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President Obama Cites Sandy Hook Massacre to Encourage ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Compromise

Dec. 19, 2012 3:25pm Becket Adams

President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Republican opponents to compromise with him on a budget agreement, arguing that the American people deserve as much after recent hardship.

“After what we’ve gone through over the past several months, a devastating hurricane and now one of the worse tragedies in our memory, the country deserves folks to be willing to compromise for the greater good,” the president said:

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meisterman41
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:13pm
Thin-Skin POS. Move back to Kenya!

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- afishfarted
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:16pm
  once a schmuck, always a schmuck
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:09pm
  there’s those “folks” Obama likes to cite all the time.
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:56pm
  Just like a democrat to politicize a tragedy. Democrats are just disgusting individuals.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:22pm
  Never let a good tragedy go to waste. I’m sure the dead children would approve of being made pawns.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:37pm
  AVENGERK “there’s those “folks” Obama likes to cite all the time”
  
  >Yes, the “WEeeeee” people.
  
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- just the facts
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:55am
  obama is pretty well useless. Although elected, he is nowhere near leader status. He does use the title to his own benefit well dosen’t he.
  
  The price we will pay is just down the road a piece.
  
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700P
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:12pm
Shame died a long time ago in our country

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moreteaplease
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:11pm
“….the country deserves folks to be willing to compromise for the greater good,” the president said:
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Sure sounds like communist talk to me. The progressives have no shame. They will exploit anything or anyone to push their commie agenda.

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- fullblownjackass
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:20pm
  maybe this will get his attention
  http://www.causes.com/actions/1717231?recruiter_id=59023960&utm_campaign=invite&utm_medium=wall&utm_source=fb
  
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- TheBurningTruth
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:47pm
  Compromise? Picture this:
  
  You’re sitting on a park bench enjoying the afternoon sun. Some guy comes along and sits down alongside you. After a few minutes he says, “Hey! I’m bored. Let’s go kill 10 people!” You’re shocked and say that you don’t want to kill ANYBODY! He replies, “let’s compromise and just kill 5 people!” To which you reply, “NO! I’m not killing ANYBODY!” He gets up and as he’s wandering off says, “Damned extremists! Never want to compromise!”
  
  Sometimes, compromise is just wrong.
  
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SunTzuYou
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:10pm
Classic marxist leadership to follow the battle to bayonet the wounded. Heaven help us if we had a real catastrophe where we required real leadership that understand the greatness of America. Four years of this is a long time, can’t see adding a third term, it’s over. Congratulations progressives everywhere. Thanks for nothing.

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:08pm
Give him and the Left a bit of time. Soon we’ll hear how we have to brush our teeth twice daily to prevent tooth decay, in honor of the Sandy victims. Similar to how every push of Homeland Security was shoved down our throats with “Remember 9/11!”. Politicians never change, there is no ghoulishness that they will not descend to in order to push their agendas.

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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:22pm
  GHOST : When do you think the US economy will totally collapse ? I think before the end of next year. I’d just like to get your thoughts, if you come back to read this. If not, catch you later. AARP.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:54pm
  No, they’ll throw out a few more Fed gimmicks to keep it moving and limping forward.. the collapse comes when some catalyst strains the system enough to spike foreclosures and unemployment again. Another natural disaster, terrorist attack, or maybe the Chinese wise up that we’re going to have problems paying those bonds they are holding and stop buying them. The ChiComs don’t have to sell the ones they have, just quit buying our new debt, … then we’re headed for the rocks at flank speed.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:18pm
  ArmedAndReallyPissed
  
  Beside listening to Glenn Beck listen to Bob Brinker on at 3PM to 6PM Saturday & Sunday. Honestly, I think he is cheerleading a little bit. No where near as shamelessly as Cramer. He is pulling his punches. He is disgusted with Obama, but he does not have kind words for the Republicans I think.
  
  Also listen to Hugh Hewitt.
  
  We have a lot of debt. It might takes us 2 decades to get out of it It will take a fair tax system with a flat tax. It will take someone like Ronald Reagan saying things like “Morning in America” rather than the Demonizer in Chief. ( With a flat tax the wealthy will still pay more than anyone else. But liberals want to make people pay way more & give them a bloody nose just to feel good.)
  
