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Kong76 Feb 06 2009 05:52 PM |
Reports are that they've a reached tentative agreement just below the 800
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 06 2009 05:53 PM |
That's just what they want you to do. Don't!
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Kong76 Feb 06 2009 06:12 PM |
But. But.
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DocTee Feb 06 2009 07:36 PM |
My wife and I put a bid on a house today. That should float the rest of you deadbeats for a while.
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Kong76 Feb 06 2009 07:49 PM |
That's exciting, good luck.
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DocTee Feb 06 2009 07:56 PM |
I'm half-hoping it gets rejected. Nervous times at the DocTee pad.
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themetfairy Feb 06 2009 08:03 PM |
Best of luck Doc!
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Frayed Knot Feb 07 2009 05:06 AM |
One 'Bridge to Nowhere' is a disgusting waste of taxpayer money.
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Edgy DC Feb 07 2009 07:18 AM |
You're sexy when you're a wet blanket.
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cooby Feb 07 2009 08:50 AM |
I bought a pair of jeans the other night. I couldn't wait.
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Kong76 Feb 07 2009 11:13 AM |
Put your name in them.
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metsmarathon Feb 07 2009 12:35 PM |
reading through the list of items cut from the stimulus package, there's a few that i don't particularly agree with.
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Nymr83 Feb 07 2009 02:17 PM |
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not if said construction doesn't even start until 2011-2012 as they had predicted some of these projects would as they aren't even in the later planning stages yet and some probably need environmental studies and other such bureaucratic nonsense that delays and overcosts projects
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Kong76 Feb 07 2009 02:39 PM |
It's not just environmental and bureaucratic nonsense, gosh you sound like
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Willets Point Feb 07 2009 07:28 PM |
I have to go on record about how impressed I am that the GOP dug in their heels and refused to go "bipartisan" on the stimulus act, especially the House Republicans who all voted no. I admire politicians who can stick by their values and desires of their constituents, even though I disagree with those values. Kind of makes me think back to ca. 2001-2005 when the Democratic minority (w/ a few exceptions) pretty much rubberstamped everything the Bush Admin/GOP wanted. I wonder what it would have been like if the House Dems had stood up and said that the Patriot Act and Iraq War resolutions are wrong and they wouldn't vote for them. Maybe things wouldn't change much and the legislation would've passed anyway but maybe they may have forced a compromise or least sent a message to other Americans that opposed these things that they weren't alone. Perhaps the country would not be in such bad shape today if they'd only tried to look out for the nation's best interests instead of succumbing to chickenshit pragmatism.
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metirish Feb 07 2009 07:32 PM |
To have not gone along would have been unpatriotic and "against the troops"......not making excuses for any of them but that period in time was bizarre , not wearing an American lapel Mr Willets? , you must hate this country.
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Willets Point Feb 07 2009 07:56 PM |
Of course, but these times are crazy times too with the worst economic crisis in 70 years coming down on our head.
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Edgy DC Feb 07 2009 08:45 PM |
Now that they have even bigger majorities and the White House to boot, they can still gut the Patriot Act.
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cooby Feb 07 2009 09:03 PM |
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