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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Fri Mar 24, 2017, 01:17 PM Mar 2017

Who could imagine

We'd be rooting for the Tea Party?

Not for what they want the AHCA to look like but that they will most likely kill it.

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Who could imagine (Original Post) SHRED Mar 2017 OP

I don't know if it's technically "rooting" for them. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2017 #1

Good point SHRED Mar 2017 #2

Yes, politics really does make strange bedfellows, I guess. TeapotInATempest Mar 2017 #3

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)

1. I don't know if it's technically "rooting" for them.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Mar 24, 2017, 01:21 PM

Mar 2017

More like the scene at the end of Jurassic Park where the T-Rex shows up and starts fighting the Raptors that are threatening to attack Sam Neill and company.

The infighting inures to our benefit.

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

2. Good point

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 24, 2017, 01:21 PM

Mar 2017

TeapotInATempest

(804 posts)

3. Yes, politics really does make strange bedfellows, I guess.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Fri Mar 24, 2017, 01:52 PM

Mar 2017

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