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‘Whatever’: Fox’s Shep Smith Can’t Contain Frustration While Talking About ‘Fiscal Cliff’

Nov. 8, 2012 2:00pm Becket Adams

Fox News’ Shep Smith during a Wednesday broadcast had a mini-meltdown while discussing the impending “fiscal cliff” with Democratic campaign consultant John Rowley and Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus.

They started by discussing House Majority Leader John Boehner’s offer yesterday to find common ground with the president so as to avoid going over the “fiscal cliff.”

“I’m not really sure what we heard from the speaker,” said Rowley, “frankly, he spoke in such an elliptical way that this could be the beginning of a new era of bipartisanship or it could be he’s exactly the same place he was when he walked away from the table a year ago.”

Just to be clear, Speaker Boehner saying he’d consider tax increases only “under the right conditions” is nothing new. In fact, as TheBlaze noted yesterday, the Majority Leader has openly stated this on numerous occasions.

“There’s nothing in that speech that indicated gridlock,” Jacobus interjected. “He’s talking about closing some loopholes … that’s going to hurt a lot of people on the right. But both sides are going to have to compromise, the president is going to have to compromise on entitlement reform, and he’s going to have to take very seriously the fact that half the country – probably more than half the country – is not with him on raising the tax rates.”

This is the point where Shep Smith becomes exasperated (to put it politely):

See?

Watch the discussion [via Fox News]:

“Everybody needs to [reach across the aisle]. You’re right, Cherri. You couldn’t be righter. You know, I don’t mean to get riled up, but it’s serious, isn’t it Cherri?” a slightly calmer Smith asked.

“It’s very serious,” the Republican strategist responded.

“Nobody wants their loophole cut out, nobody wants to pay more,” Smith said in reference to the fact that House Republicans might agree to a deal involving just that.

“And we don’t want class warfare either,” Jacobus continued, “and if we start hearing that language again from the president, you know, he’s going to lose a lot of people.”

“Class warfare … c’mon, now,” a tired-looking Smith muttered. “Whatever.”

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oldandtired
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:54pm
Go ahead tax the rich, they will just leave, like in France.

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- doomytram
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:13pm
  The real debt is 80 + trillion, not the astonishing 16.3 trilllllllllion. Here is how it works… we borrow 40 or 50 cents on the dollar. Spend and borrow more and tax the rich. Give free Obozocare to people making 150% above the median income level. If you are hurt and your pinky is broken then free disability to non citizens for life, but if you work for 50 years and retire then your Social Security isn’t there. Thanks Soros Obozoids.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:57pm
  Hey Doomy,
  
  Actually, the real debt is somewhere around 200T. If you take the national debt plus state and local plus the unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Medicaid and SS. Unfortunately Obamacare is a little hard to quantify at this point.
  
  I’d also add that during the Obama first term for every dollar of incremental GDP (around 900B and change) that we added $5.60 in debt. That is astronomical inverse leverage. Unfortunately 51% of the voting American public can’t understand this.
  
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- lwoot
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:59pm
  I say they should give him everything he wants and when it bites all of his supporters in the **** they don’t have anyone to blame but themselves. Those that work their butts off to ensure they have what they need and want will not stop doing that regardless. The ones that whine now and want the taxes will still be whining even once they have gotten their way and it sucks even more.
  
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- Windwalker
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:44pm
  Many have already left. They are watching this fiasco from offshore.
  
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- TembRising
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:48pm
  I stopped watching Fox news on election day when with the polls all still open they replayed over and over sappy stories about Obama getting teary eyed during his last campaign speech. Knowing how dumb the electorate is, I figure that encouraged a few sentimental types to go vote for barry. I’ve had it with the soft touch…Fox should have hammered Obama
  
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- getitgotitgood
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:54pm
  It is time to stop paying every one in the entire country. everyone must go to work and when the Government wants to supply you with food you will line up at your local union hall and get your daily rations. you will be allowed 10 gallons of water at your home a day, you will be allowed 2 hours of electricity in your home in a 24 hour period. you will not be allowed to use gas, or natural gas. you will be required to awake every day at 5 am and begin your day with exercise described by your government in front of your home. more will be administered as your government makes it up. any one that decides to not participate with the rules will be eliminated in public as a warning to the rest of your citizens to witness.
  
