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Proud Liberal Dem

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2. Republicans can perpetrate some of the worst abuses of power without a fig leaf of remorse

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Fri Jan 6, 2012, 04:03 PM

Jan 2012

including things like indefinite detention without charges/trial, torture, illegal wiretapping, etc. yet the instant a Democrat tries to implement health care reform or create a new consumer watchdog agency, the Republicans gasp and faint in outrage at the Democrats' "Chicago-style politics" and socialist tyranny!

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