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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 14:20:38 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:09:23 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Hardly. Just calling her batshit. Which she is. End of discussion. Facts are facts.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:23:39 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 14:20:38 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
. . . and lies are lies, so stop telling lies.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 14:23:59 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:08:34 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
No it isn't. He signed the Gore bill solely because he had to. He didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of passing his. The interstate highway project was one of the last New Deal projects ever done. Truman blew universal healthcare, which was another. Would have been easier to realign the healthcare structure then than now, after a generation +.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:24:13 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:23:39 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Well ... if Michelle Bachmann is sane, then I guess you are too. :)

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:25:15 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 14:23:59 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
LOL! No president "has to" sign a bill. Eisenhower signed it because he wanted to.

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Re: GOP *finally* declares open war on teabaggers and other crazies

Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Mar 10 14:26:32 2014, in response to Re: GOP *finally* declares open war on teabaggers and other crazies, posted by cortelyounext on Mon Mar 10 13:34:06 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
did you hear about MS13 winning the election in El Salvador?

Abortion is illegal in El Salvador.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:32:05 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 12:05:44 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
It's the only evidence left. FOX News used DMCA to remove all copies of the original recordings of what they said during the "Tea party" thing they created with Beck, and ordered all references to it taken off the internet. We watched Stewart and Colbert that night and it was there clear as day, "Look at all those tea partiers out there teabagging!"

The original symbols of the "party" was to mail teabags to their reps in Washington and "teabag Washington" ... that FOX News had no idea of what they were saying until everybody else was giggling at them (including Maddow on MSNBC who really sent it up) is demonstrated in what's left to their own reaction to it all.

The internet can revise history faster than you can say "Goebbels" and this is just another demonstration of how it works. :(

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:34:05 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 12:08:43 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Yep ... Arte Johnson whooped his ass. :)

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 14:34:36 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:24:13 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Conversely, if Michele Bachmann isn't ( which is the case), then.......

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 14:43:14 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:25:15 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
It would have been overridden if he hadn't. That would have made him look bad in an election year. The project was very popular. He did it for politica, not beause he wanted to.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:53:08 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:25:15 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Generals tend to have a clue as to when it's time to just sign the surrender papers.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:53:11 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 14:43:14 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Speculation. Fact is, he wanted the highway system and he got it.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:57:58 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 14:53:11 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
No, Eisenhower wanted the railroads made whole again after all they did for the war effort. It was the military industrial complex that wanted the highway bill instead since the Bechtels of the world saw huge dollar signs there. And Eisenhower was pretty pissed about the Military Industrial Complex and their antics in general.

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Re: GOP *finally* declares open war on teabaggers and other crazies

Posted by LuchAAA on Mon Mar 10 15:02:09 2014, in response to Re: GOP *finally* declares open war on teabaggers and other crazies, posted by cortelyounext on Mon Mar 10 13:34:06 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
oh, did you see me thread about the woman in Brentwood who was victim of KO game?

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 15:29:55 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:57:58 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Eisenhower wanted the railroads made whole again after all they did for the war effort.

Eisenhower was a big highwayman. His early army reputation for logistics was made, when he led the Army's cross-country convoy in 1919.

Truman was also pro-highway. His career in Jackson County involved building the highway network. He was out of office for 2 years during the 1920's. He was hired by the Good Roads Association as a regional director. The Good Roads Association later became the AAA.

FDR was pro railroad (except for the PRR.) His 1939 bill would have had users bear direct costs for highway use through tolls.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 15:34:39 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:57:58 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Baloney. If Eisenhower was so pro-railroad, he would have vetoed every bill having to do with the highways.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 15:37:53 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 15:29:55 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Where was FDR pro-railroad?

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 15:42:34 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 15:37:53 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Follow his father's money.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 15:44:02 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 15:29:55 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
I think we're on two different pages here. Yes, the ability to supply troop movements in various ways (the Autobahn really impressed him) meant that highways similar to that was seen as essential logistics. However the railroads here got chewed up by WWII, and he recognized that. What he wanted was to reimburse the railroads for all the wear and tear and cut them some slack so they could rebuild after the war.

The Gore bill did nothing for them.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 15:44:59 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 15:34:39 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Heh. And they would have just passed them over his head. Back in those days, you COMPROMISED to get what you want.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Dave on Mon Mar 10 15:50:45 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 15:44:59 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Back in those days, you COMPROMISED to get what you want.

Compromise...how quaint....

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 16:17:34 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 15:44:02 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
The Gore bill did nothing for them [railroads].

It wrecked them.

he wanted was to reimburse the railroads...

Several people have noted that Eisenhower's private views were far more progressive than his public stances. The rationale for these differences has been that he accepted his advisors' cost estimates for his momentary progressive impulse.

Remember what Eisenhower's Secretary of Defence said: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."



