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Year in Review: The Political Highs and Lows of 2012

jeanettefarah Wrote: Dec 31, 2012 8:30 PM
Wow, looks like we are still BAILING out the VICTIMS 25 years later. I wonder if conservatives here wish the government would treat the unemployed with this kind of conservatism? I could have collected a large unemployment check every month for five years and when my job skills had deteriorated, I could be declared a 'victim' and President Ronald Reagan would mandate an even bigger check, a so-called 'bailout' from the federal government, perhaps several hundred grand. And now, in the year 2012, with farm subsidy handouts and ethanol mandates peaked at $35 billion a year, are we any closer to a free market in agriculture?
Blind Avocado Wrote: Dec 31, 2012 8:31 PM
What kind of empty pathetic life does one have to have to to find meaning in life by posting hate fueled lies over and over? But since Leftism is Sybil's religion and because the core of leftism is the denial of reality moron Sybil has no choice but to post lies. He is a leftist religious zealot, and he holds his irrational beliefs more strongly than any Christian, Jew, or
Muslim.
Blind Avocado Wrote: Dec 31, 2012 8:31 PM
What kind of empty pathetic life does one have to have to to find meaning in life by posting

hate fueled lies over and over? But since Leftism is Sybil's religion and because the core of

leftism is the denial of reality moron Sybil has no choice but to post lies. He is a leftist

religious zealot, and he holds his irrational beliefs more strongly than any Christian, Jew, or

Muslim.

Suddenly, 2013 is upon us.  New year, similar issues, familiar players.  But before we set our sights on the battles and controversies to come, let's cast our gaze backwards to the year that was.  2012 promised to be a politically consequential year, and it lived up to its billing, albeit with generally disappointing outcomes from a conservative perspective.  The following is my personal take on the most significant political peaks and valleys from the past calendar year.  Let's begin with the good stuff:

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