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‘Shut Up!’: Neil Cavuto and Dem Rep. Battle it Out in Must See Interview

Dec. 13, 2012 4:59pm Becket Adams

While discussing the looming “fiscal cliff” on Thursday, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) had a rather unpleasant exchange of words:

Cavuto repeatedly pressed Rep. Johnson for specifics on what Democrats would be willing to cut as part of a budget agreement. For her part, the Texas congresswoman insisted on focusing on “revenue generation.”

“No, you told me things you’d do to raise taxes. That’s what you told me. Credits, allowances, that sort of stuff. That’s what you told me,” Cavuto said.

“You’ve got to talk about revenue generation,” the congresswoman replied.

“I know that, but it’s 100 percent of what you’re talking about, congresswoman,” said Cavuto.

“It is not 100 percent of what I’m talking about. If you’d shut up for just a second, I would try,” she responded.

Cavuto shot back: “You got to tell me one thing you’d cut. I beg you congresswoman, one thing you would say, I would cut this. What would it be?”

Rep. Johnson thought for a moment and responded: “You.”

A pause.

“You don’t know, do you?” asked Cavuto.

“Well, yes I do know, but I have to have time to explain it. I can’t tell you I’m going to walk in and cut this and cut that. First of all, it has to have be some type of dialogue. We have not had that,” she said.

Shortly after that, and a little after Rep. Johnson made a crack about Fox News “consulting with the Republicans,” Cavuto decided to end the interview and cut to a commercial break. When he came back, he issued an apology.

“Alright, first off folks, I want to apologize to the Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and to you who might have been offended by my interrupting the Congresswoman, not allowing a simple answer. But that’s all I wanted. A simple answer. What would you cut?” he asked.

The Fox News anchor continued, adding that “both sides have to bring something to the table. Both sides have to be specific and when they are not, it gets maybe a little bit ugly.”

“But I keep telling you here, I’ve done this to Republicans and to Democrats, I’ve done this to those who say they’ll outline revenues but never do, outline cuts but never do,” he added. “I’m not red or blue here. I’m just green and I’m seeing red right now for the craziness of all the green that’s going, but we got to do this sort of thing. We’ll stay on it.”

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Comments (346)

RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:55pm
Dang it. I missed this when I had to walk the dog. Glad The Blaze ran at least this part. Cavuto did the right thing to cut her off. As somebody else here just said, now she knows exactly what a CUT is.
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- decendentof56
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:10pm
  You didn’t miss anything……just Cavuto talking to an empty seat.
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:12pm
  CAVUTO ROCKED!!!!!
  I’m sending him some cannoli’s.
  LUV YA NEIL
  
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- Shasta
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:33pm
  CAVUTO ALWAYS ROCKS!!!!! He gets a lot of unfriendly email, but I think his audience knows he likes to kid around.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:34pm
  DECENDENTOF56, Yeah I hear you. But I rather like Cavuto at times, and would really have loved to have seen the whole interview. Unless that was all of it, then LOL!
  
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- Restored One
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:49pm
  I saw it and thought Neil was great. When he asked for the umteenth time “What would you cut?” And she said “You.” I thought typical Dem, more with the violence.
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:54pm
  Which far left website or MSM outlet will be the first to call Cavuto racist? 1.2.3.4…..
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:56pm
  Mitt Romney ran for President and not once proposed a single cut he was willing to make to spending, unless you count PBS or Planned Parenthood (which might be 0.1% of government spending).
  
  That was and is a problem with the Romney, the Tea Party and the Republican party have. Despite all the loud talk about small government you won’t hear them talking specifics – ever – about what cuts they would be willing to make.
  
  Nor are they willing to admit that the budget was balanced before Bush started a couple of wars while cutting taxes (the first time in US history, maybe world history, that anyone has been stupid enough to do that), and a new Medicaid benefit also put on the same credit card as the wars. And let’s not forget the collapse of the economy after seven years of those policies. You have to leave this fantasy land about why America has a deficit behind if you want to look for real answers.
  
