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Dec. 28, 2012 9:46am Becket Adams

If you’re confused as to why U.S. lawmakers have made no progress in coming up with a deal to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff,” a combination of tax increases and deep spending cuts set to take effect next year unless Congress comes up with a budget plan, it might have to do with the fact that both parties deeply dislike and distrust each another.

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), for example, while criticizing Republicans leaders for using the nation’s debt limit as a tool in budget negotiations, compared them to a psychotic parent who would use the life of their child as a bargaining chip.

“It’s somewhat like taking your child hostage and saying to somebody else, ‘I’m going to shoot my child if you don’t do what I want done.’ You don’t want to shoot your child. There’s no Republican leader that wants to default on our debt — that I’ve talked to — so that ought to be non-partisan,” Hoyer said.

Rep. Hoyer lambasted GOP leaders for opposing an increase in the debt limit, arguing that similar increases in the past have made it possible for the U.S. to “pay its bills.”

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Ran60
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:25am
Waitaminnit…

The Republicans are willing to let us all be screwwed because of the belief that our problems are spending based.

The Democrats and the Occupant in Chief are willing to let us all be screwwed if they don’t get to screw those that make more than they think someone should make.

Now, who are the psychopaths that are like ‘I’m Going to Shoot My Child’??

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:30am
  I pray for some fiscal cliff….
  
  Finally some budget cuts. Finally the average person feels the drag of big government spending. Finally the budget deficit starts to narrow
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:30am
  Bingo…The Dems are expert at projection…Too bad more than 50% of America are stupid enough to believe them…HOME SCHOOL Folks…
  
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- Justus39
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:40am
  Not to realize America has a big spending problem is the ultimate of stupidity!
  
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- Justus39
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:40am
  Not to realize that American Government has a spending problem is the ultimate of stupidity!
  
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- booger71
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:48am
  The fiscal cliff cuts still are not enough, real cuts are needed, not just cuts in the automatic budget increases that occur every year. We are taxed enough, plus the House better not fold and vote to increase the debt limit. They must dig in with their heels and force the Senate to get off their rear ends and vote on what the House has sent them.
  
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- DadRocked
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:01am
  But it’s for the children…
  
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- DeathRattle
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:04am
  We are watching the societal decline of our nation. We are reaping the rewards of the left wing ideology that has been indoctrinated into our society.
  
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- forthepeople
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:27am
  Voting Law ( new ) : In the booth ( voting ) should be at the bottom of all races , issues a
  D: None of the Above ( start over anew )
  for the whole system is upside down being run by Money ( money = Power ) and the minority !
  We are basically Slaves , yes Slaves can be white too ……….
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:28am
  Last fall Boehner secretly negotiated with President Lucy, our 1st female president (Clinton was our 1st black president).
  Boehner put 800 billion in increased taxes on the table. When Boehner thought a deal was near, President Lucy doubled down & asked for 1.6 billion in new taxes.
  President Lucy Obama reneged on the deal just like Lucy takes away the football time after time. And like Lucy, Obama thinks the world of himself.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:33am
  Sounds like someone should be watching Hoyer – Normal people do not think or use an example of taking their children hostage and shooting them. Is he a registered gun owner? Is he on medication? Is he mentally stable? Is his statement not a warning sign or a cry for help?
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:49am
  We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. That’s why the American people overwhelmingly voted Obama out of office… oh wait a minute
  
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- Sparky101
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:55am
  Steny is and always has been a screwup and a pro-abort lefty. Why should it amaze anyone that Steny would think killing children was wrong? He’s been promoting that for ages. And, he is seriously deranged as are the people who stupidly re-elect the boob.
  
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- Sparky101
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:07pm
  Meant to say: Why should it amaze anyone that Steny would think killing children was okay?
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:11pm
  My family is prepared for whatever stupidity the government chooses to do. We will just pop some corn and watch the unprepared fight each other for scraps.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:33pm
  soybomb315_II
  I pray for some fiscal cliff…
  ***
  The Fiscal cliff may make top general brave vis-a-vis Congressional leader. Whenever a congress adds to a Defense request for Green energy or to protect job/local manufacturer, they may push back hard.
  
