Patriot Games: GOP Reps Pick Tea Party Rally Over National-Security Votes »

Posted By mesodude 2 weeks, 1 day ago in News

When it's a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what's a GOP lawmaker to do? We'll give you one guess...

Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend Michele Bachmann's Tea Party rally against health-care reform.

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    miklkit2 weeks, 1 day ago

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    Good job! If there were more tea bagger rallies maybe some bills that we all really need would get passed. Just think. No filibusters.

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      chip562 weeks, 1 day ago

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      Once in a while they need to listen to the people they represent, something the dems might like to think about.

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        alanocu2 weeks, 1 day ago

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        Patriot Games? And liberals are still trying to make flip flopping, cut and running, and Oval Office fe11atio Olympic demonstration sports

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          alanocu2 weeks, 1 day ago

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          Tea party needs a new tagline like: "If you're joking, I'm not laughing. If you're serious, I'm getting my gun."

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          jrfrostad19652 weeks ago

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          Can we afford Obama for the complete term. He and the liberals will make all working people poorer.

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          onlyrepswould2 weeks ago

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          I think they should have been there to vote ! As usual repubs take the cowards way out

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            LumFan2 weeks ago

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            My first thought was "hoist on their own petard"! They deserve to have their own amendments voted down if they not even show up to support them.

            Just wait until the mid-term elections. When they try to play the National Security card, their Democratic opponents should shove it back into their faces with this truth!

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              Bopi3652 weeks ago

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              Once again Repubnics demonstrate that politics is a priority over actual policy.

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                Malder2 weeks ago

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                A prime example as to why we need to abolish political parties in this country and make every candidate run on his/her own merits. People who pull the straight ticket lever are ignorant of the fact that no party has the best candidate for every position!

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                  Malder2 weeks ago

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                  Every one of these politicians need to be voted out of office. Please do not forget their names.

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                    gjb55282 weeks ago

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                    I know from reading facts on how dumb quite a few Americans are
                    but the actual reality is that most of the dumbo's permeate the
                    democratic party. They come from the big cities on the east and west coast and places like Chicago and Detroit.
                    The average IQ is far below the average, they have been pushed through the failed public school system in the urban areas, and
                    more than half of them can't read or write properly.
                    One can simply read some of the post that are continually posted on this particulaar site. There are more uninformed people per square inch of print on here than ever imagined.
                    Most of the deadhead democrat followers that know nothing about
                    what is being done to this country, they just blindly follow what their political favorites lie to them about, and the ironic part is they believe the lies and defend the undefenceable that the political hacks throw at them. The pitiful party of cretins attract the freeloaders, druggies and
                    the rest fo the dregs of society like a moth to a flame.
                    I still love my country but this conglamorate of followers are
                    willing participents in the destruction of their own liberties
                    but are too dumb to realize it.

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