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Alan Simpson Strikes Back
National Review ^ | 6/22/2011 | Andrew Stiles

Posted on 06/22/2011 12:33:29 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross

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Not everything in the article is good. Alan Simpson is still a Democrat, even at 80 when he should know better. But he reminds me a little of the "last good Democrat" - Zell Miller.

Any democrat who rips the poseur 0bama, AARP and Norquist in the same article that he praises Ryan and Coburn can't be all bad.

1 posted on 06/22/2011 12:33:35 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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To: Servant of the Cross

I thought Simpson was Republican?


2 posted on 06/22/2011 12:43:33 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (EX Congressman Anthony Weiner: "Celebrate 'Perversity'")
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Simpson has always been a RINO, which is why he is always picked to represent the Republican side when democrats want need a “republican” voice on some blue ribbon commission. However, unlike other RINO’s he seems to have the ability to mask it with folksy talk and an “ahh shucks” attitude which seems to give him a pass with most conservatives.
3 posted on 06/22/2011 12:46:22 PM PDT by apillar
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Well, Alan Simpson made a career of being in govt. He is part of the problem. If he really wanted to be a solution maker, he should have done so a long time ago.


4 posted on 06/22/2011 12:46:38 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Servant of the Cross

Simpson has always been a RINO, which is why he is always picked to represent the Republican side when democrats want a “republican” voice on some blue ribbon commission. However, unlike other RINO’s he seems to have the ability to mask it with folksy talk and an “ahh shucks” attitude which seems to give him a pass with most conservatives.


5 posted on 06/22/2011 12:46:42 PM PDT by apillar
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Screw Simpson.....Alan, just fade the hell away and STFU!


6 posted on 06/22/2011 12:48:01 PM PDT by Gaffer
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Well, Alan Simpson make a career of being in govt. He has been part of the problem all of his life and not a solution maker.

I could be wrong, but I think he was in Congress some where when govt. went to base line accounting.

7 posted on 06/22/2011 12:48:42 PM PDT by Parmy
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Old “aw shucks” Simpson uses the government favorite tweet “tax expenditures” in making his argument. Tax expenditures mean the government owns you and anything they let you keep of what you earn is a tax expenditure. Idiots like Simpson should just go away.


8 posted on 06/22/2011 12:53:53 PM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: Servant of the Cross

? Simpson is a Republican

As to who the good guy is and who is wearing the black hat...I cant tell anymore


9 posted on 06/22/2011 12:58:43 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Servant of the Cross

Simpson is a lifelong chickensh!t of the Joe Scarborough or Charlie Crist variety (or Schwarzenegger, et al. ad nauseum) who is always most comfortable and boldly swaggering when he is flailing away at Republican straw men in precisely the fashion that the media will greet with full approval.

He has never taken a “courageous” or “independent” stand that flew in the face of media/leftwing operatives.

Where, for instance, was his great bravery and vision when it came to Obamacare and his stupid Balanced Budget Commission recommendations? Nowhere, that’s where. They didn’t oppose it, didn’t tweak it, DIDN’T MENTION IT.

The guy is a coward and a scoundrel...man, he p!sses me off....


10 posted on 06/22/2011 1:01:01 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: A_Former_Democrat

oops.


11 posted on 06/22/2011 1:02:02 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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Paul Ryan, the one with the cojones to take it to them. Good to hear at least some are on his side. AARP can go to hell. They’ve got to be losing members at this point. I can’t wait until they are put put of business. Among my 50-something friends, no one has joined. And several folks that are older have cancelled their memberships. That’s one trend I’d like to see continue.


12 posted on 06/22/2011 1:05:38 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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He’s fallen off his rocker and he can’t get up.


13 posted on 06/22/2011 1:19:34 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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Sen. Simpson seems to spend an inordinate amount of time tracking down bloggers and forum posters who criticize him on the web and then sending them long scathing emails telling them how wrong they are and that he is really a wonderful guy.

I know someone who got one of these and it was truly, truly bizarre.


14 posted on 06/22/2011 1:39:29 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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FTA:

“Who would sign anything before coming to office before reviewing the facts, conditions, and situation?” asks Simpson. “Why would anyone — on any hot issue you can imagine — lock themselves into a position?”

I guess the concept of "principles" just fails the political reality test where the linguini-spined live.

15 posted on 06/22/2011 1:42:40 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Alan Simpson is a Republican, for about the last 80 years!


16 posted on 06/22/2011 2:02:36 PM PDT by pgkdan (Time for a Cain Mutiny!)
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My enduring memory of Alan Simpson comes from my family's USA tour in 1991. He was in the Senate then. We were in Cody, WY, Simposn's home town, on July 4th, and we watched the parade they had. Simpson was riding in some car deep in the parade. Kennedy never would have been back there.

ML/NJ

17 posted on 06/22/2011 2:06:45 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Servant of the Cross

Simpson is and was a self-aggrandizing, egotistical camera hog, in love with the sound of his own voice. Add that to his RINO pedigree and he should really fade away like the old sell-out he is.


18 posted on 06/22/2011 2:06:56 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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I thought Simpson was Republican?

He was/is/still might be (in name only). Simpson's strong point always was that he had a sense of humor, not that his politics were right.

The old sh!t spent years and years in the senate helping generate the mess we are in now, and thinks he has a good idea to recover ... when pigs can whistle.

I fear that, unless new thinking arrives soon, the only out will be after total collapse.

19 posted on 06/22/2011 2:18:47 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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“Alan Simpson is a Republican, for about the last 80 years!”

Simpson was RINO his entire political career. After retiring he admitted he found it disgusting that Wyoming voters cared about gun rights and little else.


20 posted on 06/22/2011 2:34:16 PM PDT by Sea Parrot
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