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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums47%? Where have I heard that number before?
47% must be the tea party's lucky number.
47% of the US senate just lined up with the leaders of a reputed enemy state.
Just happens that 47% is most of the tea party in the senate.
But just where did I hear that number before?
Something about 47% getting money and doing nothing, I think.
Guy must have been talking about the tea party in the US senate
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47%? Where have I heard that number before? (Original Post)
rurallib
Mar 2015
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riversedge
(70,218 posts)1. no, it is 47 Senators out of
the total number. Which is ? 53 close-er to 90%
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)2. The total number is 100.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)3. I was thinking of Republican Senators only. sorry for not making that clear
clydefrand
(4,325 posts)4. You must remember Mitt Romney in
that 'closed' meeting that was 'secretly' recorded?
rurallib
(62,415 posts)5. right - 47% getting government handouts for doing nothing
he was describing the Repubs in the senate!
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)6. 47 Ronin. They were also traitors, of a sort.
I won't mention the end of THAT story.