  It is time for all to understand, The United States of America is no longer a Republic. It is a Kingdom. We have a King. There will no longer be any voting of the little people to decide who and how the government will conduct business. As far as a budget, the government, KING, obama, owns ALL the money that is produced and generated in the country. The KING alone will decide how it is to be distributed to and among the little people.
  The Sooner you little people realize this the better you will be. If you hang on to that silly Republic democracy idea, the killings in the streets will begin.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:23pm
  You mean like how they left during the Clinton era…oh, wait they didn’t and the budget was balanced, until the dry drunk W. entered office.
- AvengerK
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:46pm
  LWOOT…the cynic in me agrees with you…just give Obama everything he wants and watch it all come ablaze around him. Politically that’s wonderful and would essentially evaporate the democrat party…but for love of country and the American people, they cannot be subjected to that kind of pain and humiliation. Someone has to do the right thing.
  We saw with this election that the electorate doens’t understand what’s at stake. I blame the media for it…Obama’s been protected and sheltered by them and they’ve attacked his opposition relentlessly. John Boehner will be their new target for the next 2 to 4 years (depending on mid-term results). But when you know Obama’s policies will lead to disaster you can’t cynically allow every policy he wants passed with the knowledge of the pain it will inflict on Americans. You just can’t.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:48pm
  Yes very good ENCIDIOT/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO…and what would have happened to that balanced budget that the GOP congress put together if Hillarycare was passed as Bill wanted?
  
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- michael48
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:48pm
  insaneom…back under the shovel ready bridge, comrade….dam, you’re too stupid to breathe…gullible dem-wit
  
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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:07pm
  Obama’s rates are MUCH higher than Clintons. You forget about all the tax increases in obamacare.
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:21pm
  Obama is ALL ABOUT class warfare. Those were the dreams from his father. And from every single one of his mentors.
  
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- demorepublicrap
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:05pm
  And they left Canada too many years ago. Why are the rich invested outside USA? Bring more poors in and get red of the riches…and then all the poors can share the misery. No jobs, no money and no food stamps or welfare . Because those with money can create jobs. This is the demorats dream and the republi rats are watching!
  I need Kool aid! Grande please now
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:25pm
  encinom
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:23pm
  “You mean like how they left during the Clinton era…oh, wait they didn’t and the budget was balanced, until the dry drunk W. entered office.”
  
  Clinton era? Oh, now I remember.
  
  That’s during the time you were hoping you could turn into Monica Lewinsky.
  
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- getalong
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 9:15pm
  I really hate when they refer to social security retirement benefits as entitlements. That is not true. Social Security is nothing more than an insurance program that you pay a hefty premium for every time you get paid. It has turned out to be a ponzi scheme that was raided long ago by Clinton and others, and never paid back. It was supposively supposed to go into a “Locked box”, but guess what? – the criminal politicians stole the money and wasted it.
  
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- Bob TX
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 10:38pm
  ..I don’t believe them..Thelma & Louise it…right off the cliff..otherwise you are saying tax rates from 12 years ago is oh so terrible and cutting the budget is horrible…we $16T in debt, we MUST cut spending and increase revenues…their fear is the CUTS, it’s their power, it’s their lifeblood to reward their backers, D or R, defund programs, pay a bit more…and stop looking to Wash DC for just about anything…the Govt.should be like UPS, you never think of them and when you do need them they do their job and leave…
  
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- v15
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 2:16am
  My strategy: Less politics, more Bob Marley. Got my backpacking, climbing, alpine, and ice climbing gear ready for a road trip. If anyone wants to go craggin, I got room. :)
  
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- UnwantedFoe
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:23am
  @ encinom “You mean like how they left during the Clinton era…oh, wait they didn’t and the budget was balanced, until the dry drunk W. entered office.”
  
  Actually Clinton only was able to ”balance the budget” because of the tech bubble from 1992-2000, clinton did also skim from social security to ”balance” the remainder
  
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- F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:32am
  Stupid damn libs and dumb @ss Obama supporters! They want to raise min wage, “tax the rich”, support money laundering unions, make all but a select few businesses carry healthcare, and regulate the crap out of every industry till they own it.! They think that somehow they can rid the earth of competition in life starting with the US and they want to do it while China and others are using slaves for production. WTF!
  What the hell do they think is going to happen to jobs, buisinesses, and industries in America???
  
