12 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: RobinMasters

Obama and Pelosi think that *Amnesty for illegals* will produce enough new Democrat voters to win in the future.


16 posted on 03/30/2010 6:19:13 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: RobinMasters

Make them pay in November! Make it worse than they ever imagined. And then REPEAL IT!


17 posted on 03/30/2010 6:23:08 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: RatsDawg

We need to smoke out who this was.

I am guessing Feingold. Dodd is a possibility. Carper isn’t smart enough.


18 posted on 03/30/2010 6:24:45 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: Rocko; Liberty Ship; svcw

My mistake. I meant “them” and not “we”.
We’ve been @#$%^! by them!
TM


19 posted on 03/30/2010 6:25:07 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: Rocky

Never, never vote for a Democrat on any level ever. Don’t vote for them as dog catcher, city council, mayor, house member, senator, or POTUS! EVER, EVER!!!!


20 posted on 03/30/2010 6:32:58 PM PDT by Plumres
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