Networks blamed shutdown on GOP in 41 stories --- 0 for Dems

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  1. Taxcutter

    Taxcutter New Member

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    The MSM is like that district in Philly that went 19,000 to 0 for Obama.

    Biased and not credible.
     
  2. Natty Bumpo

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    Whilst hardcore, fanatical denialists typically attempt to find someone else to blame for their self-inflicted disaster, cooler heads within the GOP now self-assess and plan:

     
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    The reason the GOP is getting blamed for the shutdown is because Boehner, at the command of the Tea Party, didn't take the budget bill to the floor for a vote. He held it up and started making demands. The first demand was to defund Obamacare.
    Like it or not, the shutdown of the government was the GOP's fault.
     
  4. Taxcutter

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    41-0

    19,000 - 0

    Even Stalin didn't rig things that completely.
     
  5. Hairytic

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    You failed to mention those who have their hand out for corporate welfare. Oh wait, they vote Republican because they are praised as the makers, not the takers. They take government money and send jobs out of this country. I don't like how the Republicans demonize the poor and elderly but praise the fat cats who don't need tax money but take it and give themselves raises with it. Thanks to the Republicans, the rich have gotten richer while the middle class is shrinking into poverty. Those who are willing to work are demonized because they can't find a job.

    It the Republicans had their way, we would return to the Robber Barron days where everyone lived in company housing and we all sold our souls to the company store.
     
  6. Micketto

    Micketto New Member Past Donor

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    The only interviews I've heard were people saying they got bored the last week and a half, and are ready to get back to work.

    Like all the victims of dozens and dozens of companies laying off and/or cutting hours because of the Obamacare that the Republicans wanted to end... are not at all important to the left.... why are the few that supposedly couldn't pay a mortgage on time ?

    zzz...transparent.
     
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    Maybe because *GASP* It really was their fault?

    Look at the facts, the Senate passed bills that reflected what the Republicans wanted for a budget, and the house still turned their noses up at them. Then they attached the Obamacare bundle as a poison pill in an attempt to make it look like Dems wouldn't negotiate, and the final proof in my opinion is when the Republican House leadership changed the rules so that only the speaker can introduce the Senate bill on the floor just prior to the doo-doo hitting the fan.

    This is 100% the Republican Party's fault, and it's common sense that says so. It was manufactured by the republicans so they could play chicken with the economy and our government in an attempt to break Obamacare. I actually am surprised the Democrats held out against this terrorist action in our own government, I sort of expected them to fold as they have on many other issues, but was glad to see them take the stance America as a whole takes when faced with terrorism, you don't negotiate with Terrorists who are threatening to blow up things.

     
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    That is what he/she claimed.
     
  9. bomac

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    No, I am asking you. You are the one defending the right's slogan "Take back America". You are the one who should know what they mean.

    I knew what Hillary meant but I am asking you what the right means.
     
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    Thanks
     
  11. bomac

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    Anyone with a half ounce of intelligence knows that, if the terrorists had sent a clean CR, the government would not have been shut down. Adding unrealistic demands to a CR, knowing that the demands would not be accepted and continuing to modify the demand to others that would not be accepted - caused the shut down by the terrorists.

    Guess what, a CR acceptable to the majority did pass. Finding out that McConnell got his own pound of flesh is not new but it is still disgusting.
     
  12. bomac

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    Time for your reality check. Look outside the bubble and understand what 41-0 means.
     
  13. bomac

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    Please explain where Hard Driver's comment was a "tad warped"?

    Speaking of something being a "tad warped".

    God, you really have lost any sense of reality.
     
  14. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Not only has this Country been hijacked by this Obama State-run media
    or Politburo,but the hacks in the MSM are purposedly accusing the GOP of
    what clearly the Democrats are pulling.It is pure Obama strategy.
    Just act really concerned about fixing things and getting to the problems facing
    this country,all the while accuse yer opposition of what manifestly YOU as
    President are guilty of.Like to hear Obama tell his Tale,yesterday at 11 am
    he believes that it's the talking heads on Talk Radio that are the problem.
    They are the ones that shouldn't be payed attention.yet I guess it's perfectly
    acceptable for Obama's State -run media to run story after story,or lack thereof,
    as this OP demonstrates in all fairmess.You see in Obama's World,what is fair is
    what he considers fair.Meaning a complete dominantion of the News Cycle by his
    allies in the MSM. Any opposing voice is according to Obama unfair and Unamerican.
    Talk about being a King Demogogue.

