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It's about time the GOP grows a set.
1 posted on 12/17/2009 8:06:32 AM PST by blueyon
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To: blueyon
This isn't even one hair on one set but I'm sure the "committee's top Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz." will manage to shave that off before he's through.

Regards,

TS

2 posted on 12/17/2009 8:09:11 AM PST by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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To: blueyon

“It’s about time the GOP grows a set.”

Unfortunately, they appeal to;

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and the committee’s top Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.


3 posted on 12/17/2009 8:09:17 AM PST by jessduntno ("The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.")
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To: blueyon

Senators should realize that if Obama will threaten one senator, he’ll threaten others.

And probably already has.


4 posted on 12/17/2009 8:11:14 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: blueyon

Good move by the Repubs.

Nothing will transpire, other than getting this noise in the news cycle.

Creating noise is about all we can hope for from the R’s.


7 posted on 12/17/2009 8:13:32 AM PST by Gunflint
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To: blueyon

This should make for good entertainment. Methinks this is just window dressing to allow Nelson to bail on bammy while defending his state’s rights. Pretty much guarantees his re-election. Touche pubbies, nice disinformation play. Keep it up.


10 posted on 12/17/2009 8:15:03 AM PST by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: blueyon

And the probe should be as in colonoscopy.


11 posted on 12/17/2009 8:16:01 AM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: blueyon

At first I thought the RATS would not allow an investigation but now maybe a chance.


15 posted on 12/17/2009 8:24:15 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: blueyon

THEY’LL HAVE TO BE A PROSTHETIC SET.

The stemcells to grow a real set have atrophe’d.


17 posted on 12/17/2009 8:27:19 AM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: blueyon; All

this is not the GOP, this is the country club protecting their own.

Think of states where there is an elected judge system. If any lawyer runs against a sitting judge, then the other judges help circle the waggons. (unless there is something really indefensible going on with the judge)

I think there is the START of a balance of powers fight. (not the fake claims against GWB) Obama’s WH is essentially the true imperial executive presidency based on the concept of “the incredible wonderfulness of being Obama.”

[seriously they nominated Obama for a nobel peach prize within 11 DAYS of his inaguration?!!! to meet the nomination deadline!?]


18 posted on 12/17/2009 8:28:49 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: blueyon

0bama plans to become a dictator - pure and simple!


21 posted on 12/17/2009 8:38:14 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Pork Eating CRUSADER - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: blueyon

If they do, they should then question whether that Dem senator who had a stroke is really capable of serving. Has anyone seen him lately? If he had to step down (and Byrd has been absent, too!) then the Dems would not have their 60 votes, if the Pubbies stood together.

Of course, this will never happen. Republicans are scared to death of being accused of being “mean”.


22 posted on 12/17/2009 8:40:34 AM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: blueyon

if anything they should be pressing hard to recruit Nelson to flip in exchange for an iron-clad guarantee to keep Offutt open. That would be at least one RINO we could agree to live with at this point. If he sees the writing on the wall for the next election cycle he’d take that deal.


23 posted on 12/17/2009 8:43:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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BFL


24 posted on 12/17/2009 8:47:20 AM PST by Born Conservative ("I'm a fan of disruptors" - Nancy Pelosi)
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To: blueyon
A threat like this should constitute treason. It's strongarm gangster stuff, the horse's bloody head in the bed.

Who leaked it is what I'm wondering? In saner times a real threat would be made very privately so no word of it would escape to the press.

25 posted on 12/17/2009 9:18:13 AM PST by molybdenum
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To: blueyon

A little late. Nelson is saying publicly that he’s never been threatened with the base closure.


27 posted on 12/17/2009 9:25:24 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: blueyon
20 senators demand probe of health-care vote 'threat'

Unless this 20 senators becomes this 60 senators, you can ignore anything else that follows.

28 posted on 12/17/2009 9:38:50 AM PST by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: blueyon

Obama has no other way to get his proposals through.
I doubt that they will have any teeth to do anything, but the important part is getting the word out what Obama s about.

Let him be vilified and marked by his own actions.


29 posted on 12/18/2009 4:02:08 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: blueyon

Only 20 Republican Senators? There should be 40 screaming bloody murder!


30 posted on 12/18/2009 4:37:34 PM PST by Gritty (Socialism's endless appetite for power means there's never enough free pie - James Lewis)
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