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Has Thomas Friedman weighed in on this inability of the president to call Grassley?

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He's not even a member of the <a href="http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/pagelayout\/senators\/a_three_sections_with_teasers\/leadership.htm" target="_blank">Senate GOP leadership team</a>.

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I ate part of a tree today... an orange tree. Not exactly a forest tree, though, I'll admit.

I guess the Senate just likes jamming a whole bunch of stuff together and calling it a committee, like Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

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"Good news! We're pretty sure 'Big NRG' doesn't really mean what we initially thought, Mr. President."

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Poor little victim.

Gosh, it seems like only yesterday he was acting like a bully.

Then like a victim, and then like a bully, and then a victim, and then a bully.

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I know I'm late to the party, but this song seems appropriate: (plus, I haven't heard it in ages and it's really good) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/wat..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrrE5bCA5lg">https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Circle, circle; dot, dot.

Also, I was 4 in 1982, beat you Soros!

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yeah audie cornish s way more feisty than most npr have been for the past - what? - 10 years.

i thought she left him looking like an idiot when he ran out of talking points and completely contradicted himself.

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SOMEBODY in iowa is a lady gaga fan.

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The only thing duller than Chuck Grassley? Dried paint. In the bottom of a paint can.

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Oh, so the President stopped calling after Grassley proved that there was <em>absolutely no fucking point talking to him because he is the very epitome of a bad faith actor</em>? And we thought Bamz was slow to learn!

Protip, Chuck: don't be such a backstabbing lying lowlife if you want anyone but Republicans to talk to you.

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Blah!

They all want Obama impeached for being POTUS while Black.

The rest is details.

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Assume Sen. sad.

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Bqhatevwr

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You could have just said "he was talking", and we'd have known he was lying.

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I have him down as the stalky type.

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