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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 01:51 PM Original message |
"Fiscal Conservatives" aka. Teabagger Whackos Will Be "Barred from Supercommittee" |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
1. Cool... no Rand Paul, no Demint, no Graham, no Toomey |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Well, Sanders can rest easy that he "embraced" Mitch McConnell's proposal which originated this idea |
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Zen Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. I'd pick Franken, Boxer and Whitehouse. |
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Rectangle (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 04:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Sherrod Brown too! eom |
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tosh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. I so hope this is true. |
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fredamae (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm not gullible enuf to believe any of them anymore |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
5. None of the big names would want to be on it anyway |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. FYI: SS and Medicare benefits are exempt from all cuts. Ditto re: many programs for the poor. |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. You keep posting this and it's not true. Exempt from trigger, yes, the Committee? No |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. You're wrong. The WH fact sheet and several political analysts all concur on this fact. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. You're wrong. The WH fact sheet does not put limits on what the committee can consider |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 03:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. "Enforcement protects Social Security, Medicare beneficiaries, & low-income programs from any cuts" |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 03:39 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. "Exempt from trigger, yes, the Committee? No". Why bother quoting what the trigger rules are? |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 03:55 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. "Likewise, any cuts to Medicare would be capped and limited to the provider side." |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 04:23 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Do you bother reading people's posts, or do you just write the first thing that comes into your head |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 07:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. I am quoting the WH Fact Sheet. You're making false accusations. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-03-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. "all the priorities of both parties on the table – including both entitlement reform |
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markpkessinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 06:46 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. You mean the White House Spin Sheet? |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 07:47 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. All you offer are petty insults. Are you going to vote for the Democratic President in 2012? Hmm? |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
6. Coburn and Chambliss voted against the bill for not going far enough |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. If it quacks like a duck... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
9. RLOL sorry, thus great comedy is now part of the routine |
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Llewlladdwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
10. Looks like it's not true... |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
11. McConnell now says anyone can serve. He caved. Looks like he'll be conducting "interviews" now. |
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fredamae (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 04:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. He never intended to keep his word n/t |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yeah, I highly doubt that... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
26. I hope they pick some Republicans we can trust! |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
27. Whoever the Republicans pick are going to vote lock step with the Party |
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