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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:45 AM Feb 2015

Why Is No One Talking About the GOP’s Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty?


Why Is No One Talking About the GOP’s Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty?

www .thenation.com - Despite their virtues, many conservative Republicans have an unfortunate habit of picking on the weak and disadvantaged, slandering the people least able to fight back. We saw a glimpse of this ...

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Why Is No One Talking About the GOP’s Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty? (Original Post) Panich52 Feb 2015 OP
Virtues? Newest Reality Feb 2015 #1
I dunno, maybe because pipi_k Feb 2015 #2

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Virtues?
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 10:58 AM
Feb 2015

I am having a hard time referencing the, "despite their virtues" part of that.

Oh, it's nice to start an article with a positive statement and all, but I am curious as to what virtues are being alluded to. Are we talking about their governing skills or civility? Is it just a way of saying, isn't it great they are not running amok and stoning people?

I don't know.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
2. I dunno, maybe because
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 11:31 AM
Feb 2015

the GOP have been yapping about it for 35 years and haven't done anything because they know that if they do, they'll be hanging themselves with their own rope?

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