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DeMint Says More Time Needed to Debate START; Admin. Notes He Missed 7/12 Foreign Relations Hearings
ABC News- Political Punch ^
| 12/15/2010
| Jake Tapper & Matt Jaffe
Posted on 12/16/2010 9:03:05 AM PST by Qbert
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Time to "go rogue", DeMint. Your colleagues are a bunch of losers...don't let them drag you down. The clock is ticking...
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:03:11 AM PST
by
Qbert
To: Qbert
Drudge is reporting that he’s already caved (??)
To: Qbert
Anyone who has seen photos of Senate sessions understands that most of the time nobody is there. They only turn up when it’s time to vote.
If DeMint attended three of these meetings, it’s probably more than most Senators. But of course, this is the media regurgitating.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:06:09 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.)
To: Qbert
This doesn’t explain why the admin hasn’t made the negotiation records available...
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:06:46 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Hey, Schumer, how's that Lockerbie bomber deal investigation coming along?)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Is there anyone in Govt. we can trust? If you are on a committee and have a meeting, then go to it. Now he is going to have to cave in.
America is just so screwed - no one on either side cares about anything but themselves.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:08:03 AM PST
by
kezzek
To: Buckeye McFrog
I figured it was only a matter of time until he was slapped down by the Republicrat ‘leadership’ and folded .
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:08:31 AM PST
by
Tupelo
To: Tupelo
Either they’ve all folded, or they think they have the votes to stop it without the added tactical delay. Which is it?
To: Qbert
If DeMint had any guts he'd say "You lost" to Obama, and tell him that no more legislation will be passed until the new Congress is seated.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:09:54 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
To: kezzek
Like most of the organizations, business and otherwise, that I’ve been involved with throughout my life; the guys at the top love the power and perks, but don’t expect work, leadership, or hard decisions from them.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:12:20 AM PST
by
Arm_Bears
(I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
To: Cicero
“Anyone who has seen photos of Senate sessions understands that most of the time nobody is there. They only turn up when its time to vote.”
Yep.
Plus, Obama as a candidate claimed his “foreign policy experience” based upon some committee that never even met...and claimed he was on committees that he wasn’t even on. And nobody ever raised a stink about that...
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:14:18 AM PST
by
Qbert
To: Qbert
The only reason for the delay is the midterm elections. And with the new Congress set to gavel in after the new year Dingy Harry is cramming it through the lame duck.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:15:49 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
To: mewzilla
“This doesnt explain why the admin hasnt made the negotiation records available...”
He needs to seize on this and keep repeating it until everybody gets it.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:15:57 AM PST
by
Qbert
To: Qbert
Not to mention what the heck good are the hearings if the admin refuses to hand over the negotiation records?
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:16:00 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Hey, Schumer, how's that Lockerbie bomber deal investigation coming along?)
To: Qbert
So Obama misses 80% of his votes and that's ok, but De Mint misses 5 of 12 and that's horrible?? No, won't fly.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:16:21 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: Qbert
He needs to seize on this and keep repeating it until everybody gets it.Amen, brother.
What in perdition did Barry agree to?!
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:16:57 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Hey, Schumer, how's that Lockerbie bomber deal investigation coming along?)
To: Buckeye McFrog
To: Buckeye McFrog
Drudge is reporting that hes already caved (??)
Sadly that is what I understood as well, that he was not going to call for a reading after all...
The GOP needs to stop worrying about what the media and liberals are going to say about them and start doing what is good for your country (and by extension the free world), if not those who want to kill America are still winning the war...
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:22:13 AM PST
by
battousai
(Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
To: LS
“So Obama misses 80% of his votes and that’s ok, but De Mint misses 5 of 12 and that’s horrible?? No, won’t fly.”
But it only seeps in with many people if this (and everything else) is repeated over and over and over. I know it sounds silly, but...
There are a lot of stupid people out there who simply don’t understand things the first hundred times they hear it.
Communication, repetition, seizing the public’s attention, etc.- so many of the GOP’s woes could be wiped away if we just made our points like the Dems do, and worked around the media instead of waiting for them to rescue us.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:27:08 AM PST
by
Qbert
To: Qbert
What he attended in the summer has no bearing on whether he needs information he thinks is important now. He can get that in January. Suck it WH. It’s DeMint perrogative as a Senator before he advises and does not consent, Zero loses.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:33:29 AM PST
by
rod1
To: E. Pluribus Unum; Buckeye McFrog
Bravado is fine as long as you have the ability to back it up. In this case Dirty Harry has the 67 votes needed for ratification and DeMint knows it. He can delay for a short time but he cannot stop it. The problem with this issue is not DeMint, but the Rino’s who said they will support the treaty.
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posted on
12/16/2010 9:48:21 AM PST
by
buckalfa
(Confused and Bewildered With a Half Empty Glass)
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