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Ironpost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 06:52 PM
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I think if we give them enough rope they will hang themselves.
It's an old saying that my late mother used. Fits the * crowd perfect. I don't think that they can continue with their lying ways and get by with it. When they go down they will go down hard. Some how that makes me happy...
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Scrooge Donating Member (211 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 06:53 PM
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1. Im with you
You dont know how many times I have fantasized about that...
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 06:54 PM
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2. And there is no way they can blame
their fall on the Dems. Not that they won't try, but I doubt if any except the truly deluded will believe them this time.
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 06:56 PM
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4. did you guys miss the last 4 years
everytime they fail they take no responsibility. I figure in 2008 Bush will still be blaming the problems he created on Clinton.
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Ducks In A Row Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:09 PM
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10. the dems could stand away from the congress building..
and the rethugs would still blame them

of course, the dems in congress seem to be trying to pretend to be rethugs (Reid being made minority leader) so who cares.
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info being Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 06:56 PM
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3. We don't have much rope left to give
So I suspect that whatever happens will have little to do with what we give or don't give.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:03 PM
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7. Let go of the rope...
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 06:59 PM
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5. The last thing we can do is give them an enemy
outside their party to focus on. That doesn't mean we stop documenting everything we can. It means we sit back and let them do their worst. With nobody outside their party to blame, they will turn inward when the inevitable happens.

The right always destroys itself in its quest for ideological purity, and does so through purges. You can see this in action now at the CIA and the State Department. It invariably leads to disaster as no information that would cause them to reexamine their strategy is ever allowed within the inner circle.

The left, of course, has factionalism to contend with, something that generally prevents it from ever getting power in the first place.

The best thing we can do is prepare ourselves as well as we can for what's coming and sit back and watch the show as they affix blame within their own party and start purging moderates for wrecking the purity and righteousness of their purpose with their doubts.
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Blue Gardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:01 PM
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6. I've thought that for the last four years
Yet look where we are.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:07 PM
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8. Every time they have the noose around their necks
and they drop through the trap door the repugs push them back up.
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Ironpost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:08 PM
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9. You mean like goal tending.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:36 PM
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11. So, what is the body limit that we should finally say
"ENOUGH!", or are you willing to just let the bloodshed and carnage continue unabated?
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Ironpost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:41 PM
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12. Enough already, one was too many.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 07:55 PM
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13. You really should take a look at the Congressional Record and see
how many Repukes supported "humanitarian missions" using the US forces.

Especially when we restored a rightfully elected President to power in Haiti without the loss of a single US military person's life. Well, if you want to count a victim of a drive-by shooting at a toll booth six months later, then you can scream all about how Clinton put our personnel at risk.

(That is not an attack on you.)

Of course, also, Clinton is "responsible" for the deaths of the personnel on the USS Cole, since it was half a world away and docked in a relatively safe harbor. Safe enough that the crew let their guard down and let a rubber raft full of explosives sidle up to the ship . . .
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