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Originally Posted by Sean
I'm with you. While I'm glad we have a new governmental direction heading our way, I was worried about the Dems getting the 60 seats they'd have needed to have the super-majority. I think having things where they are now with a simple majority will allow for sweeping progress to be made, but hopefully not to the point of spiraling wildly in one direction or the other.
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Obviously by the math on paper you guys are right. I'm just arguing that you have to have a justifiable platform from which to assert dissent, otherwise your dissent, in terms of mollifying our fears of runaway democratic ideology, is pretty much worthless. How do you dissent effectively if you simply refuse to see the problem any other way besides the current platform, summarized by dave berry fairly well...
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Barack Obama is our next president, which is very bad because he is a naive untested wealth-spreading terrorist-befriending ultraliberal socialist communist who will suddenly reveal his secret Muslim identity by riding to his inauguration on a camel shouting ''Death to Israel!'' (I mean Obama will be shouting this, not the camel) after which he will wreck the economy by sending Joe the Plumber to Guantánamo and taxing away all the income of anybody who makes over $137.50 per year and giving it to bloated government agencies that will deliberately set it on fire.
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your dissent is going to be "WE GOT TO STOP THESE CAMEL JOCKEY LIBRULS FROM MAKING SOSYALISM" meanwhile the democrats are passing dud after dud of a bill because the real type of checks and balances, common sense, we're waiting to land back to earth from its current orbit. the republican party is broken. and I don't say that out of any glee.