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The Quote of the Decade:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is
a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot
pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial
assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless
fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and
internationally. Leadership means that "...the buck stops here." Instead,
Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of
our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of
leadership. Americans deserve better.
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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"
*Shel Silverstein*
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2012, 05:15:22 PM » |
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B. Obama during his very short term as a senator.
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BlueBee
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2012, 05:18:06 PM » |
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Ronald Reagan?
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kathyp
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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2012, 06:31:25 PM » |
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lots of things he said as senator that he seems to have forgotten as prez.
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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BlueBee
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2012, 08:43:17 PM » |
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Bush Senior?
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kathyp
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2012, 09:07:27 PM » |
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2012, 01:04:05 AM » |
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Thats a heck of a quote there Iddee. It's to bad that it's too long for a bumper sticker.
Before you pointed this one out, I thought it was
"We have to sign the bill to find out whats in it" - Nancy Pelosi
Old Blue
Where people shamelessly say things like that, in....
Kali-bone-ya
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BlueBee
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2012, 11:21:24 AM » |
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OK, my last guess: Bush Junior? Dubya?
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« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2012, 11:52:05 AM » |
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OK, my last guess: Bush Junior? Dubya? [/quote Your getting closer with each guess. One more try.  |
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iddee
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2012, 12:01:26 PM » |
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I don't think you clicked on the links KathyP posted.
Senator Barack Obama
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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"
*Shel Silverstein*
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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2012, 12:26:01 PM » |
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Oh Crap! You fell for it. Now blue bee will be telling us about republicans who raised taxes, side steeping what we have now, and rationalizing this as best he can. You didn't see the line being cast? Come on guys, you actually think he did not know who said that qoute? Go ahead blue bee....they gave you the opening you were looking for. Reel in the line.  Here....I'll start it for you: "Well, with the history of republicans, I was mystified who it could of been since the qoute could be applied to all those I mentioned......" |
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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2012, 12:51:16 PM » |
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BlueBee
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« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2012, 12:57:32 PM » |
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Hook, line, and sinker |
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