  Maybe China already does own us and we’re in agreement to send everything of value over there till there is nothing left but desperate people and a bunch of untapped resources. I wonder if they will let us do the slave work or will we be replaced? Wonder what role the muslim population will play?
  
  Can’t believe these ignoramouses chose Obama over Romney!
  
  2 more things to add to the list of changes the republican party needs to make: 1. Give the women all the birth control they want and 2. heavily fund planned parenthood! There are waaaaaayyyyyy too many irresponsible, ignorant, unproductive peoples in this crumbling society.
  
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- RJL
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 6:13am
  Like sheep to the slaughter. Government created the cliff now they look concerned to save us from ourselves………..
  
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- Do Not Panic All is Well
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:31am
  Let the country burn we deserve it. No compromise. Instead impeachment!
  
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- zorro
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:48am
  I get what Shep is saying. No matter what Congress does, someone is not going to like it. Why then, instead of someone getting $600 a month on food stamps, can’t get they $550 instead for the next 6 months and $500 after that? You’re telling me that if you knock out only $100 lousy f-ing dollars a month on food stamps you’re going to starve? That wouls make a HUGE difference! Then get rid of the damn phones. Then get rid of “Earned” Income Credit. You’ll make a dent in spending guys. The motgage interest loophole will only affect the middle class who pays the damn bills.
  
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- KoolAidDrinker
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 10:48am
  Is someone willing to stand up and tell the President and the 47% we can’t afford all of the free stuff. Washington does not have a tax problem, it has a spending problem. Give me a physical break. We don’t have enough money to continue borrowing and spending like Obama has for the last four years.
  
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- LasVegasRon
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 12:23pm
  @encinom…damn, I’ve seen stupid before you seem to redefine the word in a whole new light. I’m guessing you actually bought the “left office with a surplus” line too. Nevermind.
  
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- wordsofwisdom
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 1:33pm
  You are right Oldandtired, You can’t make people just stick around waiting for you to come get your hard earned money. After the the rich move out they will come after the savings of the idiots that voted for this form of government. That’s when the idiots will start whining & complaining but it’s too late now cause once again we have been screwed by the politicians as this song implies “What’s Wrong With This Song” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9134749
  
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- Soundbyte
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 2:09pm
  You can give them everything they want and when it comes crashing down, they will still blame George Bush and evil Republicans. Unless you have educated voters, I see no improvement. Based on the man on the street videos, I feel it could take a generation to change this terrible trend. Sorry to be such a downer, but that’s the way I feel today. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
  
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- Go Glenn
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 2:16pm
  Give the democrats everything the want……….make them own it.
  
  Sure it will hurt almost everyone………but elections have consequences and liberalism will fail.
  We all know it will. When it does, maybe there will be enough left to re-build with a true Conservative majority. It is the only way.
  Give them higher taxes on everyone.
  Give them more regulation.
  Stop all drilling.
  Stop all fracking.
  Stop all coal.
  Stop all nuclear.
  Ignore Israel.
  Ignore Iran.
  When they truly get all their wishes, they will own it.
  Serves the country right for electing these looters.
  
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- wowjustwow
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:10pm
  ENCINOM – keep telling these yahoos the truth. Deep down they know you’re right. Obama is in; Romney is out. It’s burning them up…but reality will never sink in.
  
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- wowjustwow
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 3:11pm
  Then let’s not forget to say, “au revoir” and “bon voyage”
  
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- tipical
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 4:10pm
  The real problem with the cliff is that no one has seen what is over the edge. Is it a bottomless pit or just a slop with no end. Will it be over with in one split second or will it go on for the next four years. My only request is that when I am tossed over the cliff can I wrap my arms around Nancy Polosie. I want to go together, and then I want her to reach out and grab Harry Ried and Obooma, thinking they will save her.
  
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- BlessedGirls2
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 7:57pm
  Leave and go where?Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece……?
  
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- toto
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 3:39pm
  The feminists clamored for equality, the minorities clamored for equality. What neither wanted was the responsibilities of what used to be considered being an adult in this country. They didn’t really want equality, they wanted the sugar daddy government to take over the financial and legal responsibilities to be their daddies and replace the function of husbands as “head of household”. The absolute height of hypocrisy. They can’t handle true equality. So now we live in a socialist country. The communists are very happy.
  
