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‘He’s Wrong!’: Obama Campaign Spokeswoman Sticks With Debunked Talking Point She Debunked Herself

Oct. 10, 2012 1:55pm Becket Adams

Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter during an interview last night with CNN’s Piers Morgan decided she would give the “Romney’s proposing a $5 trillion tax cut” claim another go — despite having earlier admitted Romney’s plan “won’t be near $5 trillion.”

But perhaps that’s not the story. Perhaps the story here is Cutter’s obvious discomfort with this talking point. Indeed, between the apparent blushing and repeatedly yelling “He’s wrong!”, President Obama’s deputy campaign manager seemed anything but confident.

“You said [the $5 trillion tax cut claim] was wrong,” Morgan said after playing a clip of Mitt Romney addressing this specific talking point.

“That’s right. Right,” Cutter responded. “Piers, I’m really glad you brought that up. So, there is this thing called math and here are Mitt Romney’s tax cuts.”

While saying this, Cutter held up a piece of paper with some numbers scribbled on it.

“And if you add up the lowering the tax rate by 20 percent, eliminating the alternative minimum tax, repealing the high income payroll, repealing the estate tax, and lowering taxes for corporations, that totals $5 trillion dollars,” she argued.

“So that’s Mitt Romney’s tax cut,” she continued, “It costs $5 trillion dollars. Now, is he going to close loopholes and deductions (that he won’t name) for those at the top? Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. There’s still not one economist in this country that can point to, ‘yes, he can close loopholes and deductions for those at the very top and that will add up to $5 trillion dollars,’ because it doesn’t.”

However, as noted by analysts both left and right of center, the problem with Cutter’s entire argument is that it’s based on a faulty assumption. There simply isn’t a proposed $5 trillion tax cut. If she really wanted to criticize the Romney plan, she could accuse it of being too vague.

“Did you say that it was ‘wrong’? Is he right when he says that?” Morgan asked.

“No. What I said, Piers, was the total of his tax cuts cost $5 trillion dollars,” she responded.

Again, this isn’t entirely accurate. Here is what Cutter said in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on October 4:

Erin Burnett: So you’re saying if you lower them by 20% you get a $5 trillion tab, right?

Stephanie Cutter: It’s a $5 trillion tab.

Burnett: But then when you close deductions it’s not going to be anywhere near $5 trillion, that’s our analysis.

Cutter: Well, okay, stipulated. It won’t be near $5 trillion but it’s also not going to be the sum of $5 trillion in the loopholes that he’s going to close. So it is going to cost someone and it’s going to cost the middle class.

As Burnett notes, the Romney plan calls for closing loopholes and deductions along with economic growth.

“I understand that, but this is quite important,” Morgan interjected as Cutter argued that the only way Romney could lower the costs would be to close deductions on middle class families.

“He’s wrong!” she yelled.

“No, but it’s quite important — ”

“He’s wrong!”

“Okay, well, let’s discuss how he’s wrong,” Morgan suggested.

This is the point where Cutter seemingly begins to blush — a lot. Again, as mentioned in the above, she doesn’t look at all comfortable in her attempt to trot out the $5 trillion tax cut claim. But maybe that’s just us:

Bottom Line: The claim that Romney is calling for a $5 trillion tax cut “is wrong” and has been debunked by both the left and the right. It’s simply incorrect. So we’re not entirely sure why the Obama campaign is digging in its heels here. Then again, this is the same campaign that thought a Big Bird-themed attack ad was a good idea.

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Comments (111)

mcsledge
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:25pm
I’m getting the impression that even the biased liberal media is having a hard time siding with Obama on his inadequacies and the desparate propoganda being slung during this election cycle.

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- DarkJello
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:40pm
  Romney ruined their plans by outperforming the messiah of the Left.
  
  Now Americans are wondering what else Obama has inaccurately assessed.
- AvengerK
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:07pm
  you know…if I didn’t know better…I’d swear Cutter is Baghdad Bobby Gibbs in drag….
  
  The explanation of the $5trillion is hysterical..I’m surprised it didn’t include things as- “and if you factor in that Jupiter will be aligned with Mars on the cusp of Aquarius in 2032. And if you have a sunny day in Iceland on December 22nd 2017. And if you hop on one foot while yelling “I’m a teapot”…then you get $5trillion in tax cuts. Clearly this will cost the middle class Piers and it’s important you let me keep repeating that with no interuptions from you”.
  