  Sorry Republicans. Why was Romney so coy about what expenditures he’d cut? You’re complaining about this lady when your Presidential candidate wouldn’t do the same? Boehner represents you Tea Party types. What specific cuts has he proposed? Post us a link on that! He hasn’t proposed anything more than Romney has. For a party running on cutting government your leaders sure are shy about exactly how they’d accomplish that.
- siennasun
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:00pm
  Darn..I always watch Cavuto..but had to fill out a 20 minute form for our insurance next year. And am not being snarly about that.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:05pm
  Hard to get a simple answer from a simpleton.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:32pm
  Bernice ‘Hairy’ Johnson isn’t just a simpleton, she is the person used as the prototype, by Quaker Oats, for Aunt Jamima mostly because of her oversized flapjacks but also because she’s full of rolled oats processed by a horse.
- Mutiny
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:37pm
  Cavuto is the only reason to even remotely pay attention to Fox News.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:05pm
  SendTheMeteors
  
  Sorry Republicans. Why was Romney so coy about what expenditures he’d cut?
  ***
  If you cut any program the Democrats like such as cutting its rate of growth but keeping it even with or greater than the inflation rate, the Democrats will go to general quarters.You don’t say you are going to cut Welfare & the DOD by the same amount. that would be political suicide. The Democrats would have a cow. It is political suicide to cut the DOD when Democrats might lose jobs in their district.
  
  Sorry, but when Obama proposed cutting the Charitable deduction in July 2011 & now says that is irresponsible, I do not take him him or you seriously.
  
  Second, we are talking about here & now. The budget battle now. The election is over. Romney does not have one vote over the next 4 months on the budget battle. To bring him up I think is deflection on your part.
  
  But whatever, you are losing in Michigan like you lost in Wisconsin. In Minnesota you are going to face a backlash because you are trying to unionize family members providing aid to other family members just so you can fund corrupt unions. you have the power now, but that ploy will backfire big time. Without the unions where are you?
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:25pm
  Meteors! My, you are a long winded bag of marbles aren’t you! If you have found yourself broke, and therefore out of weed, my suggestion would be, “lay off the bong water”! Everything, well almost everything you claimed in your post can easily be refuted, by anyone who has payed any attention for the past decade! Your hit and run style of silliness, I must admit, gets a lot of chuckles, but lacks in truth and substance. It really is nothing more than the daily talking points attempt to make us think that you actually know something! Go back to Facebook now!
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:38pm
  Isn’t letting some one answer a pretty important part of JOURNALISM?
  
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- AllWeatherPatriot
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:46pm
  In reply to “sendthemeteors”, I first have to say, You seriously think John Boehner represents the Tea Party? Nothing could be farther from the truth.
  
  OK, now regarding your claim that Republicans won’t specify what they want to cut. You’re right. “Establishment Republicans” have been too afraid to level with people because, let’s face it, most people obviously aren’t mature enough any more to put their selfish desires aside and deal with the raw truth. And that truth is that if we actually want to preserve what is left of our country we must start by eliminating entire departments of the federal government, beginning with Education, Energy, and much of the EPA. Those are just the low-hanging fruit, and we’ll have to continue from there.
  
  Instead, though, our “leaders” are arguing over maybe, if we’re lucky, 200 billion in cuts per year at absolute most. But we’re going 1.4 TRILLION dollars farther in the hole each year! In other words, it takes 1,400 billion dollars in annual cuts just to tread water and keep from going any deeper into the abyss. And then you have the mother of all demagogues, Obama, pushing his tax on the “rich”, that will only raise 90 billion max, enough to run the government for a whole 8 days. These guys just don’t get it.
  
  The Titanic is sinking and they’re arguing over whether to use a thimble or a teaspoon to bail water. What’s really needed is beyond the imagination of most members of the entitlement society, meani
- Maji
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:07am
  Sendthemeteors?
  That whole statement you made was a lie or distortion of a lie!
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:31am
  Maji – SendTheMeteors is correct. Bush was and is a progressive, so was his dad with the “read my lips” statement. Of course that doesn’t excuse the Democrats for not following through with their promises. Our politicians promise the moon and deliver the very fertile soil under the outhouse. Well we are coming to the end of this ride. We need to maximize tax revenues and stop spending… If you look at history, we did just that after WWII. Of course very very few people were on any kind of entitlement. Until we stop spending like a drunk sailor in vegas, we are going to continue to have issues…
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 5:47am
  RJJ:
  You probably got as much out of your dog as Neil got out of her.
  
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- CherokeeKid
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 6:20am
  Neil did the right thing … But he should have just pulled the plug on her when she told him to “Shut Up” Democrats are very ill-mannered, no civility!!!
  
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- Simonne
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 6:39am
  How did I miss it? Love Cavuto.
  
