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MS Fowler · #61 11-04-2010, 03:51 PM

I did not raise the travel office issue to inflame passions, but to remind people that this politics of personal destruction has a history that traces back to both major parties. Neither one is innocent.

Honus · #62 11-04-2010, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MS Fowler

I did not raise the travel office issue to inflame passions, but to remind people that this politics of personal destruction has a history that traces back to both major parties. Neither one is innocent.

True, but only one party impeached a president over it.

Chas H · #63 11-04-2010, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Billybob

"exoneration" talk about damning with some faint praise!

Bill's closest confidant and conspirator is found to have without question provided false testimony only escaping prosecution based because of indeterminate motivation or knowledge. So Bill is "exonerated" because there was no proof discovered that he knew or hard any part what Hillary unknowingly did for unknown reasons.

And the liberals still can't understand why much of America even while excusing his behavior just don't believe what comes out of his mouth or Hillary's for that matter!

You voted for a lying drunk driver. You shouldn't be criticizing anyone, except the drunk you voted for.

Billybob · #64 11-04-2010, 06:33 PM

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You voted for a lying drunk driver. You shouldn't be criticizing anyone, except the drunk you voted for.

We know! That's your story and you're sticking to it! It's Bush's fault!

Chas H · #65 11-04-2010, 07:15 PM

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We know! That's your story and you're sticking to it! It's Bush's fault!

Bush, and his Republican controlled congress, can be legitimately blamed for many of the problems this country faces.

panZZer · #66 11-04-2010, 07:23 PM

This thread aint about republicans driven by avarice-there more that enough of that ahead.

cmac2012 · #67 11-04-2010, 07:35 PM

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She's a limousine liberal. Most people in this country cannot relate to her at any level. Maybe she and Al Gore can start a business together.

There's no winning with broad swaths of the right wing. I thought prosperity and success were a good thing. Don't Rs go on about how hatred of rich people is not right, not prudent? But Pelosi and Soros are rich scum apparently.

If I had the time machine up and running, I think I might have a few side trips that might have done her some good 30, 40 years ago.

But the venom that's been directed on her is just all out of proportion to reality.

Honus · #68 11-05-2010, 01:12 PM

Eugene Robinson agrees with me:

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Nancy Pelosi, undone by her own success
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, November 5, 2010

...Pelosi would never ask for, or even accept, my sympathy - that's not her style. Her place in history was secure the moment she became the first woman to take possession of the speaker's gavel. Still, she squeezed every drop out of her four-year tenure. To string together a couple of sports cliches, she came to play and she left it all on the field.

I regret that the nation has never come to know the actual Nancy Pelosi. Most Americans are probably familiar only with the caricature that her political opponents sketched - the effete "San Francisco liberal" who knew nothing of America outside her mink-lined cocoon, where the taps ran with Chablis and nourishment consisted of unpronounceable French cheeses, served up on silver platters by waiters who were certainly gay, and quite possibly married.

That's not the Nancy Pelosi known to anyone who has ever met her. While the term "San Francisco liberal" is accurate, it's also true that she grew up - and learned the rough-and-tumble of politics - in gritty Baltimore. Her father, Tommy D'Alesandro, was a legendary "Charm City" mayor and political boss. Her education in how to count votes, and keep them counted, began at a young age.

When she appears before the cameras, Pelosi often seems stiff and almost brittle. In person, she's warm and engaging - also funny, earthy and just plain good company. She tells a great story. She turns a mean phrase. Colleagues on Capitol Hill almost universally describe her as a good boss and simply a good person.

It was frustrating to hear Republicans demonize her in their thunderous public statements, then confess privately that they really liked her. Ain't politics grand?...

Pelosi did what was right for the country, and what's right isn't always what's popular. Democrats may decide they need a less-polarizing figure as minority leader; if they do, well, that's politics. But I'd love to see her stay in the Democratic leadership - and I'm betting that eventually she'd find a way to take back the gavel that she pounds with such righteous authority.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110406625.html

Like I said, she's a fine public servant.

Billybob · #69 11-05-2010, 01:56 PM

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Eugene Robinson agrees with me:Like I said, she's a fine public servant.

I for one, would never have doubted and I’d suspect that more than a few other folks are not the least bit surprised, that you and Eugene are much more often than not on the same page! In fact I'd venture to opine that you two may share same paragraph or even the same sentence with some frequency! But thanks for the BFF moment!

Honus · #70 11-05-2010, 02:03 PM

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...In fact I'd venture to opine that you two may share same paragraph or even the same sentence with some frequency!...

SwampYankee · #71 11-11-2010, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by MTI

It's going to be refreshing to see the new Speaker flying coach to and from D.C.

It'll probably be First Class but apparently he will fly commercial.
John Boehner to fly commercial as speaker

What will be interesting to see is whether or not he will be subject to the TSA full body cavity search/fondle if he opts out of the Body Scanner.

#72 11-11-2010, 08:12 AM

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It's going to be interesting to see Her Botoxness flying back to SFO on her broom.....

Yeah! Too bad she lost her plane.

She was INDEED the most effective Speaker of the House EVER! In more than 200 years existence of the USA, 8 Trillion dollars in debt had been amassed under ALL previous speakers. She managed to run up ANOTHER $5 Trillion Dollars in a mere four years. Now THAT is EFFECTIVENESS!