Norah O'Donnell exposes Republican hack John Feehery's talking points in about a second and leaves him scratching his head like a dimwit when he had no response after he was asked to name one "pork barrel" project contained in the stimulus bill. (rough transcript)
Feehery:.... They go first with this huge pork bill.
O'Donnell: Name one piece of pork.
Feehery: Ahhh, bhah,,,You can't do that to me right now, I can't think of it right now, but it was a huge bunch of stuff that we don't even know what's in there.
O'Donnell: Well the reason I ask and it's not to put you on the spot and everything, but it's not pork. A lot of people say what it is, it's infrastructure spending, it is spending that is stimulative. That's what the White House says.
{snip}
O'Donnell: Let me get this straight: Republicans want to come out and be against helping people who are unemployed?
Feehery: No, they don't want to do that, but they...
O'Donnell: But that's what it sounds like...
Feehery: What they don't want to is go bankrupt in the off years and that's why Republican governors are having a hard time with this legislation ... the relief is temporary, but the changes are costly forever.
O'Donnell: Well it doesn't sound clear that the republican party knows exactly what to do quite frankly since there's this disagreement between the government on what to do. I want to read from the Politico, which has an interesting story today which says: Republicans are hatching a political comeback by dusting off a strategic playbook written nearly two decades ago.
Its themes: Unite against Democrats’ economic policy, block and counter health-care reform and tar them from spending scandals.The key point, a playbook from two decades ago. This is really I guess the grand old party.
Is that really the best Republicans have?
Feehery: Well, hopefully not ...
O"Donnell: Is anybody a thinker in that party?
I'm really shocked that Norah actually put him and Republicans on the spot for a change. It's not her usual MO, and it suggests just how bad Republicans are starting to look. Wow, Feehery probably expected the usual on-air time to freely slam anything Obama. She painted him in the corner over Republican governors refusing to accept unemployment aid and then hit him over the head by pointing out that the only new ideas they have are out of Newt Gingrich's 20-year-old playbook.
Republicans are hatching a political comeback by dusting off a strategic playbook written nearly two decades ago. Its themes: Unite against Democrats’ economic policy, block and counter health care reform and tar them with spending scandals.
Those represent the political trifecta that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich bet on in 1994 to produce a historic Republican takeover of Congress.
This normally would work, as our librul media usually gets sucked in by the Gingrich playbook. But I have a hope that maybe, just maybe, more TV hosts will call this out for what it is: Pure lunacy in a time when this country cannot afford these political games.
Republicans who adopt this philosophy should remember that Gingrich got his butt kicked over this plan. And they are terrified that we may get universal health care in the future and will do anything to undermine that. Even if it means digging up Newt's bones to do it.
Why don't the repugs come up with their own plan, so it's clear what their fiduciary plans and recommendations are publically, and then try to merge their plans with the Democrats where they can?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Haven't you been paying attention? It's the same thing Reagan, Bush I and Bush II did. Tax cuts for the wealthy. The same plan that has nearly brought this country to it's knees.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the GOP think tank when they're trying to find a way out of this mess. A couple dozen old pasty white men scratching their heads for three hours when someone finally stands up and screams "Tax cuts"!
is intended to be a factual statement
America has the second highest corporate tax rates of any industrialized nation. The GOP has created so many ways for corporations to wiggle out of taxes that 2/3rds of coporations pay NO taxes at all. They fill out the forms. The form says that they owe billions of dollars... deduct...deduct...deduct... amount owed is $0.
The only corporations that pay taxes are the oil companies that make such huge profits that they cannot deduct enough to keep up with it and mom and pop businesses that can't afford to hire high priced corporate accountants.
The end result of any tax cuts for corporations is that they cannot use the tax break becuase they don't pay taxes already.
Big problem is these people are SHEEPLE . . . presently they have no leader. Right now they are all swirling around spewing their garbage trying to make a name for themselves. Tell you what, I'll help them out. Presently the best one that fits them is:
G = GREEDY
O = OBSTRUCTIONIST
P = POLITICIANS
as always although it won't work this time because of the financial situation. Health care is another loser for the pugs, a bloated, scum sucker like Gingrich is their last hope? haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
had her sign a bunch of papers in the hospital. When she was on painkillers and gorped out of her mind. And then, IIRC cheated on wifey #2 (what'd she expect? Fidelity?) by getting a blowjob at work. By a staffer. During the Clinton impeachment. He wishes it was the Oval Office. He's admitted to the affair.
