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How a presidency unravels
The Washington Post ^ | 23 Nov 2013 | George F. Will

Posted on 11/23/2013 6:31:33 AM PST by mandaladon

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To: Iron Munro
“It is not truth that matters, but victory.” ― Adolf Hitler
41 posted on 11/23/2013 7:48:49 AM PST by Kenny
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To: mandaladon

Obamacare is the ultimate knock-out punch to the USA. Obama knows this. It doesn’t matter to him if Obamcare works or not: The punch has already been thrown. Democrats stand around and laugh at our wounded nation.


42 posted on 11/23/2013 7:59:44 AM PST by abclily
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To: RoosterRedux

Are you forgetting one Bill Clinton??! Never mind his moronic blowjobs and other shenanigans. Obama is the second coming of the most evil politician(s) our country has ever had to face—the two-headed Bill and Hilary Clinton. Just look at Obama’s cabinet and most trusted advisers... all hideous Clintonites.

Just no other possible way IMO to fully explain the fact that Hillary Clinton has an excellent chance at becoming our next president once her placeholder Obama is done... The Clintons wrote the book.

Carter is just a dazed and dopey lala liberal and Obama sold his soul to the Clintons—and with the lapdog media and the biggest bunch of pussy republicans we’ve ever had, their bets are paying off, as is their investment in Obama’s soul.


43 posted on 11/23/2013 8:16:20 AM PST by Husker8877
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To: Starboard

If John Roberts had not identified Obamacare as a tax, we would not be so aware of what a crime it is. If it had just been accepted as a hidden fee, we would not be as aware of the creeping, creepy oppression we are now subject to. Roberts caused a light to shine on the corruption.


44 posted on 11/23/2013 8:17:18 AM PST by abclily
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To: Kenny
“It is not truth that matters, but victory.” ― Adolf Hitler

I think one aspect of the democrats going for the "nuclear option" is that it indicates they are now in a "do or die" mode.

They have put the Doomsday Machine into play.

They have stepped past the tipping point and are finished pretending they want anything other than total democrat party led tyranny.

If democrats can't gain unchallenged domination of America they will leave it in ashes rather than let their political enemies win.


45 posted on 11/23/2013 8:17:32 AM PST by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: G Larry

IMHO the GOP cannot be fixed or reformed. There may be some superficial accomodation on the surface but there is a deeply intrenched culture that will resist the Tea Party at every turn. Trust me, the same GOP that rolls over for the Dems will viciously fight the Tea Party tooth and nail to defend its turf. I know people who have worked inside the GOP and they have disabused me of any notion that it will ever change.

The Tea Party needs to be ever mindful of the treacherous GOP. There is simply no way the GOP-e will ever step aside and allow the Tea Party to gain control. Just my opinion.


46 posted on 11/23/2013 8:19:25 AM PST by Starboard
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To: RoosterRedux

“He has not one single trait which is admirable. “

I could not agree more. And from that flows this - anything Mr Nobel Peace Prize says or does is completely untrustworthy. Three more years of this - can this country survive...


47 posted on 11/23/2013 8:19:27 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot (U Think Leftist/Liberals Still Believe That Dissent = Highest Form of Patriotism?)
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To: Iron Munro

Agree with every sentence.


48 posted on 11/23/2013 8:20:16 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Starboard

They don’t need to step aside....just get run over.


49 posted on 11/23/2013 8:24:53 AM PST by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: abclily

Roberts actually RE-DEFINED the fee as a tax, which was a monumental favor to the Democrats. What is truely creepy is that this “decision” ignores the fact that taxes are originated in the House of Representatives. Obamacare tried to avoid the use of the word ‘tax’ but Roberts willingly took on the burden of doing this for the Dems.

In so doing, Roberts shined a light on himself by enabling this monstrosity that will financially and medically hurt tens of millions of people.


50 posted on 11/23/2013 8:29:04 AM PST by Starboard
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To: G Larry

Its going to be an epic and very dirty fight. GOPe will marshall all of its resources to combat the Tea Party. Look for use of lots of the same kinds of nasty tactics that the Democrats have successfully used over the years.


51 posted on 11/23/2013 8:32:31 AM PST by Starboard
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52 posted on 11/23/2013 8:55:53 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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I remember Reagan's argument for line-item veto.

Blast from the past, remember this one?

No controlling Legal Authority.

53 posted on 11/23/2013 9:19:23 AM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: mandaladon

Every speech he gives reminds me of the sound track in the movie Duel when the tanker goes over the cliff.


54 posted on 11/23/2013 9:29:37 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: bkopto

I personally know several blacks who are way out beyond the curve that this shows . Ben Carson is just such a one, though I dpn’t know him personally. So Obama could have been until he turned his young brain over to street-corner pharmacists.


55 posted on 11/23/2013 9:34:32 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: abclily
Roberts caused a light to shine on the corruption.


Nope!

56 posted on 11/23/2013 9:39:11 AM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: Starboard
Just my opinion.

Shared by many here.

57 posted on 11/23/2013 9:40:33 AM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

You are exactly right that boredom is a lack of imagination

In fact, there seems not to be too much imagination in the black community in general. There was George Washington Carver, du Bois, and some black composers, but otherwise mostly nada.

There seems to be a lot of the Bummer, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton ilk who do not create but merely seek to tear down the imaginative creations of whites.


58 posted on 11/23/2013 10:50:13 AM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: angry elephant
Way to dump on 1/8th of our population.

What "imaginative" things have you done with your life?

59 posted on 11/23/2013 11:32:38 AM PST by x
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“He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.” //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// These words are attributed to Valerie Jarrett, Jarrett may have said them but I don't believe for one minute that she believed them, Jarrett is not his, "...closest and longest serving advisor," she is his HANDLER, the person who in truth weilds the power of the presidency through the teleprompter reading puppet. Jarrett certainly knows he is anything but a genius.
60 posted on 11/23/2013 2:26:14 PM PST by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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