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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:48 AM Original message |
Remember how we got here---Every single compromise---at every stage---has been to strip away |
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AzDar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. I am simply gobsmacked. |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
2. They're not booing, they're yelling duuuuuup |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
3. It's time. The left needs to go to war. |
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d_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. k&r |
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scentopine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
36. agree we need to get organized- fuck OFA, DLC, DSCC, DCCC they are all DICKS -nt |
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AndyA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
4. Compromise normally means the parties involved each give a little to find common ground. |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 01:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
31. REPUBLICANS ARE VICIOUS....... BUT SMART |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
5. Compromise means both sides giving something |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
6. k and r |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
7. The senate gave away single payer BEFORE the negotiations began, BUT gave Ins. Companies a seat at |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. My first clue was when the "Baucus 8" were BANNED. |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
8. K&R Back to the stone age. n/t |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
9. It's almost like they wanted it to turn out this way, |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Well, that's what Russ Feingold said. And he has a much longer history of playing it straight with |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 10:30 AM Response to Reply #9 |
40. yep |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
10. Not simply "the elements that made this bill attractive to the left"... |
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Lost4words (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
11. I am lost for words. endless dissapointment ! n/t |
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pissedoff01 (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
12. You don't understand the kabuki |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
13. I am sick of triangulation. n/t |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
14. This whole process has been a piece of theater, designed to move the issue from |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 02:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
32. ...and that's what makes me so ticked off at Obama... |
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chimpymustgo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 06:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
34. Yes, we have been played. The cheerleaders call it chess. What a sad, disgusting spectacle. |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 10:24 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. If it was chess, he lost the game in the first move. |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
16. K&R Great post nt |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
17. Because the left is not well represented in the Senate |
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coti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. And the obstructionists are- all three or four of them. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:10 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Not enough |
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coti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:19 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. The reason they're not making demands, like we are, is because they've been |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
18. Absolutely! Compromise at every step along the way, then come out fighting when you've got the worst |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
20. That wasn't "compromise". |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
23. This wasn't compromise, this was CAPITULATION! |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:19 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. You've got it. n/t |
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d_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
24. But we don't have 60 votes |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 10:27 AM Response to Reply #24 |
39. We were so much younger, then. |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 10:37 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Barney is a metaphor for the progressives. nt |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. This is why I said that we shouldn't have given up demanding Medicare for All |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
29. K&R. |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
30. K&R. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 03:26 AM Response to Original message |
33. All we get is weak sauce. |
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MissDeeds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
35. K&R |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
38. It was a set-up. We never had a chance. |
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hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. We really don't want Medicare for all... |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
43. Yep.... We've been HOODWINKED!! |
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luckyleftyme2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-20-09 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
44. THATS NOT TRUE |
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