So Special. Can you imagine have this 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag as a history teacher? It should be illegal.
me-oww!
he/she will find plenty of his latest young, nubile and naive vitims scattered across that wasteland of "acadamia."
for at least pretending to be unbiased, if only for one segment. I really can't stand to watch too many of these cable news shows anymore, because the discussions are just so boring - especially when they have the obligatory Republicans on.
All they do is whine and lie. I have yet to hear one Republican come up with any idea about how we might do something positive to improve the financial/economic crises we face. All they have to say is "Tax Cuts" and Obama is selling pork. I do applaud David Schuster - he actually laughs right in their faces.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
So typical, the Republicans slam the stimulus bill for having too much pork spending, but this dingleberry John Feehery can't even cite a single example.
What a maroon!
Tom, your spelling is a color!
What A Maroon!
me-oww!
And this Republican shill John Feehery is indeed a maroon.
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"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Main Entry: mo·ron
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LOL
I can't figure out why people keep spelling "moron", "maroon'. LOL
'but it was huge bunch of stuff that we don't even know what's in there.'
It's either a whole bunch of stuff, or we don't know what's in there.
Can't be both.
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
This Republican a clod- I'm amazed he said:
"'but it was huge bunch of stuff that we don't even know what's in there.'
This person is not an intellectual.
GW Bush would be so proud!
As Robert Gibbs said about Santelli, maybe he could go to the site, print out the bill and read it! Then he might know what is really in it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
John Feehery and all republicans have the same real big problem with responsible, accountable governance, and governing - it's a "huge bunch of stuff that we don't even know what's in there".
On behalf of republicans everywhere, Well Said Feehery!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I heard several MSNBC hosts talking about this today and Matthews just did with Tony Blakley (sp?)
I hope it gets talked about and loudly. Let the American people know that all the republican party has to offer them is no to anything the democrats try to do to help them.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I used to couldn’t spell Republican Thinker, now I are one.
Does you gots smarter?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Several LOLCatz references coming on...
Fee-ry can has cheezburger?
Can I haz tax cut? KThksBai!
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" - Red Green
Freedom Ain't Free - Pay Your Share
Me in ur guberments, stealing ur riets!
I hope these ignorant republicans never make a comeback. I hope their ideology is dead for good. but I'm skeptical of that actually occurring. The media in this country is too unpredictable to make that happen for sure.
they both suck. the G.O.P.'s worse, but that's not saying much.
just look at their mascots.
the democrats picked a jack ass and the republicans picked a cumbersome behemoth that's scared of a mouse.
By the same corporations! Wheeeeeeeeee!
This morning on Morning Joe, they had the guy from the St. Pete Times and his "truth-o-meter". They asked him about the story that there was money in the stimulus package to protect a mouse in California. He explained that there had been a wish list from different organizations and one wish on that list was from the EPA about wanting money to preserve a wetland. The mouse lived in the area of the wetland, but that wish never made it into the package. After all this explaining, Mika, in all her wisdom said, Well, I don't like things like that being in this bill. Of course he had just explained to her that it never had been in it.
I don't know why President Obama doesn't just turn to Morning Joe for the answers to all our problems. That crew on there seems to feel they are experts in every field.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
She is a clear example then, that the apple does not fall far from the tree.
these (R) better be sure about their calculated risk regarding the stimulus/recovery package. this definitely won't work without the prudent participation at the state level. many states are hurting big time. states are cutting spending,will layoff and increase taxes. that won't help the stimulus. the federal stimulus helps avoid some of these adverse measures by states.
Whatta maroon... He blew his chance to show off his GOP strategery, and stuff.
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I don't know what high school he just graduated from, but he's lacking some serious edjumacation.
These Republican talking heads are all new-bees. I wonder why what happened to the GOP. Oh that's right! Now I remeber. They all went to jail. Now a bunch of political new-bees are trying to hold the party together. They are so going to get hammered over the next few years.
Ah, yes, the Republicans have come out with a bold, principled stand against "stuff."
Can't help but notice that there wasn't much worry about buying "stuff" for Iraq. As long as Haliburton and Blackwater are getting their no-bid contracts, we have plenty of money for "stuff."
You know things are bad when Republicans can't even run the Gingrich program correctly.
The politics of personal destruction worked (a bit) against Clinton because a) we had peace and prosperity and b) Clinton is a liar and parser of words.
The public disgust with Clinton's private behavior, therefore, became a tenable political weapon. Even so, they overplayed it into impeachment and lost a good deal of public support.