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- MittensKittens
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:29am
  Dumb b!tch didn’t know what to say, Cavuto should not apologize to that rock crawler.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:38am
  She does not deserve an apology. If you accept an invitation to be interviewed and show up with Blah Blah Blah…you insult the public. I have had enough of that crap. She is only using it as a platform to continue the “look how unfair FOX is b.s.”. I would not give her the time of day.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:44am
  Gotta love all the chuckleheads that post “well Bush…well Romney…. well Republicans….did whatever…
  Point is, do we correct course and leave something behind that is worthwhile? Or do we piss away bounties that prior generations bled for???
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:59am
  SendTheMeteors
  
  You are consistant – ignorant to a tee!
  
  Show me the Dems budget that they put on the floor. There is none and the one hussain proposed was voted down by his own people!
  Start practicing “hussain did it” becaues he owns it no one else!
  If you ever get a job you’ll get to pay for all the illegals and the 47% that have no jobs, but that is unlikely with this Regime
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 8:12am
  Why did he apologize? She was bs-ing and he pointed that out to his viewers. It’s his job.
  He’s doing her a FAVOR by having her on. Let her boycott Fox and only appear on msnbc.
  She’ll never have a larger audience– and Cavuto was totally right to point out her lack of substance to his large audience. Too bad he then apologized.
  Viewers look to him for his expertise in his field.
  She was a fake. Why apologize?
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 8:48am
  “Sendthemeteors” Is a DC Commie-Crat operative – Sorry Sandra Fluke – You have been exposed ! – Now crawl back up in Communist obama lap and snuggle up to your Socialist Government Teat !
  
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- youngblood1
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:28am
  @send the meteors what ever that means. Was it not the Democrats that said Paul Ryan wanted to throw old people off the cliff because of his proposed cuts to medicare. While all the time Obama was cutting medicare through the backdoor with Obama care. If the Repubs have never proposed any cuts then how can the dems say repubs want old people to die and drink dirty water and breathe dirty air. Because you know we all want that to happen Right? Specifics are not usually a part of a campaign. Rick Perry tried with specifics during a debate and stumbled and effectively ended his chances. There are entire dept that can be done away with. The dept of education for one. Each state has a Dept of ed. Why do we need one huge one in Washington. I get where you are coming from. However we are down to nut cutting time and not in a campaign. There should be spending cuts on the table. The point made by Neil here is that the dems have none and dont plan on making any. If they did they should atleast be able to say one. She should of known she would have been asked these questions. She was unprepared.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:46am
  So Johnson tells Cavuto to “shut up,” but he apologizes for offending her… You know what? Conservatives deserve to lose this country, because the people we have representing us in the media and in politics are a bunch of wimps.
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:48am
  If you eliminate the liberal “spin”, then you get absolutely NOTHING out of them.
  
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- minpin
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:19am
  Sendthemetors- I guess you missed the portion of the first debate, the altitude debate, when Romney mentioned cutting the Dept of Education and the EPA.
  If you are interested in links Romneys website has several items mentioned. Also most true Tea Party candidates listed specific cuts. Most conservative organizations dive pretty deep into this subject.
  
  Now regarding the Bush Era stuff..you are spot on. I agree. I acknowledge your point and couldn’t agree more. I stipulate to your point. With the Bush Era now 4 years past it would be nice if Libs like yourself would stop looking back, Lean Forward and fix this mess created by Pres Bush! I mean since you guys had a super majority for 2 years that would have given Pres Obama anything he wanted this should have been easy for such a talented leader and Statesman. 4 years in still nothing but your party has perfected blaming Bush while doing nothing to fix the problem.
  Neil asks a Congresswoman a simple question and gets insulted and threatened.Then you come on this site and insult us all with Bush Bashing. Time to get over it and fix the problem….You won the election twice. Problem is still there and instead of telling us what you will do to fix it you blame the past and lecture us about how lame we are.
  It must be nice to live in your world.No worries because you blame everyone else for what went wrong. That is called being a victim. Guess you can sign up for assistance from Pres. Obama:)
  
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- MontyRay
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:30am
  @sendthemeteors
  I don’t mean to oversimplify the complicated, but the federal budget is so convoluted that the only sane answer when it comes to cuts is across the board percentages. Anything short of that creates a special interest war and an endless prioritization argument. I think you cap spending relative to GDP, and then assign percentages of total spend between discretionary and non-discretionary spending. The pie is the pie relative to the cap, and the government should live and die against it just like the rest of the states do in the union.
  I think the reason why there is a shortage of proposed cuts coming from the Tea Party is simple…they are being just as vaguely tactical as the opposition. To bring out specifics while the other side dwells in lollipops and unicorns is to set yourself up for a media takedown of getting lost in the weeds. Ergo, my comment about warring and division above.
  
