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Morning Must Reads: February 25

By Alex RogersFeb. 25, 20130

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The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

Argo wins the Oscar for Best Picture. The 52 Iranian hostages not rescued seek justice from Congress.
Treasury nominee Jack Lew’s golden parachute.
Moody’s downgrades Britain.
Sunday (sequester) shows: what you missed.
Bernanke goes before Congress tomorrow, will tout housing and auto success.
Sen. Ted Cruz is compared to Sen. Joe McCarthy.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s first official trip needs to be rescued.
Don’t understand the sequester? Here’s the White House breakdown state by state. Or, you can have Kate Upton and Ryan Gosling explain it to you.

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nflfoghorn

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Zero Dark Thirty would've won some major swag if it didn't try to imply that torture brought us to OBL.

paulejb

"Bob Menendez DID pay me for sex: Long-time escort claims senator is lying"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284163/Bob-Menendez-DID-pay-sex-Long-time-escort-claims-senator-lying.html

Hey! At least he paid this one.

forgottenlord

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@paulejb

Was it legal? Yes? Who cares?

You Republicans are all ridiculously crazy - so concerned about sex and not concerned about money. The guy is going through a boatload of actual scandals about his finances, but all you care about is whether he was doing something that was legal.

SirDonQuixotic

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@paulejb

PUBLISHED: 00:00 EST, 5 February 2013

Update your repertoire Paule.

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb Good to know you are so obsessed with what Mendez does and doesn't do. Did you share the same obsession with David Diapers Vitter?

mantisdragon91

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And to go back to the gun debate. The Center for Disease Control was doing a study on gun violence before Congress cut their funding and one of the thing the found was that having a firearm in you home increases your chances of someone in your family dying in a gun homicide by almost 300%

Thehttp://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/congressional/What_researchers_learned_about_gun_violence_before_Congress_killed_funding.html

roknsteve

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Newsflash! Ann Coulter is a dude in drag. If that pastor can call Pres Obama gay then I can say she's a dude.

retiredvet

@roknsteve I don't think it's human.

MementoMori

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@roknsteve Please don't insult 'dudes in drag' by comparing them to Ann Coulter. 'Dudes in drag' deserve better than that.

nflfoghorn

Paulie with heels.

MementoMori

@nflfoghorn Please don't insult Ann Coulter by comparing her to paulie.

;-)

mantisdragon91

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@roknsteve Don't know about a dude, but she is certainly a good reason to turn gay if she was the alternative.

sacredh

If not gay, at least self service.

SirDonQuixotic

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@roknsteve

I'm fairly certain neither gender wants to claim her.

mantisdragon91

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Good balanced piece on Eric Cantor and the challengers faced by the Republicans

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/04/130304fa_fact_lizza?printable=true#ixzz2Lw4nQhRu

MrObvious

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Sen. Ted Cruz is compared to Sen. Joe McCarthy.

I'm sure Ted sees that as a good thing.

nflfoghorn

I'm waiting for Murrow to slap him down

or somebody.

MrObvious

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I see shitbarge is present and destroying the swamp with his ODS.

paulejb

"Obama: 'We've got to do some governing' "

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/02/obama-weve-got-to-do-some-governing-157781.html

Why now? Barry did no governing for his first four years.

nflfoghorn

Maybe he was too busy kicking Republican tail in two elections.

SirDonQuixotic

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@paulejb

"There are always going to be some areas where we have genuine disagreement ... but there are more areas where we can do a lot more cooperating than we have seen in the past couple years," Obama told a meeting of the National Governors Association at the White House.

"At some point, we've got to do some governing. And, certainly, we can't keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis."

I wonder if Paule appreciates the irony of his bolded nonsense. Probably not.

paulejb

@DonQuixotic @paulejb ,

Barack Hussein Obama always manages to go missing as soon as the excrement begins to hit the rotary device.

SirDonQuixotic

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@paulejb @DonQuixotic

Maybe you should take your blinders off Paule.

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb @DonQuixotic Paule always manages to provide the excrement to this forum.

deconstructiva

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@DonQuixotic @paulejb He just appreciates replies, any replies. Don't give him the satisfaction.

forgottenlord

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@paulejb

For someone who did no governing, he got a lot of his platform enacted without Congress's help

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb For someone who did no governing he managed to get a lot of things passed that have you baggers all in a tizzy.

paulejb

@mantisdragon91 @paulejb ,

A stimulus that failed to stimulate and an Affordable Care Act that is neither affordable nor care.

ARTRaveler

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The stimulus didn't work? Half of the stimulus was a tax cut and I don't remember a great clamor of people returning the money so half must have worked. And OMB says it all worked. Gee, wrong twice paulie in one sentence.

nflfoghorn

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Lips moving, hips shaking, jaws dropping...it's all the same to you. You just think we inherently lie.

So if I from time to time call you a manipulative, partisan, two-bit, race-baiting, bald-faced, welfare-mooching SOB don't take it personally.

SirDonQuixotic

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@paulejb @mantisdragon91

So rational and unbiased. What a proud little ditto-head you make.

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb @mantisdragon91 So the sky isn't blue in your world? You being a part of an alternate reality can explain so much about the idiocies you spout on this forum.

paulejb

@mantisdragon91 @paulejb ,

You know a Democrat is lying when you see their lips moving.

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb @mantisdragon91 And a Paule that would argue that the Sky isn't Blue if the person making that claim was a Democrat.

paulejb

"John Kerry invents country of Kyrzakhstan"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/9892297/John-Kerry-invents-country-of-Kyrzakhstan.html

Who knew that John Kerry would have us longing for Susan Rice.

forgottenlord

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@paulejb At least he just confused two countries with relative proximity and both former Soviet Satelites. He'll probably have to apologize to them for that mix up but....not the worst crime in the world. Most people can understand running into mix ups like that.

paulejb

@forgottenlord @paulejb ,

He invented it. There is no such country.

forgottenlord

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@paulejb

You clearly did not understand my statement.

It is clearly a confusion between the real existing countries of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan Both countries are former Soviet States and even share a border. It is forgivable that he got them confused.

nflfoghorn

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...the Lyin' kind.

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb @forgottenlord Is there a Trollsylvania? If there is you can be King.

MrObvious

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@forgottenlord @paulejb

Not paulejb

He's infallible.

SirDonQuixotic

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@paulejb

Who knew that John Kerry would have us longing for Susan Rice.

This is a Freudian slip from Paule admitting that he didn't actually care about Susan Rice's roll in Benghazi.

paulejb

@DonQuixotic @paulejb ,

Susan Rice had no role in Benghazi. She was merely the sacrificial goat thrown to the media to cloud the issue until Obama got past the election.

nflfoghorn

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I'll answer that for you: No, he didn't.

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb @mantisdragon91 @DonQuixotic Or she is using the talking points provided to her by the intelligence community. Out of curiosity did you have the same disdain for Condi Rice who happened to be both a liar and a dupe?