For Obama, it just doesn't work. There's no reasonable personal peccadillo issue. Obama knows what the definition of "is" is. And we happen to have hit an iceberg and are sinking fast.
What the thugs don't get is that We The People(tm) voted for this plan. Yes, we want bipartisanship, but by that we mean that we want the Republicans to play nice. You can make a bit of hay over Democratic overspending, but that's about it.
The fundamental approach of winning by undermining the opposition's personal credibility isn't going to sail this time. It may if, and only if, Obama screws the pooch so badly that the public calls for his head. But if that happens, then you can beat him straight up.
You won't be able to smear your way back into power. But please, by all means, try.
In the nicest sort of way this afternoon, President Obama told the republicans to either shit or get off the pot. He was the adult telling the peevish children that when they nit-pick over one, two or three percent of a bill, they are seen to be playing politics and not doing what is best for the country. He should have told them to go stand in the corner and think about what they have done.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
in the corner and think at the same time. They can't chew gum and walk either.
You're right. Just put a dunce hat on each of them and no dessert for anyone tonight.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
What's the difference between a dunce cap and a KKK hood?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
but all KKK hoods are dunce caps.
me-oww!
Don't get me started on their thinking...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
your correct john. the (R) will do everthing in their power to STOP healthCare reform specifically universal healthCare. that's what they are very concerned about. that plays into their anti-goverment chants/strategy regarding the stimulus. they know the country is ripe for safety net(s). they see it coming they are more interested in stopping healthCare reform before it gets any traction. the strategy goverment is the problem NOT the "cure". the (R) is continuing their negative framing of the stimulus to OVERlap into the negative framing of universal HealthCare.
nelson and shuler come to mind immediately.
And I still have low expectations of harry and nancy.
Some stuff you can't make up!
somebody from ProfitMedia(TM) calls out one Repignican lie out of the other 999,999 Repignican lies.
Credibility.
They has it.
This repub hack piece of shit reminds me of a typical used car salesman. Talk fast, and lie so you won't notice the tranmission is lying on the pavement and the tires are all flat.
They got nothing, but they want to sell you the same old crap.
Move on, nothing to see here.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
Whether they admit it or not, the republican party is the party of Noz. As in, oh noz, we are against everything that might help the American people but we are for everything that might help the elected members of our party.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Has a very nice ring.
These Republicans are a hoot. Just ignore the fact that they really don't know what they'r freakin' taking about. They certainly do.
Remember this fairly recent oldie, but goody?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMMklhX74_w
Bruce C Johnson
Someone will design snazzy uniforms and get us all marching around to "God Bless America." at some point. At the point of a gun.
Thanks for the link. I had forgotten all about that night on Chris' show and it was fun to watch it again. Where do these people come from and who tells them they are qualified to speak on their party's behalf?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
What a classic, always good for a laugh. Thanks for sharing.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
We hardly know ye!
me-oww!
strings people along and accomplishes nothing. We even know it but hell why worry someone else will do the heavy lifting.
Feehery: What they don't want to is go bankrupt in the off years and that's why Republican governors are having a hard time with this legislation ...
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Seems like your boy shrubby did a fine job during his ON years!
Asshat.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
and the gang are still raking in Billions off our backs.
Yep! These fuckwits forget that reality has a nasty way of eventually overtaking bullshit!
Lucky for the GOP that some of the dumbest people in the Solar System live in the SE US and Oklahoma and Kansas. Otherwise, these asshats wouldn't have more than 15% representation in D.C.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
if you like the smell of pork. get a whiff of AIG who's asking for more money. why isn't that considered huge "pork" bill?
America's most cherished institutions for the criminally insane.
Gimme shelter...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJMnES7WoT4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Mon, 02/23/2009 - 17:03 — constituent
if you like the smell of pork. get a whiff of AIG who's asking for more money. why isn't that considered huge "pork" bill?
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The other white meat.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
That guy is supposed to be a strategist? Oy. That was his moment to shine and he basically shrugged his shoulders and repeated the same tired old lines.
Wow, I was impressed that Norah basically nailed that guy to the wall and didn't even resort to being mean to do it.
I wonder if she would be that tough if it had been a republican house member or senator sitting across from her saying the same things this guy said?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The republican party reminds me of the crazy relative who calls and talks endlessly.
You could put the phone down for 15 minutes, come back, pick it up and say uhm-hmmm, then put it down for another 15 minutes and go do something else.
And they wouldn't have a clue that no one is on the other end.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
we see in everyday life in the trenches and on Television.
The big boys they cover for don't talk to much.