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- blueeyednegro
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:33am
  @SendTheMeteors
  
  “Mitt Romney ran for President and not once proposed a single cut he was willing to make to spending, unless you count PBS or Planned Parenthood (which might be 0.1% of government spending). ”
  
  Democrats have made it impossible to win any election by telling the “whole” truth. It is impossible to beat Santa Claus in an election if you believe people have to start giving back their gifts. Remember what they did to Paul Ryan when he talked about changes to Medicare? They created an ad with a look-alike throwing Grandma off a cliff.
  
  Look at the reaction to Mitt Romney’s plan to cut funding to PBS? They made an ad out of it to ridicule him. If they won’t cut PBS what would they cut? If Romney had named one specific cut, they would have gone and found 5 people to put on TV who would say how devastating those cuts would be to their family.
  
  I am not American, but I can see the bottom line. America has tipped over and I don’t think republicans will ever win the presidency again. The only problem is that you have tipped over to the side of the failed policies that have caused great empires of the past to disintegrate with nothing to show for it.
  
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- JeffersonsPen
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:53am
  @ SendtheMeteors. Telling the 47 percent that they would not be getting thier checks would have been political suicide! Hows that for a cut! It’s ashame you pinhead lefties always bring up Bush and then give Slick Willy credit for the farm built by Regan. Yea all Bill had to do was harvest the crops built by Republicans……………And when your lord and savior gets done destroying the economy it will take conservatives to fix it………..but then again your “Lord” seems bent on destroying this country completely………………pinhead!
  
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- FormerLib
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:56am
  This dolt could not articulate a specific cut because they have none. They have no intention of cutting anything. And why should thy? The fact is, Republicans in the house hold the cards. No discretionary spending increases can occur without their consent. No tax increases can occur without it either. They can vote to extend the Bush tax cuts. They can vote to extend no revenue increases until 500 billion dollars are cur from the budget. They can do whatever they wish and make the democrats shoot it down. But that have lost the moral high ground.
  
  The moment they made the idiotic statements that “revenue was on the table” and agreed to a ”compromise”, it was over. Why? because they accepted the premise that the problem is lack of revenue, not solely a spending problem. They admitted that the Bush tax cuts were wrong. They confirmed that ”compromise” always means Republicans agreeing with Democrats, and never, ever the other way around.
  
  Boehner is Charlie Brown and the Democrats are Lucy holding the football, promising that this time they won’t yank it out from under him even though they have all the other times. They are hapless and pathetic, and if conservatives don’t start their own party and let these Whigs currently called Republicans they keep mistakenly putting their trust into fade into obscurity, then they deserve to keep losing.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 11:23am
  Yup. Neil Cavuto doesn’t have to apologize for anything. These type of Democrats consistently change the subject, get off topic, divert, redirect, JUST so they don’t have to answer a question straight. They are cheaters and liars and her telling Neil to “shut up” would have had an automatic ending and disconnection. I would have said at that moment, “We can’t continue having a conversation if you are going to tell me to “shut up” and if you are going to waste my time and the viewers time with stalling and not answering direct questions.” Then I would have cut her microphone off. Then and there. Neil does not have to put up with this crap and no one should have to.
  
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- NeoFan
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:36pm
  The feds are spending more money than our country can generate in a lifetime. This whole argument about raising taxes is for stupid people. Prepare for the collapse of our system and the conditions that will follow.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:47pm
  Maybe someone show send you more hearing aids. Romney said point blank he would cut useless spending like PBS. I guess you diodn’t hear Obama talking about birdbird. Romney also proposed eliminating government agencies like the TSA and let the air line add the security cost to the tickets…AGIAN I guess you were seeing He also proposed cutting back unempoloyment to 72 weeks instead of the current 120 weeks. He also talked about eliminating all tax loops corperations use to avoid taxes…again I guess you were sleeping Those a couple I remember if I did so research I could point out at least a dozen more……Like the 10′s of billionsObama spening in cronie capitalism.
  Let’s all hope one of the those meteors you want sent will knock some sense into that empty head……
  QUIT BEING A LIBERAL TOOL AND ONE DAY YOU MIGHT BE AN INDEPENDENT HAND
  
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- smv803
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:02pm
  I just received my tee-shirt I ordered with Obama’s logo and the word “crap” underneath. I live in a gun banning state on the west coast. Do you think I’d be safe wearing it in public, let’s say downtown LA?
  
