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tom
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Username: Tom

Post Number: 5729
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 2:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
The reliable neanderthals at Opinion Journal are at it again. This time they've favored us with a fairly explicit list of the horrors that we can look forward to if the Democrats take control of the House committee chairs. Here are some of my personal favorites:
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... the man likely to run the Judiciary Committee, Michigan's John Conyers...He recently made his plans clear in a 370-page report, "The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Coverup in the Iraq War, and Illegal Domestic Surveillance." The report accuses the Administration of violating no fewer than 26 laws and regulations, and is a road map of Mr. Conyers's explicit intention to investigate...

check.
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New York's Charlie Rangel (1970), who opposed the Bush tax cuts and recently voted against free trade with tiny Oman.

check.
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Barney Frank ... His main reform priority has been to carve out a new affordable housing fund from [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's] profits.

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Energy and Commerce would return to the untender mercies of John Dingell...would do his best to provide taxpayer help to GM and Ford. But telecom companies would probably get more regulation in the form of Net neutrality rules, and a windfall profits tax on oil would be a real possibility.

check, check and check.
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Remember organized labor? Their champion would be George Miller...would make it much easier for unions to organize by largely banning secret elections. ... The Californian also wants to raise the minimum wage and ... spend more federal dollars on local school construction.

check check check
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We also can't forget California's Henry Waxman..., among the most partisan liberals and who at Government Reform would compete with Mr. Conyers to see who could issue the most subpoenas to the Bush Administration.

A partisan! Mon dieu! (pardon my French). I'll have to think hard about which one to root for, though mostly I just enjoy a high scoring game.

Shocking -- shocking! -- to consider some of these things. Congressional Oversight! Higher Minimum Wage! Net Neutrality! Lions! Tigers! Bears!
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Hoops
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Username: Hoops

Post Number: 2069
Registered: 10-2004


Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 9:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


A swing back to government by the people for the people.
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joel dranove
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Username: Jdranove

Post Number: 1013
Registered: 1-2006
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 2:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Barney Frank's lover, since jailed and freed, ran a homosexual prostitution ring from their apartment, and Frank claimed he didn't know.
I think we should name the South Mountain Reservation area where heteros are warned off by gay blades the "Frank-ing meadow."
Tom: beware what you wish for.
jd
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anon
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Username: Anon

Post Number: 3041
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 4:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
If you have a problem with Gay people why do you live in this community?

Did the WSJ mention anyone else, or did they just pick out Blacks, Jews and Gays?
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anon
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Username: Anon

Post Number: 3042
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 4:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Oh, I guess Dingell doesn't fit one of those categories. He's just one of the more conservative Dem in Congress.
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Bob K
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Username: Bobk

Post Number: 12566
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 5:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Mr. Davone hates everybody but himself and I am not so sure about that.
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anon
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Username: Anon

Post Number: 3043
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 7:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
"Davone"?

Are you talking about poster Joel Dranove?
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Nohero
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Username: Nohero

Post Number: 5798
Registered: 10-1999


Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 8:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Yes, he is. It's what we call "Boblexia" here.

But he does make his points, nevertheless.
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anon
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Username: Anon

Post Number: 3044
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Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 10:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
"Boblexia"! I finally understand.
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tom
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Username: Tom

Post Number: 5734
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Monday, September 4, 2006 - 10:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Can Barney Frank chair a committee without me actually having to move in with him? 'Cause that would be fine. If I were going to share an apartment with him I'd definitely be concerned about that, but since I'm pretty well set here in NJ I don't really care.
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S.L.K. 2.0
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Username: Scrotisloknows

Post Number: 2027
Registered: 10-2005


Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - 11:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
"The reliable neanderthals at Opinion Journal...?"

At least they are more thought provoking and funny then those whiny, miserable, overrated writers over at the NYT OpEd...

They all continue to beat you over the head with the typical left wing garbage...

-SLK

Anon-I don't have a problem with homosexuals specifically, but I do have a problem with ANYONE who thinks it is ok to impose their morality on the majority in a public space.
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notehead
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Username: Notehead

Post Number: 3805
Registered: 5-2001


Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - 11:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
You mean like the blowhards comprising a good chunk of the GOP?
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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey

Post Number: 2431
Registered: 8-2003


Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - 11:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
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They all continue to beat you over the head with the typical left wing garbage...


yes, all of them. um, except for David Brooks. And John Tierney. And Tom Friedman was pretty pro-war, so...

I agree that Dowd and Brooks's contributions are often astoundingly fatuous for major newspaper columnists, but I'm guessing their banality wasn't what you were referring to.

and speaking of fatuousness, what on earth does this mean?
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Anon-I don't have a problem with homosexuals specifically, but I do have a problem with ANYONE who thinks it is ok to impose their morality on the majority in a public space.


Are gay members of Congress having sex in public?
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ae35unit
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Username: Ae35unit

Post Number: 199
Registered: 2-2006


Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - 12:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
"I don't have a problem with homosexuals specifically, but I do have a problem with ANYONE who thinks it is ok to impose their morality on the majority in a public space."

I assume, SLK, that you would have a problem with ANYONE who thinks it is ok to impose their reality on the majority in a public space….

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/5/105935/0807

Yeah, the sky just may be falling.
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S.L.K. 2.0
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Username: Scrotisloknows

Post Number: 2037
Registered: 10-2005


Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - 9:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
oh god, a dailykos link.....

the sky fell....
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Charlton
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Username: Charlton

Post Number: 11
Registered: 8-2006
Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - 11:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Brilliant - one of the top 10 funniest threads of the month
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tom
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Username: Tom

Post Number: 5738
Registered: 5-2001
Posted on Tuesday, September 5, 2006 - 11:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
One more for Dranove, make of it what you will
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"I can literally remember what he was wearing: an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, complete with the - in Texas you see it a lot - one of the back pockets will have a circle worn in the pocket from where you carry your tin of snuff, your tin of tobacco. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have."

--Karl Rove on first meeting George W. Bush

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