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"The poor will have more if you tax the rich less." There are some lies that you can tell, and tell, and tell some more . . . but they don't become facts. This particular <i>Grosse Lüge</i> is one of them

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It's called "Regression towards mediocrity". Actually, this is regression way <i>past</i> mediocrity, but you have to expect the occasional freak of nature.

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With votes!

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i'm not sure - if we needed a repost - i would select 'mike lee'.

but maybe that's just me.

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I <em>told</em> them not to buy Bro.

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That is kind cruel unless, of course, you give him an axe to help put out the fire.

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I think a quote from that great 20th Century intellectual, the robot from Lost in Space, is fitting in this instance “Does not compute!”.

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so this mike lee post is what? like a ring of power? unless you destroy it in mt doom it never goes away?

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The backdrop in that photo clearly mentions the Republic Party. I'm surprised he had time to say anything at all, after going incandescent about the disrespect.

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Here's something about "shit sandwiches" that always puzzled me. There's an old saying: Life is like a shit sandwich...the more bread you have the less shit you have to eat.

This can't be true. If I spread 5 ounces of shit on a slice of Wonder Bread and spread 5 ounces of shit an a full loaf of artisan sourdough bread, one is still eating a full 5 ounces of shit.

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The Wonkette timeline has gotten wrinkled.

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White, male, Republican senator goes on Huckabee and says something stupid. And in other breaking news, a man was bitten by a dog.

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"job-sturbators"

Win!

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<i>it’s not that we’re looking out for the rich</i>

Pshaw, I say. Pass the Grey Poupon, please.

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<blockquote>People need to understand that the reason we worry about raising taxes <strike>on anyone</strike> – <strike>even raising taxes on the rich – it’s not that </strike>we’re looking out for the rich.... </blockquote>

Fixed.

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Sorry about the cancer.

Too bad we live in a nation that considers the life-and-death matter of health insurance a work-place benefit provided by private companies. And people who slip through those enormous cracks are disparaged as "takers" for the temerity of needing treatment.

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