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[Exciting days – the Pope pays a political visit to the US, China's Xi Jinping is lecturing American business in Seattle while waiting for his turn to bamboozle Obama, and Hillary swings wildly to the left with new price control proposals while 'the outsiders' winnow the Republican field.  gjr]

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208 responses to “Sandbox – 23sep15”

  1. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Gregory | 24 September 2015 at 02:28 PM
    All of that climate related gibberish you are projectile delivering would be relevant….if any of it were true.
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2015-may-just-be-hottest-year-on-record/
    But it ain’t, its just a denial wives tale.

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  2. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Gregory | 24 September 2015 at 02:28 PM
    ‘I think it more likely that the NYT is backing off of the “denier” label because they’ve figured out there is more science on the side of the opposition than they were willing to believe when the term crawled out of the neo-Nazi ooze to similarly defame folks based on their understanding of the science that is involved”
    I believe it was AP that said it was scaling back the term ‘denier’ not the NYT.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    This comment from the “jon” link is utter bullshit.
    “For years, U.S. car buyers eschewed diesel due to the lack of infrastructure for the fuel, the competition with cheaper U.S. gasoline, and U.S. consumers reluctance to put up with some of the drawbacks of the diesel engine of yesteryear, such as engines that vibrated more and were noisier, Nerad said.”
    The only true parts are, “more expensive, and noisier” Plenty of people buy diesels.
    It’s just bad news for VW.
    Then there are these Ca. specials, from tractors to big rigs. OH the nightmare with those.

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  4. Walt Avatar

    YES Bill. Three German Shepherds in the house now.(counting the Mrs.) Yup,, fun times ahead. The first dog we trained picks up anything we drop. Helps with the laundry.( takes from the basket and puts in the front loader, and then to the dryer when it’s done.)
    She has learned to tell the Mrs. when she needs to take her meds.(diabetic)
    Yes, one smart girl we have. And less than a year and a half.
    This new pup really seems to be a nose dog. We got her from the Pennsylvania Dutch.
    The cats are ready to pack up and leave. ” OK… ONE dog we can take.. Now THIS bitch?”
    The rabbit won’t even come out of it’s cage, It too is on strike.

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Yes, AP, not NYT. Even Frisch is correct on occasion but that filled his quota. So, you think Mann writing The Union is a sign he’s winning? Amazing. Maybe you can convince him to post here, too.
    Here’s Curry on Steyn’s shot across the bow:
    http://judithcurry.com/2015/08/13/mark-steyns-new-book-on-michael-mann/
    Stevie should read the quotes from Mann’s peers and ponder the reasons why Steyn got 23 amicus briefs filed on his behalf, while Mann got bupkis.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    More good news for the LIBS. Boeing will open in China. (Good job union greed)
    Now China will have access to our tech. And all for a few planes.
    No wonder the leader of China went to Seattle first.

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Hay Steve!! I can’t seem to pick you out of the overwhelming crowd.
    http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/09/24/another-climate-prediction-fizzles-dc-climate-rally-for-pope-shrinks-from-expected-200000-to-just-hundreds/
    Looks like they need to remove a zero or two.

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  8. George Boardman Avatar

    Frisch is wrong when he writes, “I think it is unlikely that very many journalists are going to replace the one word ‘denier’ with the phrase ‘those who reject mainstream climate science’.”
    The decision is not up to the reporters (a journalist is a newsman looking for work); it will be made by the editors they work for. While the AP Style Book is the starting point for most newspapers, everybody makes exceptions to AP’s preferences to suit their own tastes.
    Big city papers do it more than small ones like The Union, but from now on every AP story on the subject will use the phrase “those who reject mainstream climate science.” Most newspapers won’t bother to change it.

