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SSSS Journeyman
Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 3753 Location: Wash PA
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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LOL and it was supposed to say BUY an office, not but. I had a buddy in the army who always said he was a member of the Wisconsin Society for the Criminally Left Handed. _________________
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Brant Admin
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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I think I bought some candy bars from them once. _________________
The priests of the different religious sects dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
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SSSS Journeyman
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:13 am Post subject: |
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SSSS Journeyman
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:13 am Post subject: |
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Here is a good reason to start term limits
By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 22, 6:49 am ET
WASHINGTON – The Democrats' control of a hefty majority in the Senate — plus the House — would suggest that President Barack Obama is within reach of overhauling the nation's health care system this fall.
But the numbers mask a more complicated reality: Obama and Democratic leaders have modest leverage over several pivotal Senate Democrats who are more concerned about their next election or feel they have little to lose by opposing their party's hierarchy.
One is still smarting from being forced to abandon next year's election. Another had to leave the Democratic Party to stay in office. And some are from states that Obama lost badly last year.
These factors will limit the president's ability to play his strongest card — an appeal for party loyalty and Democratic achievement — in trying to muster the 60 votes his allies will need this fall to overcome a Republican filibuster in the 100-member Senate.
When lawmakers face a tough vote, their uppermost thought is "survival," said Alan Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who spent three terms in the Senate _________________
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Sorry, i was too busy sharpening my claws to read any further responses in this thread. _________________ "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~Martin Luther King Jr.
"May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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