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- wordsofwisdom
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:15pm
  I can agree that the left has been cracked & stunned but they are not out. They will regroup & try to pretend this turn of events was just another bump along the road! This administration is not going to give up even if they loos! This song “Ode to Obama” http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/13541875
  reflects my sentiment.
  I pray that the election will be fair & that we will vote them out. But then I see all the in your face lying about the attack on our diplomats & I can believe they are not going to go without using any & all means to keep power. One reason I feel this way, is they may fear prosecution after Obama’s not able to protect them so they are “in for a penny in for a pound” so to speak?
  
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- listeninginVT
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:23pm
  I can’t even imagine the mail they get for the constant lying and how they are not trusted anymore. I think it is cover your **** syndrome at work.
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:29pm
  The Video caused those inadequacies of the hapless helpless impotent Obozo administration.
  The Math and Arithmatic of the situation is that 2+Obozo = 5. Do you walk guns to Mexico or Carry the Muslim’s lunch? That’s Obozo’s America….err Chavez.
  
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- Restored One
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:41pm
  Princeton Economist Harvey Rosen, who the Obama campaign cited in attacks against Romney’s tax plan, joined Tom Sullivan to discuss his recent claim that he has been ‘misrepresented’ by the President’s campaign. A press release this week used Rosen’s analysis to back up attacks that Romney’s plan would increase taxes.
  
  http://radio.foxnews.com/2012/10/10/audio-cited-princeton-economist-obama-wrong-i-never-said-romney-plan-would-raise-taxes-on-middle-class/
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:52pm
  Where do you get the bumper stickers I’v been seeing that say, “Obama ain’t my momma?”
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:57pm
  In addition to those on Twitter constantly reminding the networks they sold their souls to Obama. How long do you plan to pimp for him?
  
  Stephanie Cutter is a twit. She would not know the truth if it bit her. The left can only spin lie after lie and hope one or two stick. They are desperate and know they are losing. However, the public has got their number and only their die hard kiss-ups buy into their lies. One day they will all rot in Hell.
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 6:34pm
  Funny, wasn’t it Barack who wanted us to “trust” him last time and see where we are???
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 7:06pm
  A tax cut doesn’t have a price tag – It is our money to begin with – contrary to the popular opinion of the left – all money does not first belong to the government to dole out as the government sees fit.
  
  We need to repeal the 16th and 17th amendments to really rein in this leviathan that has become the Federal Gov’t.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:19pm
  DarkJello
  Everything?
  
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- Komponist-ZAH
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 3:55am
  Avenger—
  
  “I’d swear Cutter is Baghdad Bobby Gibbs in drag….”
  
  Or Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s evil(er) clone…
  
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- ranchoazulmt
  Posted on October 12, 2012 at 10:18am
  They need to make sure that if Obama loses, they can point to him as the failure, not the ideas. They need to keep plausible deniability for the movement!
  
  If anyone, besides us, sees that the reason for failure was the IDEAS, they cannot bring their new Messiah back in four years as the new answer to our problems with the same ideas. That is now the goal.
  
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- semperfi1963
  Posted on October 16, 2012 at 6:36pm
  I agree! Stephanie Cutter is such a mean spirited, brainwashed DNC automaton, she would not know the truth if it hit her in the head. Cutter, Gibbs and Axelrod are the trinity of propagandists. They are like “Baghdad Bob” who was denying that the Marines were defeating the Republican Guard in Iraq, even as the Marines kicked down his door and handcuffed him.
  
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shakedowncrews
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:25pm
And now for the Body Language Segment on the O’Reilly show…she blushed because she knows she’s lying

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- plastixman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:51pm
  Maybe she’s part Cherokee
  
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00100111
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:23pm
Ya know, when I look into her eyes I see the walls behind her. Oh, wow, this female is lost. Does she drink battery acid every day to be this brainless? There are some people who bring up points in a conversation that are so asinine they just can’t be countered. The only thing you can do is bang your head on the desk. How does this female have enough electricity in her brain to run her body?

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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:18pm
These people (and I use that term loosely) are like programmed robots. Their collective message is the same stinky garbage over and over and over and over again delivered without the benefit of thought or intelligence.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:24pm
  Absolutely.
  
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- DarkJello
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:46pm
  And they claim to be enlightened… Baffling and such.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:36pm
  They need to get their own damn country. Then, all the little commies can share each other’s money. I want them out of here. We cannot coexist anymore.
  