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  9. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Hey Walt. Think, think, think. Its a big win for the USA. China is already doing deals with Airbus and has an Airbus plant in China and if Boeing didn’t do the deal, their entire $950 BILLION dollar spending budget for jets over the next 2 decades would have gone mainly to Airbus. We are talking about a finishing facility in China for Boeing. Like it or not, its the way of world trade. Do you comprehend that nearly a TRILLION dollars is at stake over 20 years in Chinese business. You want them to buy French planes instead of American? Boeing just put itself in a great stable financial stream with a huge backorder business now. HUGE win for Boeing and America. Ben may disagree, but this is a huge positive for American business.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The other shoe drops. Russians and Iranians set up general staff level coordination cell in Bagdad Iraq it is reported today. While at the same time an air bridge of Russian air cargo ships flies out of iran. Today 24 combat aircraft used the air bridge as cover flying without transponders and with jammers on using the radar shadow of the cargo ships by flying in tight formation. If they are just helping assad in Syria why fighters? Why do they need to attempt to hide their new squadrons with extreme measures like this? It looks like 0 has put the Russians back in place in the middle east to stay. Well now we get the meaning of 0’s quip to Medvedev to tell Vlad he will be more flexible in his second term. Yes declaring victory in Iraq and scramming brought lots of peace in our time. YO The ‘jon’ why don’t you tell us how well that 1928 treaty to end all wars worked out? For special credit the ‘jon’ what was the treaty called?

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  11. Walt Avatar

    First off,, I call your Muslim post from earlier in they day, and call with “the rest of the story”
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/24/muslims-erupt-school-board-refuses-shut-school-islamic-holiday/
    As for Boeing, Yes it is “good” for them. But NOT the U.S. worker, nor national security.
    How soon before the Tax hungry LIB complains about that “income” not getting taxed here?
    That money will stay in China.
    Yup 1/4 of all the boeing planes made go to China. Today, that profit stays here. But not after the new plant is built.
    Uh,, just how much do Chinese workers get paid? ( slave wages)
    OH YA “jon”,, crow some more on just “how great” that news is. and what drove them over there.

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  12. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Your facts are off base Walt. Do you understand that if we don’t manufacture (most of them in the US) the planes and sell to China, France and Airbus will?
    Its a win for the US, and yes, Obama had a hand in it. As well as getting the Chinese for the first time to do something about greenhouse emissions.
    Two wins this week for Obama and the US.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Guess the ‘jon’ missed the details on chinas agreement. They are not going to anything anytime soon. Just a PR ploy for 0. Devils in the details.

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  14. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    I particularly find the group- Aggressive Christianity -an interesting little meeting of good ole’ boys.

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  15. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Don, really- how does it feel to go around every day in one’s life imagining everything is a Muslim or Obama or Communist/Marxist plot to change America and the world? LOL. What a life.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, as the dozer said to the tractor, “Not so close, John Deere.” China can’t be doing all that swell as Carerpillar announces it will lay off 10,000 workers due to weak sales abroad. Read: China. Just in time to have a AGW summit as a nice diversion.
    About that VW story and all those angry people who bought diesel Wannabees. Good news. They canned the CEO. Porsche is taking over (just like in the good old Herbie the Love Bug days. Hip, Hip, Horray. The disgraced CEO is getting a measly 70 million dollar severe package. He got screwed royally. Hip, Hip, Horrah. Power to the people!

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  17. Walt Avatar

    Yes, 10 years out for Boeing and China. Still not good news. ( and the “crapper” calls it a win)
    And the “crapper” thinks allowing radical ragheads to have nukes is a win for “O”.
    Someone please flush. The “crapper” is full.
    The sandbox is sure stunk up now. the “jon” can’t even cover his own turds. ( a shovel ready job you just can’t finish)

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  18. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    I know Walt. If it was up to you, you’d be dropping bombs in Bejing, Tehran, Damascus, Pyongyang, and several other major cities in the Middle East and communist Asia. Then groundtroops. Finish the job. Stop being hamstrung by a PC society!