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universalphilos
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:54pm
“Class warfare…come on, now.”
A prophecy, January 23, 1987: No one nation can support the world, unless the world is willing to support itself. No one nation can keep a third of the world from starving to death unless these people are willing to [fend] for themselves. It was written that these things would happen, that famine would strike a third of the Earth. And so it has come.
For you who say, “Where else has this began,” this has begun. It is all around you.
But we would also say unto you when a child in this nation, when you have not one child that goes to bed hungry at night, when you have not one child who needs [your] care, then, and only then, should you pick up another nation. There will be those who say what we say and have said is wrong. But unless you strengthen your own nation and build your own foundation, the nation that you have built “under one God” shall fall.
(See the parable on page 3-4) https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzyT3fgGxb4-OS1zdFdNRE5SSzg

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turkey13
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:44pm
Both parties are full of greedy life time politicians whoese only interest is to build nice fat bank accounts and hidden off shore secret accounts. We need term limits and time frames – like you can only run for 6 months before an election and say 1/2 million limits. We have Congree people that just won and are ready campainging. For president limit them to $ 10 million and 6 months also. Hillery Clinton spent 90 million to run for Senator in N.Y. 4 years ago and didn’t even serve.

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- Do Not Panic All is Well
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 8:36am
  She should have to pay it back
  
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- Beepster
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 1:59pm
  I forcasted a type of class warfare just after Soetoro was first elected, and, surprisingly, it didn’t come about. Things have gotten much worse in four years, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Just be prepared.
  We need new leaders in both parties. The left needs to get rid of its Commies, and the right needs to get rid of weasles like Bone-Head Boehner. He and the Repub Establishment is why Soetoro won the election. We need to support the minorities we have in the party, and need to help them recruit other minorities. The message of “I’m NOT supporting you when you refuse to work” has got to be made plain.
  
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- Smiley Face
  Posted on November 9, 2012 at 2:48pm
  100% agree. I’ve been saying for the past couple of years that term limits s/be at all levels of government. This would reduce the corruption and greed with our elected officials. And, I would also add, no life-long Cadillac healthcare or pensions after stepping down.
  
  I also like the idea of putting limitations on campaign time and money, which makes sense. This idea of taking a year off as the elected official to run for office is ridiculous!
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:42pm
If twinkle toes Smith was one of the first to perish when this Marxist regime collapses I say let’s get this party started. The OBAMAZOMBIES will die off when the SHTF because they’re too stupid to take care of themselves so burn it down Barry,that’s been your plan from the beginning.

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:53pm
  @Prog,
  
  A thinning of the herd might not be such a bad thing eh? The Obamaphone junkies will go feral when the hopium stops coming. They’ll tear each other apart. What’s left will come for us, only we’ll be plenty prepared.
  
  I’m struggling to find reasons not to support this option.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:29pm
  Now you’re talkin brother because I’ve been waiting,patiently waiting and like you said the parasites will come and we are prepared. This is nature and it’ll be survival of the fittest and I take great comfort in knowing the parasites aren’t prepared and won’t survive.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:46pm
  If the House held up the budget in January for 2 months, who knows how many Dem. voters would freeze to death before spring. That’s how easy it is to take the country back. I dont’expect them to do it willingly, but I do see it happening eventually, since we’re already broke.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:51pm
  “Hopium” That’s brilliant Roth LOL!
  
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- TheValley
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:13pm
  Shepard Smith is a liberal POS and always has been. Why he is allowed to infuse the news with his assinine faces and remarks is beyond me. He should have been fired long ago.
  
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- knotjammin2
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:36pm
  I agree!!! Now that Obama has been reelected, let the games begin!!!! 53% of the population voted him in and 47% will turn off the freebies. Have you heard how many jobs have evaporated since yesterday morning? Thousands and thousands!!!! You better be able to eat Hope and Change because in a few months that’s all there is going to be.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:43pm
  ROTH DITTO! Hopeium…. Brilliant!
  
