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Posted: Sunday, December 30, 2012 11:15 am | Updated: 11:58 am, Tue Jan 1, 2013.

“Remember when allowing lawyers to advertise on TV seemed like a good idea.”

“Regarding your article on Horne championing firearm proliferation in public schools, one is again reminded that Horne is unfit for public office.”

“Sheriff Joe says he wants to post armed posse members at Valley schools. Will they be on horseback like they are at the shopping malls? That would be cool!”

“Liberals want to blame the Republicans for the fiscal cliff but the liberals actually have something to gain from going over the cliff, so who is really to blame here? A president that lied about wanting to ‘reach across the aisle’ or Boehner. I take the liar every time.”

“Mexican government telling a U.S. Court how we should operate. People wake up, take a stand. This is our country. We do not want to be dragged down to their level. People hate their government and leave to come here. I was born here. If I get caught harboring a criminal I get arrested. They want us to make it legal to harbor an illegal who by law is a criminal.”

“When the country has been taken over by zombies everyone should have access to assault rifles and high capacity magazines. The way the laws are now allows too many zombies access to them. It’s like giving monkeys access to straight razors.”

“Thank you President Obama for lowering our gas to $3 a gallon. For you people who complained about the president allowing gas to exceed $4 a gallon last summer – you’ve been rather quiet. Oh, maybe it’s because you lost the election.”

“Wayne LaPierre is worth every dime of the upwards of $1 million paid to him annually. And just who do you suppose pays it? Not NRA members. Rather he’s paid through the contributions made by gun manufacturers and marketers to the NRA. Now we know what’s behind good ol’ Wayne, the poster boy for 2nd Amendment rights! It’s big business, not people.”

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  • Accuracy posted at 2:05 pm on Sun, Dec 30, 2012.

    Accuracy Posts: 1928

    VENT #4: “Liberals want to blame the Republicans for the fiscal cliff but the liberals actually have something to gain from going over the cliff, so who is really to blame here?”

    The “Cliff-hanger” Democrats. They are adamant about President Obama’s higher taxes, and they are ready to kick the can down the road . . again. "Obama fiscal cliff” mess.

     
  • truth posted at 2:31 pm on Sun, Dec 30, 2012.

    truth Posts: 821

    Elections have consequences: Raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans is what Obama campaigned on "and won on." Yet John Boehner's Republicans are resurrecting proposals his party "already offered and voters rejected." As we all know, the GOP has a "taste for political extortion," buy Obama has voters on his side, and the upper hand. "it is important that he stand firm." Just say no, and go over the cliff if necessary." The fiscal cliff isn't a solid deadline. Tax hikes can be repealed retroactively without costing tax payers a dime, and the economy wouldn't begin hurting until several months in 2013. "There's time to bargin." Already, "cracks have appeared in the Republicans' wall of opposition to raising taxes, "it wont kill the country if we raise taxes on the millionaires." The New York Times NYMag.com

     
  • truth posted at 2:42 pm on Sun, Dec 30, 2012.

    truth Posts: 821

    Boehner has already signaled he'd accept additional revenue, giving up precious leverage before negotiations ever began. "Having conceded on taxes, what does he have left to trade?" Republicans can't win this fight, "there's no leverage on the GOP side, and nothing for the party to negotiate over." If Obama does nothing, then all the Bush tax cuts will expire Jan.1. Then Democrats can pass their bill to extend just the middle-class tax cuts, and dare the GOP to commit sucide by blocking it. Boehner can bluff all he likes about raising tax increases now. Comming Jan., it will be "game over." NationalReview.com Yglesias in Slate.com

     
  • PatrioticPerson posted at 6:41 pm on Sun, Dec 30, 2012.

    PatrioticPerson Posts: 99

    #7,
    Do you really think Obama had something to do with gas getting to $3?

     
  • Arizona Willie posted at 7:41 am on Mon, Dec 31, 2012.

    Arizona Willie Posts: 1918

    PatrioticPerson ... Republicans blamed Obama when gas was almost $4 / gal.

    Even though when gas went high under Bush they claimed the President had no control over gas prices.

    So if you want to blame the President when the price of gas goes up ... you have to give them the credit when the price goes down.

    The fact that the price of gas was held high until after the election indicates that the gas companies were trying to make people angry so they would vote against Obama and for the Imperial Mitt Romney.

    Didn't work.

     
  • PatrioticPerson posted at 11:51 am on Mon, Dec 31, 2012.

    PatrioticPerson Posts: 99

    AZ Willie,
    Once again Willie when a few people say something that is no reason to assume all people see it that way. You have to stop listening to Rush so much. He is not representative of all Republicans just like Al is not representative of all Democrats. No where did I indicate that the President controls the price of gas. Just the contrary.

    NOW...........I double dog dare you to provide a link that supports (with fact) your statement "The fact that the price of gas was held high until after the election indicates that the gas companies were trying to make people angry so they would vote against Obama and for the Imperial Mitt Romney."

     
  • Arizona Willie posted at 8:43 am on Tue, Jan 1, 2013.

    Arizona Willie Posts: 1918

    PatrioticPerson: first of all --- I < NEVER > listen to Rush. I have too much respect for my brain to allow such garbage to enter it.

    Second: if you notice I used the word " indicates ".

    Indicates = suggests = an opinion not a fact.

    i was only stating my OPINION not declaring it to be a fact.

    English matters.

     
  • PatrioticPerson posted at 4:35 pm on Tue, Jan 1, 2013.

    PatrioticPerson Posts: 99

    English does matter. So by statiing "the fact" you really didn't mean the "fact". Am I to understand that correctly?

     
  • Arizona Willie posted at 10:25 pm on Tue, Jan 1, 2013.

    Arizona Willie Posts: 1918

    No, Patriotic Person, you have fumbled the ball again.

    The only fact was that the price of gasoline was held high until after the election.
    That is a fact. The price of gas did not come down until after the election.

    The REASON the price of gas stayed high before the election is what I expressed an opinion about when I said it inidicated that the gas companies were using the price of gas to promote discontent in the hopes it would result in votes for Romney.

    English matters.

     
  • PatrioticPerson posted at 7:03 am on Thu, Jan 3, 2013.

    PatrioticPerson Posts: 99

    AZ Willie,
    So let me get this straight. If you state something is a fact it is really just your opinion.
    So you can't provide proof, evidence, documentation,etc. that:
    "The only fact was that the price of gasoline was held high until after the election. That is a fact."
    And who held the price high? Wouldn't that be against the law? Is the Federal government going to investigate? So why didn't they keep the price high after the election to punish those that voted for Obama? What was their justification in lowering the price after the election? I really want to know who "THEY" are. With fact of course.

     

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