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    the ‘jon’ at 528 another fine example of the collectivist cricket corps -CCC in regards to my 452. Of course he does not want to recognize the reality of the geo political landscape changes in the middle east. It does not fit the party line. How’s hillarys’ reset button (misspelled) working out? That and 0’s open mike comment have come home to roost. The middle European members of NATO see the handwriting on the wall. That’s why so many are buying upgraded tanks, stealthy long range cruise stand off attackers and air defense at unprecedented rates and lots and lots of anti tank rockets. That many governments don’t make those tangible budget shifts during recessions without good reason and its 0’s buddy vlad.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Since the ‘jon’ seems like a man bun kind of guy he should check out the MD’s warning that those with the top knot man bun hair style can expect to have hair lines like a chick who has too tight corn rows or braids so that they have no hair forward of their ears by the time their 30. That constant tugging on the edge hair has predictable results. The tightness of the ‘jons’ man bun knot could explain his addled brain, he is cutting off the blood flow! lol

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Holy Smokes Walt. My kitty is quite upset and is being rather vocal about the new puppy. Oh, the cat is reading me the riot act and the third degree. Speaking about the third degree and being rather vocal, that link you posted @ 5:07 is scary. Just looking at the Peaceful Muslim’s gapping huge mouth got the hair on the back of my neck standing straight up. You could fly a Chinese built Boeing into that pie hole. I am too afraid to even play the video. Come on, Walt, a little warning would be nice if you are going to post that kind of stuff.
    Thank goodness I ain’t married to her. Imagine coming home after a hard day and watching/listening to her recount the day’s activities down at the school board? Or if you ever pissed her off? Her mouth alone would make a freight train take a dirt road.
    So, you answered Jon’s earlier inquiry the proper way: with facts and sources,
    Walt 1, crapper 0.
    I am sure the school can work it out. Call it a fall snow day or something. It’s only fair that since they banned Halloween as not to offend Jehovah Witnesses. Perhaps they could put one of the Muslim Holidays in that time slot. Unless, of course, it offends the Wickens. Oh, what is a PC Bored of Education to do?? So many choices, so little time.

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, as The Donald begins to slide in the polls, The Trump Effect remains. Looks like The White House internal polling is pointing to what pisses American voters off the most. Who in their right mind would have ever guessed the Trump Effect would reach the highest echelons of government. Better late than never, especially when leading from behind. The Trump Effect:
    http://news.yahoo.com/video/search-undocumented-immigrants-la-county-021837265.html
    Now, to be fair, The White House called this new trend disturbing. Gee, I wonder where all those unaccompanied minor illegal aliens got the idea to come here?? It’s not fair for the newbies. The other undocumented foreign nationals got free plane rides and bus tours just last year. And shelter and food and money and medical checkups. Totally unfair. August is always the slow time for illegal entry. Whatz up with that? Another mystery I tell ya. Let’s just call it “The Obama Effect”.
    http://www.gopusa.com/news/2015/09/22/arrests-of-illegal-alien-families-and-kids-soar-52/

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Changed my mind. I am voting for Bernie. Yep, Obama set out to gore my ox in 2018, but here comes The Bern to save the day. Thank goodness, I was beginning to sweat bullets. Image the thousands of dollars I would have to send to The Treasury if Obama got his way. Unfair!! I stand with my union brothers and sisters and government employees on this one. I stand with the working families!! And my pocketbook as well. The next President can just tax the rich to make up for the shortfall, or quadriple the application for citizenship and/or green card fees. Make that a 5,000 % fee increase if they want to come here so badly. Nobody gores my ox. Go Bernie Go…er. go Senator Sanders, go. Give ’em Hell, Senator Sanders. I love Bernie!!
    http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/254842-sanders-top-dems-urge-repeal-of-cadillac-tax

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  24. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Who needs the EPA and the Clean Air Act? Perhaps millions of people who might otherwise be dead.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/upshot/the-connection-between-cleaner-air-and-longer-lives.html

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  25. Bill tozer Avatar
    Bill tozer

    Why should you care.crapper?? You don’t believe in the sanctity of life anyway, unlike your new found hero The Pope.