  Our credit might get downgraded 1 more time.
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  More & more business people are getting tired of Obama . Even ones that bundled for him twice. the ones in California are absolutely going to get raped. After their wake up call Obama’s & the Democrats support is going to fade.
  
  I think Boehner should call Obsma’s bluff.
  Obama opened at 250K
  Boehner opened at 1 mil
  Obama countered at 400K up 150 toward the middle
  Boehner should counter at 850K (down 150)
  Why that puts the ball in Obama’s court.
  
  He should do it as close to the end of the week as possible. It is the 19th . He needs to make Obama sweat. To break him like Cutter was broken in Mad Max.
  
  If Obama counter s fin. Boehner counter with 750K & asks for more
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:30pm
  Even Government Sachs does not want the economy to collapse. They might be riding a tiger they can’t control, but they don’t want a collapse. A mansion or penthouse in a the densely populated northeast corridor is not the place to be if the government collapses.
  
  What would they pay security with? Dollars? At that point cops or private security would have more authority & resources than them.
  
  If the dollar collapses a major portion of the wealth go Government Sachs honchos also goes up in smoke, from deposits to land. If it collapses what does it matter if you HAD 3 homes in 3 different states. There might be squatter or other hostile people or local elites that just take it.
  
  As Rush has point out there are a lot of ObamaCare taxes that will hit regardless of any compromise. It will be a drag on the economy, which will not do well. After about March, Obama will be a very lame duck. A democrat liability really.
  
  Obama & the media are trying to make hay out of the Fiscal Cliff & Sandyhook. After that what have they got.
  
  If Assad does not fall before November 7, 2014 (or is not seen to fall in the foreseeable future) Obama’s foreign policy predict will look very bad. The Russians just gave the Syrian 24 batteries of hypersonic cruise missiles. Some of those will make their way to … Iran. who will … reverse engineer them. They are nuclear capable. the Russians have daily flights to Damascus with weapons, ammo & spare parts.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:34pm
  Now if I were Assad & Iran were to get some of those hypersonic missiles (You know they are drooling over the thought of getting their hands on them), I would insist that the Iranian Revolutionary guard do more than train the new Syrian Army. I would insist they send their troops under cover into combat around Aleppo & wipe put some of the harder core Al Qaeda/Al Nusrah fighters.
  
  No foreign policy woes are going to bite Obama on the aZZ hard sometime this summer & he is going to look like a little lost waif.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:32pm
  @WALKABOUT
  … he is going to look like a little lost waif.
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  Hardly. He’s an arrogant idiot. I know, that should be an oxymoron.
  
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quiltgal
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:05pm
Barry USES these tragedies for his own political ends. Typical narcissist behavior. What a shameless turd.

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:16pm
  What’s worse? Him using this event to advance government expansions in other areas with not a single logical connection between the two. OR That a hundred million of our countrymen are either too stupid to reject that or to complicit to say anything?
  
  It’s easy to point out the tyrant. It’s a little more uncomfortable to look around at your friends, family, coworkers, etc. and call them out for being mindless, immoral, lazy, unintelligent, uninformed serfs.
  
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- quiltgal
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:27pm
  Rothbardian:
  
  I agree, totally.
  
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:29pm
  Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:16pm
  
  What’s worse? Him using this event to advance government expansions in other areas with not a single logical connection between the two. OR That a hundred million of our countrymen are either too stupid to reject that or to complicit to say anything?
  
  It’s easy to point out the tyrant. It’s a little more uncomfortable to look around at your friends, family, coworkers, etc. and call them out for being mindless, immoral, lazy, unintelligent, uninformed serfs.
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  I do not agree with much that you post but this hits it dead on. I no longer blame Obama, democrats, liberals…I now blame the 50% of ignorant Americans who voted this clown POS into office for another 4 years despite everything this administration has done wrong. This country deserves what it gets and I am just happy I am blessed enough to have the means to relocate if that becomes necessary. Until the American people wake up it can only get worse.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:49pm
  trolltrainer
  I now blame the 50% of ignorant Americans who voted this clown POS into office for another 4 years despite everything this administration has done wrong.
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  He’s a commie, not a clown, and Ron Paul helped re-elect this man. No wait, that’s a little unfair. Obama re-elected himself. He cheated his way to Congress, and then to the WH — twice. Get a clue.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:05pm
  @Trolltrainer,
  
  We’ll have to work on the not agreeing with me part. :-)
  
  Merry Christmas to you.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:57pm
Barry doesn’t understand the definition of the word compromise. To compromise is to make a deal between different parties where each party gives up part of their demand.

