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Re: My God, you are an idiot.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
That behavior has, at most, one more election cycle. If the Rs don't return sanity to the congress* after 2012, then they will surely be voted down by 2014. The tea partiers will not be a long-lived phenom.
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That would be nice if it were true but he is describing a bigger and more fundamental change.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Wasn't there high overall turnout for a midterm. I thought so.
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I don't think so.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
he also seems to think gridlock is bad, but I don't, of course gridlock to an extent congress can't function is not sustainable, but in general some gridlock is healthy for us all. and as to the tactics in the Senate he seems to have forgotten what the Dems did there in the Bush admin. They started the trend, the Rs may have increased it, but the start was most clearly the Dems.
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9/11 changed everything?
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