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  26. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    BillT, excellent points. The liberals are all devoid of a firm belief system. As you said, they will dismember babies (probably eat them too) and then chastise Christians for their beliefs on homosexual marriage or any other perversion. You just can’t make this stuff up. I thought these libs wanted a lot less “carbon footprints” so they should be encouraging people to croak early from asthma and other disease. They can’t make up their mind.

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  27. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Classy post Todd. Well reasoned and thought out. Apparently you didn’t grasp the Pope’s message of grace, compassion and Christian love today. You clearly aren’t a Christian.

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  28. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Trump, for once, is correct when he says the Chinese are beating us at everything. Now Cap and Trade. The USA is an embarrassment with our collection of deniers in Congress. We need some good old American Exceptionalism in matters of carbon emissions, and we get none from the ignorant deniers in Congress, such as James Imhofe.
    Hats off to the Chinese. And President Obama for working to get the Chinese on-board. When will the USA catch up?
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-climate-change_56049218e4b0fde8b0d20a01?joytx1orngress.

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  29. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    How can a liberal live with the murder and selling of baby body parts? How is that connected to a “women’s health”? Oh well, the liberal is as close to the devil as one can get.

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  30. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    I don’t know Todd. I don’t know of anyone selling baby parts.

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  31. Walt Avatar

    A swift kick to the nuts for the AGW crew AND the bleeding heart “don’t deport illegals with kids” clan.
    And so much for “rising sea levels”claim.
    http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/24/new-zealand-deports-worlds-first-climate-change-refugee/
    “After a four-year legal battle to be recognized as the world’s first global warming refugee, Ioane Teitiota is being sent back home to the island nation of Kiribati after he ran out of legal avenues with which to extend his stay in New Zealand.”
    Yup,, even the New Zealand born kids go with.
    “For years, the United Nations and environmentalists warned there would be tens of millions of people forced to leave their homes due to global warming. The United Nations predicted there would be 50 million climate refugees by 2010 — a number that failed to materialize.”
    “Interestingly enough, Kiribati’s tidal gauge shows the sea level around the island nation has been falling in recent decades.”
    The AGW “true believers” need to start wearing a cup.
    OK Steve,, it’s damage control time.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Yes Bill,, that was one scary woman. How come she wasn’t wearing her burka? ( if anyone needed to wear one,,,) “jon’s” kind of woman.

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  33. Bill tozer Avatar
    Bill tozer

    Well, as long as China is building at least one coal fired plant every month for the next 3-6 or ten years and the Cap rules don’t apply to them until after some of us are long gone, one could conceivably declRe it a victory for Obama. What a shrewd negotiator he is. China 1, Obama 0
    Now, it those peaceful pilgrims could only follow orders and directions instead of thinking the rules do not apply to them ( like China and Iran(, these whole trade by could have been avoided. Oh well, don’t have to worry anymore about their carbon footprint.
    http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-criticised-hajj-stampede-kills-more-700-024709098.html

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Walt, I think these AGW true believers have a mental disorder. They should be arrested and forced into concentration camps for their own safety. Then they can commit hari-kiri to lower the “carbon footprints” they want removed from the planet. Plus, they want to lower the populations of people not white. I truly think they are deranged. Along with them selling body parts of babies, we must stay vigilant!

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  35. Bill tozer Avatar
    Bill tozer

    Typing on little phone. Ok, declare victory for O and this whole tragedy could have been avoided if they did not believe the rules do not apply to them. Such impatience and disregard for orders, just like those who feel superior to others, like Libs, who write lWs former others, not themselves. A senseless avoidable tragedy nonetheless

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  36. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Walt, damage control is NEVER needed when you cite the Daily Caller. Laughs from many of us are plentiful however.

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jon | 24 September 2015 at 10:42 PM
    Walt, damage control is NEVER needed when you cite the Daily Caller. Laughs from many of us are plentiful however.

    Yeah Walt! You should always cite legitimate news sites like the Huffington Post and DailyKos where clear and unbiased information is always provided!

