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fuflans's avatar

it's all fun and games til eric cantor calls a vote.

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fuflans's avatar

right. the past two days have been a kama sutra of twists to explain the apparently inexplicable:

bamz won, republicans lost.

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π”…π”’π”’π”©π”·π”’π”Ÿπ”²π”Ÿπ”Ÿπ”ž's avatar

Hmm.... there may be a market for attachments here. I wonder if I can call it The Maytag Man™.

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fuflans's avatar

i too am an npr slut (though i do not believe ken layne would approve). and i too heard about 12 hours of this yesterday until - blessedly - jian ghomeshi talked about Other Things.

only once did i hear obvious retort #1:

ummm mittens has that little MA experiment to justify. there is no way that is anything but awkward (but! constitutional!)

and i NEVER heard obvious retort #2:

the chattering classes, voters and baggers have the attention span of fleas. the euro's in crisis, syria's burning and 'the dark knight rises' opens on july 20th. and we'll probably have some rent boy scandal by november (there's always hope!)

it's only

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π”…π”’π”’π”©π”·π”’π”Ÿπ”²π”Ÿπ”Ÿπ”ž's avatar

Is there such a thing as "full moon years"? That would seem more approriate to the howling insanity that's in evidence.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

According to NPR this morning, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ACA is "good news for Mitt Romney".

Obviously, it was also good news for John McCain.

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

Is that what the kids call "working for Reagan"?

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PsycWench's avatar

This will be a disaster for Democrats since they've lost the tea party vote that they were so counting on. And they also lost the votes of...um...well...this guy I know,

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

<i>"... currently shoving artisanal Little Debbie snack cakes into your snack cake hole"</i>

My web cam has betrayed me ... again.

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PsycWench's avatar

Snack cake libel.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

<i>“I think this is such a disaster for Democrats,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee executive director Rob Jesmer.</i>

Hey, GOoPers.

When your head's in the toilet, you really shouldn't blow bubbles.

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π”…π”’π”’π”©π”·π”’π”Ÿπ”²π”Ÿπ”Ÿπ”ž's avatar

No lie, this is what my wingnut friend claims: Since the Supreme Court is obvioulsy still very liberal, liberals no longer feel the need for liberal appointments, therefore there's no longer any need to re-elect Obama.

I'm not sure if he made thus up all by himself, or if it's out there on some teabaggercentral.com blog.

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

They will get sick one day. Bwahahahahaha! etc.

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