  It is hard to have competition with so few manufacturers of defense products. Most payment for large equipment is down on a cost plus basis. You can count shipyards on one hand. That is a very narrow industrial base, which is dangerous. It needs to be addressed, but it is not. It get remedied in part by Congress protecting jobs in their district, but it does not address the subject directly & forthrightly.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 10:22am
  Isn’t it ironic that this prog goon Hoyer talks about the GOPs hurting children when his party has ruined the futures of tens of millions of them?
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 12:00pm
  It’s too soon for Cloward and Pivon’s machination to come to life.
  
  The structure is not in place.
  
  We must break the backs of the government’s money making machines,
  
  Before they can put anything MORE in place.
  
  The cliff it is.
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:25am
If I ever heard the word “blackmailer” it would be the Democrats who have to have their way or else. Doesn’t matter to them how much they have used of taxpayers money for bad investments (that includes Obamacare), printed money to make our money worth much, etc.. They should look in the mirror and be ashamed for using future generations to pay for their bad choices. Sticks and stones….

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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:40am
  Corr – should be ….to make our money worth less
  
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- RDavis49
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:30am
  None of them have any shame before the American public… Remember the majority of them lied through their teeth to get us to elect them into the position. Americans have elected a nest of anti-america liars, cutthroats and thieves into our nations leadership.
  
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PA PATRIOT
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:25am
Yep.
It is all the Republicans fault.
Time for a new party to emerge.
They all lie like a rug and have no HONOR or COURAGE.
The time has come for all good men to come to the aid of their Country.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 10:19am
  PA Patriot,
  All it will take is a spark. Something big will have to start the conflagration. Most likely it will be the blacks rioting after Zimmerman gets acquitted. Then, it is game on. They are the most likely group to start trouble. They always are.
  
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- Lucci
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 12:05am
  This entire event is theater. As the demcrats like to say, “elections have consequences”. The repulican controlled house passed a budget in May 2012. They sent the budget to the senate where, if the leadership would do their job, would pass their own budget. It then goes to conference where a final budget can be agreed upon to send to the president. That’s the process. And the fact that the process has not been followed is proof that this “cliff” is a manufactured version of “it’s the GOP’s fault if we go over the fictional “cliff”. Such BS, if Reid would do his duty bound constitutional job there would be no “cliff”.
  
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Advection
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:23am
Did anyone else get the reference to the Conneticut school massacre by Rep. Hoyer? He was clearly using those 20 dead children by saying it’s like Republicans are threatening to “SHOOT MY CHILD”.

What a dirtbag!! Hoyer’s disgusting remarks should be the news story here, but as everyone knows, the media are the Democrat Party Propaganda Ministry. I expect them to take this remark and repeat it over and over.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:17am
  AD: You hit the nail on the head. Media parrots. Hoyer is living proof that age does not guarantee wisdom. Am sorry for the young Americans whose futures will suffer because of Democrat fools like Hoyer. And the MSM is contemptible and treasonous.
  
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:21am
Voted NO on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion.
http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Steny_Hoyer_Abortion.htm

So, it’s not ok to shoot your child. But, killing it before it is born, is just fine with him.

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- ProudCapitalist
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:14am
  Burdening the children with trillions of dollars in debt is also OK with Democrats.
  
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Advection
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:17am
I made this “psychopath comparison” weeks ago, after Obama began the negotiations by threatening to send the US economy over a cliff if his remands weren’t met. It’s obama who’s acting like the psychopath here. In fact, you can go all the way back to the summer to find the prominent Democrats making threats of sending the nation over the cliff if their demands aren’t met.

I’m not surprised that the person who gets the label “psychopath” in the media are the Republicans, though. The media is their propaganda arm.

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- gyro
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:24am
  well writen
  
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- spirited
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:33am
  seconded
  
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RIGS
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:13am
STONEHEAD HOYER is a backside kissing lackey of NUT BAG PELOSI they did’nt mind throwing us all under the bus with their moronic health car plan now hes using children as his hostages, what a moron”"”"”"

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:12am
It sounds just like he is describing the Dem-wits that I recall back during both Bush admins, Reagan, etc, etc. He does strike me being just as hypocritical as Senate Dictator Dingy Harry Reid. He really should point that bony finger at what he sees in the mirror.

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- Fubared
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:36am
  He perfectly mirrors and reps the Peeps Republic of Maryland.
  
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spirited
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:12am
Aww, isn’t that special?
–Hoyer just happened to use guns, murder (of), children AND the GOP in the same sentence.
WOW!

And, Harry Reid used the word “dictator”.

