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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

They rarely do when their wrapped around koch.

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Pierre_de_Fermat's avatar

Throughout the south there are a lot of old New Deal/Fair Deal Democrats. Mr Roosevelt brought rural electrification and other good things and that hasn't been forgotten. Well, maybe by their children and grandchildren. Before he went crazy, Zell Miller could talk to those folks easily (he was one).

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Hey dumbass: making non-negotiable demands is why you're facing unconditional surrender.

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

You know, FOX attempted to rename the shutdown as a government "slimdown" but you know what? I think there's a better term.

I'll just call it "an attempted coup."

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

you should hear the GOP morons- they are all reading from the same script, their interviews are almost verbatim transcripts of each other- not an original thought among the entire group

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

Crash America Pawn

FIFY

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Capt.Jim's avatar

Can we get the ATF to issue a ban on all alcohol sales until the government is up and runnin again.Old Johnny Wanker Orange will see that what a vote happens real soon iffin that was to happen

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

All you have to do is acquiesce to our demands, and the Government will open again, the kidnapper told us.

Then we discovered that he was only holding our Government hostage, because another kidnapper was holding his Speakership hostage.

Then the American People launched all the Teabaggers into the sun, in a rocketship named <i>The Votes,</i> and we got our Government back, and everyone was happy again. THE END

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Jared James's avatar

I was thinking they might need to reopen Gettysburg, but that would require a budget for the Dept of the Interior.

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Jared James's avatar

And why not? It worked for Hirohito.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

he's so full of shit that the orangeman is turning brown

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Painter of Goats's avatar

When Pinocchio lied his nose grew. With Boehner I hope it's his hemorrhoids.

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Shypixel's avatar

HEY!

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chascates's avatar

Beat me to it!

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

I hope Obama doesn't settle for unconditional surrender. I want him to get more than that from people who want to let our fellow citizens to die outside the hospital for lack of insurance. I suggest background checks for guns.

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Joshua Norton's avatar

<i>John Boehner just wants to talk to the President, so that he can walk out again</i>

That's about it. They just want a photo-op of everyone sitting around a table smiling and then after their deluded demands are turned down (yet again!) they'll go storming out the door and straight for the nearest reporter to claim how they tried to reach an agreement and it's all Bammerz fault for "not negotiating".

(I finally figured out that in Wingnut Esperanto "negotiating" is a short-hand term for "you do everything we want and then punch yourself in the face".)

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