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Hoyer Credits/Blames Tea Partiers for Forcing Dem Retirements [... heh-heh-heh...]
National Review ^ | 04/13/10 | Daniel Foster

Posted on 04/13/2010 9:59:19 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

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To: Buckeye McFrog

Stpak used the same excuse as Bayh did, “I’m tired of the partisanship.”

That’s the “code speak” for me.


21 posted on 04/13/2010 10:56:50 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (We were hoping for flying unicorns that crapped skittles. We got nationalized health care.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Translation from Lib speak

"How dare you peons talk back to your betters

22 posted on 04/13/2010 11:19:08 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Herman Cain 2012!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

How easily they forget the sh*t they were slinging while Bush was in office.


23 posted on 04/13/2010 11:27:54 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Want real change? Vote out Pelosi, Reid and Franks! They've held office since 1980s.)
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To: vicar7

some freeper pointed out that Stupak spelled backwards spells “Kaputs”


24 posted on 04/13/2010 11:47:18 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier ("You care far too much what is written and said about you." Axelrod to Obama 2006)
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To: chris_bdba
I would love so too, however he is in a potential safe district. His district is D+11. The only way he will be gone is if a big scandal hits him. Don't expect a big scandal to come out of this administration. I hope we do get 60 seats, however we need to fight for them. If you live in one of these 100+ targeted districts get your conservative friends, family or neighbors to register and get out to vote for the conservative cause.
25 posted on 04/13/2010 11:49:14 AM PDT by paman12
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

The Tea Parties made the Rats do more extensive polling than they ever have. When they saw the results many decided it was best to retire than lose their bid for relection by 50% or greater margins. Their egos cannot handle getting manhandled to that level.


26 posted on 04/13/2010 12:04:08 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come. Judgment Day: Nov 2, 2010)
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To: JimRed

And, you should not run for office while holding another - governor, senator etc.

Nice fantasy, eh.


27 posted on 04/13/2010 12:06:51 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! - Deficit, Debt,- Pfft! Lookit the bright side of our legacy - Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: vicar7
ACORN cannot cheat enough to keep the Dems from losing 60 plus seat in the House. We will remember in November.

Just a thought, for what it might be worth.

1-I think Stupak was offered something post November, to roll over.

2-There have been a lot of Dems announcing retirement the last couple of months. Dems who were up for re-election. Figuring that maybe they would lose, after voting for DeathCare, they'd "retire", allowing another Dem to fill their void. Now some people will vote against Dems no matter what, because of DeathCare, but I'm sure there are plenty of life long dems, who are upset about DeathCare, who will vote for a Dem, if the Dem who voted for it retired.

In other words, they've fallen on their swords, thus removing the object of wrath and scorn, allowing life long Dem voters to vote Dem, because there is no longer anyone to hold a grudge against.

Since Stupak is retiring, why NOT VOTE for the guy taking his spot on the ticket?

28 posted on 04/13/2010 7:45:04 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
hoyer don't get it... aint Repubs or Rats...it's unconstitutional incumbents
29 posted on 04/13/2010 8:00:57 PM PDT by stylin19a (Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
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To: chris_bdba

Is Hoyer up for reeltion this year too?
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Yes! Unlike the Senate races which are “staggered” ALL Congressmen have to run for reelection every 2 years.


30 posted on 04/13/2010 9:24:13 PM PDT by no dems (Palin / Rubio 2012)
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To: JimRed
Should have been out 16 terms ago, and either run for another (preferably) higher office, or gone back to the real world, living under the laws he helped to pass.

Clarity bump.

When Abraham Lincoln came to Congress in, um, 1847, the majority of representatives served only one term. A biggish minority served two (I think Crockett served two terms). Congressmen serving more than six years were a tiny, tiny fragment, and John Quincy Adams's long tenure of office in the House was almost unheard-of.

31 posted on 04/13/2010 11:25:36 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: mountn man
In other words, they've fallen on their swords, thus removing the object of wrath and scorn

Are you suggesting this is another Rahmbo strategy?

Triaging the wounded to help Nancy Pelosi in November?

32 posted on 04/13/2010 11:30:15 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: vicar7

.........”We will Remember in November”...........

That’s a pretty catchy phrase.....would make for a great T-shirt and/or sign.


33 posted on 04/13/2010 11:46:02 PM PDT by caww
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Note to Stumpy Steny: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!

I would also add, if you want a friend, get a dog!

34 posted on 04/14/2010 12:00:52 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: All
DO THE DEM BIRDBRAINS GET IT YET? Democrats' Arrogance and Sneers At Townhalls Precipitated Their Downfall. Dims are drowning in their own hubris and arrogance.

Obama's losing political altitude faster than Flight 1549. It was only a year ago that the Ohaha team was shoveling dirt on Repub conservatism. James Carville was writing books about 40 years of "Democrat dominance," boasting that the Republican Party was dead. Stupid Liberals believed their own hype that Obama would be the black FDR........conniving to keep him in office 3-4 terms.

The fact that infamous liberals like Kennedy (RI), Dodd, Frank and others are "retiring" indicates they are getting negative feedback back home. They know they can't get reelected and campaign contributions are drying up, as well.

Americans are angry at their economic vulnerability. Angry at the deterioration of our culture. Angry that they are forced to subsidize freeloading lawbreakers from Third World satraps so that US politicians can get new voters. Angry at our nation’s deteriorating position in the world, at our debts and deficits, our spending and taxing, our threatened security in a world of weapons of mass destruction.

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America's Quiet Anger
American Spectator ^ | 3-30-10 | James P. Gannon
FR Posted on 03/30/2010 by kingattax

There is a quiet anger boiling in America. It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans -- and see their government reward those who do not.

It is the anger of small town and Middle American folks who have never been to Manhattan, who put their savings in a community bank and borrow from a local credit union, who watch Washington lawmakers and presidents of both parties hand billions in taxpayer bailouts to the reckless Wall Street titans who brought down the economy in 2008.

It is the fury of the voiceless, the powerless, the ordinary nobodies of Flyover Country who are ridiculed, preached to, satirized and insulted by the Celebrity Loudmouths of the two Left Coasts, the Jon Stewarts and Keith Olbermanns, the Paul Krugmans and their ilk.(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...

35 posted on 04/14/2010 3:26:32 AM PDT by Liz (If teens can procreate in a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2000 acres? JD Hayworth)
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