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ORIGINAL: Sanity

"Really really this time"

"I am with the illegals, the lawbreakers"

"Rode over here with illegals"

http://fusion.net/story/19540/obama-tells-frustrated-latinos-im-going-to-need-you-to-have-my-back/

Grow some balls, little man

If its the right thing to do in your book, then do it now

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
CONGRESS CONTROLS IMMIGRATION
The Tea Party has stonewalled every attempt at reform.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: joether
The President's Approval Rating: 44% SOURCE
Congress's Approval Rating: 13% SOURCE
Congress's Rate of Turning Bills into Laws SOURCE
Whether one loves the President or not. He is not running for office. Members of Congress ARE running for office. Their inability to get shit done is costing this nation in many ways. That Republicans decide to take half a year off from their day job to pursue campaign funding should really piss most Americans off.
While Republicans say they have sent numerous bills to the Senate and are doing 'their job', reality is a different thing. No one cares how many bills have been sent. If they are not turned into laws, who cares? For the folks that don't understand this, consider the following: Democrats own the House and Republicans the Senate. The Democrats send 14,000+ bills that basically eliminate the 2nd amendment in every possible way. How many Republicans sign off on even one of those bills? None. Why? Because those bills are not the stuff Republicans would agree upon. Back to reality the Republican/Tea Party have sent hundreds of bills they know before hand, that Democrats would never sign off on. That Democrats have stated they'll come half way on bills, but expect the Republican/Tea Party to do the same. Unfortunately, the Republicans (and more so the Tea Party) have taken the stance of 'my way or go to hell!'. And that is not conductive to performance in Congress. The Republican/Tea Party have heavily contributed that low approval rating that exists in Congress.
You want a better Congress? Vote Democrat. Republicans and especially the Tea Party, crave power and money above all else. With less power and say, they'll stop going down the 'damnation route of conservatism' and walk back their crap to a more moderate level. In the meantime this nation would see many projects that have been stonewalled finally get finished. A better border security, immigration, campaign reform, infrastructure improvements, education, foreign policy improvements, and several other areas.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

He's trying to get Democrats elected. That's all he's doing. He's saying what he thinks they want to hear (and I think he's correct in what he thinks they want to hear) so they'll vote Democrat.

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: joether
The President's Approval Rating: 44% SOURCE
Congress's Approval Rating: 13% SOURCE
Congress's Rate of Turning Bills into Laws SOURCE
Whether one loves the President or not. He is not running for office. Members of Congress ARE running for office. Their inability to get shit done is costing this nation in many ways. That Republicans decide to take half a year off from their day job to pursue campaign funding should really piss most Americans off.
While Republicans say they have sent numerous bills to the Senate and are doing 'their job', reality is a different thing. No one cares how many bills have been sent. If they are not turned into laws, who cares? For the folks that don't understand this, consider the following: Democrats own the House and Republicans the Senate. The Democrats send 14,000+ bills that basically eliminate the 2nd amendment in every possible way. How many Republicans sign off on even one of those bills? None. Why? Because those bills are not the stuff Republicans would agree upon. Back to reality the Republican/Tea Party have sent hundreds of bills they know before hand, that Democrats would never sign off on. That Democrats have stated they'll come half way on bills, but expect the Republican/Tea Party to do the same. Unfortunately, the Republicans (and more so the Tea Party) have taken the stance of 'my way or go to hell!'. And that is not conductive to performance in Congress. The Republican/Tea Party have heavily contributed that low approval rating that exists in Congress.
You want a better Congress? Vote Democrat. Republicans and especially the Tea Party, crave power and money above all else. With less power and say, they'll stop going down the 'damnation route of conservatism' and walk back their crap to a more moderate level. In the meantime this nation would see many projects that have been stonewalled finally get finished. A better border security, immigration, campaign reform, infrastructure improvements, education, foreign policy improvements, and several other areas.

Congress's "job" isn't to pass laws. You don't judge a Congress according to the number of laws passed, but in the number of laws passed compared to the number of laws needed. That the voters in America disagree on how many laws need passed is clearly evident.

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ORIGINAL: hot4bondage
Yes indeed. The agency tasked with keeping track of our laws says they can't do it anymore. We literally have more laws, codes, and regulations than we can count. There's a case before the Supremes right now because a patrol officer didn't know the brake light law for his state.

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ORIGINAL: joether

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ORIGINAL: hot4bondage
Yes indeed. The agency tasked with keeping track of our laws says they can't do it anymore. We literally have more laws, codes, and regulations than we can count. There's a case before the Supremes right now because a patrol officer didn't know the brake light law for his state.

For the simple minded, yes, there are to many laws.

For those that can actually access libraries, smartphones, and computers; the information is pretty easy to come about.

Gallup a few months ago asked a question of those that they surveyed. "Can you name the five parts of the 1st amendment"? 90% of those polled couldn't answer one item. 8% got one answer while 1% got two to three correct answers. The last two parts of the 1st amendment were only known to less than 0.001% of those polled. The percentages have just stuck in my mind for somereason....

And I've been looking around for that poll for days now, since it would be an interesting topic to discuss. Trying to Google '1st amendment, survey, Gallup' and variations of it, have proved to be useless.

