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You have to look quickly when he sticks his head out of his shell.*

*And by "shell" I mean "ass".

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From <a href="http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2013\/03\/12\/class_war_budgeting_paul_ryan_and_house_gop_want_more_money_for_the_rich.html" target="_blank">Yglesias</a>: <i>...We went through this when Mitt Romney and Ryan were running for the presidency, but the proposal here is to make the enormous rate cut for the highest earners affordable through unspecified tax reform....</i>

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GOP: "Fuck the voters! We know what Real Americans™ want!"

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Sorry, listening to Paul Ryan for 10 seconds has robbed me of the intelligence required for snark, and not even Chris Wallace's "well that's not going to happen" has restored it.

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You missed off a whole half of it!

"And if you do get sick, die quickly"

Thank you, Rep. Grayson.

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Love the pained look on Chris Wallace's face. It's like he just realized that the House budget is a total cluster-fuck.

And now comes the negotiation, where Congress tries to find that elusive middle ground between reasonable and fucking insane.

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The genius of the GOP plan is to not have to pay it at all. See sullivanst post above.

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sure would be fun to test that theory

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I blame whoever screwed him in.

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and validated parking...

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like that Crocker guy said- Leave Scarlett Alone!!!

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So when is the part where we toss the tape player into Paul Ryan's bath tub?

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He's the mocked turtle.

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He's just an excitable boy.

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The Go-Pee'ers will never change. Romney/Ryan 2016, 2020, 2024...

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GOP new message - don't change the strategy, just put a Cuban in there to tell people about it.

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