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The GOP and Round Two

americathebeautiful Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 8:06 AM

Here everyone.....here is the horrific success that McConnell gave us: Look, I was and am very upset about the failure of John Boehner. YES, he failed by letting obama "roll him"......Do you all realize just how much more spending was in that horrific "fiscal cliff" bill and most of that spending went to obama's cronies........eg: Goldman Sachs got 1.5 billion dollars. Now THAT was the deal that McConnell and Biden cut to present to the House. OMG.....McConnell that damnable RINO said YES to obama to give some more of OUR HARD EARNED DOLLARS to goldman sachs. JUST WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE FOLKS! We need an entire NEW Congress and we desperately need to EVICT OBAMA AND NOW!

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The GOP and Round Two

President Obama won the first round of his second term, but thanks to Mitch McConnell the beating wasn’t as severe as it could have been.

The period between the election and the turn of the calendar was dominated by the president, with Speaker John Boehner as his foil. The Speaker always seemed to assume the president was negotiating in good faith, even as the campaign events continued, and even as he was pummeled day and night by the president and his surrogates in the MSM.

The collapse of the Speaker's and the GOP’s ability to make an argument was complete...

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