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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #765 on: October 04, 2013, 06:03:27 PM »
Yeah, most will go about their business and be hardly inconvenienced by the shutdown.

But don't forget that with the shutdown in the '90's, the country wasn't still in the midst of recovering from a massive economic downturn. So they are lots of people who will be truly inconvenienced by it, if not ending up losing even more ground as they struggled to get back on their feet the last few years.

But then this is all about growing American jobs (GOP.COM/JOBS); as the taking pols of the Repubs and Teas like to say over and over as one justification for their fight over "Obamacare" and the shutdown. The thing is, because of their lunacy they just made a whole lot more jobless people who can't earn a living, or who are now working without pay; but the bills still are coming due and need paid.  And I'm not just talking about government employees here.

Perhaps this isn't very funny for a Funny Politics thread, but then I don't find any of this current Congressional idiocy, funny in the least. :(   
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #766 on: October 05, 2013, 10:50:13 PM »
Perhaps this isn't very funny for a Funny Politics thread, but then I don't find any of this current Congressional idiocy, funny in the least. :(   

Indeed. Ain't funny at all.

This is though:

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Time Magazine, you missed a golden opportunity with your “Shutdown” cover.

Because if you’re going to bring it?—?bring it big.

Time Magazine’s cover this week has been called an “extremely gloomy” take on the fiasco in progress in D.C. (and, uh, shouldn’t we be gloomy, given that we’re on Day 4 of a national hostage crisis and counting?).

Point taken. I think Time could’ve injected some levity into the situation with a variation of their American Society of Magazine Editors award finalist cover from May 21, 2012?—?and illustrated the real cause of our federal government’s incredible dysfunction in clear and transparent terms.

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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #767 on: October 09, 2013, 12:07:53 AM »
South Park had it right...
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #768 on: October 09, 2013, 12:17:54 AM »
ACB, BK, CT, NG, SA: FU. FUATH. 100x.

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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #769 on: October 09, 2013, 12:38:11 AM »
"Arizona Republican Brenda Barton compared Obama to Hitler. If he was like Hitler, HE WOULD'VE INVADED ARIZONA BY NOW."

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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #770 on: October 09, 2013, 07:20:11 PM »
 8)
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #771 on: October 10, 2013, 01:29:48 AM »
Yup.
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #772 on: October 11, 2013, 08:03:38 PM »
 8)

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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #773 on: October 12, 2013, 03:14:50 PM »
 ;D
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #774 on: October 15, 2013, 09:01:05 PM »
Could have gone into the Serious Politics thread, too
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #775 on: October 16, 2013, 04:26:43 AM »
 8)
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #776 on: October 18, 2013, 04:59:31 PM »
 8) With apologies to gOOber:
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #777 on: October 18, 2013, 06:58:40 PM »
Blessed are the cheese makers. 8)
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #778 on: October 19, 2013, 01:20:25 PM »
 ;D
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Re: Funny Politics
« Reply #779 on: October 19, 2013, 02:55:00 PM »
Whadda mean they gained nothing?  :-\

A number of congressmen and senators got special perks for their constituents back home that were buried in the bills they voted for. ::)

Kentucky especially made out like a bandit, with a new billion plus dollar dam project on the Ohio river. :o

But then as Gene points out, the Tea Partiers all came to Washington to finally put a stop to such "business as usual" in the way things got done on Capital Hill. And all it's cost the US is some $24 Billion dollars and a projected 0.5% drop in economic growth from the expected 2.6% increase in this quarter. :-X

And Senator Ted Cruz said the fight over "Obamacare", the shutdown, and the debt ceiling was all worth it because that's what the American people wanted. :o

Really Senator Cruz? ???

So tell me Senator, does it ever bother you being a total ass, as much as it does me? ::)
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