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Durbin: Republican Strategy On Shutdown Was ‘A Complete Disaster’
cbslocal.com ^ | October 17, 2013

Posted on 10/17/2013 8:43:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

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1 posted on 10/17/2013 8:43:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

What a surprise thing to hear from Turban Durbin!


2 posted on 10/17/2013 8:46:18 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Dear Turbin; pass a budget.


3 posted on 10/17/2013 8:46:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Right Wing Assault

Was it? Or was it working—look at Obamas Poll numbers.


4 posted on 10/17/2013 8:47:14 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Dear Turban: Resign


5 posted on 10/17/2013 8:47:21 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Tailgunner Joe

it’s politics durbin you louse

everything is acceptable

not negotiating which is what the lowlife in the white house did is what is totally unacceptable


6 posted on 10/17/2013 8:48:44 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This is disturbing. Turban is an authority on disasters.
One might even say, this Dick is a Master of Disaster.


7 posted on 10/17/2013 8:48:47 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

FUDD !


8 posted on 10/17/2013 8:48:57 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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The hubris of gloat.


9 posted on 10/17/2013 8:49:59 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Lighten up Dick. If you communists didn’t own the liars in the national “media”, we would have kicked your asses and saved the country’s future at the same time. You ‘RATS all owe your “media” toads a big wet one on the lips for saving your asses.


10 posted on 10/17/2013 8:50:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hold on to your sombrero! Here comes amnesty! The GOP is on a roll!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

No.


11 posted on 10/17/2013 8:51:10 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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Durbin said there were no winners in the battle over shutting down the federal government
That's a lie. The size of McConnell's bribe is a winner (for him). I hope everybody's congress critters had enough sense to not leave any money on the bribe table. TREAT: McConnell-Reid Deal Includes $2 Billion Earmark for Kentucky Project...
12 posted on 10/17/2013 8:51:36 PM PDT by Milhous
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To: Tailgunner Joe

ObamaCare is a tar baby and Turbin is too stupid to see the disaster.


13 posted on 10/17/2013 8:51:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Hey, Sen Turban, how's that Obamacare workin’ out for ya? Have fun playing with that tar baby. The shutdown drew bright lines of who's for and against that monstrosity, and your side is in for a ton of pain over it.
14 posted on 10/17/2013 8:53:36 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

When “our side” decided to trash Cruz and Co., they ensured this would be the outcome.

Instead of sticking together and fighting a meaningful battle, they betrayed us and lent credibility to all these BS charges.

I doubt the GOP ever wins anything of significance again, and now that they have proven that they hate us just as much as the Dems do, who cares?


15 posted on 10/17/2013 8:57:30 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Sometimes you do the opposite of the polls and are rewarded in the election.

Pray America is Waking Up


16 posted on 10/17/2013 8:59:42 PM PDT by bray (Coming Jan 2014: The Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Obama’s approval rating dropped to 37% during the shutdown.

Notice how Durbin doesn’t address this factoid.


17 posted on 10/17/2013 9:01:24 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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“The Tea Party has been discredited, but still they are a faction within the House Republicans, and Boehner is enthralled by them. So many times he’s turned his back on his country, turned his back on the House, turned his back on a majority of the Republican members of the House, to listen to a handful of Tea Party disgruntled people.

Nice job betraying us, Boehner; here's your reward.

18 posted on 10/17/2013 9:01:48 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
I know we Republicans didn't win anything major, but Obama was hurt the most from this.

Besides, with the Healthcare.gov roll-out being such a massive, massive failure and with ABSOLUTELY NO PROSPECT of Obama and his admin fixing it in the next 3-4 months, I believe that the Pubbies decided to get out of the way of this train wreck before Obama figured out how to blame them for it.

Even this McConnell gambit of requiring a majority vote to halt a debt limit increase in February plays into this. Don't create any distractions and Republican blame at the crucial time when 40,000,000 people face the Valentine's deadline to get insurance six weeks before the March 31 "drop dead" penalty date.

Long-term, Congress cannot abdicate their responsibility to raise the debt limit. This is a one-time deal to avoid a Republican blamefest in February.

19 posted on 10/17/2013 9:10:55 PM PDT by DJtex
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To: JPG

There has been a lot of tape of the ‘Rats defending that horrible law the past couple of weeks. It should be useful in 2014. I am really surprised that they do not see it coming.


20 posted on 10/17/2013 9:18:15 PM PDT by jospehm20
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