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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11469</link>
		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You lost me.  Why wasn&#039;t there one before?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You lost me.  Why wasn&#8217;t there one before?</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11466</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I asked for a link.  I got one.  And it&#039;s obvious now why there wasn&#039;t one before.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I asked for a link.  I got one.  And it&#8217;s obvious now why there wasn&#8217;t one before.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11443</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You were attacking the very existence of the pledge to rebut bowser. The pledge turns out to be a fact. NOW you can try to spin the interpretation of it. But the pledge exists.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You were attacking the very existence of the pledge to rebut bowser. The pledge turns out to be a fact. NOW you can try to spin the interpretation of it. But the pledge exists.</p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11436</link>
		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TB: &#039;Nothing was “blocked.”&#039;&lt;/a&gt;

Good grief!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm" rel="nofollow">TB: &#8216;Nothing was “blocked.”&#8217;</a></p>
<p>Good grief!</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11434</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was looking for something significant, something that justified Bowser including it in almost every other post for months.  Some monstrous interference with the Democratic process that warranted comparison with &quot;Brownshirts&quot; and the rise of fascism in this country.

If anyone is seeing impending totalitarianism in either of these incidents, there&#039;s brain damage involved.

Nothing was &quot;blocked.&quot;  Things were passed in the Senate all that month, most of it with significant Republican votes.

Meanwhile, Obama declares he&#039;s simply going to route around the legislature if they don&#039;t knuckle under to his agenda, and nobody cares.

P.S. does anyone else at all find it just a little creepy that overt and uncompromising political opposition to a leader&#039;s agenda is now considered the equivalent of incipient fascism?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was looking for something significant, something that justified Bowser including it in almost every other post for months.  Some monstrous interference with the Democratic process that warranted comparison with &#8220;Brownshirts&#8221; and the rise of fascism in this country.</p>
<p>If anyone is seeing impending totalitarianism in either of these incidents, there&#8217;s brain damage involved.</p>
<p>Nothing was &#8220;blocked.&#8221;  Things were passed in the Senate all that month, most of it with significant Republican votes.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Obama declares he&#8217;s simply going to route around the legislature if they don&#8217;t knuckle under to his agenda, and nobody cares.</p>
<p>P.S. does anyone else at all find it just a little creepy that overt and uncompromising political opposition to a leader&#8217;s agenda is now considered the equivalent of incipient fascism?</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11431</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Didn&#039;t look very hard, did you?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;He’s talking about some kind of pledge signed by a number of House members, or Senate members (it varies) declaring that they will oppose everything Obama is doing.

Hint: I’ve looked.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Mitch McConnell is a member of &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; legislative body again?

I can&#039;t make this stuff up. But Tom, I gotta say, I think you and bowser are a little punchdrunk from pounding on each other for so long. My little entertainments are coming more and more from your mistakes these days. Ya might want to catch your breath, slugger.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Didn&#8217;t look very hard, did you?</p>
<blockquote><p>He’s talking about some kind of pledge signed by a number of House members, or Senate members (it varies) declaring that they will oppose everything Obama is doing.</p>
<p>Hint: I’ve looked.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mitch McConnell is a member of <i>what</i> legislative body again?</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t make this stuff up. But Tom, I gotta say, I think you and bowser are a little punchdrunk from pounding on each other for so long. My little entertainments are coming more and more from your mistakes these days. Ya might want to catch your breath, slugger.</p>
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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11430</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s another one.  Hitler was well known for breaking the treaties other countries had with Germany.  Well, I&#039;ll leave it to you to count the treaties and agreements the US had with others.  They both had the same respect for keeping their word.  For honesty.  Not lying.

Remarkable similarity, don&#039;t you think?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s another one.  Hitler was well known for breaking the treaties other countries had with Germany.  Well, I&#8217;ll leave it to you to count the treaties and agreements the US had with others.  They both had the same respect for keeping their word.  For honesty.  Not lying.</p>
<p>Remarkable similarity, don&#8217;t you think?</p>
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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11428</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I did.  You asked for a link to my post, and I provided one with a trail to many more.  You asked for more examples of Bush, conservatives and Hitler, and I provided a massive one.

As far as then following your questions all over the goddamned map, TB, that&#039;s your favorite trap.  Divert, draw people down your trail, more questions, and pretty soon we&#039;re blaming Frank Church for the inability of the CIA to do anything right.

Nope, I owe you more info about Bush&#039;s attempt to take over the country absolutely and Ashcroft&#039;s sabotage of it even while very, very sick and pressured unmercifully by Bush operatives and that&#039;s it.

If you will go back and find 10 questions I&#039;ve asked you and you&#039;ve ignored, I&#039;ll reconsider.  You won&#039;t, of course, so I can afford to sound generous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I did.  You asked for a link to my post, and I provided one with a trail to many more.  You asked for more examples of Bush, conservatives and Hitler, and I provided a massive one.</p>
<p>As far as then following your questions all over the goddamned map, TB, that&#8217;s your favorite trap.  Divert, draw people down your trail, more questions, and pretty soon we&#8217;re blaming Frank Church for the inability of the CIA to do anything right.</p>
<p>Nope, I owe you more info about Bush&#8217;s attempt to take over the country absolutely and Ashcroft&#8217;s sabotage of it even while very, very sick and pressured unmercifully by Bush operatives and that&#8217;s it.</p>
<p>If you will go back and find 10 questions I&#8217;ve asked you and you&#8217;ve ignored, I&#8217;ll reconsider.  You won&#8217;t, of course, so I can afford to sound generous.</p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11427</link>
		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/01/politics/main7105820.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Senate Republicans intend to block action on virtually all Democratic-backed legislation unrelated to tax cuts and government spending in the current postelection session of Congress, according to a letter recently delivered to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pledging to carry out that strategy, which was signed by all 42 Republican Senators.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/01/politics/main7105820.shtml" rel="nofollow">Senate Republicans intend to block action on virtually all Democratic-backed legislation unrelated to tax cuts and government spending in the current postelection session of Congress, according to a letter recently delivered to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pledging to carry out that strategy, which was signed by all 42 Republican Senators.</a></p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/01/25/for-robert/#comment-11415</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now, you want to address anything at all in the rest of my comment?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now, you want to address anything at all in the rest of my comment?</p>
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