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Bah. My first attempt at a reply must've included a word on the censor's list of doom. Pretty sure I mentioned no part of the firing mechanism of a gun, so I have no idea what it was.

Anyway... Congress can pass a budget but fail to pass appropriations bills, which would force a shutdown. Conversely, Congress can fail to pass a budget resolution but continue appropriating within limits laid out in the last budget that did pass, which will not force a shutdown - this is what's been happening during the infamous 1,000-something days of lame talking points. While the Senate hasn't passed a budget resolution since 2010, it <em>did</em> pass the Budget Control Act of 2011, which does everything a budget would do, except any attempt by Congress to override it would face the President's veto power, which a normal budget wouldn't. So, there's that.

<a href="http:\/\/assets.opencrs.com\/rpts\/RL30297_20110404.pdf" target="_blank">According to the Congressional Research Service</a>, in both 2009 and 2010, the Senate-originated budget resolution and its House companion measure passed both chambers. So that's four budget resolutions that have been passed while Obama's President, plus the Budget Control Act. That means that Newt is telling wholesale, easily and objectively provable lies. Because he's a big fat liar.

PS. I think I worked out what my naughty word was: the compound of "out" and the opposite of left. Silly censor.

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He will go away (for a while) after Tampa, right?

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me i think: 'rudesby be gone' works quite well.

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well, he may be OBAMA FAIL but to me he is still <i>so fine</i>.

also newt is just a fat haz been with an ego bigger than his rotund mid section.

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Light, sweet crude or <strike>G</strike>STFO.

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Those guys are ubiquitous. In Washington, everywhere you look, you see a big-ass lobby.

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As long as he promises not to come back until he's extracted at least 1 million bbl.

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Hey, he never said <em>what</em> his hands were on. There's an awful lot of hands-on video "editors" on the internet.

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Obama is such a failure he even <i>fails at failing</i>.

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"The Center for Health Transformation, a health care think tank established by Newt Gingrich, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The center has liabilities between $1 million and $10 million to from 50 and 99 creditors, according to federal court filings."

Does anybody know how many millions of dollars in obligations the "Party of Personal Responsibility" and it's so-called "leaders" have welshed on?

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Send Newt a video endorsement that invokes Poe's Law ... chances are good it will make it into his next advertisement.

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If corporations are people, isn't owning shares prohibited by the 13th Amendment?

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And yet, DeBeers is up 50% last year. Thanks Newt! <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/b..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/10/de...">http://www.guardian.co.uk/b...

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Where is the graph showing Newt’s logarithmic decline after everyone learned about his $1.6 million Fannie Mae & Freddie gig and his $500,000 credit line at Tiffany’s?

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I am wondering if Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann, and Cain calling for an invasion of Iran has a positive effect on gas prices?

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