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- jaylew
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 10:47am
  Earlier in this thread ROTHBARDIAN created a word called “Hopium”..& as others have acknowledged it is indeed a brilliant word.Not only is it the conjoining in a very sexy & incestuous way of the separate words “hope” & the addictive narcotic “opium” ….I think it is such a good word that it deserves to be the formal name of the next discovered element to be posted forever on the periodic chart of the elements like oxygen, hydrogen, arsenic, lead & uranium. We could all imagine what the characteristics of this newly discovered element “Hopium” might be….we would surely agree that it is an element that is fleeting in existence & only a transitional element between two poisonous & no doubt radioactive ones….we can also imagine that it affects certain parts of the human brain in ways that have yet to be explained either financially or literally. Perhaps…like Madame Curie did with Radium..the purveyors of “Hopium” will make toothpaste out of it to increase the intensity of ones smile….perhaps it will be introduced into Wheaties & Dinty Moore Beef Stew..perhaps Wendy’s & Arbies will have “Hopium” burgers & sandwiches for sale soon. And then the terrible truth will suddenly be revealed but far too late for the latte crowd & the generally uninformed “hopium” loving electorate & crowd. What they thought was the answer to all their personal problems was instead a malignant poison…and tumors crop up like ants on a spit out peppermint lifesaver on the sidewalk.
  
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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:38pm
It’s the spending stupid…

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NewLife56
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:32pm
Do not retreat GOP, do NOT cave in. Shep is a liberal believer, his true colors started showing months ago.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:41pm
  When was the last time the GOP stood its ground? 1995? 96? Those guts are gone. The current crop of GOP are lip service hacks. They’ll fold after a few pretty speeches about fiscal responsibility. Their goal will be just like the dems.. delay delay delay… They’ll come to some arrangement that will hurt but not kill us, and put off the cliff a few more months or financial quarters.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:35pm
  Boehner and the GOP will sell us out, but not w/o the help of the Tea Party. After last year’s debt ceiling fiasco and BHO’s Remaculation, they have to stand their ground. I ain’t holdin’ my breath.
  
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encinom
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:23pm
There was no meltdown, Sheppard Smith just called out the GOP operative for the BS she was spewing. The one of the reason Romney lost was because people realized he was spewing the same $#!+ about closing loop holes. The Senators and Congress man are going to need to determine which oath is more important the one to the lobbyist Norquist or the oath of office.

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- turkey13
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:37pm
  Remember the tv commercial where regular joes go in and take over Congree in one day. If both parties wern’t full time politicians and had other jobs they wouldn’t have to make deals with the devil. A none politician could pass a law doing away with loopholes.Obama spent nearly a billion bucks – thats a lot of favors owed. between his golf and the running for re-election he has only been on the job for about a year.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:54pm
  ‘The oath of office’ that’s rich coming from an OBAMAZOMBIE LMAO. I’ve told you a million times dummy we don’t have a tax problem we have a spending problem. Your idiot Marxist mulatto POS fraud president could tax us at 100% and it won’t make a GD difference,he even knows it. So shut up about taxes unless you’re talking about lowering them and try slashing trillions from the budget genius.
  
  16+ trillion in the hole and Barry’s going to add more! OBAMAZOMBIES ARE INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:57pm
  Good thing Obama made that pledge that there’d be no lobbyists in his White House.
  
  “No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.”
  
  Man of his words eh?
  
  http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/240/tougher-rules-against-revolving-door-for-lobbyists/
  
  “Do you like being lied too (sic)?”
  
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- jblovesAmerica
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:40pm
  i have the best idea-confiscate all wealth-from everyone
  it might last 30-60 days=
  oops and then what?
  in a year or so the wealthy will have all the wealth again
  and the mopes will still be sitting on the porch
  or the wealthy will take all the wealth off shore.
  
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- EZDOZIT
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 9:23pm
  Encinom,I know you won’t go here and check this out ,because you would rather believe the lie that Clinton left GW a5.5 Billion $ surplus or any surplus at all. Search Office of Management and Budget,White House. Historical Tables,Historical Table 15.6, 2001 the last year Clinton left office. How much was the surplus? The bottom fell out in 1999 after Clinton got China into the World Trade Organization. Obama used Bill Daily to get his S. Korea trade deal pasted in 2011,the same guy Clinton used to get China Deal. Search,’ Obama’s Korea Trade Deal undermines U.S. Auto Industry,Finds Government Report.’ That is all auto jobs in U.S. I bet you will not check this out because you would rather believe the lies. So much for saving G.M.
  