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- chalkdust
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:21am
  No. They know exactly what they are doing. It’s a tactic. Say it over and over and by default a certain number of people will believe the garbage they are shoveling. They know full well that many of us will see through the charade and their narrative is not meant for us. This has played out over and over again in the last 4 years with absurd narratives just like this story. I don’t have enough space to highlight all of the crazy fairy tales that have come from the Obama administration.
  
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HKS
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:15pm
Sounds like a typical democrat to me, just don’t get life at all. Lives in never, never land, where life is beautiful all the time and she’ll be happy to see those fine young men in their nice white coats etc etc etc.

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- RoBoTech
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:31pm
  Mostly true.
  Except one thing.
  Liberals WANT to live in LaLaLand, but, no matter how close they get to it, it’s never enough.
  Liberals are incapable of being happy, WITH ANYTHING.
  So, they don’t want anyone else to be happy, either.
  To prove my point, is the saying:
  “Conservatives don’t like something, they just won’t have it. Liberals don’t like something, they don’t want ANYONE to have it”.
  
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RepubliCorp
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:13pm
She twist and spins but the point is that Obama is lying. Cutter doesn’t even realize that she is calling her boss a liar

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- l84thegame
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 5:35pm
  The entire executive branch and all of their lemmings are still stunned by the pummeling and the ultimate knockout delivered by Mitt Romney last week in the debate. Some will never recover! Those that do will be more viscious, vile, hateful, and dangerous than ever before. We have never seen anything like what they now have planned to destroy Romney in the next four weeks. If that does not work, they will do ANYTHING (use your imagination) to stay in power to complete their evil mission.
  
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woodyee
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:12pm
I watched a chameleon go from green to red on youtube. I don’t think it was as fast as Cutter went from white to red…

Leftists are sick. Note how, when confronted, they continue to repeat the lie, as if they were trying to convince themselves it’s the truth? I don’t mean to sound “trollish” – I’m just calling it as I see it basing my opinion on how this administration rolls, and how the trolls on this site roll with it.

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AJAYW
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:12pm
She’s a liar as 97% of liberals are.

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- 00100111
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:25pm
  In the movie “Se7en”, the character John Doe went after the lawyer for “Lying with every breath that he takes…”. I think he went after the wrong person.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:11pm
No worry, Stephanie. Next year you won’t have to go on talk shows and look like an idiot, anymore.

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- HKS
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:21pm
  She is making reference to this thing called “Math”, I just wonder if that’s the same “Math” they used to set that unemployment rate?
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Not true – she’ll likely be a host on MSNBC.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:34pm
  I think she’s just saying “Meth” with a really bad accent.
  
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- MCON29
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 5:27pm
  Funny how she wrote some random numbers on a piece of paper, flashed it, and then hid it. Serves no purpose.
  
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huey6367
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:10pm
Four more weeks!! Four more weeks!!

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JoeInAlbany
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:10pm
They are digging in their heels because 80% of the public won’t look under the numbers. You can lie to them with impunity and they will believe it.

Further, I suspect she believed herself to be in a friendly venue with Piers Morgan. Surprising that he didn’t just nod his head in agreement with anything she said.

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evilhatemonger
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:09pm
Wow. I think Bill Maher was right about his donation being spent on weed.

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- HKS
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:16pm
  Obame does share.
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:30pm
  HKS, are you saying Bathhouse Barry believes in weed redistribution?
  
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- cayenne
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:36pm
  “ObamaWeed!!” Just keep him president, y’know, ‘cuz he give us ObamaWeed! You food stamps, social security, disability, low-income, you get ObamaWeed!”
  
  Trouble is that ObamaWeed makes you hallucinate about a second term, so it causes nausea rather than fighting it.
  
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huey6367
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:08pm
Democrats sure do love taxes – as long as they don’t have to pay them.

It’s been debunked. Pick another lie and go with it.

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UNALIEN
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:08pm
Cutter is one of an army of Demokratchiks,

Demokratchik (Statist: demokра́тчик, plural demokratchiki) is a colloquial term for a full-time, professional functionary of the Progressive Leftist Socialist Communist Party or government; i.e., an agent of the governmental or party “demokrat” (Statist) that held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility.
Members of the “demokrat” were frequently transferred between different areas of responsibility, usually with little or no actual training for their new areas of responsibility. Thus, the term demokratchik, or “agent of the statist” was usually the best possible description of the person’s profession and occupation. The sole function is to subvert any opposition to the party and promote, facilitate and expand that party power and influence. These “democratchiks” were promoted and embedded into high levels based on their ideology and not competence, education or skills.
Not all demokratchiks held lifelong positions. Many only entered such positions in middle age.
Historically, this term was derived from the Soviet “apparatchick” meaning from “Communist agent or spy”. In modern terms, Communist refers to “Statist” and a “demokratchik” is an agent whose sole purpose is to expand the State and promote its underlying ideology.

