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Cliff

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Mar 28, 2010, 10:53:03 AM3/28/10
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html
"The Rage Is Not About Health Care"
[
...
... births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all
births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next
presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority.
The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. The Republicans haven’t had a
single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only
three in total since 1935.
...
... G.O.P. by remaining silent as mass hysteria, some of it encompassing armed
militias, runs amok in their own precincts. We know the end of that story. And
they can’t pretend that we’re talking about “isolated incidents” or a “fringe”
utterly divorced from the G.O.P. A Quinnipiac poll last week found that 74
percent of Tea Party members identify themselves as Republicans or
Republican-leaning independents,
....
Yet no Republican or conservative leader of stature has taken on Palin, Perry,
Boehner or any of the others who have been stoking these fires for a good 17
months now. Last week McCain even endorsed Palin’s “reload” rhetoric.

Are these politicians so frightened of offending anyone in the Tea Party-Glenn
Beck base that they would rather fall silent than call out its extremist
elements and their enablers?
....
]

Concerend Citizen

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Mar 28, 2010, 11:19:57 AM3/28/10
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On Mar 28, 10:53 am, Cliff <Clhuprichguessw...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om>
wrote:

>  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html
>   "The Rage Is Not About Health Care"

The rage is about representatives not representing.

> [
> ...
> ... births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all
> births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next
> presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority.
> The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. The Republicans haven’t had a
> single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only
> three in total since 1935.
> ...
> ... G.O.P. by remaining silent as mass hysteria, some of it encompassing armed
> militias, runs amok in their own precincts. We know the end of that story.

There were arrests last night in Indiana, according to the news. And
you want to claim they were Tea Party?

And
> they can’t pretend that we’re talking about “isolated incidents” or a “fringe”
> utterly divorced from the G.O.P. A Quinnipiac poll last week found that 74
> percent of Tea Party members identify themselves as Republicans or
> Republican-leaning independents,
> ....
> Yet no Republican or conservative leader of stature has taken on Palin, Perry,
> Boehner or any of the others who have been stoking these fires for a good 17
> months now. Last week McCain even endorsed Palin’s “reload” rhetoric.
>
> Are these politicians so frightened of offending anyone in the Tea Party-Glenn
> Beck base that they would rather fall silent than call out its extremist
> elements and their enablers?
> ....
> ]

Why do they have to be frightened? What are they supposed to be
frightend of?

Too_Many_Tools

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Mar 28, 2010, 5:24:52 PM3/28/10
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On Mar 28, 10:19 am, Concerend Citizen <hot-ham-and-

The rage is about representatives not representing....the conservative
wackos.

Crazy people get nasty when normal people ignore their rants.

TMT

RogerN

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Mar 28, 2010, 5:55:16 PM3/28/10
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"Too_Many_Tools" <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:b92a7a54-e36a-462b...@y17g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...

And the crazy people kept ranting about the sane people until the crazy
people got elected and now run and ruin the country. It's a crazy people
takeover!

RogerN


Cliff

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Mar 29, 2010, 4:39:36 AM3/29/10
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:55:16 -0500, "RogerN" <re...@midwest.net> wrote:

>And the crazy people kept ranting about the sane people until the crazy
>people got elected and now run and ruin the country. It's a crazy people
>takeover!

How well did that work out last time?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/sep/12/Iraqandthemedia.politicsphilosophyandsociety

Find those "WMDs" yet?
The 11+ trillion in YOUR debts they ran up?
--
Cliff

Cliff

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Mar 30, 2010, 12:21:05 AM3/30/10
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:30:18 -0500, "Chief Egalitarian" <Egal@legal_egal.law>
wrote:

>
>
>"Lookout" <mrLo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:9suuq5tve4k9qvrog...@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:57:58 -0700 (PDT), Igor <thoo...@excite.com>


>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mar 28, 10:53 am, Cliff <Clhuprichguessw...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om>
>>>wrote:

>>>Sounds like the GOP is holding together by only a few slender threads,
>>>ready to be ripped asunder at any moment with the least amount of
>>>effort.
>>
>> 2,000 less white votes in a couple of Florida counties and the
>> Gore\Bush race wouldn't have been close.
>
>If "ifs" and "buts" were "Cliffs nuts" and "butts", you'd be a happy
>libtard.

IOW Not one word in refutation of the facts.
Just the usual winger gibbering, frothing & foaming.

BTW, Obama won in a landslide over "More of the same"
& "Dumber than a rock".
--
Cliff

Lookout

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Mar 30, 2010, 12:53:16 AM3/30/10
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:30:18 -0500, "Chief Egalitarian"
<Egal@legal_egal.law> wrote:

>
>
>"Lookout" <mrLo...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:9suuq5tve4k9qvrog...@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 07:57:58 -0700 (PDT), Igor <thoo...@excite.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mar 28, 10:53 am, Cliff <Clhuprichguessw...@aoltmovetheperiodc.om>
>>>wrote:

>>>Sounds like the GOP is holding together by only a few slender threads,
>>>ready to be ripped asunder at any moment with the least amount of
>>>effort.
>>
>> 2,000 less white votes in a couple of Florida counties and the
>> Gore\Bush race wouldn't have been close.
>
>If "ifs" and "buts" were "Cliffs nuts" and "butts", you'd be a happy
>libtard.

Nah..I could never be a 'libtard', happy or otherwise.

You are useless. Welcome to my filter.

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