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http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/07/1192274/-Republican-senator-too-lazy-to-use-Google-finally-gets-his-answerRepublican senator too lazy to use Google finally gets his answer
by Jed Lewison Mar 07, 2013 8:10am PST
NBC's Chuck Todd reports what one Republican senator told him after attending last night's dinner with President Barack Obama:
"In fact, one senator told us that he learned, for the first time, the actual cuts that the president has put on the table. Leadership hadnt shared that list with them before."
That list is here. Senators didn't need "leadership" to share it with them. They could have gotten it within ten seconds on Google. All it would have taken was a willingness to pay a little attention to the world outside the conservative bubble.
I know these guys are Republicans, but I guarantee you that each senator at that dinner last night has progressive constituents who were outraged when they saw some of the cuts President Obama proposed for a Grand Bargain. If their constituents were capable of figuring out what the president had proposed, the senators should have been too. But instead of doing something crazy like, you know, actually having a rational and factual basis for their political positions, these guys apparently just jam their fingers in their ears and chant "I'm against it".
And I'm not just picking on one anonymous senator, either. Last week, Ezra Klein reported that a high-ranking House Republican was completely unaware that Obama's Grand Bargain proposal includes a reduction in Social Security spending via Chained CPI. Then, a few days later, a top GOP consultant made the same mistake, in hilarious fashion.
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Republican senator too lazy to use Google finally gets his answer (Original Post)
G_j
Mar 2013
OP
My ever rightward turning friend is turning into a wiilingly ignorant jerk
Populist_Prole
Mar 2013
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alsame
(7,784 posts)1. So they are as
ignorant as their constituents.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)2. My ever rightward turning friend is turning into a wiilingly ignorant jerk
He's gotten really opinionated the past few years and now every time I mention doing some internet research, including Google and Wikipedia he says he doesn't trust them, even for non-political stuff. He's a stubborn know-it-all and he discredits ANY source that runs counter to his bigoted bias. He doesn't read shit....nothing.
On the other hand, he thinks watching 30 minutes of talking heads on CNN makes him master of all he surveys.
pansypoo53219
(20,955 posts)3. google? FUX GNEWS didn't REPORT IT.