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Mccain References Tea Party Hobbits On Senate Floor
The Blaze ^ | July 27, 2011 | Christopher Santarelli

Posted on 07/27/2011 9:36:27 PM PDT by lbryce


You’ll have to watch this to believe it.

In a harsh criticism of House Republicans and think tanks critical of Rep. John Boehner’s plan to raise the debt limit, the 2008 Republican Presidential nominee, who chose Tea Party darling Sarah Palin for VP, said about this about a faction of his own party:

Granted, Sen. McCain was quoting a Wall Street Journal opinion piece this morning when he recited this passage:

“The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.

This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into GOP Senate nominees.”

McCain’s eruption was the product of his frustration with “fellow” conservatives who are still holding out for a balanced budget amendment as part of any compromise on the debt ceiling. McCain accused those pushing for the amendment as “deceiving” America into believing such a thing can pass the Senate:

Is this McCain’s strategy to build a coalition with those in his own party to get a plan actually done? Is this how he thinks he can sway support for Boehner’s plan?

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


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To: lbryce

The more this a-hole talks, the more (if possible) I truly hate his entire existence. His entire DNA should be removed from the gene pool.

Heck, I’ll even flush his fish down a toilet to be sure.

Horrible, horrible man.


21 posted on 07/27/2011 10:04:42 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'm done with political parties. The GOP is useless. Anarchy is perferable to this CRAP!)
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To: lbryce

I hope he chokes on his oatmeal.


22 posted on 07/27/2011 10:05:22 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: lbryce

Unreal ... Now I have to add "hobbit" to the list? We have been dubbed "tea-baggers, clingers, cling-ons, racists, haters, re-pubic-licans, wingnuts, nazis, birthers" and ... hobbits. Perfect. I think the list is complete. At what point does the name calling end and the civil war begin?


23 posted on 07/27/2011 10:05:49 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: chris37
The Hobbits defeated Sauron.

That is a Great line! Can we start Tweeting this? Really!

24 posted on 07/27/2011 10:08:18 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: mardi59
Looks more like Pelosis ultrasound when she was just a pile of cells in dem speak.

They're all the same... moonbats.

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25 posted on 07/27/2011 10:08:54 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: cherry
Hey...we can work with this. Remember, those scruffy Hobbits brought down Sauron (Obama? Soros?) Obviously, Sarah Palin is Arwen Evenstar. That would make Todd Strider. I'm not sure who would be Gandolf, but McStain is too damned stupid to be Sauroman the traitor.

He's obviously "Wormtongue!"

26 posted on 07/27/2011 10:09:32 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: mardi59

John, resign now, Will Sarah Palin defend him Now? I hope not. No Tea for John McCain. Let us unite behind the insults just as our patriot ancestors united behind the insulting term Yankee given us by the British. Proud to be a Hobbit! The old order is about to end and the true king of Middle Earth will be replaced to the thrown. Then, everything will be as it should be—The Republic Restored to greatness.


27 posted on 07/27/2011 10:09:36 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: lbryce

Hobbits are good folk.

Proud Hobbit.


28 posted on 07/27/2011 10:14:06 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Repeal the 16th amendment . Send Islam packing to their homeland.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

ONWARD HOBBITSES, ON TO 2012!!


29 posted on 07/27/2011 10:14:41 PM PDT by mardi59 (T)
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To: Grizzled Bear

The proper response to Senator Wormtongue has already been written:

“The wise speak only of what they know, Gríma son of Gálmód. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth.”


30 posted on 07/27/2011 10:16:51 PM PDT by Nickname
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To: Grizzled Bear
I'd rather be a Hobbit from middle America, standing on my own 2 feet, than on my knees to the orchs serving the Dark Lord in Mordor (Washington DC).
31 posted on 07/27/2011 10:17:04 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

LOL! I like it! “Wormtongue” suits him.

LONG LIVE THE HALFLINGS! PRAISE THEM WITH GREAT PRAISE! FRODO AND SAMWISE! PRAISE THEM WITH GREAT PRAISE!!

But... I’m 187 cm tall! How can I be a hobbit?

Granted, I have the hairy feet part down...


32 posted on 07/27/2011 10:18:34 PM PDT by Ronin (Obamanation has replaced Bizarroworld as the most twisted place in the universe.)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Hey...we can work with this. Remember, those scruffy Hobbits brought down Sauron (Obama? Soros?) Obviously, Sarah Palin is Arwen Evenstar. That would make Todd Strider. I'm not sure who would be Gandolf, but McStain is too damned stupid to be Sauroman the traitor.

Obviously McCain, nor the author of the opinion piece he quoted, has never read, nor seen, the the Trilogy. Since if either had, they would know what good folk they are, and how they overcame their antagonists.

33 posted on 07/27/2011 10:19:40 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Repeal the 16th amendment . Send Islam packing to their homeland.)
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To: lbryce
Time to dust off a pair of vanities:

(Vanity) Annotated Tolkien and the Election Cycle

Too bad John fell short of that.

A Knife in the Dark, or, The Assault of the Nancgûl

Cheers!

34 posted on 07/27/2011 10:19:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Will Sarah Palin defend him Now? I hope not. No Tea for John McCain.

An interesting question. We'll have to see what comes out of that camp. Denouncing McCain's position will certainly increase her popularity. Defending him will reduce her popularity. But saying nothing at all indicates she has slid away from the Tea Party and toward the GOP, which puts us all on edge.


35 posted on 07/27/2011 10:21:07 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: lbryce

Reid can be the Witch-King of Angmar, and McCain can be the Mouth of Sauron.


36 posted on 07/27/2011 10:21:42 PM PDT by mardi59 (T)
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To: Nickname; greeneyes; Ronin; takenoprisoner; cherry
Keep the meme going. Meanwhile, the only character I can represent goes back to the "Prequel." I am clearly Beorne because, in my wife's opinion, I am

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Grizzled

Bear.

37 posted on 07/27/2011 10:25:30 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: takenoprisoner
"Hobbits are good folk."

I like adventures, though, I may be more of a Dwarf. West Texas Gimli, I like that.

38 posted on 07/27/2011 10:27:25 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
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Wormtongue

How fitting of McCain.

As for his debt plan....”YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”


39 posted on 07/27/2011 10:30:16 PM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: lbryce
McGollum fears tricksy Hobbitses.


40 posted on 07/27/2011 10:36:06 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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