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Nov 4, 2014 | 11:50 AM
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Well, golly JimBob!
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"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country." --Samuel Adams, in the Boston Gazette, 1781
Nov 4, 2014 | 01:53 PM
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Well, golly JimBob!
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Was a steady stream when I went with one of my sons.
Have a friend running for State Rep. here in Mass. It would be good to get someone with good old common sense in there.
Have a friend running for State Rep. here in Mass. It would be good to get someone with good old common sense in there.
Dec 11, 2014 | 06:19 PM
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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."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
“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."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
Dec 12, 2014 | 02:20 PM
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That had to be in the top ten of the most stupid things a lawmaker has ever said.
Dec 12, 2014 | 04:14 PM
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Feb 4, 2015 | 01:11 PM
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"I ... place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. ... We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." --Thomas Jefferson (1816)
Feb 11, 2015 | 01:13 PM
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"There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." --George Washington (1793)
How far we've fallen when our President won't even call Islamic terrorists, Islamic terrorists.
How far we've fallen when our President won't even call Islamic terrorists, Islamic terrorists.