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“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

I was promised a recession.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

You cannot shame the shameless.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

The willow is too close to the house.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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  2. 2.

    bg

    Please cite a few dems or libs who’ve said “Bush is gutting spending.”

    Everything I’ve read has said precisely the opposite: Bush is cutting taxes and NOT cutting spending, which is leading to massive deficits. Your post is contrary to my experience.

  3. 3.

    David Perron

    Lied to by Democrats, Blarn.

    You really ought to work on your reading comprehension.

  4. 4.

    David Perron

    I think the inestimable Tony Foresta started that “gutting spending” meme.

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    Andrew Lazarus

    The Kuttner article talks about some very specific (often stupid) cuts, and shouldn’t be interpreted as a complaint about across-the-board cuts. I don’t know where to assign blame in the Nathan Newman case, because I don’t know if Bush really did what he said he would. When I looked at the budget data myself, I did notice that the chart is selected to capture extreme cases. It isn’t all the data at all. And the third link is to a secondary source, and I don’t know if its summary of TomPaine.com is accurate.

    All in all, though, I’ll take a moment of rare agreement with John. Bush blinked when time came for the service cuts necessary to offset the tax cuts. He, and the Republicans, are too *chicken* to cut the programs the way John wants too. (Agreement was short; I like most of them.) They’re probably right: voters like tax cuts in the abstract, but biting the bullet on services might cost seats. Instead they told an absurd fairy tale about revenue recovery. They killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

    So, why aren’t Bush’s budget claims a lie again? ( Joe Klein has a great column today on Bush and truth.)

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    Thomas J. Jackson

    The hell with the Democrats, Bush is spending like a drunken sailor. pressing for big government programs that Clinton wouldn’t have dared ask for. What is Bush but Clinton Lite (though he isn’t a lying pile of fertilizer like the ole intern molester).

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    bear, the (one each)

    Bush is proving to be an even bigger Democrat than Richard Nixon. You remember Nixon: affirmative action, food stamps, wage and price controls, that sort of thing?

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