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- jaylew
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 4:44pm
  Hey Encinom……in case you have forgotten from my many past posts to you personally…..you are a mere smear of a poster here…..a semen sample…..a DNA filled plastic straw of genetic material from a bull…frozen in nitrogen time….waiting…..and waiting….and hoping that someday a heifer in full blown estrus will be the lucky recipient of what you have to offer. While you wait to warm up….consider most any Emerson Lake and Palmer rendition of Fanfare For The Common Man….and then just hope that the encore on that evening is Hoedown from Rodeo by Aaron Copland as arranged by Keith Emerson himself.
  
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steve61lindsey
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:22pm
“The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the
active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base
enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest.
There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are
forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is
inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!”
– Patrick Henry

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Detesman
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:22pm
Raising taxes doesn’t always mean more “revenue”.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:07pm
  It’s like if a little old lady gets her social security check once a month, and a mugger robs her right after she gets her monthly check, how much money will the mugger get if he keeps robbing her every week after that?
  
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Just_Us2
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:21pm
Let’s go over the cliff together….moochers go first.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:43pm
  We’re going to. That was guaranteed on Tuesday.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:14pm
  Shep was just on the verge of throwing his purse at someone. That could have cost him his job. OR gotten him a raise.
  
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- 338lapua
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:13pm
  1) Moochers
  2) Looters
  3) Sponges
  This won’t hurt……just lean FORWARD!
  
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whatda
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:21pm
I just have one request. Everyone who closes their business over the next four years, please spray paint “Thank Obama” on the plywood.

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- In the O.C.
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:30pm
  Great idea. But will anyone DO it, or just write if off and nobody will mention the TRUTH?
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:47pm
  Nice, the wonderfully productive “cut off my nose to spite my face” strategy. I have tripled my business in the last 4 years and plan on doubling in the next 4 years – from 100 to 200 and open at least one new office. I have no problem with my Republican lead competitors closing their doors, all the more pie for me.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:34pm
  Simpletruths Yeah that government money is nice huh? When the depression hits your ‘business’ won’t be around you fool,keep supporting big government and watch it collapse because it’s coming and I personally think it’ll be great,we’ll get to purge parasites from our society so we can move FORWARD.
  hahahahaha
  
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- jaylew
  Posted on November 10, 2012 at 4:57pm
  @simpletruths gosh your business is up what did you say 4 fold or 10 fold? and what just exactly is it that you do for a living? I noticed you left that part out. Let me guess….do you have a Lincoln town car with a light up hood ornament and you drive around blasting the themes from Superfly and Shaft all evening? Yeah I said it…..and what choo gone do about it? Go put on some of Obama’s favorite Jay-Z tunes and fire up a blunt…..and then come back and post a link on this forum of a snapshot of your most recent pension plan balance. What a lying clown you really are. A bold faced liar…..show us all your Form 5500 and block out the Tax ID number…..thats right…you don’t even know what 5500 form is. What a pile of steaming cow manure you are.
  
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huey6367
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:21pm
Want to know where we are headed? Pay attention to Europe. Where Europe goes, we follow. We do not learn from our own or other’s mistakes. We can see the cliff but will not give up ANYTHING to avoid going over it. And the whole time these clowns want to argue politics. Politics means nothing when it all comes crashing down. Then you will have another kind of politics – anarchy. No sane person wants anarchy.

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- drs1969
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:40pm
  At least Greece is driving out their illegals, but I can’t understand why the Nazi’s are doing so well in elections. It was Socialism that put them in the hole.
  
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Metallicat
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:19pm
I dont like Shepard Smith. Hes a closet queen liberal and gives it away with his snide remarks directed at conservatives and their policies. the liberal block on FOX from 1pm to 4pm makes me change channels.

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- bandi9
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:32pm
  agreed
  
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- CWPrequired
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Agreed!
  
  We may have lost the election, but we have NOT been proven wrong!
  
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- betsyyoung
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:46pm
  Amen!!!
  
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- smokie
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 6:28pm
  His studio is in a closet?
  
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- Damocles
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 9:07pm
  Metallicat, so true!
  You can go on You Tube and see his many examples of verbal diarrhea….
  
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moonsbreath
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:19pm
Embrace the Cliff!

Hey, if jumping off the cliff means that everything explodes and we start over with nothing, then let’s all hold hands and jump.