A Barry “compromise” is when the other party gives up MOST of their demands to Barry, because obviously, Barry knows what is for the good of the Country.

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Bamagal0007
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:54pm
Stupid Jerk.

You mean the Sandy Hook attack was Bushes’ fault too?

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- ICSPADES
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:59pm
  I bet he would do a terrific ghetto swing.
  
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BehindTheMouth
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:52pm
For you Obama flunkies out there, here is a translation for you.

Yo afta what we’s’ve gone through ova da past several months, uh devastating hurricane an’ now one o’ da worse tragedies in our memory, da country deserves folks ta be willing ta compromise fo’ da greater pimp-tight, you know das right!

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FaithfulFriend
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:51pm
He so historic.

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scrapadapolis
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:51pm
How about really messin with Obama SHUT DOWN! When government shutdown during the Clinton adminastration the national debt clock stopped.If we are going to make a difference shut down and show Obama his massive spending is the cause of this mess.

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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:03pm
  Boehner doesn’t have the stones.
  
  The GOP house should give Obama everything he wants except the debt ceiling power and vote present on the rest. Then they should take out ads in strategic states explaining to the under-informed voter that Obama owns this entirely..it’s all his policies he got everything he asked for. Then as the economy tanks..you run more ads saying..”teach Mr Obama simple enconomics…VOTE REPUBLICAN”. You don’t say vote Cantor or Vote Boehner..you vote the brand..just like the democrats do.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:12pm
  Why don’t we all just say we’re done with this game and were going to (State or Group of States) and creating our own country with the constitution as our rule of law. We will no longer be subject to the confiscation and tyranny of the US and we ask nothing more from them and wish them all the best going forward?
  
  It was self-determination that founded our country. We have championed self-determination throughout history and still do if you call the North African positions that. Ergo, we should have no guilt in leaving and the US should have no quarrel in us doing so.
  
  It’s about time we stop complaining, accepting, and pretending that elections work.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:14pm
  @AVENGERK
  You don’t say vote Cantor or Vote Boehner..you vote the brand..just like the democrats do.
  —
  Barack’s rise to power was/is a different phenomenon. Nobody who voted for him the first time voted Dim. They voted for the black messiah. Second time around, those who voted for him (the actual number will never be known), voted for the black man, the commie, the Muslim, the America-hater, and/or the worker of iniquity.
  
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65Mustang
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:50pm
AT what point is this man going to propose anything positive, constructive for this country, it’s not going to happen…I wish the POS would drop dead. Thank God for the MUTE button.

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Tri-ox
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:49pm
Oh, I see – we should be willing to pay higher taxes because of the Sandy Hook massacre – Gee – that makes sense. As usual, obama doesn’t care who he exploits (going so far as to exploit murdered children) to pursue his destructive agenda – he is the greatest enemy the United States has ever faced.

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:08pm
  And as usual the ministry of truth (media) sops it up with a biscuit.
  
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T-2
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:47pm
it’s sick how he’s milking this crisis.

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:45pm
Of course he didn’t mention Benghazi or the Fast & Furious. He also left out Trayvon Martin, which is a shock. Besides, these Tragedies have nothing to do with this Kountries Finances. He is only using these Tragedies to use the AmeriKan people to put pressure on the RepubliKans so they’ll give him everything he wants. I say screw this MF-er. Give him nothing.

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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:44pm
Define the “greater good”.

By the way, to all of you defending Barry. I’d like to let you know that if you send 1,000 dollars to my paypal account it will help bring about world peace. Seriously. It will. If you don’t believe me then you are just a warmongering idiot too.

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mwhaley
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:44pm
The republicans just need to lock up shop and go home. This is Obama’s mess that he will blame on the republicans anyway.

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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:58pm
  Agreed….it doesn’t matter how much Boehner concedes to Obama, Obama will pillory the GOP no matter what. Better to vote “present” give Obama everything he wants (except the debt ceiling power) then take out ads in strategic states explaining how every policy is Obama’s. Do unto Obama what he will do unto you.
  
