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And where's Bush/ Cheney, RNC to call him on it?
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Where have they been the past 8 years? IMHO, and I've been saying this all along, the WORST disaster the Bush/Cheney team have created, is the reticence to fight back. It's only emboldened them. It's a damned disgrace!
This is what gets conservative voters steaming mad, when the libs open thier traps and start spewing lies and fabrications you can hear crickets on the Republican side. No rebuttal, no news conference or spokes person who will stand tall and take on these despicable snake oil salesman pointing to thier lies and desceptions. The very senators that are grilling the oil execs are home behind closed doors wringing thier hands and drooling over thier shares of exxon. Their all in the same bed together!
That's why he is referred to, around these parts, as Schmucky Schumer
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