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- bdsconserv
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:06pm
  and this woman collects a salary,courtesy of the american taxpayer. expensive worthlessness. excuse me while i go bang my head against the wall.
  
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- TheePolitinator
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:20pm
  SEND THE METEORS I am now 100% convinced your a paid blogger for Media Matters or some other lunatic fringe left wing anti – American blogging hole. You do realize the imposed tax rates on the so called “rich” will fund the Gov’t's current budget for 8 days right? Obama added 6 trillion dollars, promised a slue of things and none of it has come to fruition. In FACT just the opposite is happening. high food, fuel, taxes and a loss of our credits rating and unprecedented unemployment. BY DESIGN LEMMING..
  
  The ONLY thing the tax rate increases will do is further destroy small business, hiring, and jobs PERIOD. And this you “t-******” speech is pathetic. We have been divided by design,n and it’s your complete devotion to the left wing mentality that makes you truly ignorant and oblivious to those pulling the string’s. You are m, merely a useful idiot.
  
  You think you’re clever and you sound and post like a true moron.
  
  Do us all a favor here, buy a ticket and move,
  
  Further more go to heII while you are at it.
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:41pm
  This ‘unnable’ librtard has an IQ of 15 on a good day. The ‘NEW, MODERN’ Democrat party; the party of dumbasses; minorities; and communists/socialists/hard leftists…..you can’t reason with them; As Cavoto has found out.
  
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- betsyyoung
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:44pm
  I was psyched when her turned her off…..she was a definite dunce!!
  
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- Wiley41
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:00pm
  I am starting a new movement and need help from those of you on the Blaze.
  
  This worthless waste of space is a perfect example.
  
  According to the website legistorm.com, Rep E.B. Johnson receives the standard Congressman’s salary of $174,000 and recieves $1,024,374 for her staff; and this also does not include all of the ridiculous perks of health care, pension, etc. Why in the world does this clearly ignorant woman make such a high pay?!!
  
  She represents the 30th Congress District in the downtown slums of Dallas, Texas. The median income for her constitiuents in only a mere $33,505. Do you really think she understands there problems or cares?
  
  My plan is to get a law passed (dare I hope for a Consitutional Amendment) where all elected officials in Congress and President have their salary pegged to the real median income in their respective states.
  
  The official standard HR Congressman salary was only $75,100 in 1985. How did that increase by 143% in 25 years?!!!!!!!
  
  I even put it down in a White House Peition, but it was removed.
  
  Under my plan the Congressmen and President woudl finally really have to ‘feel the pain’ of their constiuents. If they do a good job and the median income increases while they are in office, they Viola! they should be re-elected and their salary would go up that next term.
  
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- Annapurna
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:33pm
  Hey, “Sendthemeteors”, we shouldn’t have to spoon-feed you the entire plan but here is a detailed plan for cutting $2.5 trillion. Saying Republicans haven’t detailed cuts is just, well, LYING.
  http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/01/20/house-gop-lists-25-trillion-in-spending-cuts
  
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- RWCT
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:42pm
  I’d have shoved a mop in her BIG mouth. Blah, Blah, Blah. More taxes, NO CUTS. That’s what all the Dems want! They are just too big of cowards to say it!
  
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- DenverKitty
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:56pm
  Neil, just what did you expect?
  
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- 2B
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:13pm
  Go getem Neil!!! Thank God you are a true and honest journalist!
  
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- AZindependent
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 11:16pm
  Forward!
  
  We are past the tipping point. Hang on tight the ride will be rough on the way down.
  
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- Lily82
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:42am
  No need to apologize, Neil! You displayed the type of demand for accountability that all of these nitwits should face!
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 11:51am
  This is nothing but pure unadulterated STUPID, STUPID, STUPID! My goodness, my head is going to explode. Why the hell is this woman in congress? She’s so blind to her Obama talking points, she doesn’t even realize what cutting spending means.
  
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AxelPhantom
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:54pm
Neil is the kind of guy I would love to invite to a Christmas party. Nice, good sense of humor and intelligent. But even a nice guy has his limits when confronted with a fool.

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:51pm
Neil: You know they have to have 2-3 days to answer a question they don’t have the script for. That way, they hope you will forget the question.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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- decendentof56
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:14pm
  The Dems will cut NOTHING to the idiots who voted this dummy into office. Blacks, Mexicans, and their type will vote for “stuff”, as O’Reilly said on election night.
  She needs time to distort, and help doing that, to answer a simple question she has no answer for.
  
