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I went to Texas to re-connect with some relatives last week. Now, as loathe as I am to make sweeping generalizations and as much as I love my cousins, I have to say that they must manufacture Cognitive Disconnect down there.

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They were the first ones laid off. (CitiBank did the same thing to any of their risk analysts who had the nerve to pipe up.)

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Losing to the New England (lubrul elitist yankee) Patriots ought to have done the trick already.

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Cameron Todd Willingham might think differently.

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You may be on to something. He refused to attend a gay pride parade in Dallas with the entire city council and the Dallas sheriff. Paging Dr. Bachmann, Dr. Marcus Bachmann. <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/communi..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.wfaa.com/community/Gay-pride-parade--1...">http://www.wfaa.com/communi...

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A Leppert cannot change its spots, however.

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<i> “the Occupy Wall Street crowd represents the same flawed values that got our country into this economic mess.” </i>

Hmm. I understood all those words. And, yet, the sequence they were presented in made no sense.

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Doesn't have to be underground - make it coach class only, and the Lepperts of the world would never deign to board it.

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Leppert is the new Santorum.

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Failed banker/disgraced preacher/adulterous legislator = wisdom on family values/American exceptionalism = Republican votes/lobbyist bucks.

Rinse (in hypocrisy) and repeat.

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<i>The Occupy Wall Street crowd represents the same flawed values that got our country into this economic mess.</i>

Endless, unfunded wars and tax cuts for the rich. We just didn't know how sound those economic policies were, Leppert. Sorry. Our bad.

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Only 5,000 signatures for an online "petition"? That's not much of a standard. Your average Paultard could generate that many during the commercial breaks for "Alphas."

Of course, it's probably about the same level of rigor he applied when auditing WaMu.

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Ask him about those automated WaMu home appraisals: <a href="http://www.lawyersandsettle..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/features/was...">http://www.lawyersandsettle...

That system certainly worked out well for everyone. What happened to the in-house appraisal reviewers? Particularly in the early days of the new process, when they might have objected to vlaues they didn't believe.

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Supporting Rush Limbaugh quote in 3...2...1...

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