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Palin, I knew Reagan. You're no Reagan.
CNN ^ | 12/1/10 | Ed Rollins

Posted on 12/01/2010 12:06:59 PM PST by pissant

Editor's note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He is a principal with the Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations firm. He was White House political director for President Ronald Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

(CNN) -- The first date is over. Not much happened. President Obama and his new governing partners, the House and Senate Republicans, met at the White House along with the Democratic leaders and discussed the unsolvable issues between them.

Even though they made no decisions and both sides went their separate ways, they agreed to start negotiations on extending the tax cuts. That in itself is the beginning of a positive process. They actually talked to each other and talked of a plan for action.

As with real dating, both sides have to get along or nothing will happen. So maybe this situation has more in common with an arranged marriage.

The American voters are the substitute parents, and they want this marriage to work or at least to be civil. And we, the voters, hold the shotgun.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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To: truth_seeker

And regarding Reagan, if you haven’t noticed that was a quarter of a century ago.


581 posted on 12/01/2010 9:39:36 PM PST by The Duke
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To: sickoflibs

This one has already disintegrated into an attack on Duncan Hunter. LOL


582 posted on 12/01/2010 9:45:12 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: goldstategop

“...quits half way through her first term as Governor isn’t presidential material.”

EVERY single time I see someone post this old tired line I know they are either intentionally trying to mislead or are ignorant of the facts, or are simply too stupid to understand.

She had no choice, do you not understand that? The left was abusing the law to file frivolous suit upon frivolous suit against her and the idiotic laws required her to defend each one, at her own expense. Can YOU pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees on an Alaska Governor’s salary? She was spending so much time effort and money fighting off this coordinated attack that she could not be effective in her job. No one could have been under those circumstances.

I won’t even bother with your other idiotic comments about her not having “succeeded in life” or that she isn’t a “serious person”.

Republican party bootlickers...FRs got ‘em!


583 posted on 12/01/2010 10:00:55 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: ansel12
The two best speeches ever given by an American woman, were both by Governor Palin,

ROFL. Too funny.

584 posted on 12/01/2010 10:08:53 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

It would mean more if you would point out the better ones, and point out who is a bigger speaker today than Governor Palin.


585 posted on 12/01/2010 10:16:57 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Lady Gaga just sold out the Tacoma Dome recently.


586 posted on 12/01/2010 10:18:50 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: goldstategop

How do you get a half instead of 2/3rds?


587 posted on 12/01/2010 10:20:05 PM PST by ansel12
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To: pissant

Your troll childishness is showing again, don’t waste my time with that stuff.


588 posted on 12/01/2010 10:21:58 PM PST by ansel12
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To: pissant
You can’t hot Link Thomas (the congressional record) it has a query function that expires. So I will cut and paste for you. Here are all the Senates July Amendments (Nothing about adding the F&F bailout):

Read the June 2008 amendments to HR 3221 that were passed by the Senate.

They look like F&F bailout crap.

589 posted on 12/01/2010 10:30:36 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

They are further amendments to the F&F bailout crap as well as amendments to other sections of the bill. Go see the original insertion on 4/3/08.


590 posted on 12/01/2010 10:34:31 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: goldstategop

Betcha Palin’s accomplished more in her short political career than you ever will in your entire snarky life. She is also proving to be right in the majority of the causes she has taken up of late, without benefit of the establishment politicos. Rollins is just looking for another paycheck to carry him over when CNN dumps him!

JC


591 posted on 12/01/2010 10:42:20 PM PST by cracker45 (I don't believe in coincidences!)
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To: pissant
They are further amendments to the F&F bailout crap as well as amendments to other sections of the bill. Go see the original insertion on 4/3/08.

They are June Senate amendments that were voted on by the House in July. That was House Roll Call 519.

592 posted on 12/01/2010 10:47:59 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
They are amendments to the amended bill. The F&F was added by dodd in april. The bill passed the Senate on April 10th and returned to the House. The very first vote the house took was whether to accept the Senate Amendment. Hunter voted NAY.

Like I told you 100 times now, everything else were votes on amendments to amendments, including 519, which reads: On motion that the House agree with an amendment to the Senate amendment to the House amendments to the Senate

593 posted on 12/01/2010 10:53:37 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
Lady Gaga just sold out the Tacoma Dome recently.

LOL! Thanks!

594 posted on 12/01/2010 11:02:50 PM PST by MaggieCarta (What are we here for but to provide sport for our neighbors, and to laugh at them in our turn?Austen)
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To: ansel12

Cool. But by all means, please keep telling us that Palin is the most gifted, conservative, talented, beautiful, strong, and deep thinking politician we’ve ever had, and how lucky we conservatives are that she’ll waltz into the WH.


595 posted on 12/01/2010 11:22:24 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: goldstategop

Yep.


596 posted on 12/01/2010 11:23:29 PM PST by FTJM
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To: goldstategop
She isn’t a serious person and not someone who has succeeded in life

Yeah, it's not as if she has a home, family, and has the opportunity to do anything she wants to.


597 posted on 12/01/2010 11:59:29 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: PhilDragoo

I absolutely love that graphic!

Two great Americans...


598 posted on 12/02/2010 12:00:47 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo

You’re right, potlatch...there is a lot of time until the next election. There will come a time to thin the herd. lol

I have to say, though...there are quite a few who don’t remember Reagan, and what he was up against. But, I remember...


599 posted on 12/02/2010 12:03:15 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: sickoflibs

mike Reagan:::
If some media reports are correct — a dangerous assumption nowadays when media skepticism has given way to unquestioned Obama worship — former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says the GOP needs to abandon nostalgia for the Reagan era.
I’m inclined to doubt the accuracy of that report since Jeb Bush was probably the best governor Florida ever had, and one who clung ferociously to the Republican principles exemplified by my father, Ronald Reagan.
Even if he did say something silly like that, my argument with him and Mitt Romney and the other participants in the so-called listening tour is not about my dad, but about the absurdity of a listening tour designed to tutor Republican bigwigs on what the public really wants from government. My short answer to that question is that I want the government to get the hell out of our way and let us act like the free people our founding fathers wanted us to be, and not like subjects of an all-knowing, all-powerful federal government.
The listening tour is nothing but Republican gimmickry. The reality is that had they been listening over the past four years of the Bush presidency they would have seen the disaster of 2006 coming and they would have seen the catastrophe of 2008 coming.
Instead, they turned a deaf ear to the Republican conservatives not only on Capitol Hill, but to those out across America.
They lost in 2006 and 2008 because they stopped listening to the “nostalgia” for the conservative principles which guided my dad’s administrations.


600 posted on 12/02/2010 12:48:27 AM PST by factmart
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