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Exidor
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:47pm
Those of us in Texas are very familiar with Eddie Bernice Johnson. She’s a complete incompetent. She’s not even close to being worthy of public office.

A complete idiot.

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:52pm
  And — elected.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:54pm
  I was listening from the other room .. is it me or do all these black women in politics sound alike RUDE AND STUPID ????!!!!
  
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- Lesterp
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:55pm
  Yea, saw the interview live and I was dumbfounded. This is were our country is now!
  
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- bumfuzeled
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:00pm
  She and CONGRESSWOMAN!!! Sheila Jackson Lee personify the idiotic, corrupt, victim, entitlement/reparation movement the progressive in the dimocratic party rely on to further their agenda. As a Texan I apologize to everyone including Mr. Cavuto.
  
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- neocon1
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:02pm
  catb
  
  ALL the women and the men, dumb and dumber…….with <85 IQ's and the bell curve.
  
  HEY watch dat island don tip ovah…..
  
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- txblaze
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:03pm
  Oh….for a minute there I thought you were talking about Sheila Jackson Lee.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:16pm
  Why are there so many incompetents who act extremely RUDE like this woman did in TEXAS?
  Quite frankly, it seems like most black women are very rude always, at least the ones in office.
  
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- decendentof56
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:19pm
  No, CATV, its not you. SJ Lee, M Waters, etc, etc. They all are hateful, angry black women elected by their type who believe, just like their beloved president, that it is time to settle the score with America and Whites.
  Only the hateful CBC could pull off going to Cuba and then come home with praise for Castro.
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:27pm
  EXIDOR, that is clear from just this short clip. She wastes no time exposing herself as an complete idiot.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:29pm
  “SJ Lee, M Waters, etc, etc. They all are hateful, angry black women elected by their type who believe, just like their beloved president, that it is time to settle the score with America and Whites.
  Only the hateful CBC could pull off going to Cuba and then come home with praise for Castro.”
  
  Truer words have never wriiten…
  
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- conniehorne
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:55pm
  She wanted the extra time to see if there was some way she could make Neil out to be a racist and then she could holler that at the camera and get off the subject of spending cuts.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:58pm
  When will people learn?? It’s not the color of the skin it’s the idiocy they portray. And, there are many black people I truly love because they are kind and intelligent. It’s the hateful dummy iggets I dislike.
  
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- Leveraction3030
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:26pm
  From Houston I would guess? Did she come on one of the flee Katrina Buses with the rest of them?
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:01am
  @CATB
  This idiot and the idiot yesterday proclaiming entitlements are an earned income somehow, unfortunately give black male and female politicians a bad rap. My opinion is this is due to the afirmative action generation where any fool moves up the ranks in politics or government jobs because of the color of their skin. I’m sure Mia Love and Allen West and many others are just as offended by this mentality.
  
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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 11:58am
  But, in the AA community, she be dope, yo.
  
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KangarooJack
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:47pm
…and now Mr. Cavuto, WELCOME TO THE DETROIT CITY COUNCIL!!!!!!

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- CatB
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:55pm
  LOL … she did sound JUST like it!
  
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Hoax And Chains
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:42pm
I love that term “revenue”. As if the federal government expects to just dip into American tax payer pockets, no matter how out of control government spending is. It’s like they’re gracious to let us keep what they do not take. Not one cut is in the works. All Obummer and the Dumbocrats want is a raised debt ceiling and increased spending, taxing everyone more, ultimately, because those people who are taxed more will have to make it up somehow. Where will they do that? They’ll do it at the gas pumps, grocery stores, and every other place that sells a product. Employers will compensate by freezing hiring, frozen or reduced raises and benefits, and reducing their work force. Boy, that’ll sure stimulate the economy. Also, increased taxes on the top 2% will not even scratch the debt. It will only fund about 8 days of federal government operations, which is going to increase spending… no impact on the debt. Washington spends their money first, one year, and tries to figure out how to compensate the following year. How would that idiocy work for any of us who try to wisely manage our income? What’s worse is, the equally corrupt Republicans will cave eventually and then come out with some BS press conference about what they gained, which amount to nothing but more bad times for Americans.

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- Fubared
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:54pm
  Very well said and so true.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:15pm
  I fear revenue is another term for slave to the government. They want to bankrupt the country, that is their goal. Any fool knows you can’t keep spending and stay solvent. Less and less jobs, more on welfare and food stamps is what they want. They advertise for more people. Its as clear as a sunny day. We are in for the biggest fall our country has ever seen and the union thugs will expediate it. It will usher in the NWO and we are a communist country now. The lazy, greedy, angry, and jealous people have stupidly voted this in and the progressives in government are cheering. Haven’t you noticed how angry the progressives still are and how they are still compaigning!!!! God help the righteous to be strong. In Him we trust.
  
