AM/Idaho: Labrador Turns Back $$$

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  Sisyphus on February 01 at 10:44 a.m.

  A true tea bagger would also surrender his government paid health care plan.

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  DFO on February 01 at 10:49 a.m.

  @ Sisyphus re: “A true tea bagger …”

  Let’s lose this expression. I’ve allowed it for some time. But it’s written to incite the other side. Time for us to retire it …

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  fortboise on February 01 at 11:16 a.m.

  1 point 435 million dollars. Oh my. That’s… more than $2,000 per member of Congress. Yessirree, that’s really special and worthy of spending $30 on a beautiful placard and having a press conference.

  I feel a little richer just for knowing this happened. I do hope all six gentlemen got a turn at the microphone.

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  Sisyphus on February 01 at 11:23 a.m.

  “But it’s written to incite the other side.”—so long as the standard is uniformly applied. For example, I see Democrat Party all the time. Hell Romney used it in his speech last night.

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  DFO on February 01 at 11:28 a.m.

  @ Sisyphus re: “I see Democrat Party all the time.”

  Seriously? Can Democrat Party also refer to a sex act? Lame, hoss …

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  DFO on February 01 at 11:30 a.m.

  BTW, even if the standard isn’t applied uniformly, I expect Left Bankers to follow this instruction, rather than to try to find some loophole to justify the continued use of it … We aren’t second-graders here … right?

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  greenlibertarian on February 01 at 11:38 a.m.

  DFO on February 01 at 10:49 a.m.

  @ Sisyphus re: “A true tea bagger …”

  Let’s lose this expression. I’ve allowed it for some time. But it’s written to incite the other side. Time for us to retire it …

  Looks like the Rasmussen charge of the blog being “too liberal” is being recognized and acted upon. What a surprise!

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  Sisyphus on February 01 at 11:41 a.m.

  LOL You wrote the standard, not me. Just like they did when they adopted the name and then put out videos on how proud they were of it. You got your blinders on again. I’m not copping to it being deliberate incitement either. Its just snark, albeit snark that may have been played out, which I think is the better part of the point you were trying to make. I’m certainly amenable to that notion. But its equally lame to limit your standard to double entendres, one definition of which refers to a sex act.

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  DFO on February 01 at 11:57 a.m.

  You’ve had your say, Sisyphus …

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  Sisyphus on February 01 at 12:03 p.m.

  Heh ;-)

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  Phaedrus on February 01 at 12:06 p.m.

  even if the standard isn’t applied uniformly…

  ‘nuff said

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  Randy_Myers on February 01 at 12:16 p.m.

  Back to the point of the money being turned back: I applaud those Freshman for doing what they did. I’m a so called liberal too. Anyone, of any party, who works to pay down the debt in any way, has my respect.

  As to cross party snarkiness, sexual name game innuendo, etc. The use of those words doesn’t bother me and I don’t think “sex act” with the phrase that is no longer allowed here. What silliness that adults can’t communicate textually respectfully and let passive aggressive jabs get in the way of discourse and debate.

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  DFO on February 01 at 12:36 p.m.

  @ Phaedrus … you hands down are the biggest violator of civility on this blog. No surprise that you would object to an opportunity lost to take cheap digs at conservatives.

  @ Green Liberatarian … you also are known to take digs at conservatives whenever I allow them. This isn’t about Duane Rasmussen. It is about enforcing civility here — a practice that started at the first of the year. If some of you guys are incapacitated with the inability to use inflammatory language to make a point on HucksOnline, you can always — always! — find a newspaper blog to let loose with your name calling. They’re a dime a dozen. I wouldn’t waste time fighting me on this one. I’ve adopted the attitude that the cooler awaits grown men — and it’s always males — who refuse to act like grownups here.

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  Phaedrus on February 01 at 12:48 p.m.

  @ Phaedrus … you hands down are the biggest violator of civility on this blog. No surprise that you would object to an opportunity lost to take cheap digs at conservatives.

  Now where did I say that?

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  eagleeye on February 01 at 1:21 p.m.

  This farce is what is wrong with politics today. Both sides included. These guys waste their time on this phony display of reelection propoganda when the debt problem is a gigantic issue that is too big of an issue for these mental midgets to figure out. And Joe Walsh of all people talking about fiscal discipline. An even bigger joke. This guy doesnt pay his child support or his mortgage. When will we ever learn and start electing intelligent problem solvers with integrity ? The problem is that politics has gotten so dirty and nasty good people wont do it. Its a sad time we live in.

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  fortboise on February 04 at 5:13 p.m.

  And days later, “back to the point of the money being turned back,” we all missed the obvious point. No money was “turned back.” They didn’t spend all they were allowed to spend, that’s great (even if the amount isn’t worth a press conference). But that doesn’t cause money to come into existence.

  Stan Collender explains what we should have noticed, and what should now embarrass the freshman grandstanders.

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