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You're saying these are <i>bad</i> ideas?

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Didn't they already <a href="http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0745690\/" target="_blank">try this</a> on "The West Wing"? <a href="http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0745679\/" target="_blank">Twice</a>?

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If it isn't, it should be.

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Seems only fair. We have to cut somewhere.

In principle, I agree that money spending for emergencies should come from temporary reductions somewhere else in the budget. Or, if borrowed, include a tax increase of some kind to repay. But when Eric "Let's Default Because Nothing Bad Will Happen" Cantor says it, I can only see a ploy to cut Social Security. Or de-fund the FDA. Never by cutting a single predator drone from DoD.

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this is off topic but i just got kicked off the bbc for something.

incivility or swearing or something.

weird.

i am only ever really mean on the economist.

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I don't think a 5000-signature threshold is going to weed out the idiotic ideas effectively. There are tens of thousands of people who will vote to canonize Justin Beeber, waterboard the Dixie Chicks, and put Pamela Anderson on Mount Rushmore.

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<i>“working group of policy officials”</i>

which, like Health Care Reform and the Holy Roman Empire, is actually none of those things -- discuss.

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to be fair, if you said 'teabagger to be transported' you would get far more than 5000 backers.

just here at wonkette.

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you're on.

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jetpacks.

fucking jetpacks.

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