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Legislators pairing off for bipartisan seating at Obama speech
cnn.com ^ | January 23, 2011 | Tom Cohen

Posted on 01/23/2011 12:12:31 PM PST by ColdOne

Washington (CNN) -- Will Tuesday be "Date Night" in Congress for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address?

Democratic and Republican legislators are pairing off to sit together for the annual speech in a symbolic gesture of bipartisanship, and some of the combinations so far are intriguing.

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the epitome of East Coast liberalism, and Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a symbol of conservative intransigence, are putting aside their differences to cross the political aisle for a night, Schumer said Sunday.

"I think if Coburn and Schumer can sit next to each other, then probably just about everybody can," Schumer told the CBS program "Face the Nation," adding: "It's true it's symbolic, but let's not forget (that) oftentimes in history, symbols influence reality."

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KEYWORDS: dumbanddumber
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To: ColdOne

Republicans are such idiots. They’re like the perpetual Charlie Brown’s being told by Lucy that yes, this time, she REALLY will let him kick the ball...


81 posted on 01/23/2011 2:54:13 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: ColdOne

Anyone here or, of you know of, was contacted by your Republican Rep. BEFORE this so called agreement was implemented? Plenty of time for OUR reps aids to have contacted us before this!


82 posted on 01/23/2011 3:18:07 PM PST by Varsity Flight
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To: ColdOne

You know how you feel embarassed FOR someone who reads their own poetry aloud and thinks it is a good thing? That is how I feel about these people. Embarassed for them, that they don’t seem to realize how really dumb they appear.


83 posted on 01/23/2011 3:35:37 PM PST by Anima Mundi (If you try to fail and you succeed , what have you just done?)
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To: ColdOne

So, which one’s going to be the man and which one’s the woman?


84 posted on 01/23/2011 3:56:13 PM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: ColdOne

PUKE


85 posted on 01/23/2011 4:11:19 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: ColdOne
This had BETTER not be true.

Anybody consorting with the marxist enemy within is going to be PRIMARIED.

86 posted on 01/23/2011 4:46:05 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: ColdOne
Scumbag traitors all!

Sitting down with, or playing nice with, the enemy is what killed most of the 55000 in the KW and the 50000 in Vietnam.

Yet there still lots of serfs out there that actually believe the GOP will really attempt to change the direction of this unstoppable slide into permanent tyranny...

87 posted on 01/23/2011 5:40:24 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: ColdOne

After they raise the debt ceiling into the stratosphere, perhaps they could all give themselves (and their relatives) a big fat raise.


88 posted on 01/23/2011 5:40:28 PM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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So whenever there is applause, the image will be that of generalized applause, and can be manipulated in a way that serves obama’s purposes.

Well stated and worth repeating. The Republicans are fools.

89 posted on 01/23/2011 6:11:11 PM PST by plain talk
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