Yes.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
I love it when some smuck with the intellence of a slug tries to flimflam Norah O'Donnall and then she rips him a new one! You go girl!l
Good for her. FINALLY!!!
Jesus, but how dumb a bastard do you have to be to get blind-sided by Ignorah? The chances of that happening are about the same as Paris Hilton asking you a quesion on quantom physic's.
when Noron nails you, you're pretty fucking dumb.
Some stuff you can't make up!
And lucky.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
wwweeeeeellllllll???????
Some stuff you can't make up!
John Feehery
How the hell could you go into an interview not knowing jack about the topic discussed like that?
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
any other repuglyKKKan.
Some stuff you can't make up!
I'm not aware of Democratic "spending scandals" to run against. I am, however, aware of a lot of Republican spending scandals, including those millions of dollars in cash put on pallets and sent to Iraq to be distributed in pizza boxes, no-bid contracts to Halliburton, which used the money to kill a number of our soldiers by electrocution with their negligent wiring, the Abramoff scandal, etc. etc.
Also, doing something about health care wasn't as urgent a priority for Americans 20 years ago as it is today. Many of us were too young 20 years ago for this to be relevant, but it sure is relevant to us now.
So if the GOP wants to run the playbook from 20 years ago, I say "bring 'em on."
To capture the public's craze for nostalgia, they told Rick Wagonner to put 59 Cadillac tailfins on the Chevy Volt as a sure fire way to increase sales. And they told them to dump that ridiculous Volt name and change it to Edsel.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
-Ode To The End Of The Republican Party-
The republicans where lying on there side getting a morphine drip every 10 minutes for the pain. They became mortally wounded and where dying.
"You're awfully cold," the democratic party said. And the republican party, through gasps, replied, "Of course we are cold we are almost dead!"
While they gasped for air, the republican party muttered tax cutsssssss for the wealthy.
Then the republican party took four or five more breaths and died……….
The Grim Reaper, came to collect them ...
Then again, maybe it wasn't Death so much as another dark entity. ... : -O
hee hee
LuLu
If Norah O' Republican starts trashing you. Gee I wonder what's next, a statement from Tom DeLay asking Michael Steele to clean up his party for the betterment of America? Or maybe Norah's Neocon meds just wore off and she had a moment of clarity.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
John Feehery says they are still trying to find "what the voice is against Barack Obama"?
They are still campaigning. Someone should tell the republicans that the elections are over.
But then as they obviously don't know how to govern, I guess the only thing they can do is prepare for the next election.
Mon, 02/23/2009 - 19:04 — bmw 528
The GOP is really in deep shit
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Call joe the plumber.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Just flush your troubles down the drain, and they can flush Joe down too.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
to see the media demanding specifics like this, from republicans. they've been doing it to democrats for years and I for one think thats why so many democratic politicians and "pundits" are so articulate and moderate-minded.
homeboy looked seriously stunned.
nora o'donnell excites you?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
no - well, yes, in this segment.
no, it excites me to see legitimate journalistic questions and retorts. it excites me, after 8+ years of republicans just ... saying, like ... whatever. something really stupid. something like "the smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud" or "Iraq has mobile anthrax labs that transform just like optimus prime" ... it excites me to finally see people calling bullshit and demanding that these morons back that shit up.
this site, dailykos, huffington post - for years now they've been calling bullshit, but mainstream media is just letting the bullshit float into the drinking water. so its very refreshing and exciting to see mainstream media or "popular" journalists actually doing their damn jobs.
She had him on the ropes by asking him to name one piece of pork and he floundered like a fish out of water. I like the line "is anyone a thinker in the repuglican party?"
Vote Republican, it's easier than thinking!
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Mon, 02/23/2009 - 19:14 — George
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nora can snarl me up in ropes anytime.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
is a perfect poster boy for the Republican Party as it sails into the sunset.
* Whatever it is, he's against it.
* When challenged he has absolutely no facts to back up his alarmist, ill-conceived arguments,
* And in any case, dude can't engage brain with mouth so good.
(Ya gotta love this bit: "This what-ever-ya-wanna call it is full of pork!"
"OK, name one piece of pork."
"...er, yabadayabada... uh, I can't think of that right now!")
A few more "spokesmen" and "strategists" like this and you can file Republican Party under "defunct".
Republicans: THIS is in there! What a waste!
Democrats: It's not in there.
Republicans: But it could be! So it is!
Democrats: It's not written in the bill.
Republicans: But it's implied in the bill! So it could be in the bill! So it is!