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- raptor45
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:27pm
  I agree Moons. I’m d*mn tired of being threatened by the fiscal cliff and I’m ready to ride the fall all the way to the bottom, whereever it may be. Ain’t nothing between any of us but air so let’s get this show started and see what shakes out of the mess.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:28pm
  I agree. Let’s get it done with. We owe it to our grandchildren.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:30pm
  Sounds good!
  
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- badswing
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:31pm
  as I say, we will have to touch hell before we start over.
  
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- Rational Man
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:34pm
  All you people that keep saying that are just like a bunch of “Moonies” wanting the rest of us to take poison with you and die. Take some vitamins or something and grow a brain. You obviously have no idea of the consequences of your ridiculous idea of a “plan”.
  
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- piplovestheUSA
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:51pm
  We can jump with the rest of them, but I have ropes and I know how to rappel. We can reach the bottom without going splat.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:58pm
  @RM, You are going to take poison one way or the other anyway. Unless you leave the country or are somehow friends with a central committee member.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:17pm
I love how neither campaign or the media talked about the fiscal cliff during the election. All they talked about was who is going to lower taxes. But the real question should have been, “who is going to not let the current tax cuts expire”.

There will be no tax cuts because we currently have two temporary tax cuts and it will be nearly impossible to keep both of them without raising the deficit. If we had a real election, we would have found out what both candidates want to do about fiscal cliff. Romney going around saying that he would lower tax rates by 20% across the board was a pure fantasy.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:37pm
  Taxes increases are never used to service the debt, they only inspire more spending. Go ahead. Raise them. Start taxing wealth instead of income. Full speed “Forward”. Think of all the revenue created when you start taxing plant and equipment at Net Present Value.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:47pm
  @Cavallo
  I guess the election has not improved your reading comprehension? Don’t label me a liberal – I am just pointing out the fiscal reality and the current state of our taxes
  
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Watcher1952
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:16pm
The Reps will cave in trying to appease and make friends of the Dems…..for sure we don’t want to anger them. Kind of sounds like Barack Hussein Obama and the muslims…..they won’t like us if we stand up to them. I agree….lets take a ride over the cliff

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- drphil69
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:31pm
  I agree. Baynoyereere… will fold, taxes will go up, the debt limit will be raised, and we will drive over that cliff at supersonic speed.
  
  Then when all the govt dependent losers can’t feed their families, the big cities will burn as rioters and looters have their way. Unfortunately a lot of people, MOSTLY POOR OBAMA VOTERS, will be killed.
  
  Well, this is the way of liberalism. They always end up destroying the lives of the people they claim they are trying to help.
  
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doomytram
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:15pm
Whatever means “F YOU” The fiscal cliff = Democrat wast, fraud, and Big Government abuse” The fiscal cliff is caused by the 100 hammer and the Testing of the effects of Cocaine on Fish. Obozo the clown POTUS hasn’t cut Big Government by one red cent.

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- Stoic one
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:24pm
  IF we were to take him at his word (PFHT) then his arithmetic education was dismal at best. He submitted a budget proposal….it was 4.2 trillion dollars; it was voted on both houses: 535 nays ZERO yeas.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:32pm
  Give Bobo the wonder Marxist everything he wants. Lets run aground and start over.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:45pm
  Bingo Cavallo.
  
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BenFrank1791
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:14pm
I never watch Smith. In fact Fox is on the way out with me. The Megyn Kelly coverage on election night was insufferable. I am only watching the Blaze. I told my wife , can you believe it, this ever smiling tart Kelly clearly looks like she is having fun. She could care what she was hosting, a morning show, or an election. Its all the same to her. All smiles and jokes on Fox as our country goes down the drain. Well goodbye Fox. Hello real people, on the Blaze.

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- moonsbreath
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:22pm
  She’s most likely in a very comfortable tax bracket and higher taxes won’t affect her that much. However, I’m starting to smile today because I think I went complete crazy while I was sleeping and now I’m ready to jump off that cliff.
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:22pm
  Welcome to The Blaze…..
  
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- encinom
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:24pm
  So you enjoy being lied too?
  
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- Metallicat
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:34pm
  My theory is Megyn Kelly worked her way through law school as a stripper. Her mentality reminds me of someone who is happy bouncing from lap to lap as long as they have money in their hands. Megyn and Shep dont hide their liberal leanings very well.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:51pm
  @Encinom,
  
  Assuming you voted for Obama…do you?
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:03pm
  Yes we do Eman, that’s why we enjoy your posts so much.
  
