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The 112th Congress - A Congress divided shall not cry!

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Priceless said:
That's SO last year. Michele Bachman is the new target.
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Where by "target" you mean "continuously embarassing herself with her combination of ignorance and malice."

If somebody calls Ollie Perez incompetent, yes, they may be picking on him... but he's still incompetent. And people who try to respond by saying "you're picking on him" aren't addressing the real issue.
 
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busterman62 said:
I thought by saying "target" he was inciting violence. Oh wait...wrong party. My bad.
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What, are you kidding? I don't want anything to happen to her. Every time she opens her mouth she's worth millions of dollars in fund raising. Long live Bachmann!

Yes, I'm well aware my side has plenty of these as well
 
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Handyman said:
Dont worry, there will be a provision added where if you can prove you are a member of an affiliate religious organization you can exempt 2 children from the death total. States will then be given the right to up the total to make sure the Federal Government doesnt have too much power over the Red States.
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It's my idea, and there will be no riders to this legislation. Mandatory abortions for everyone under $1 million net worth. Period. No exceptions. Also, all hotels and motels will be required to buy morning after pills from the government at a slight mark-up. All women of reproductive age will be required to take them upon checking out. :D
 
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Bakunin said:
All women of reproductive age will be required to take them upon checking out. :D
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Why not simplify it and have them all spayed for a single lifetime fix? Then you're sure not to have any undersirable children.

Then again that's a source of income lost.
 
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Foxton said:
Why not simplify it and have them all spayed for a single lifetime fix? Then you're sure not to have any undersirable children.
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Some poor/middle class women will become rich, either through luck/skill or by marrying a rich guy. Plus, there's more opportunities to capture revenue/provide jobs with my method - abortions will remain in very high demand, the morning after pill will remain in high demand, and hotels can make some money off it with a "gratuity" as well.
 
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LynahFan said:
The most vociferous rhetoric from liberals in decades celebrating the nobility of veterans in 3....2....1....
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As opposed to NeoCons who have trashed military veterans for years.

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Here are some quotes from noted liberals

"No way, no how, will we let this proposal get any traction in Congress," said Richard L. Eubank, the national commander of the 2.1 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. and its Auxiliaries.
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“Cutting back on the VA right now would be showing contempt for American servicemembers’ sacrifices,” Richard Rudnick of the National Veterans Foundation.
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Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, said cutting veterans' health care spending is an ill-advised move at a time when the number of veterans continues to grow as troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan. Sullivan said he finds it difficult to see how VA could freeze health care costs without hurting veterans. "It is really astonishing to see this," he said.
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Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, who first spotted the proposal on Bachmann’s official congressional website, said 10,000 new veterans a month are seeking treatment from VA. “In the middle of this dramatically increasing need at VA to care for our veterans, comes Rep. Michele Bachmann,” he said, calling her efforts to cut veterans funding just as combat operations appear to be winding down in Iraq is similar to cuts after the Vietnam War and the 1991 Gulf War that left VA struggling to care for veterans.
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“It is unconscionable that while our nation is at war, someone would even think of forcing our wounded warriors to sacrifice even more than they already have,” said David Gorman of the DAV. “Their injuries and disabilities were the result of their service to the nation, and our nation must not shirk its responsibilities toward them. How do you tell a veteran who has lost a limb that he or she has not sacrificed enough? Yet Rep. Bachmann wants to do just that.”
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LynahFan said:
The most vociferous rhetoric from liberals in decades celebrating the nobility of veterans in 3....2....1....
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In the real world, liberals have been the ones supporting veterans for decades. The right's idea of supporting them is to send them places to get their limbs blown off. The liberals then make sure they have programs to take care of them.

But, OMG, NO LAPEL PINS SO TEH TREASON!!!!111!!1

(I guess the right's treatment of soldiers is kind of Bakunin's idea, just slowed down a bit.)
 
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leswp1 said:
I thought he was being sarcastic. No?
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No.

In the 2010 budget, the VA accounts for $52.5B out of the $1.368T discretionary budget, or 4%. Of Bachmann's $400B proposal, only $4.5B of the cuts - 1.1% - is to the VA, so she is actually disproportionately favoring the VA in comparison to other programs. But, to liberals, every spending dollar is sacred, and they will use the veterans (and this 1.1%) as a gambit to torpedo this (and any other serious) effort at actual budget cutting. Why do you supposed Foxton focused on that one tiny part of the proposal, hmmm?

Priceless - of *course* veterans groups are also against the cuts. Every special interest whose budget is cut will respond in the same way. That means nothing in terms of the politics - that's just every man looking out for his own economic interests.

I'm far from a Bachmann supporter - she's an idiot in many, many ways. But she's clearly willing to take some serious steps and kill off a few sacred cows - including some that would normally be on her side - to do something about the budget. Maybe the VA shouldn't be one of them; so be it. But to point and laugh at her entire proposal because 1.1% of its contents is rather foolish.
 
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LynahFan said:
No.

In the 2010 budget, the VA accounts for $52.5B out of the $1.368T discretionary budget, or 4%. Of Bachmann's $400B proposal, only $4.5B of the cuts - 1.1% - is to the VA, so she is actually disproportionately favoring the VA in comparison to other programs. But, to liberals, every spending dollar is sacred, and they will use the veterans (and this 1.1%) as a gambit to torpedo this (and any other serious) effort at actual budget cutting. Why do you supposed Foxton focused on that one tiny part of the proposal, hmmm?

Priceless - of *course* veterans groups are also against the cuts. Every special interest whose budget is cut will respond in the same way. That means nothing in terms of the politics - that's just every man looking out for his own economic interests.

I'm far from a Bachmann supporter - she's an idiot in many, many ways. But she's clearly willing to take some serious steps and kill off a few sacred cows - including some that would normally be on her side - to do something about the budget. Maybe the VA shouldn't be one of them; so be it. But to point and laugh at her entire proposal because 1.1% of its contents is rather foolish.
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THere are some things that are sacred for a reason. Cutting services to someone who is disabled while protecting this country (and who was promised support if they were hurt in the line of duty) is unethical. What should happen is cutting fluff.

I didn't get the laughing at the whole thing, only that part but I also thought you were sarcastic and couldn't be serious so I guess I am clueless all around. :o
 
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