  Obama’s purpose here isn’t the “fiscal cliff”, it’s changing the house from GOP to democrat in 2014. Boehner is too locked into the establishment to realise what’s taking place he’s a buffoon.
  
  Obama’s biggest defeat and most infuriating experience was losing the house in 2010. All of a sudden the American people stopped Obama in his tracks and he resents it. Obama keeps enemy lists and the GOP house is his enemy until 2014. Obama doesn’t care what’s ceded to him or if anything is ceded to him at all. In fact he’d love the tax rate to expire on everyone not just “the rich”. This way Obama can tax even harder while playing “hero” to the people and demagoguing the GOP house. It’s a win-win for him. Obama believes he can win back the house in 2014 and then you’ll see what an Obama not beholden to the voter can truly be capable of…DREAM act, EPA regulations, Cap and Trade, Tax hikes, gun bans….heck I’m expecting him to announce at that point that Obamacare won’t work..we’re going nationalized health all the way. This stuff means nothing to Barry…he just wants the house back in 2014.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:23pm
  The House should pass three separate bills and go home. Then they can say, “We gave the president and Harry Reid three reasonable options, but instead they elected to send you over the cliff.”
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:31pm
  If he is going to blame it on the Repubs anyway, then why give in? Besides, don’t principles matter — AT ALL?
  
  Fight or flight decides a nation’s fate in the face of tyranny. Back in the old days, men used to fight to the death, rather than give tyranny free rein. We are a corrupt empire. That’s why we lost our country without a fight.
  
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termyt
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:42pm
Never let a crisis go to waste, eh?

Quick – what else can we use this for? Benghazi? How about Fast and Furious?

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chas2c
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:41pm
The house republicans are going to get slaughtered in the next election. Guaranteed to lose their majority.

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- OnwardThroughTheFog
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:49pm
  You’re assuming we will ‘HAVE’ an election and won’t be a Dictatorship under O’Bammy. My bet is it’s heading ‘FORWARD’ towards the latter.
  
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- Godfather.1
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:09pm
  @OnwardThroughTheFog
  
  Isn’t that what all of you Blazing Beckheads said leading up to the last election? How did that work out?
  
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:37pm
  Godfather.1
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:09pm
  
  @OnwardThroughTheFog
  
  Isn’t that what all of you Blazing Beckheads said leading up to the last election? How did that work out?
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  er…exactly like fog says? Between the liberal media, voter fraud and the ignorant voters and welfare leaches Obama easily won what should have been impossible. It is a stacked deck but until the majority of Americans wake up it will be impossible to fix.
  
  I hope you are enjoying your brave new world. You will only be able to ride this gravy train so long then the free obama-money will run out.
  
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Mandors
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:35pm
Fine, tell us what you’re going to cut Barry.

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trolltrainer
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:34pm
Good! Then YOU should compromise Mr. Obama. Quit with the vendetta against the “rich” that would not rake in enough money to run the government for more than a couple days and FIND SOME SPENDING CUTS! You stupid party hack!

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AvengerK
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:33pm
Stay classy Barry….

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- Shasta
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Nice. Simple and to the point.
  
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neverending
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:33pm
He forgot to mention we have been through 4 years of hell with him. What a sorry sob. He has no shame, no integrity, no honesty, no an ounce of truth ever comes out of his mouth and we have 4 more years of this and of course the arrogance, ego, lying and everything else is just 10 times more then the first time around.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:31pm
I need more barf bags,this POS is a piece of work huh? He’s using the massacre of innocent kids to advance his sick twisted agenda. How you sleep I’ll never know you vile pustule.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:38pm
  PROGRESSIVESLAYER, Hang in there bud, trouble is that we could never expect anything less from this character.
  
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- Salamander
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:29pm
  We are experiencing an extreme shortage of barf bags, so I suggest you use the 7th grade lab supplies from their sex education class. You can fill up a condom, tie it off, and send it to your favorite representative as a protest over the barf generated daily in Washington!
  
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- Salamander
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:18pm
  This little weasel has no shame! What on earth is the President going to do that has any benefit, whatsoever, for these people! He is less effective than he was in parting the waters of Hurricane Sandy or in ‘fixing’ all those power lines that Long Island Lighting ‘didn’t know how to fix’! What a maroon!.
  
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:28pm
Classless……

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- carolinaconservative
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:38pm
  Don’t insult the classless!!
  
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