Really, can someone just sit everyone down and explain once and for all how this all works? Just stop with the smoke and mirrors already...
That Obama and the democrats which the voters put in charge of the senate , house and presidency would get some b...s and attack the problems with some authority and if the republicans wish to get in the way step on them..
That's right we still have republicans like the blue dogs in the democratic party which we have elected..
Shame all the democratic voters can do is bitch about these republican-democrats , but when their term is up we vote them back in..
Why are we not looking for replacements for the blue dogs and other republican-democrats which terms are coming up NOW...
None
She's just trying to keep up with Campbell Brown.
They can't AFFORD to spend money on American People because they may need to spend it on more tax cuts for themselves and their rich donors some time in the future?
"OFF YEARS being the years they will NOT be in charge.
GOP, you had 8 years to do WHATEVER you wanted.
And look at the mess you made.
Now just go AWAY!!
GO BE IRRELEVANT SOMEWHERE ELSE!!
She didn't ever say boo to hoo during the Bush years. Too little too late, Nora.
Unlike the unemployed, it appears John Feehery, billboard boy for the republican party, has never missed a meal.
Isn't this the woman we all voted for on FDL to heretofore be known as Noron.
She's come a long way! I'm shocked at her cajones.
Norah O'Donnell (R) is trimming the dead wood from the bush so that something better (more destructive) will grow. Thinning the herd. Weeding.
Don't let this fool you into thinking shes something other than a hack posing as a journalist. She'll return soon with propoganda for the republicans, or attacking the left.
I can see why they are using 1993 strategy (the year Clinton took office). There is a new Democratic president who seems to connect to the American public. And there is an economic problem for which the president and the Democratic majority of Congress implemented a stimulus bill. It worked for them in 1994. However, this time the memory of the Bush years will not have faded by 2010.
last night to some other R shill.
Much to my surprise he called out the R who was talking about that train from L.A to Las Vegas; the one that isn't in the bill. Yea!
For once, a reporter calls "bullshit" on a talking head moron. They need to do more of it, and often. These idiots go on cable shows and bloviate the same superficial talking point lies and almost never have someone say... "wait a minute, that's complete bullshit... justify your position, please."
Hilarious and refreshing to hear someone finally call out the desperate Reslugs on their repeating lies and showing that they are so out of touch using Newt's OLD playbook. Let them continue to shoot themselves and die out for the good of all America.
Don't give Nora too much credit yet. I think that maybe she's checked a few times and discovered that the prevailing winds have shifted somewhat to the left. That being said, it was a great smackdown all the same. It looks like much of MSNBC (except Morning Joe) has gotten the message. Will it spread to CNN?
...when you're a geek and you get smacked down by a really hot babe like Nora. Of course Feehery isn't the brightest bulb in the box...
"I can't think of it right now, but it was a huge bunch of stuff that we don't even know what's in there." Jeez man couldn't you have done better than that?
A former Senator of my state, Don Wooten, said it quite well I thought. 'We are in a BIG hole. What's another trillion or two on top of the deficit left by Bush to keep it from turning into a black hole? It's money well spent". I trust President Obama and will continue to do so. I can't say I agree with everything he's done thus far, but he has done more in the last thirty days than Bush could ever think about doing, other than going on vacation.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
When the Repubicans were in power, they would label any Democrat opposition to their acts as "endangering America" and "Supporting the terrorists".
Why aren't the Democrats turning the tables and saying the Repubicans want the US to suffer economic collapse? Unlike the Repubicans' facetious, fallacious, phallic and fascist claims, the Democrats would have a factual argument. The Pubes have said nothing but "stay the course" as the boat heads towards a waterfall.
O'Donnell called this idiot on a lot, but one thing she let slide at 2min39sec was the Repug plan in the House that would create twice the jobs at half the cost. Talking Points pointed out that this was taking a study done two years ago by an Obama advisor asserting that in a full economy a tax INCREASE of 1% of GDP would cut employment by around 2.5%. The Repugs turned this around stating that the same cut in taxes would yield the same increase in employment conveniently omitting the part about a full economy. If no one is buying and profits are low and there is lots of unused capacity it doesn't seem logical any extra money from a business tax cut is going into new investment. No study exists to support this proposal, but it doesn't stop all of the Repug congressmen and idiot spokesmen from BSing on with a plan they pulled out of their ass. The question is why there is no rebuttal either from the talking heads or any Dems.
rolen
This guy's in trouble. He looks like he's actually starting to believe the shit he's spewing.
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