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Laughs from many of us, jon? Us? Boy, you are sounding like The ROFLMAO One more and more with each passing day. Better see a doc…a medical doc. Worried about ya.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153194441998757&set=p.10153194441998757&type=3&theater

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Now here is something that I think we can all finally agree is a good thing!
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/us/boehner-will-resign-from-congress.html?_r=0
    See it’s not always venom and snark…….sometimes I’m a uniter!

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    Now jon I have to offer a mea culpa…..these refugees indeed seem to be the hearty stock with which Germany and Europe will rebuild it’s aging workforce.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3247831/Rape-child-abuse-rife-overcrowded-asylum-centres-huge-surge-migrants-pushes-Germany-s-services-breaking-point-claim-womens-rights-groups-politicians.html

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  41. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    John Boehner is GONE! End of October. GONE, goodbye, not just the Speaker role.
    Even though he was toast as Speaker after October 1, I think it was the flood of emotion yesterday during the Pope’s speech. His conscience could not reconcile the Pope’s message and the lunatic behavior he has to deal with in his party.

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  42. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    sorry fish, you got the scoop!

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  43. Bill tozer Avatar
    Bill tozer

    Good riddance to Mr. Speaker.
    Fish, Dr. Carson cautions that we need to protect women and women’s rights from abuse within the Muslim Community and is derided by the pundits. And just then his numbers and donates spike. Go figure.
    We must not speak the truth because it might some sad, which is the new meaning of the word offensive. Wonder what the defenders of the little people have to say?
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/733852703415436/?type=3&source=48

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jon | 25 September 2015 at 07:29 AM
    His conscience could not reconcile the Pope’s message and the lunatic behavior he has to deal with in his party.

    WE ARE RELIABLY INFORMED….CHRISTIANITY HAS NO PLACE IN MODERN AMERICAN GOVERNANCE.
    Nah actually it has more to do with the fact that he was little more than a corrupt and useless foil for President Ward Heeler. I imagine at the end even John Boehner couldn’t stand stand to see John Boehner in the bathroom mirror!
    Good riddance.

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  45. Bill tozer Avatar
    Bill tozer

    Well, the Dems were not too offended when they crafted the Jim Crow Laws, now were they?
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/pb.217926015008110.-2207520000.1443194032./708413732626000/?type=3&source=42
    Good to see the Three Southern Boys doing what they do best. The Man from Tennessee, the Man from Georgia, and The Man from Hope. Arkansas. All men are pigs and women are equal to men
    So, Jon, help a brother out with this cultural thing. Why is chopping off hands and heads ok, but eating bacon is not. I call that having a broken thinker, aka lib logic 101

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  46. Walt Avatar

    Yupppp,,, Bonehead has run out of tissue. Another RINO bites the dust.
    Word has it, the Tea Party elect wanted his head on a pike for constant siding with the LIBS, and not Conservatives.
    Now why on Earth did the LIBS throw him under the bus? ( “nope, your on your own this time”) They loved him as Speaker.
    I hope Trey Gowdy will get the job when the votes are cast.
    Now to get the old fossil out that runs the Senate, since it’s open season on RINOS.

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  47. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Best of luck Walt, as your party continues to screw itself over. This time with a government shutdown looming. Yeah, that’s going to win you converts for 2016!
    Go GOP!

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  48. Walt Avatar

    Yes “crapper” The Tea Party is saving the “right”. And bonehead gives a parting “finger” to Conservatives by making a deal with the wicked witch of the Wast, Nancy P. to fund the baby killers. What’s with you fools? Kill the unborn, yet demand an end to capital punishment to rid the world of low life scum, who lost their right to breath.
    Bonehead is the LIBS “speaker”. If it wasn’t for LIBS he would have never got the job.
    “go GOP”??? Nope,, GO Tea Party. They are the ones taking him down.

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  49. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Tea Party didn’t do so well in the 2014 midterms. And not well at all in 2012.
    Its going to be CHAOS run amok. These Tea Baggers have no clue how to govern.
    Ironic that you guys always talked about needing the “adult in the room”. Now you have wild adolescents running the House.
    Best of luck!

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