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McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing
Oxford_Comma_Lover writes "Senator McCain decried Tea Party 'Hobbits' on Wednesday for their failure to support the GOP's debt deal, at times reading from a WSJ editorial that began the analogy. The Tea Party fired back, with a prominent member noting on CNN that McCain had been corrupted by the ring of power. The full text of his floor remarks should be in the Congressional Record later today."
Tolkien is officially no longer cool. When stuffed up pretentious windbags are using his works to insult each other it's time to move on.
So with Tolkien done and Superheros on the way out what's next?
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
... if the US Government had the same budget as a Peter Jackson movie we wouldn't be in this fiscal mess, now would we? ;-)
Well, we couldn't really afford anything then could we. I mean, that doesn't even cover congress's salary.
I don't? Could you define it for me? I'm sorry, I'm quite horrible with these esoteric words. Perhaps a chart and graph or a video could better explain it.
Since the democrats are the ones that borrowed well over half the money that the federal government owes, its not a very far stretch to blame them for the money we owe, or the mess we are in.
The score over the past 30 years is $7.9 trillion borrowed when the Democrats controlled both House and Senate, and another $3.6 trillion when control was split between Republicans and Democrats, with only $1.7 trillion borrowed when Republicans controlled both House and Senate.
Yes. That is exactly how unbalanced things have been, yet amazingly its those evil Republicans that are "known" to be the most irresponsible. More was borrowed in the first 2 years of Pelosi (House Speaker, Democrat) and Reid (Senate Majority Leader, Democrat) than the Republicans ever borrowed in the entire history of the country.
STOP LISTENING TO WHAT THEY SAY - The Democrats constantly tell us how bad the Republicans are...
START WATCHING WHAT THEY DO - The data is available. Dont listen to what they say. Take a look at what they actually do.
One graph is enough to get you to question things, but you have to take some of the steps yourself (don't listen to what I say either.. the data is available.. you don't need to trust anyones claims)
"His name was James Damore."