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Doctor_J

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4. He seems to have a mild case of batter spouse syndrome

Reply to Brainstormy (Original post)

Mon Feb 3, 2014, 01:16 PM

Feb 2014

Regardless of how the Repukes abuse him, he repeatedly tries to placate them. Probably the biggest reason for his failure to enact the agenda he campaigned on in 2008, and on the ass-kicking the party took in 2010.

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I just read it. Extremely cogent Doctor_J Feb 2014 #6

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