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KingOfLostSouls (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:21 PM Original message |
Why Didn't Republicans Propose $7 Trillion In Cuts When They Were In Charge? |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, you can't ask that now. Goalposts, and all that. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. They were too busy exploding the deficit and we were at WAR |
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buddysmellgood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. Deficits don't matter when they are in power |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. as with Reagan, deficits don't matter |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. Because they're damaged children who must win at any cost. |
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janet118 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. It's a pattern with the Republicans . . . |
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svsuman23 (143 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
7. why hasn't ANY party proposed 7 trillion in cuts!?! |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
8. Because they were sending... |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. They had not run out of debt ceiling yet?? |
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W_HAMILTON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. The debt ceiling was raised at least seven times during the Bush administration |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Which is why noone wants to loan the USA money today |
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W_HAMILTON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 07:48 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. It's just pointing out why your offering that... |
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roman7 (77 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
10. its run the country in the ground& |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. Because they're not serious about any of this shit they're proposing. |
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PatSeg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
12. They don't care about spending |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
13. Their crimes have steadily escalated. |
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W_HAMILTON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
14. lol |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
16. They were too busy doubling the national debt with 2 unfunded wars, tax cuts, and an unfunded drug |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
17. Same reason they never tried to propose any kind of health care reform. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. Deficits didn't matter then. |
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Life Long Liberal (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
19. K&R |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
20. Because it's really all just a game to them. If they win, they win; if they don't win, they still |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
21. Because they were giving everything away to their campaign donors/owners. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
22. Because they wanted to maintain their hold on political power and they knew hacking away at critical |
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wiggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-07-11 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
24. Had to create a crisis first. Shock doctrine and all. nt |
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