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GOP Could Use the Whiskey the Tea Party Drinks

daddy422 Wrote: Jan 07, 2013 8:14 PM

Close Earl,he actually made the appointment you're referring to when Congress was in session.You're to hung up on Marie,Bruce. When a president makes it clear,at least in his own mind,that he's not going to debate anything & suggest it's his way or the highway, is at the very least suspect.That doesn't seem to be a tenet of leadership,not in this country anyway.He comes across as a petulant child. His ability to work with Congress is lacking severely if it even exists at all.

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