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Ever since 1980 the whole mantra of the GOP has been Reagan's famous "The scariest words you'll ever hear are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' " So, a privately owned railroad train wrecks on privately owned railroad tracks and everyone, particularly Repubs who hate the gummint, are bitching because said gummint ain't doing enough? WTF?

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It might be mutually agreed upon between them. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just for people who claim to be Conservatives, it's...different.

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That used to be the job of Civil Service. Then Reagan/Bush happened.

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Jimmy Carter survived his relatives.

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i keep thinking he's got a good dad. and good bones.

(honestly i feel so sorry for him. his life is positively shakespearean. i just hope he ends up as feste and not richard III.)

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that sucked.

she was great.

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fox is helping here.

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"Comer's plan is particularly ambitious." Which is perhaps a polite way of saying that this hayseed nitwit is going to waggle his pecker at fifty different targets and wind up spilling his seed on the ground.

His name is Comer, it doesn't really specify where.

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The name is USPS. United States Postal Service. That’s service, as in, not a profit center. The USPS is in the Constitution, but then how would Comer know that, since it’s clear he’s never read the thing.

And he’s obviously not familiar with the First Amendment especially the bits about Freedom of the Press. Would this twit demand that a conservative satellite television distribution system carry Newsmax?

Oh wait. There is no such thing. Direct TV and its owner are apolitical. They make their business decisions based on whether an action will be profitable for them or not. You know, capitalism. Try it, you’ll like it.

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I hope everyone who gets subpoenaed shows up. Testify and testify and testify and make people like Comer look like the dopes they are.

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I really wish republicans would stop fucking with the postal service. Everytime they do, they just make it worse. They negatively impact service, working conditions, and if they were truly concerned about profitability, they never would have instituted "reforms" in 2006 that made it impossible for the postal service break even.

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OTOH don't wrestle with pigs. You get muddy and the pig loves it.

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Love Mr. Mull corpsing there…

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Fun aside, I just do not want to play their scofflaw game.

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it's less the IQ and more the weaponized ignorance with that lot, and I'm not trying to say that Comer is particularly bright.

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I’ll bet the NARA stuff results in a report that says NARA’s incompetence is to blame for Turnip absconding with hundreds of classified docs. And it is never too late for Turnip to change course and declare he was saving those docs from NARA’s incompetence.

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