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GOP says it'll block bills until tax cuts extended
« on: December 01, 2010, 12:51:22 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_democrats_lame_duck_politics

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WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans threatened Wednesday to block virtually all legislation until expiring tax cuts are extended and a bill is passed to fund the federal government, vastly complicating Democratic attempts to leave their own stamp on the final days of the post-election Congress.


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Re: GOP says it'll block bills until tax cuts extended
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2010, 02:17:22 PM »
This is gridlock, of course, but what else are the Repubs going to do?

Dingy Harry is the conductor on an out-of-control locomotive and he's too stupid to realize that the brakes don't work and the boiler is about ready to blow.
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Re: GOP says it'll block bills until tax cuts extended
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2010, 02:19:04 PM »
This is gridlock, of course, but what else are the Repubs going to do?

Dingy Harry is the conductor on an out-of-control locomotive and he's too stupid to realize that the brakes don't work and the boiler is about ready to blow.

And gridlock (compared to the alternative of the past two years, anyway) is a bad thing because?....
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Re: GOP says it'll block bills until tax cuts extended
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2010, 02:23:04 PM »
And gridlock (compared to the alternative of the past two years, anyway) is a bad thing because?....

Gridlock is not a good thing - no matter where you stand in the political spectrum. It makes a bad situation even worse.

No matter what happens, Dingy Harry and Bela will be back in January to wreak havoc in their own inimitable ways. But what Congress should be working toward is extending the tax cuts and funding the freakin' gummint so our guys in uniform - if no one else - can put food on the table.

Gridlock accomplishes nothing but pisses off the American people even more than we already are.
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Re: GOP says it'll block bills until tax cuts extended
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2010, 08:24:09 PM »
Gridlock is not a good thing - no matter where you stand in the political spectrum. It makes a bad situation even worse.
No matter what happens, Dingy Harry and Bela will be back in January to wreak havoc in their own inimitable ways. But what Congress should be working toward is extending the tax cuts and funding the freakin' gummint so our guys in uniform - if no one else - can put food on the table.
Gridlock accomplishes nothing but pisses off the American people even more than we already are.
Makes me wonder if the democrats socialists had this in mind all the time. It may have been in their "playbook".

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Re: GOP says it'll block bills until tax cuts extended
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2010, 08:25:16 PM »
Good.