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chieftain

(3,222 posts)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 06:34 PM Jan 2013

One thing about this debacle that gives me a belly laugh

is that the seeds for this fiasco were planted by W and his handlers when they jammed the tax cuts through with automatic time limits of ten years to disguise the full impact on the deficit. Grover and the boys thought that no one would ever vote to raise taxes and the end of the social safety net and the Democratic Party would be at hand. Instead the GOP is imploding before our eyes. Kudos to Grover, Rove and, of course, the decider himself, W. Well played, boys, well played.

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One thing about this debacle that gives me a belly laugh (Original Post) chieftain Jan 2013 OP
Well played, boys, well played Flashmann Jan 2013 #1
"gang aft agley" 1monster Jan 2013 #4
Thanks Flashmann Jan 2013 #5
Yeah, but their plans ganged agley too. Hopefully to their grief and pain and not ours. 1monster Jan 2013 #9
Thanks and good luck in the playoffs chieftain Jan 2013 #7
Thanks Flashmann Jan 2013 #12
Quinn and Cassel will both be gone. chieftain Jan 2013 #13
Quinn and Cassel will both be gone Flashmann Jan 2013 #14
that permanent majority sure is working out MirrorAshes Jan 2013 #2
They have tried everything that money can buy chieftain Jan 2013 #8
And apparently the shit it can't! lonestarnot Jan 2013 #10
I loved watching Rove explain his squandering of a fortune. n/t chieftain Jan 2013 #11
2 wars and a major tax cut are expensive.... spanone Jan 2013 #3
Exactly customerserviceguy Jan 2013 #6
Nothing.. 99Forever Jan 2013 #15

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
1. Well played, boys, well played
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 06:39 PM
Jan 2013

Yes...Yes indeed......

Isn't there an old adage along the lines of,"The best laid plans of asshats and shitheels........."

Ugh...Can't remember the rest.....

1monster

(11,012 posts)
4. "gang aft agley"
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 06:58 PM
Jan 2013

Original Scots English from To a Mouse by Robert Burns:

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!


Translation into modern day English:
(The best laid schemes of Mice and Men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!)


http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/32287.html

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
5. Thanks
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 07:04 PM
Jan 2013

I knew the gist of it....I was being facetious before......And the plans I cited,were made by asshats and shitheels.......

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
12. Thanks
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 07:05 AM
Jan 2013

You guys have the #1 draft pick and will have a new coach.....Maybe your team will do do next year,what the Colts did this year........Don't waste any more time on Brady Quinn...

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
14. Quinn and Cassel will both be gone
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 08:54 AM
Jan 2013

I thought I'd heard KC wasn't expected to give up,just yet on Cassel.....Maybe that was before Romeo got canned......Quinn looks good holding a clipboard,while wearing a baseball cap,but is otherwise a wasted roster spot.....Whenever he got on the field for the Broncos,he made me wish Brian Griese,(of the 8 yard hail mary fame), were there instead....

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
15. Nothing..
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 08:59 AM
Jan 2013

... I repeat NOTHING about this fucking scam on the American People "gives me a belly laugh." And no, this isn't the "GOP is imploding before our eyes," and pretending it is neither makes it so or is going to stop the coming fuck over coming our way. Guess what, it isn't just "teh Republicans" who have a hand in this. Political color blindness is a VERY dangerous thing.

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