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- Rob in Katy
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:51pm
  It is just a “Punishment” Tax. There is no reason for it but to put those still struggling in their place and take them down a notch.
  
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- glckgrl
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:52pm
  I agree. Isn’t it ironic that for the individual US citizen, bankruptcy is a privilege, not a right. Yet these people obviously failed accounting 101 and are laughing all the way to the bank. Despicable.
  
  Hoax, I can tell your writing is cohesive and accurate, so thank you for sharing this wisdom for the trolls who are monitoring this site for Mr. Obama. Have a very merry Christmas and God bless you.
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:22am
  HOAX . . . Have FUBARED tell you the story about the time he got 86d from a gun range for three accidental discharges in a row. IN A ROW! The last one took out the windshield of Jeep in the parking lot. Cops came out and had him cuffed in the back for over an hour before the range owner took pity on him – seems he was crying in the cruiser, something about he was going to lose his job at the adult book store if he didn’t get back in 20 minutes. It’s a hoot of a story.
  
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Small World
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:38pm
Apparently she does not know the meaning of the word CUT .

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- decendentof56
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:23pm
  She knows “investments.”
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:05pm
  She doesn’t even know the word REFORM.
  
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- Al J Zira
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:46pm
  She needs to learn the word: Unemployed!
  
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- chazmo
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:20am
  But does she know the word bankrupt.
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:37pm
Well that pretty much sums it all up.

The democrats are going to keep spending until there is nothing left to spend, and they want increasing amounts of taxpayers money to do it. But , in reality, such a tax increase will only keep them going for a few weeks, so they will continue to borrow money until no-one will lend anymore.

Then they will print more money, making American savings worth less and less. The bubble will finally burst, and the voters will scream out for a fiscal conservative to save them. Agony will follow as the US ship of state is slowly righted and re-floated.

Or the democrats might just say “To hell with it, let’s just have a jolly good war.”

I would suggest to the GOP that the next time they are in power, they include basic economics in the school curriculum, which begins:

Chapter one, page one.

“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”

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- Hoax And Chains
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:43pm
  There is nothing left to spend. The clock is ticking.
  
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Zurich
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:35pm
I guess that the Dems never answer a question because they don’t have any solutions, but to take the money from the rich to buy gifts, bacon and votes.

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- countryfirst
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 6:45am
  Since the so called almighty Obama has ended the war in Iraq that cost us 435 million a day, Please explain why we borrow 4 billion a day today. Oh that’s right for votes, the transformation of America and the one he will be most proud of the economic destruction of the only remaining super power. Thanks a lot sheeple
  
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Rpfoster
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:34pm
It is amazing. She wants details and dialogues before any action is taken, yet with obamacare behind door negotiations, no republican imput, you will know how it works after you pass it. Hypocracy

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DZ-015
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:28pm
He should have warned the Congresswomen once that he expected a simple answer to his question. When she chose to be evasive, then he should have cut her off with no apology.

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- Rowgue
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:04pm
  Exactly more media people need to take that stance.
  
  Make it clear from the start that this isn’t a publicity tour for them to push their opinion, it’s a forum for a discussion. Make it clear that it’s an interview and not a platform for them to give a speech. Make it clear that if they wish to have a discussion then that involves actually answering questions posed to them and not trying to deflect and obfuscate until you forget the question and they can continue to drone on about some unrelated point they want to drive home. And make it clear that the second they make it clear they can’t follow those simple guidlines to civil discourse you will immediately cut off their mics and move on to something more productive.
  
  It’s idiotic the way they let all these morons completely ignore the fact a question was asked and change the subject to whatever it is they feel like talking about. It ends up being just a bunch of pointless drivel. It’s why I can’t stand watching any of that crap anymore and I get all my news from the web.
  
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65Mustang
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:26pm
I have never seen anyone from the Congressional Black Caucus that spoke intelligently. Neil should have cut her off.

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- TurboCat
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:35am
  Yeah, but Allen West joined it in order to have some influence there and to represent an alternate viewpoint; I’m so disgusted that he had his re-election stolen by underhanded people using Alinsky tactics.
  
