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WHAT WILL LAME DUCK DEMS DO?
boblonsberry.com ^ | 07/12/10 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 07/12/2010 6:24:13 AM PDT by shortstop

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To: Lazamataz
The thinking is that, so what, the voters will have no club to swing.

They're dead wrong on that.

21 posted on 07/12/2010 7:29:42 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: shortstop

They may try some desperate push at the end, but like a desperate man locked in a room with a grenade, where are they going to throw it?


22 posted on 07/12/2010 7:35:02 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: La Lydia
That which is enacted in December can be rescinded and defunded in January.

Except for one of the worst. Amnesty. That one will create much damage.
23 posted on 07/12/2010 7:55:17 AM PDT by crosshairs
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To: crosshairs

They can decline to fund it. They can change the rules. They can raise the bar. There are a lot of way to negate such a disaster.


24 posted on 07/12/2010 8:00:13 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Oatka

“And the Democrat(ic) Party should remember the value of principle and honor. BWAAHAAHAAHAAAA!”

Agreed. When in the He** did the Democrat party ever have any sense of principle and honor?

It is absolutely hilarious to put the words “principle” and “honor” anywhere near the words “Democrat Party”.

There aren’t adequate words to describe the treachery of Democrats, no matter who or what they might be.

IMHO


25 posted on 07/12/2010 8:00:43 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Pearls Before Swine

The entitlement-class is going to suffer the most, first.

The collapse of the healthcare system is already proceeding for Medicaid recipients and Medicare recipients will be feeling the pinch very soon as doctors, clinics and hospitals opt out of the system in an attempt to survive.

The more strapped states are already cutting back on the welfare bennies. The entitlement class is feeling the pinch.

And unlike us, they can get violent. If anyone actually takes a shot at a dem politician, it will be one of them.


26 posted on 07/12/2010 8:05:54 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: shortstop
Conservatives/Libertarians don't riot and don't burn cities. I can foresee a tax strike, civil disobedience and a revival of tar + feathers and riding politicians out of town on a rail.


27 posted on 07/12/2010 8:08:50 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: shortstop

“apres moi, le deluge” = new motto of congressional Democrats.


28 posted on 07/12/2010 8:10:46 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: shortstop

I am more worried about the Republicans. Even if they gain control of the house they will not be near as bold as the Dems have been, they fear the press and the parties they won’t be invited to, so they will compromise on everything so their social life and reputation will not be destroyed by the press.


29 posted on 07/12/2010 8:12:24 AM PDT by thirst4truth (The left elected a mouth that is unattached to an eye, brain or muscle.)
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To: ken5050

I have wondered why so few people have seen that obvious situation? I mean if they can’t pass stuff now how will 41 senators work between thanksgiving and new years? Are they going to give them a pass? not going to happen.


30 posted on 07/12/2010 8:47:19 AM PDT by q_an_a (a)
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To: q_an_a

Not only that, but none of the Dem senators up in 2012 will go along..otherise they might as well quit now..


31 posted on 07/12/2010 9:35:05 AM PDT by ken5050 (Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
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To: shortstop

If the Rats pull this, they may very well see the pendulum swing as far to the right as it did to the left in 2008 and see the Republicans with filibuster proof majorities afer the 2012 election. Difference will be, Republicans will be governing with the will of the people not against it.


32 posted on 07/12/2010 12:07:10 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: KansasGirl

When/if they get that majority, they need to QUICKLY dismantle all the socialism of the last 60 years.

Kill it and drive a stake through it.


33 posted on 07/12/2010 12:08:36 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: La Lydia
That which is enacted in December can be rescinded and defunded in January.

... or so thought the conservatives of Britain in 1946. Lydia, restoring constitutional Government is going to make the Revolution look like a picnic in the park!

That's why I keep buggin' everybody in the GOP for a

PROGRAM
PLAN
Leaders
COURAGE.

We win the House next fall. No problem. But if we have no program, or no plan to back it up, and no leaders emerge, the socialists will still run rampant.

34 posted on 07/12/2010 4:01:10 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (No more bitchinmoanin from the Right. Program, Plan, Leaders, Courage)
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To: sinanju

I fully expect the Obama medical machine to require doctors to honor whatever paltry fees Obamacare or Medicaid offers, or lose their license.


35 posted on 07/12/2010 7:08:40 PM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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