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- BenFrank1791
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:12pm
  @ Moonsbreath– I am feeling froggy myself
  @ pop40 –thanks
  @ Metallicat – yep I think you are right. She is the darling of some Fox Execs, maybe because of those lap dances, she is juiced in someway, the network is pushing her. I don’t think she gives a damn as long as her big paycheck is coming in .
  @Roth– thanks
  @ Gonzo — always nice to hear from you :)
  
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Damocles
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:12pm
Sheppo forget to take his meds again?

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davidwjohnson
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:12pm
One needs to realize that nothing will change in Washington because the same mindset will continue to exist.

I have decided to be like the squirrel in the summer who collects nuts every day while everyone else is having fun in the trees.

A dreadful winter is coming and only preparation will save you and your family, and maybe your community if you can convince enough of them to prepare.

Hunker down, because the storm is coming.

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4xeverything
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:12pm
Shep, really!?! Leave the grandstanding to the president…he does it so well. No one needs you stand up for the liar-in-chief, thank you very much.

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Popp40
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:10pm
Here it is….I would not mind paying a little more in taxes ONLY after the government cuts all wasteful spending, all Federal employees (including Senators, Congressmen, Judges and the President) take a 25% pay cut, cut the entitlement spending and make EVERYONE pay taxes (no more of 47% not paying taxes). Then I would consider paying more…..

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- doomytram
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:18pm
  The Government waste could be cut to 1992 levels and that would cut the fat by 33% The Clinton years started the Billion dollar studies on Fish riding elliptical and the effects of cocaine on monkeys
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:18pm
  Oh and end funding to the UN and all AID to countries who do not like us, nor supports us. Do away with the numerous alphabet agencies of the Federal government and only keep those that are vital to the running of this country and for those that are left, cut their budget by 25% and hold them to that budget.
  
  Sorry but it’s going to hurt to get the $16 million trillion debt down.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:21pm
  Don’t hold your breath. They’ll cut spending when the system forces it with a huge rock of reality. It’ll be too late by then, though. They’ll demand you starve your children for the patriotic duty to the state.
  
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:09pm
Bring on the cliff. If I have to pay 8K more in tax next year but it ends the ride? Where do I sign?

If the cliff is really that bad then let’s go over it like Thelma and Louise.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:22pm
  Floor it!
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:44pm
  It’ll be like mad max and the walking dead so let’s do this!
  
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- Tractorboy
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Thanks to Glenn, I can handle some cliff. Honey get the kids were going for a ride!!!
  
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- Cymry
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:53pm
  the really weird thing is, is that we probably will go over the financial cliff and that is going to suck. it won’t be as bad for those who have prepared and the cities will burn.
  
  i shudder to think what would happen if barry decided to declare martial law.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:06pm
  You boys are just plain scarin me! ( Best if said with a Slim Pickens accent) looks like i’ma gonn be takin a trip down to the gun store tomorrow morning!!!!
  
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JohnGalt
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:08pm
Ahh! Blame the TEA Party , it’s the new ‘blame’ game.

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- 338lapua
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 8:09pm
  We’re done with Bush then????
  Almost seems hard to believe.
  
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ResistSocialism
Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:08pm
Block everything in Congress. Let everything go to hell in a hand basket. Only way people will wake up at this point.

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- Lilybean
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:19pm
  @ResistSocialism I agree with you!
  
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- msconstrue
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:22pm
  i’m with you Resist……let the walls come tumblin’ down!!!!!
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:24pm
  Seriously? Block with what? The Speaker? That limp wristed cry-baby couldn’t stand up to his own shadow, and that goes for a shocking number of GOP lip service entitled jerks. Obama holds all the cards, there is nothing left.
  
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- moonsbreath
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 2:24pm
  Count me in too. My new motto is “Embrace the Cliff.”
  
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- DesertDave54
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 3:55pm
  I’m with Miss Lily and you! How much lazier can congress be? Hell, we haven’t had a real budget since the Bush administration! BTW, can I get an amen that Fox should fire Shep and Giraldo?
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 4:00pm
  Don’t block, rubber stamp everything the POTUS wants and this thing will collapse before the end of his term. Block and the Republicans get the blame for eternity. She’s going over the cliff either way.
  
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- Metallicat
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 5:20pm
  @DesertDave
  AMEN!
  
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