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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2014, 12:15 PM Feb 2014

Four Incumbent Republicans, Senate AND House, lost their party primaries in 2012. FOUR!

"Four incumbents! But that's all it takes to make all the rest of them petrified with fear of the Koch Brothers and the Club for Growth."

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/02/heres-pitiful-micro-drama-behind-yesterdays-debt-ceiling-vote

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Four Incumbent Republicans, Senate AND House, lost their party primaries in 2012. FOUR! (Original Post) Fred Sanders Feb 2014 OP

and that's why "crazy" is the new republican motto! gopiscrap Feb 2014 #1

You'd be scared too n2doc Feb 2014 #2

gopiscrap

(23,747 posts)

1. and that's why "crazy" is the new republican motto!

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Thu Feb 13, 2014, 12:18 PM

Feb 2014

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

2. You'd be scared too

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 12:19 PM

Feb 2014

if you had no other job skills and had a really cushy, no-work job like being in congress. They know the only reason they have their jobs is because of the gerrymandering and massive propaganda at their disposal. If that propaganda gets taken away and used against them, well, they don't have much else....

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