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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:38:09 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 15:44:59 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Speculation. Not that it matters; the signing thereof proves that he supported it anyway.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:38:12 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Dave on Mon Mar 10 15:50:45 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
That's OK. They keep proving that the interstate highway system is what Eisenhower wanted . . . which was my point to begin with.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by mtk52983 on Mon Mar 10 16:46:37 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:38:09 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Were you actually in Eisenhower's mind? If not then this entire thread, all sides of it, is pure conjecture

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:52:46 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by mtk52983 on Mon Mar 10 16:46:37 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Certainly is conjecture on the part of the other side of this argument, who is claiming that Eisenhower was somehow against the building of the interstates. All I'm saying is that he was for them; certainly his big trip across the USA before WWII was exemplary of his partiality for highways spanning the contiguous 48 at least.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:57:27 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 16:17:34 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Remember what Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense said: "What's good for General Motors is good for the country."

Crony corporatism going back those days. Echoic of today's administration.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by mtk52983 on Mon Mar 10 17:16:47 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:52:46 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
It is conjecture to say that he was for it because he signed the bill. He may not have liked what the bill stood for, but may have felt that it was better than nothing and he did not want to waste political capital on something that would have been overridden easily. As none of us were there, none of us can say for sure

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 18:27:42 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:57:27 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Crony corporatism going back those days

What was it that Romney said about corporations being people?

Contrast that attitude with TR's reply to J.P. Morgan, on the latter's White House visit regarding anti-trust action against Morgan's railroad trust.

Morgan said, "Send your man to see my man and tell him to fix it up." Roosevelt's answer to that was, "That can not be done. Nobody treats as a sovereign equal to -- of the President. No company can presume to be -- no private interest can presume to be equal to the government. The government must be superior to all of these."

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 19:06:15 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:38:09 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Hardly speculation, it's all history now. Very well documented history.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 19:08:29 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by mtk52983 on Mon Mar 10 17:16:47 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
There's plenty of documentation to back up the fact that he signed it as a compromise, being unable to get his bill any traction.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 19:10:08 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:57:27 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
...and the last one, several before that and Reagan, naturally, who put Bechtel in the Cabinet.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 19:59:39 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by mtk52983 on Mon Mar 10 17:16:47 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
It is conjecture to say that he was for it because he signed the bill

It can be inferred quite readily from his past and his own statements.

What's conjecture is that he was in any way against the notion of interstate highways, especially due to the lack of any proof and his verbal statements in favor. Never mind the fact that it bears his name.

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Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?

Posted by RockParkMan on Mon Mar 10 20:12:04 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Mar 9 16:09:06 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
GOP-e= GOP - Establishment???

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Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?

Posted by dand124 on Mon Mar 10 20:14:10 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?, posted by RockParkMan on Mon Mar 10 20:12:04 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
the olog-hai at freerepublic also uses the term

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Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 20:33:45 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?, posted by RockParkMan on Mon Mar 10 20:12:04 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Correct.

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Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 20:34:51 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?, posted by dand124 on Mon Mar 10 20:14:10 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Thanks so much for introducing us. Stalker.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 20:34:58 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 16:17:34 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Yep ... sure do. Remember his little ditty when he was leaving office about the Military-industrial complex? There's reasons for his disillusionment and completely walking away once he left office. That was part of it. Like I said, Eisenhower was a good man and was quite saddened in playing with the government. He couldn't get out of htere fast enough once he had a taste of it, particularly in his second term.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 20:35:48 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 18:27:42 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Damned communist! :)

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Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?

Posted by RockParkMan on Mon Mar 10 20:36:09 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e What is it?!?!?, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 20:33:45 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
thank You.


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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 20:36:46 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Dave on Mon Mar 10 15:50:45 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
See? TOLD you I was old school. :)

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by RockParkMan on Mon Mar 10 20:38:14 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Stephen Bauman on Mon Mar 10 18:27:42 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
That's why the GOP threw TR out resulting in TR founding The Progressive Party ("Bull Moose")

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 20:38:23 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 16:52:46 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
I never SAID that. I said that Eisenhower had sympathies for the railroad since it was HIS Army that wore out their rails and equipment and he knew it.

What I *did* say is that he had different plans for what turned out to be the Gore plan for construction of the interstates. HIS interest in it was largely military, not benefiting General Motors.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 20:42:13 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 19:08:29 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Nah ... these is modern times and the intertubes. History is whatever google finds of what bloggers in their twenties say it is. :-\

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by bingbong on Mon Mar 10 21:00:55 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 19:59:39 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Those highways weren't named the Eisenhower Interstate system until 1993, when those signs were put up.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by RockParkMan on Mon Mar 10 21:37:46 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 14:57:58 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Eisenhower destroyed the railroads with GLEE.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Mar 10 21:40:02 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by RockParkMan on Mon Mar 10 21:37:46 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Actually, not so much his idea as those around him. He understood that without the railroads, we couldn't have won the war. Generals know about logistics. Now the PRR didn't do themselves any favors either.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 11 03:45:35 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by mtk52983 on Mon Mar 10 12:14:54 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Even if you did, you wouldn't find it. Unless you read every delusion in his mind.

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Re: $17.4 Trillion

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Mar 11 10:34:40 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 11 03:45:35 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Evasion is admission.

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Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again

Posted by Edwards! on Tue Mar 11 11:36:28 2014, in response to Re: GOP-e tries to dump on the GOP base—again, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Mar 10 11:52:02 2014.

fiogf49gjkf0d
is THAT sour grapes i smell?

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