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:25pm
I saw it. Cavuto gave her every opportunity to say what her would cut but she didn;t want to cut anything and kept dancing around his direct questions. So typical, but it is an effective tactic for now, but the conservatives are getting fed up with it. The constant avoidance. The tables are turning on that because even Neil Cavuto is calling it what it is.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:24pm
Democrats try and act like everyone else just doesn’t understand the really intricacies of government like they do. The truth is that we do and we know what it takes to get the economy going and when we tell them what it is then they get nervous and irate. Democrats are communists. They want money to pour into the coffers so they can pour it out to there parasite constituencies to buy their vote.Obama and the democrats will destroy the country to further their party. There is something terribly sick and perverted about that.

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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:24pm
her answer was a simple ‘shut up’. translation no spending cuts

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grimmster
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:23pm
Another angry hoodrat black woman……..this baffoon had no intentions of answering the question,she doesnt possess the intellegence to answer it….Makes me wonder if people like this make the conservative blacks want to change their race…….

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K Harlan
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:22pm
The following message is Sarcasm:
Eddie Bernice and Sheila Jackson Lee …the true Pride of Texas

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- savagenatn
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:55am
  dang…only a racist would say such a thing…(sarc)
  
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Red Meat
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:22pm
Well, if a well known pancake syrup maker runs out of spokespeople, they know where to go. Yes, they are an ignorant culture.

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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:35pm
  .
  i love Blueberries in my pancakes. and i only use pure Maple Syrup, with a Maple leaf label on the bottle, so tell me, what are you talkin about ?
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Polarized America
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:35pm
  
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  i love Blueberries in my pancakes. and i only use pure Maple Syrup, with a Maple leaf label on the bottle, so tell me, what are you talkin about ?
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  You figure it out Einstein.
  PS: Blueberry pancakes are teh ghey.
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:51pm
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  …O meaty ..ur so urban
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:57pm
  Could it be Aunt Jemima?
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:04pm
  1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:57pm
  
  Could it be Aunt Jemima?
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  Could be. lol
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:05pm
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  1776…yup… i just wondered why red didn’t say that himself …she has no problem on other issues & there are plenty ……………..
  
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MLeo
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:22pm
Classy woman, there. ‘Smart’, too.

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- jaylew
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:04pm
  Urban communities will just about elect anyone won’t they? This woman is as dumb as a tree stump…..she is a walking cassette recorder for the Democratic Party….and yes the tape player is black. As long as urban communities continue to elect and re-elect representatives who are simply incapable of conducting a cogent discussion on anything except where to go buy some fancy colorful church clothes….then the urban communities will remain doomed. This woman is simply dumb…and that’s okay all by itself……it’s the obvious glaring notion that she knows she is dumb but refuses to acknowledge her own gaping thought process that makes incredibly annoying. She is not dumb because she is black….she is dumb….because she knows she is dumb and will do anything and everything except admit it.
  
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Pickles327
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:21pm
Mr Beck I did really like Neil Cavuto before we cut off Fox because it actually start with Ms Meg hmmm then we just cut off cable PERIOD dry turkey 3 yrs ago … I do like Neil Cavuto’s dry,,, cut to the chase approach ,,, lol its my type of humor dry and cut to the bone !!!! Congrats again on your awesome programs and thank you Mr Beck, Pat , Stu and of course Jeffery lol get Neil on there

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- trolltrainer
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:34pm
  You are quite welcome Pickles327 and I hope you at least listen to me on the radio. You can also follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, my website, and The Blaze so I do hope I can keep you current on what is happening here and around the world.
  
  Thank you for valued friendship.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:57pm
  Ah, needed that trainer. Thanks.
  
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therightisright909
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:14pm
Why can’t any Democrat answer the question that is asked? “Cut” is not in the Democrat lexicon.

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- aproudinfidel
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:24pm
  Because if they answer with the truth they will be exposed for the socialists that they are and that scares the crap out of them.
  
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LetThereBeLight
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:14pm
Lies are NEVER simple answers!!!!!!!

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- neverending
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:53pm
  My thoughts exactly.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:39am
  So true.
  
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SIXFRIGATES
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:13pm
Just another clueless idiot they chose to buy into office as long as they tow the line and shut up. There is no reasoning with liberals. Let the economy go over. The Democrats will have no choice but to own it. they own 2/3 of the process. LET IT HAPPEN. Let Obama supporters get what they deserve.

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therightisright909
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:08pm
You can’t fix stupid (referring to the Demonut)

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Fubared
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:07pm
Old Ed wouldn’t cut a thing. Krazy kracker, what do you mean cut rights to the monies of the rich? Sad days, sick people.

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