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5. The surprising thing is that it names the monkey-wrencher

Reply to octoberlib (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 11:36 AM

Dec 2020

Usually the identities of folks like Toomey are protected by some misguided sense of institutional loyalty. My reading of this is that Toomey wants the only available cure for deficit reduction to be cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SSI, and SSD.

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Dems say Sen. Toomey blowing up talks [View all] octoberlib Dec 2020 OP

Gives Mitch cover to continue the scorched earth underpants Dec 2020 #1

Desperate to get back on Hair Furor's good side, to avoid the mean tweets, one assumes (nt) mr_lebowski Dec 2020 #2

Good ole Sen Pat .... nebby70 Dec 2020 #3

They won't help the American people...they won't do anything...lets hope they are pummeled Demsrule86 Dec 2020 #4

The surprising thing is that it names the monkey-wrencher gratuitous Dec 2020 #5

Thanks again Bloomberg, could have really used that seat right now but you had to liskddksil Dec 2020 #6

He is not running for reelection we have a good chance if we run against the do nothing congress... Demsrule86 Dec 2020 #7

I'll look forward to that in 2 years, but for now we are stuck with Pat nt liskddksil Dec 2020 #8

He has nothing to lose which is why the GOP put him up to it no doubt. Demsrule86 Dec 2020 #9