    " The seditious harangues of demogogues in the hall have made rebels of a
    loyal people and deprived me of my country. "
    -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
     
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    That's because the Republicans are completely responsible for the government shutdown. End of story.
     
  16. bomac

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    I am sure that it seems that way in the bubble. Come out, come out, where ever you are?
     
  17. Ex-lib

    Ex-lib Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The liberal propoganda machine will eventually be destroyed.

    The principle upon which the universe is based is harmony, not corruption.
     
  18. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Except you are forgetting that a Majority of americans DO NOT WANT Obamacare.
    I don't give a gillhooley what bogus polls the State-run hacks in the MSM conjure up.
    Thay pulled that crap the month of the Pelosi dominated ObamaCare vote.
    ALL polling for 2 years prior showed clearly a majority of americans were against
    a major reform of health care.So,when push comes to shove this White House can
    indeed trigger some polls to cite in their favor.Big whoop-tee-dooh-dah.
    The GOP ran in 2010 on Repealing ObamaCare.They took over the Pelosi
    dominated House as a result.
    Obama and Harry Reid Failed up until 6 months ago,or 5 years into Obama's
    Presidency to debate let alone submit or pass a budget.
    Under Newt Gingrich in 1994 and his takeover,the Republican-led New House
    managed a first.FOUR Consecutive Balanced budgets.Under Obama there has yet to
    be a single budget passed,let alone a balanced one.We have been operating month
    to month.Obama talked like a complete incompetent when insisting that our debt
    ceiling had to be raised in order to avoid default { not true } by further saying
    raising it " would not raise the debt by a dime ".
    The GOP never talked Default.Not raising the debt ceiling would not necessarily
    cause any default.We have Tax receipts that could easily handle paying our
    debt holders and also Social Security and most basic government services.
    Let me restate.Republicans Never used a Default as a threat.Republicans did
    maintain that the debt limit did not need to be raised in order to pay the nation's bills.
    Obama,conversely used his allies in the media and himself with heated words
    to portray republicans.Like Terrorists,Ransom,Exrtortion.
    When in fact according to Larry Kudlow,who accused the President of threatening
    " to pull the whole system down for his own gain. "
    Which is precisely what happened.
     
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    Just warmin' up.
     
  20. Taxcutter

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    41-0 doesn't seem implausible to you?
     
  21. HB Surfer

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    It's ridiculous and just pure exposure on the level of propaganda coming out of the Broadcast Network News. Journalism is dead.

    Fact: Democrats could have opened the government at any time with Republican approval if they just agreed to delay the individual mandate for 1 year.

    Fact: Establishment Republicans and Democrats ran up the national debt to $17,000,000,000,000 and the media calls the TEA Party "radical" "extremest" because they want a plan to stop the madness. Just a plan. It's pure propaganda.

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    Only if Alabama is playing Sacramento State.
     
  22. Micketto

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    You didn't even know she used it until it was thrown in your face.

    Anyway....
    I don't defend "slogans".
    There is no need to.

    You claim everything the Right does is hateful, racist, anti-gay, blah blah blah.... and no answer, from anyone, will change that.

    I explained it already... so either you have a serious comprehension problem equal to that of a stump ... or you're just pretending to.
     
  23. Micketto

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    True, both sides could have opened this just as easily as the other.
    But the other option would have been the president just saying "no" and not ordering it to happen.
    He's ignored congress before, why suddenly did the own him ?


    Ha.. I'm too late with the Lions joke.
     
  24. toddwv

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    Let's see right-wing rag (the Washington Examiner) reports on a "study" by the right-wing "Media Research Center."

    I'm thinking that the credibility of the results is severely lacking.
     
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    It is hilarious watching the liberals try and defend this failure. LOL!
     

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