>Come on President Obama, say “bamboozle” –>just one more time. (please?)

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:10am
More and more the leftists are showing their true selves; darkness and insanity of a bankrupt ideology which values nothing and produces nothing save pain and death.

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- lassew
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:21am
  What worries me is the fact that so many are blinded to the fact that they are paving the road to he!!.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:26am
  some times nutty people just need to see what they are doing to change
  not going to happen this time the brain washers have brainwashed themselves
  
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ginger100
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:08am
constant crisis mode

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noslave
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:06am
AMAZEING?? harry reid resembles a smarmy two faced hand wringing,UHRIAH HEAP from david copperfield fame?or fagan?? hasnt passed a budget for over 3 yrs??lies thjrough his teeth,yet has the balls like pelosi to still spew crap??as for hoyer and other communist democrats??holding everybody hostage(old folks soc.security?,etc?) to get what they want is a democrats M.O.???look at the teachers union??they hold kids hostage every time they want mo money??

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BlackCrow
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:03am
Keep it up. The more you berate the people in this country who do not roll over and accept your communism the closer we get to civil war.

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- RightUnite
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:10am
  Couldn’t agree more. They’re going to push us until they can push no more.
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:12am
  and what are the libs doing to the school system
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:12am
  Yup. The sooner the better says I.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:13am
  Is that what the rubber bullets are for?
  
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- TAXEVERYONE
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:14am
  I wonder how many murders and abortions occur in Baltimore every day?
  
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- GoodCook
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:28am
  You back an animal into a corner and keep berating it sooner or later it WILL lash out. The liberal stupidity knows no bounds.Freud called the mental disorder projection when you call someone else out for being what you are to take the focus off yourself. Well Reid Pelosi Hoyer Shumer and Obama could filll a megaplex movie theatre with their colledctive projections.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 10:30am
  What’s funny is that when the SHTF the progs think that they will sit peacefully in their homes, watching TV and playing video games while all of us evil conservatives are rounded up and taken to camps. No progs, that is not how it will go down. You will be dragged out of your homes, you, your wife and your children. Your homes will be raided and burned to the ground, there will be fighting in the streets, sides will be chosen. Either you fight or you die. All of the white traitors that sided with the minorites will be consumed by them, with their mouths agape. You goons will not escape the carnage. Dream on suckers.
  
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chicago76
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:03am
Just another zombie growling.

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hauschild
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:01am
“It’s Like ‘I’m Going to Shoot My Child’ if I Don’t Get What I Want”

Nah, your children are likely dead anyway even if the GOP gets its way.

It’s mind-boggling how “in the dark” even those “in the loop” are to what this country has been reduced to.

Even more tragic is sometimes inadvertently picking up conversations among young people. They’re talking about things we all used to talk about. However, the more you listen, the more you realize they have absolutely no clue how different their world will be 30 years from now.

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- lassew
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:16am
  The younger crowd has absolutely no idea what is going on in this country. Between Facebook dumb reality shows and the current education system, most of them worry more about what’s trending on their phones than what their future will be like.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:25am
  Can you really blame young people who were raised by government schools and parents that are too concerned with their own work or marriage infidelity? Even the young people who are well informed and give a darn were scorned by the republican party because they supported a person who was too much of a strict Constitutionalist. There is no pleasing the republican crowd when it comes to young people….They call young people either too apathetic or too idealistic and blame them for all the problems.
  
  To me, the people who should be blamed are the ones who have been voting for the last 20 years and nominated progressive RINOs and have watched this country fall apart.
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:01am
  @soybomb315_II
  
  Maybe this is all inevitable, who knows? I guess that mindset at least takes some of the sting outta it.
  
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ABO
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:59am
What a bunch of BS…like the Dems have done anything other than want to tax the 2%…an amount that funds the feds for a whooping 8 days…what about the other 357 days in the year…show me the “detailed” plan for spending cuts by the dems and progressives….all the dems do is bitch that its the republicans fault and stupid Americans believe that crap…

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- Displacedsoutherner
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:20am
  Rep. Hoyer lambasted GOP leaders for opposing an increase in the debt limit, arguing that similar increases in the past have made it possible for the U.S. to “pay its bills.”
  
  The first problem is the Dem misconception that we “pay” our bills. Does Rep Hoyer think paying the minimum balance of $20 on a $2000 Visa bill means the bill has been paid?
  