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- Twobyfour
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 10:52am
  The whole edifice is also supported by a whole army of young, dumb democratchicks.
  
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Landon410
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:07pm
“So we’re not entirely sure why the Obama campaign is digging in its heels ”

answer: because their dumb

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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:20pm
  It is actually “they’re” but we get your point.
  
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Really2012
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:07pm
My brain just exploded trying to understand her reasoning. Now I have a computer screen to clean..

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:34pm
  Been there before too. Spray the Windex onto your soft cloth and not the screen itself. This Cutter woman probably has the same effect on many here.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:37pm
  It’s getting to the point where she is almost as annoying as Debbie The Wasserman Swamp Donkey!!
  
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travlman77
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:06pm
If you say it loud enough and often enough it becomes the truth!

OMG 2012

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Yep, and you know what? If you punch a prog in the face enough times, they will disappear.
  
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Carpy1
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:06pm
The obummer admin is digging in its heels cuz it can’t keep track of the lies!

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- Magyar
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 7:45pm
  Exactly!!!!
  
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Dirty Harry
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:05pm
Pure evil! That witch is pure evil. She has sold her soul – she is willing to lie like a rug in the interest of partisanship. Incredible.

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- BIGWUN
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:16pm
  You’re right but it is iinteresting how God allows these Living Dead to convict themselves by opening their mouths to make them tell the truth “in error”whether it’s Cutter stipulating a lesser number or Joe stating how the middle class has been hammered the last 4 years. Go God.
  
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DarkJello
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:05pm
Cutter be a crazy liberal… That was a tad redundant.

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dickdastardly
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:04pm
She’s an idiot

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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:04pm
You think this stupid pig is hysterical now wait until November 6th. The whole crew of anti American idiots will be kicked to the curb where they belong. The class warfare that the regime has engaged in from day one will come back to bite them in the ‘collective’ ass.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:16pm
  The problem with this dumb C is the same as all the Barry pinheads.
  Romney’s deal factors in ECONOMIC GROWTH, something Barry and
  his legions know nothing about.
  
  Drop tax rates 20%, close all the loopholes and gimmicks so that more
  income is exposed to taxation on the upper end. The drastically lowered
  rates spur robust economic activity — businesses start hiting, people have
  more income, etc., etc. Which in turn creates more tax revenue and fills
  the gap.
  
  Duh. Liberals inability to understand this concept is some advanced form
  of retardation.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:44pm
  That’s right when government lowers rates they take in more revenue but your typical obamazombie can’t comprehend this simple fact. Check this story out how government screwed this elderly couple with the barbaric inheritance tax. http://playingintheworldgame.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/government-douchebaggery-get-informed/
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:51pm
  What it really boils down to is that liberals dont believe your stuff is really yours.
  
  What really drives me to white hot anger is the argument liberals constantly try to
  put forward that somehow a “tax cut” cheats the government out of money when
  that money belongs to the people who EARN IT from their labor in the first place.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:05pm
  @PROGRESSIVESLAYER
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:44pm
  Check this story out how government screwed this elderly couple with the barbaric inheritance tax.
  http://playingintheworldgame.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/government-douchebaggery-get-informed/
  _________________________________________
  
  Unreal. The sad news is that much of the garbage that has been heaped upon the
  American people by traitorous Dbag politicians for the past 100 years will likely only
  be remedied by mass popular revolt —– Shay’s Rebellion style.
  
  I actually believe Romney has the character to vote himself less power, but very few
  others do.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:17pm
  I don’t know bag our government is so out of control and I’m not just talking about since the jug eared fool came along. It took us roughly a century to allow progressives to pervert our constitution to the point that our republic would be unrecognizable to our founders and will take many years to reduce governments power and intrusiveness in our lives. Unfortunately time is a luxury we do not have and when the SHTF it won’t be pretty because this generation won’t respond the same way they did in the 30′s.
  
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BRBGator57
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:04pm
Come now … you know why they’re continuing to say it.

“BIG LIE!!!!”

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freenj
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:03pm
S.Cutter =’s doofus!

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:02pm
Get these People OUT! “We The People”.

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- CatB
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:13pm
  I agree .. I can’t wait to throw these lying POS out …. NOW!
  
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