Democrats Go to War


	Democrats Go to War

chestnut501

10-1-2009 6:46 PM

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news, politics, democrats, public-option, dfa, health, health-car, insurance

chestnut501 says:

With the public option dead for now, the left is launching attack ads against centrist and Blue Dog Democrats—and Rahm Emanuel, the poster child for Netroots betrayal.

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10-2-2009 5:03 PM

mcsmithblack

It's time to quit trying to compromise with the status quo.

10-4-2009 8:28 PM

jefff

unbelievable...people debating...rather decrying opinions based upon manipulation combined with increased associative logic...which amounts to a pot of nothing...to divide a country on false facts...
increased voices...verbals and signs not a mile near the problem nor solution...a belief that certain
word definitions are in line...unable to accept that their own materialism and over-debt was the cause of this problem...the banks seeing money, the second...and bush and cheney too concerned with iraq was which was planned two years before it occurred via cheney and an oil company...there is no compromise...! a compromise is when both sides seemingly just lose not a little...but the whole so...

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