  Raising the debt limit is the same concept. Borrow more, owe more, then move the Visa balance to MasterCard (the Fed buying US debt) and tell yourself you’re better off.
  
  You know it’s past rational discussion when the Libs claim there isn’t a penny’s worth of fat anywhere in entitlements that can be cut.
  
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:58am
Just imagine if Sarah Palin would have said this…..

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- gyro
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:28am
  lets get a bring back Sarah thing going here on the blaze
  
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thibx
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:57am
democrats open their mouth something stupid spews forth. why can’t we ban stupidity?

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Zipit
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:57am
Funny! Psyco Steny has no problem using the lives and futures of everyone else’s children, as a political bargaining chip!

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nappy
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:57am
Ah yes.. Mr. Hoyer.. the slack jawed yokel train jumper. Happy to boldly jump on any train that passes by. As long as it is going left. He’s a wiz.

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moreteaplease
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:56am
“It’s somewhat like taking your child hostage and saying to somebody else, ‘I’m going to shoot my child if you don’t do what I want done.’
———————————————–
But it’s okay if Obama does it? That’s exactly what he is doing with this country. Libs are too sanctimonious to realize it though.

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dosdelgados
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:56am
The US doesn’t pay its bills, are you kidding me? The debt ceiling gets raised so the masses get their checks and Obama can go golfing!

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charles116
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:54am
The GOP is imploding – deal with it.
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- Zipit
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:00am
  Stifle yourself Gasbag! You’ll believe that crap all the way to your broke a$$ed grave!!!!
  
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- hauschild
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:04am
  You can add “America” into that statement as well.
  
  Leftists need to be careful about what they wish for because in their Utopian stupors, they are hastening the implosion of their gravy trains – but, much too obtuse to realize it.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:04am
  Hoyer made you say that? Please Chuckie, explain away how the GOP is imploding, and digress into if it is a good or bad thing. The Dems are now socialists, but who cares about that.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:21pm
  Charles116
  
  Whig party imploded. People regrouped & came back stronger than ever as the Republican Party. We then defeated slavery in America.
  
  Meanwhile Democrat Party invented Jim Crow Laws & the KKK.
  
  :)
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:34pm
  Most Americans at this point correctly blame the GOP for Washington’s failures.
  90% of all Tea Party candidates were voted out,
  Younger voter put Obama back in the White House.
  It took 2 decades but the country HAS woken up!
  Boehner is a joke.
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:52am
“Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), for example, while criticizing Republicans leaders for using the nation’s debt limit as a tool in budget negotiations, compared them to a psychotic parent who would use the life of their child as a bargaining chip.”

The sky is purple. These people are deranged and are an imminent danger to the Republic.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:05am
  Agree. And like they did with the economic disaster caused by their “Affordable ( wink, wink, LIE/LIE) Housing Act ,” they will blame the results on the banks and on capitalism. These radical Democrats aren’t stupid : they are out to destroy our capitalist system. They truly are economic terrorists BUT they OCCUPY our White House , our congress, and our media. And like Rules For Radicals taught them, they are using the system to “change ” ( wink, wink ) the system. Period.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:36pm
  Right on.
  In the scenario of my post at the bottom —-
  WE THE PEOPLE are the CEOs of the company.
  The idiots in DC are the CFOs on the spending rampage.
  
  They are LITERALLY Economic Terrorists.
  
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MrSunshine
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:50am
If a liberal says something and there’s nobody there to hear him, is he still a complete dumb@$$?

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- moreteaplease
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:57am
  Love it! :)
  
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- l8e9x
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:58am
  Yes!
  
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- MrSunshine
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:59am
  Never mind. Charles116 answered my question….YES!
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:00am
  Worse. A psychotic dumb@ss who happens to also be A DOMESTIC ECONOMIC TERRORIST.
  
  Example:
  Lets say you own a company. The CFO of your company goes on a spending rampage even though
  sales are down in the weak economy. You meet with the CFO and explain that the company cannot afford the expenditures in the current environment. He/She needs to stop all the purchasing and extra unnecessary expenditures immediately or the company will be in trouble financially pretty quickly.
  You receive the expense reports and balance sheets the next week and realise that the CFO completely IGNORED everything you said in the meeting and continues on the previous course ——- spending the company’s reserves into oblivion and running up the company’s reserve accounts to astronomical levels.
  
  Thats the current situation in a nutshell.
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:01pm
  Yes…And it’s still a lie…
  
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