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Moderate Republicans’ Threat: Paul Ryan for Speaker—or We Quit
The National Journal ^ | October 19, 2015 | Jack Fitzpatrick

Posted on 10/20/2015 3:06:08 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

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To: lentulusgracchus; onyx

“Moderate Republicans”. What a joke.


81 posted on 10/20/2015 3:40:53 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: A CA Guy

I agree.


82 posted on 10/20/2015 3:41:18 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Timber Rattler

Let ‘em go. Good riddance. Also . . . I thought Ryan has said he has no intention of being Speaker. Did I miss something?


83 posted on 10/20/2015 3:41:40 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Timber Rattler

"Smells like ... victory."


84 posted on 10/20/2015 3:41:47 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: SunkenCiv

While I do agree that corruption and self serving are the rules of the day in politics, there are, still, those who can distinguish between a true threat and those who can not.

Moderates are moderates because they have no ability to decide which trenchline they belong in. Or, they’re stupid enough to believe that wandering around in no-man’s land is a proper place during a winner take all type war.


85 posted on 10/20/2015 3:42:12 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Timber Rattler

Vaya con dios, bozos. Your illegal amigos should be able to tell you what that means.


86 posted on 10/20/2015 3:42:13 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Best news of the day. But-bye, RINOs!


87 posted on 10/20/2015 3:42:18 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Timber Rattler
Don't let The Bamster hit you in your donkey on your way out of town.


88 posted on 10/20/2015 3:43:08 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Billthedrill
Oliver Cromwell to the Rump Parliament, 1653

Great rant, and historic. I've seen it a couple of times before, people do quote him.

Overlooking that Cromwell was a hopelessly cruel scourge to my Irish ancestors.....

89 posted on 10/20/2015 3:44:43 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Jim 0216

“What’s “moderate”? There’s no “moderate”.”

As Limbaugh sez, There is no book out there called “Great Moderates of History”.


90 posted on 10/20/2015 3:44:47 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: SunkenCiv

Is this Christine Turd Whitman’s outfit?


91 posted on 10/20/2015 3:45:53 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: trisham
More like "degenerate Republicans". But that is what high-dollar politicking does to politics and people.
92 posted on 10/20/2015 3:47:11 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: Timber Rattler

Well done.


93 posted on 10/20/2015 3:48:58 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Trump: Black Swan Event)
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To: trisham; Timber Rattler
Idiots.

No, it makes sense. I'm guessing that the reason why RINOs are RINOs is that they get lots of "under the table" benefits from not really opposing the Dems, on issues the Dems find important.

In exchange for non-opposition, the RINOs get to take money from lobbyists, have mistresses, do drugs, etc, and the media will take no interest and nobody will say a word. I suspect that the RINO club got an ultimatum from the Dems: if you allow in a Speaker who will actually oppose our agenda, then the gravy train gets derailed.

So the RINOs say "fine". If we can't continue business-as-usual, then there's no point in staying.

94 posted on 10/20/2015 3:50:38 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Grimmy
All politics is local -- the Demwits however have a party-line loyalty that appeals to people who prefer a single party state, and have the media to build memes like "gridlock" and "guardians of gridlock" etc.

95 posted on 10/20/2015 3:52:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I don’t disagree with that, but they’re selling out this country and its citizens.


96 posted on 10/20/2015 3:53:21 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Yep! That was the picture that came to mind.


97 posted on 10/20/2015 3:53:35 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: gaijin

My exact thought...take your marbles and go home.


98 posted on 10/20/2015 3:59:03 PM PDT by kiltie65
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To: Timber Rattler

This reminds me of Blazing Saddles, where the sheriff puts a gun to his own head, and says, “Hold it! Next man makes a move, the [black guy] gets it!”


99 posted on 10/20/2015 4:00:53 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: gaijin

Don’t let the door hit you in the backsides on the way out.


100 posted on 10/20/2015 4:00:58 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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