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ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:28 PM Mar 2014

Hey Al Franken, please don't make it a point to mention that Chuck Grassley

is your friend.

Why do Democratic reps and senators find it necessary to constantly mention that such-n-such rightwingfuck is their friend?

They are NOT your friends, Al.

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Hey Al Franken, please don't make it a point to mention that Chuck Grassley (Original Post) ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 OP

Drives me nuts...it's all part of being in the exclusive club they belong to... truebrit71 Mar 2014 #1

The elite in media do it, too. He was speaking to Mrs. Greenspan on MSNBC and she ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 #2

But the little people long for bipartisanship - at all costs! polichick Mar 2014 #3

A lot of that shit on tv is just for show. LuvNewcastle Mar 2014 #4

Ummmm...maybe they ARE friends? Common Sense Party Mar 2014 #5

Franken may think grassley is his friend. But it's grassley and he's a republifuck ChisolmTrailDem Mar 2014 #6

I disagree. I like to know who people consider their friends as I know people by the friends... PoliticAverse Mar 2014 #7

"my friend" = "my opponent", while "my dear friend" = "my asshole opponent" as in FarCenter Mar 2014 #8

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)

1. Drives me nuts...it's all part of being in the exclusive club they belong to...

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:30 PM

Mar 2014

...I swear..something happens to people when they get inside the beltway...

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)

2. The elite in media do it, too. He was speaking to Mrs. Greenspan on MSNBC and she

Reply to truebrit71 (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:32 PM

Mar 2014

does it too - ALL THE TIME.

polichick

(37,152 posts)

3. But the little people long for bipartisanship - at all costs!

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:32 PM

Mar 2014

LuvNewcastle

(16,844 posts)

4. A lot of that shit on tv is just for show.

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:36 PM

Mar 2014

I'm sure things are a lot different in private. Politicians don't usually have any set principles. They do what they can get away with or, like this Congress we have now, they don't really do anything. Politics is just a game to them.

Common Sense Party

(14,139 posts)

5. Ummmm...maybe they ARE friends?

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:40 PM

Mar 2014

Political adversaries, yes, but they might be personal friends. It has been known to happen.

ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)

6. Franken may think grassley is his friend. But it's grassley and he's a republifuck

Reply to Common Sense Party (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:43 PM

Mar 2014

rightwing piece of dog shit.

Nobody would want to be legitimate friends with that.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

7. I disagree. I like to know who people consider their friends as I know people by the friends...

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:52 PM

Mar 2014

they keep.

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

8. "my friend" = "my opponent", while "my dear friend" = "my asshole opponent" as in

Reply to ChisolmTrailDem (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2014, 12:54 PM

Mar 2014

“The joke, I say to my dear friend John Boehner, is him having more than 60 votes over there to terminate Obamacare,” Reid, D-Nev., said at a news conference Wednesday.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/boehner-on-obamacare-delays-what-the-hell-is-this-a-joke/

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