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34 minutes ago, BOHICA said:

Repubs picked up a few seats and come really close to a super majority after that shutdown.  A lot of dems were in disbelief on midterm election night in 2013.

2014 :)

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15 minutes ago, Momorider said:

2014 :)

Thanks....  Had the democrat gov't shutdown of 2013 on my mind when typing that.  Mid term election of 2014 was a direct result of that shutdown of gov't by democrats in 2013

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Yes - John Lewis has been nothing but a posturer his whole life.. :nuts:  

And you clowns wonder why your party is old, Christian, male, and white.... :lol: 

A little history for you clowns:

  

In 1957, John Lewis left Alabama to attend the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. There, he learned about nonviolent protest and helped to organize sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. He was arrested during these demonstrations, which upset his mother, but Lewis was committed to the Civil Rights Movement and went on to participate in the Freedom Rides of 1961. Freedom Riders challenged the segregated facilities they encountered at interstate bus terminals in the South, which had been deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. It was dangerous work that resulted in arrests and beatings for many involved, including Lewis.

In 1963, Lewis became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. That same year, as one of the "Big Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, he helped plan the March on Washington. Lewis—the youngest speaker at the event—had to alter his speech in order to please other organizers, but still delivered a powerful oration that declared, "We all recognize the fact that if any radical social, political and economic changes are to take place in our society, the people, the masses, must bring them about."

After the March on Washington, in 1964, the Civil Rights Act became law. However, this did not make it easier for African Americans to vote in the South. To bring attention to this struggle, Lewis and Hosea Williams led a march from Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. After crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers were attacked by state troopers. Lewis was severely beaten once more, this time suffering a fractured skull. The violent attacks were recorded and disseminated throughout the country, and the images proved too powerful to ignore. "Bloody Sunday," as the day was labeled, sped up the passage of 1965's Voting Rights Act.

http://www.biography.com/people/john-lewis-21305903#civil-rights-struggle

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Reading comprehension in not your strong point.

This ain't the 60's anymore snowbeavis.  The democrats are all a bunch of old hippie activists that are all holding on to the gravy train, convincing guys like you that you need them and you fall for it.  Hell, they can't even hold a sit in for more than a couple of hours before they need their geritol and warm milk.

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9 hours ago, BOHICA said:

Thanks....  Had the democrat gov't shutdown of 2013 on my mind when typing that.  Mid term election of 2014 was a direct result of that shutdown of gov't by democrats in 2013

Dems never show up in the midterms. The entire world knows that.

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1 minute ago, racer254 said:

Reading comprehension in not your strong point.

This aint the 60's anymore snowbeavis.  The democrats are all a bunch of old hippie activists that are all holding on to the gravy train, convincing guy like you that you need them and you fall for it.

What gravy train is John Lewis holding onto?  

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6 minutes ago, racer254 said:

Poor fella, no wonder you get grubered so often.

Well...tell me about this gravy train John Lewis depends on... :lol: 

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7 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

Well...tell me about this gravy train John Lewis depends on... :lol: 

It's called 174,000 per year.  Maybe at 76 he should step down and let someone with new ideas step in.  That 174k is too nice for him to do that.

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3 minutes ago, racer254 said:

It's called 174,000 per year.  Maybe at 76 he should step down and let someone with new ideas step in.  That 174k is too nice for him to do that.

He probably is getting a fuck lot more gravy than just his salary :guzzle: there are all kinds of palm greasing going on in back rooms 

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12 minutes ago, Momorider said:

He probably is getting a fuck lot more gravy than just his salary :guzzle: there are all kinds of palm greasing going on in back rooms 

snowbeavis doesn't understand.  He needs memes for that. 

 

DERP....  what gravy train?  DERP....

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14 minutes ago, Momorider said:

He probably is getting a fuck lot more gravy than just his salary :guzzle: there are all kinds of palm greasing going on in back rooms 

 

No only republicans take corporate money. :lol:

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10 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Republicans doing what they have done best over the last decade....NOTHING.

Rather them do nothing instead of deregulating banks and passing NAFTA like president Clinton. :snack:

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probably the most pathetic display of idiocy I've ever seen .....lets see how those fucking pieces of shit voted on the common sense regs the repubs proposed.

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