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Occupy protesters rally against Congress at Capitol ["Face it liberals, the Dems sold us out,"]
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Posted on 01/17/2012 10:35:13 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Occupy protesters rally against Congress at Capitol Photo 12:56pm EST

By Ian Simpson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Demonstrators from the Occupy movement rallied outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to protest against the influence of money on Congress.

In a sign of renewed vigor for the Occupy movement, which staged protests in many U.S. cities last fall, several hundred protesters gathered on the Capitol's West Front Lawn to greet members of Congress returning from a holiday break with a day of rallies and protests they said would include attempts to occupy lawmakers' offices.

Occupy protesters from around the country who gathered on the rain-soaked lawn carried signs saying, "Face it liberals, the Dems sold us out," "Congress for sale" and "Congress is not for sale."

"It's important to let people know we're not going to take it anymore. People are really mad about the way things are going and we want Congress to understand that," said protester James Cullen, a 30-year-old unemployed social worker from Greenbelt, Maryland.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 99percentlie; democrats; fundedbysoros; liberalfascism; nannystate; occulie; occulobby; occupy; occupyisalie; ows; socialism; socialistdemocrats; soros
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1 posted on 01/17/2012 10:35:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
"unemployed social worker"

That kinda has a nice ring to it.

2 posted on 01/17/2012 10:40:44 AM PST by digger48
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To: Sub-Driver
Occupy protesters . . . carried signs saying, . . . "Congress for sale" and "Congress is not for sale."

Print shop screwed up the order.

3 posted on 01/17/2012 10:42:06 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Sub-Driver

Can we get a political cartoonist to draw a sleeping Occupod with the sign “unoccupied” on his head?


4 posted on 01/17/2012 10:53:29 AM PST by YourAdHere (If Michael Jackson had gone to jail he'd probably still be alive. Just saying.)
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To: Sub-Driver

They are against money? So how did they pay for their transport, meals and rooms in a high dollar town like D.C.? Somebody ponied up a fair amount of cash for this demonstration. Follow their money.


5 posted on 01/17/2012 10:54:35 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: Sub-Driver
James Cullen, a 30-year-old unemployed social worker

Maybe this dope should be protesting the moron who told him going to college for this job was a good idea.

Of course they are not listening. No one cares about whiny children to lazy to move out of their parents basement. You morons couldn't even get the year right for your posters for crying out loud.

6 posted on 01/17/2012 11:01:05 AM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Occupy protesters from around the country who gathered on the rain-soaked lawn carried signs saying, "Face it liberals, the Dems sold us out," "Congress for sale" and "Congress is not for sale."

Congress is only for rent... they aren't honest enough to stay sold.

7 posted on 01/17/2012 11:16:21 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think the occupy movement will explode this spring and summer...and turn violent Chicago/Watts style.

I say this in the vein of Gerald Celente’s quote: When people lose everything, and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.

Regardless of what you hear, more and more people are reaching the end of their rope. When this hits critical mass, it is going to be very bad, followed by war.


8 posted on 01/17/2012 11:16:24 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: sportutegrl
Print shop screwed up the order.

Too many people working there with little understanding of English, probably. It happens...


9 posted on 01/17/2012 11:20:41 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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said protester James Cullen, a 30-year-old unemployed social worker from Greenbelt, Maryland.

This group finally starts to protest Washington and all they have to offer are the rants of an unemployed social worker? A person who actually went to college to learn how to hand out other peoples (taxpayer) money for a living? Way to set your sights high James! You should expect big things in life (and a lifetime of student loan debt) with goals like that!

They have also just revealed that OWS is nothing more than a lobby group itself. When they make statements such as, "Face it liberals, the Dems sold us out," they show how polarizing OWS really is. It's goals are nothing more than another money grab for the greedy left. When the TEA party protested Obamacare, they fought for the good of the country and NOT a political party.
10 posted on 01/17/2012 11:27:25 AM PST by nonamer
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To: cuban leaf

That’s funny raht dare...


11 posted on 01/17/2012 11:35:30 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Sub-Driver

They need to go occupy the House of the Halfrican. He’s at the root of most of their issues (and funding).


12 posted on 01/17/2012 12:10:34 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Sub-Driver

The democrat party used the OWS crowd just like they used the old lady who camped out in front of Bushes Crawford house.
They will forget them just as fast, ask the old lady who takes her phn. calls now.
She ain’t sipping koolaid with Nancy, Nancy gave her the whole jug.


13 posted on 01/17/2012 12:20:24 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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You Libbies need to get it through your heads: your pols don't care about you any more than they care about us. You're disposable.

They care about money and power first (as do a lot of the Repub pols). You're just a way for them to obtain power.

If your favored pols gain absolute power, you'll do as you're told, and like it....or else.

You're disposable.

14 posted on 01/17/2012 12:33:15 PM PST by FlyVet
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15 posted on 01/17/2012 2:00:03 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: cuban leaf
"Regardless of what you hear, more and more people are reaching the end of their rope. When this hits critical mass, it is going to be very bad, followed by war."

Add the Newsweek cover to this, and that's a lot of hate ratcheting up. The leftists have been cranking up the heat for years, with the bland assumption that Conservatives will NEVER snap and go Rambo on their vegetarian Commie fannies.

We'll find out, this summer and fall when the DNC steals the election...

16 posted on 01/17/2012 10:31:17 PM PST by jonascord (Political euthanasia would benefit the species...)
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—We’ll find out, this summer and fall when the DNC steals the election...—

We may also find out if it is apparent to the rank and file rabid Obama supporters that he will lose.


17 posted on 01/18/2012 5:05:27 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Seems to me Obama. Peelousy and Dingy delivered a lot in 2 short years:
  1. The framework for socialized medicine.
  2. Unchained FedGov™ form the budgetary process
  3. Unbridled spending
  4. Openly Gay in the military, DADT repeal
  5. Porkulous 1 & 2
  6. Ended the US occupation of Iraq prematurely
  7. 2 wildly socialist/communist Supreme Court appointments

Just what the hell do they want? Communism?

18 posted on 01/18/2012 5:17:18 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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