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  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    LOL barfo.

    You're one funny guy.

    Not everything Obama did was bad. On the economy, much worse than most of his predecessors.
     
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    The roofer paid for the materials. The lumberyard got paid.

    It's not like we left New Orleans in ruins after Katrina. If we had, you'd be closer to right.
     
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    This is the trick sentence....it's the same as saying..a post written by riverman
     
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    Really?
     
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    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...e_than_bush_derangement_syndrome__132696.html

    It's Worse Than Bush Derangement Syndrome

    I was hoping to write an upbeat column to kick off the new year, something about how all sorts of things in our great country are bound to get better in the months ahead, a column based at least as much on wishful thinking as hard-nosed reality. A columnist can get away with that kind of fluff this time of year. But it's hard to be cheery when our nation is in the throes of a full-blown epidemic, one that is causing so much pain to millions of our fellow Americans.

    Yes, I'm talking about the dreaded mental disorder known as Trump Derangement Syndrome -- or simply TDS.
     
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    Hyperventilating. Good word for it!

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...g-in-the-age-of-trump/?utm_term=.838e6455508b

    The media’s hypocrisy and hyperventilating in the age of Trump

    By Joe ScarboroughJanuary 2 at 6:44 PM

    The groupthink that has overtaken national media outlets is embarrassing. There is an intellectual climate so suffocating that even stating that truth, or daring to line up a presidential interview, makes one be seen as a member of a suspect class. Reporters don’t have to like Trump. But they do need to stop hyperventilating long enough to approach the next four years with a balanced perspective and at least start pretending to once again be objective.
     
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    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...d_the_truth_matter_more_than_ever_132683.html

    Un-'Real' America Must Hold Trump Accountable

    By Eugene Robinson

    WASHINGTON -- Humility is a virtue but fake humility is a sin, or ought to be. So let me begin the new year with full-throated praise of some people and institutions that supposedly got their comeuppance in November: the mainstream media, so-called "coastal elites," share-the-wealth liberals, pointy-headed intellectuals and others said to be hopelessly out of touch with the "real America."

    In what too quickly became the consensus view, all of the above were put in their place by Donald Trump's narrow electoral victory. We unreal Americans were demonstrated to be clueless, the conventional wisdom has ruled, and now are obliged to slink away and repent.​

    Then he goes on to make excuses. Still a good read.

    But he's right about holding Trump accountable. Maybe after the butt hurt wears off, there might be some actual constructive activities.
     
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    This is such a good one.

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    Two and a half men, and one of them's WOKE:
     
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    LOL

    They don't get the facts right.

    No Ethics Office was closed.

    Fake news.

    But keep it coming.
     
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    Thank Christ! What REALLY happened, Denny, and why is it actually a great thing for America?
     
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    Sedatedfork Rip City Rhapsody

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    Drain the Swamp! But first, refill it!
     
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    GOP gets rid of ethics committee?

    Wow, that's just an outright lie, too.

    It just gets better and better.
     
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    The EOC still exists to accept complaints from 3rd parties. It vets those and passes them on to the Ethics Committee (both still exist) as always happened. They just aren't allowed to talk about the investigations anymore.

    But do carry on. I'll continue to fact check the lies on Twitter.
     
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    Ok, so why get rid of the independent nature of the ethics commission?
     

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