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Utah senator experiences toxic shock
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 5/11/10
| Debra J. Saunders
Posted on 05/11/2010 7:59:08 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: Nickname
It’s the San Francisco Chronicle. If they had reported it any other way it’d be surprising.
To: Liz
...it's The People's Seat.What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
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posted on
05/11/2010 8:31:10 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: I cannot think of a name
To: Hodar
The terms right, left, and center are all nebulous anyway. The country has been marching leftward for decades. The so-called center today is leftist.
Time to get away from these meaningless labels and stand for principles.
To: GraceG
Most of the Dems in the Tea Party are Truman democrats, they havent liked the party since Carter, but they continue to cling to the Donkey, LOL. Sooo...they're suckers!
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posted on
05/11/2010 8:35:21 AM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(Barack Obama is Osama bin Laden's relief pitcher.)
To: SmithL
The usual Leftie argument: Republican centrists need to be kept to reach across the aisle so that government can continue to function. What they have to reach across to is far left policies. So, as always, the purpose of the Republican party is to rubber stamp the left and make their policies acceptable. Note, Obama reaches across the aisle for nothing. It's his way or the highway. So the appropriate response to a far left that won't compromise is a far right that won't compromise. This idea that passing legislation is the only measure of a functioning government is also a ruse. How about a government that actually enforces what's already on the books as a measure?
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posted on
05/11/2010 8:36:39 AM PDT
by
throwback
( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
To: SmithL
...Bennett went back on his 1992 term-limits pledge, ...I don't know what all the fuss is about. the delegates were just "helping" him to keep the promise he made 8 years ago.
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posted on
05/11/2010 8:38:52 AM PDT
by
TexasRedeye
(Eschew obfuscation)
To: SmithL
Isn’t it AMAZING how worried left wing reporters are about the republican party!!
To: SmithL
What center. There is no center. Either you are for America or you are against.
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posted on
05/11/2010 9:09:07 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: SmithL
I caught this link on
Instapundit back to
RedState, and I thought it was a very good analysis of what actually happened in Utah; and, how the MSM will continue to misinterpret it.
What Happened In Utah
To: Niteranger68
“Most of the Dems in the Tea Party are Truman democrats, they havent liked the party since Carter, but they continue to cling to the Donkey, LOL.
Sooo...they’re suckers!”
They are all “My Grandaddy and Daddy was a Democrat so I am one too” type democrats.
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posted on
05/11/2010 9:12:52 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: SmithL
Hey, MSM, this is what really happened:
It had everything to do with Bob Bennett being one of those Republicans who hid behind the safety of an 80% American Conservative Union rating without realizing he was still the 8th most liberal Republican in the United States Senate, even though hes from the most conservative state in the nation.
Bottom line is we in the base got tired of several years of being in the majority with a President in the White House and having precious little to show for it precisely because of Republican Senators like Bennett.
To: SmithL
when party voters demand the kind of purity sought by Bennett's opponentsOpponents? I prefer 'constituents'. Or simply 'we the people'...supposed to represent us. And when 'we' don't like something, 'we' send a 'time for a change' messasge...
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posted on
05/11/2010 10:18:33 AM PDT
by
LearnsFromMistakes
(Tag line deleted...don't want to incite violence...)
To: SmithL
Asked about Bennett at a news conference Monday, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said she saw Bennett's ouster as proof that Republicans don't want lawmakers who are willing to depart from the party line. A brief flicker!
And everybody thought that little ten watt bulb over Boxer's head was completely dead!
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posted on
05/11/2010 10:22:17 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
I think after the passage of Obama Health Control, the Democrats have no room to talk about how to treat those who depart from the party line.
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posted on
05/11/2010 10:29:09 AM PDT
by
AmishDude
(It doesn't matter whom you vote for, it matters who takes office.)
To: Hodar
I’d like this idiot reporter to name 5 democrats that ever crossed over the aisle to support a republican, and in what year........
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