The point here, is that most Americans can rattle off the 1st amendment, WITHOUT, looking it up. Just the same as they cant rattle off how to set the DVR without looking it up. There is a reason why things are written down. So the officer couldn't remember the exact law; could the person rattle off the 4th amendment perfectly?

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

I thought that there were six parts.

1. Establishment of religion
2. Free exercise of religion
3. Freedom of speech
4. Freedom of press
5. Freedom to assemble
6. Petition for redress of grievance.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

And while the nutsuckers piss and moan paranoiacally about how their magical skywizard is 'hated', the religion of no-religion is also a religion. so, freedom to practice that religion is also a free speech. Suck a wad of cowpiss, Godfreaks.

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ORIGINAL: joether

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: joether
The President's Approval Rating: 44% SOURCE
Congress's Approval Rating: 13% SOURCE
Congress's Rate of Turning Bills into Laws SOURCE
Whether one loves the President or not. He is not running for office. Members of Congress ARE running for office. Their inability to get shit done is costing this nation in many ways. That Republicans decide to take half a year off from their day job to pursue campaign funding should really piss most Americans off.
While Republicans say they have sent numerous bills to the Senate and are doing 'their job', reality is a different thing. No one cares how many bills have been sent. If they are not turned into laws, who cares? For the folks that don't understand this, consider the following: Democrats own the House and Republicans the Senate. The Democrats send 14,000+ bills that basically eliminate the 2nd amendment in every possible way. How many Republicans sign off on even one of those bills? None. Why? Because those bills are not the stuff Republicans would agree upon. Back to reality the Republican/Tea Party have sent hundreds of bills they know before hand, that Democrats would never sign off on. That Democrats have stated they'll come half way on bills, but expect the Republican/Tea Party to do the same. Unfortunately, the Republicans (and more so the Tea Party) have taken the stance of 'my way or go to hell!'. And that is not conductive to performance in Congress. The Republican/Tea Party have heavily contributed that low approval rating that exists in Congress.
You want a better Congress? Vote Democrat. Republicans and especially the Tea Party, crave power and money above all else. With less power and say, they'll stop going down the 'damnation route of conservatism' and walk back their crap to a more moderate level. In the meantime this nation would see many projects that have been stonewalled finally get finished. A better border security, immigration, campaign reform, infrastructure improvements, education, foreign policy improvements, and several other areas.

Congress's "job" isn't to pass laws. You don't judge a Congress according to the number of laws passed, but in the number of laws passed compared to the number of laws needed. That the voters in America disagree on how many laws need passed is clearly evident.

Actually, according to a small document called 'The US Constitution', it IS Congress's job to pass laws. Because if they didn't past laws, how does anything get done? To hire interns for Senator 'So and So' requires a bill to become law. To pass a budget for the next year, requires a bill to be pass into law. To allow funds to be diverted from one area to support an emergency fund on a disaster, requires a bill to be pass. How did the Affordable Care Act come into law, if not pass by Congress? You were alive and on planet Earth in 2009-2010, right?
I judge Congress on what they get done. What issues have come up in the last year's time? Immigration? Border Security? The Federal Budget? The US Debt? Infrastructure? Education? Student Loans? Health Care Issues? An what has Congress done to address these problems? There is a reason why they have a 13% approval rating. And that its dropped mainly due to the Republican/Tea Party. Or have you forgotten which political party wanted to shut down the whole country? And WHY? Because they wanted a law removed because they couldn't do it any of the other hundreds of thousands of failed attempts. Imagine if things were reversed. That Democrats demanded the 2nd amendment be revoked as 'payment' to pass the budget bill; would conservative be pissed? Oh hell yeah! Just try to bullshit that they wouldn't. And that's what happen with the Partial Shutdown. The Tea Party wanted the ACA removed before Americans started enjoying some new found freedoms....

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

I thought that there were six parts.

1. Establishment of religion
2. Free exercise of religion
3. Freedom of speech
4. Freedom of press
5. Freedom to assemble
6. Petition for redress of grievance.

I'm pretty sure that the parts you have listed as 1 & 2 are, actually one part.

I think the issue is that while the God-haters amongst us love to moan and wail about non-establishment, they hate to have to admit that we have a right to practice religion as we may seem fit.

People that get bothered by my belief aren't atheists; they're God-hating control freaks that want to wipe out any belief in any higher power (except, as evidenced here, lately, if we're speaking of "Allah").







Screen captures (and pissing on shadows) still RULE! Ya feel me?

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr



People that get bothered by my belief aren't atheists; they're God-hating control freaks


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Screen captures (and pissing on shadows) still RULE! Ya feel me?

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

I'm pretty sure that the parts you have listed as 1 & 2 are, actually one part.

I think the issue is that while the God-haters amongst us love to moan and wail about non-establishment, they hate to have to admit that we have a right to practice religion as we may seem fit.

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People that get bothered by my belief aren't atheists; they're God-hating control freaks that want to wipe out any belief in any higher power (except, as evidenced here, lately, if we're speaking of "Allah").







Screen captures (and pissing on shadows) still RULE! Ya feel me?

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

No, I am pretty sure that they are not.