Protecting Washington's Manholes
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dr_mabeuse
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Heard some inaugural guy talking about how it was good to have a big bash despite the fact that we still have troops coming under fire in Iraq. He actually said it was good that the boys if the field could "see what they're fighting for".
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LadyJeanne
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No way would George forego the pomp and circumstances of the coronat-- er, inauguration. That's the best part of winning the election!
dr_mabeuse
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You'd think with all the Republicans in town, no one would have to worry about their manhole at all.
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OhMissScarlett
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Sorry, I thought you said man ho's, go on about your business. 
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this bash is costing the American taxpayers a cool $ 40 Mill
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shereads
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Just realized: Karl Rove looks like Ken Starr. Soft, roundish lobe-shaped heads, vaguely reminiscent of pendulous female breasts dangling the wrong way, with eyes and nostrils painted on. Twins separated at birth?
Or is there just a certain facial type and head shape that's genetically linked in anglo-saxon men with the tendency, upon contact with power, to become purse-lipped beady-eyed little S.S. wannabes? Watching Rove speak and knowing what he does and with how little shame, I imagine him as a teenager, rejected for initiation into a cult of white supremacist skinheads because he (a) couldn't be trusted and (b) cried after swirlies.
Gotta hand it to the Rove/Starr generation of conservative Republicans: these guys know how to get their whites their whitest. No Clorox required.
Or is there just a certain facial type and head shape that's genetically linked in anglo-saxon men with the tendency, upon contact with power, to become purse-lipped beady-eyed little S.S. wannabes? Watching Rove speak and knowing what he does and with how little shame, I imagine him as a teenager, rejected for initiation into a cult of white supremacist skinheads because he (a) couldn't be trusted and (b) cried after swirlies.
Gotta hand it to the Rove/Starr generation of conservative Republicans: these guys know how to get their whites their whitest. No Clorox required.
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shereads said:
Political advancement.
Oh, wait. That's an accurate statement.
Um, they get to choose the next group to lose civil liberties?
No, that's also happening.
Oh, I know! They get to pick the next country the U.S. will invade!
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sweetsubsarahh said:
Don't forget they get the taxpayers to pay them to rearrange the pieces after the invasion.
I was going to say 'pick up the pieces' but that implies they would be trying to fix things. Rearranging means the job never ends and they can sponge off the taxpayers forever. Blasted welfare bums.
Wildcard Ky
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[url]www.bruce.[/url] said:this bash is costing the American taxpayers a cool $ 40 Mill
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Not true. It's being paid for privately. Mostly big money donors that pay a fortune to shmooze. I read somewhere that for $50k, you got 8 tickets to a lunch with Bush/Cheney, tickets to the inauguration and parade, and tickets to some high powered reception.
The $40 mill. isn't coming from tax payers.
LadyJeanne
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shereads said:
Well, George vowed to bring ''liberty and freedom to every corner of the world' so perhaps the donors might each get a country all their own.
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shereads said:
True, we are paying for security. I haven't seen anything that breaks down this inauguration into what taxpayers are paying, and what private donors are paying. All I've heard is that the total bill is $40 mill.
As for the size of the Army........Whaddaya expect? He's got at least half the world pissed off...............
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Wildcard Ky said:
Donations are paying for the parties, yes. At least for the food and entertainment.
But the security costs for the entire affair now reside within the growing U.S. deficit.
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Wildcard Ky said:True, we are paying for security. I haven't seen anything that breaks down this inauguration into what taxpayers are paying, and what private donors are paying. All I've heard is that the total bill is $40 mill.
As for the size of the Army........Whaddaya expect? He's got at least half the world pissed off...............
We all end up paying when the private donors call in the favors they're owed. That's the beauty of it. Nobody is such a big honking patriot that he's going to foot the bill for a politician's party if he doesn't expect to make his money back.
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I've always wondered, but if you're the biggest donor, do you get to put a saddle on the politician of your choice and ride them around the Capitol?
Or if you donate a couple mil do you at least get to make Bush bark like a dog and beg for table scraps?
Just thinking out loud.
Or if you donate a couple mil do you at least get to make Bush bark like a dog and beg for table scraps?
Just thinking out loud.
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Lucifer_Carroll said:
No, no, no. You're thinking of Rutherford B. Hayes. In the New American Century, your millions purchase favors that affect millions of people. For example, just funding the open bar at whatever event the Bush twins are attending tonight could entitle you to a lucrative rebuilding contract in Belize.
"But there's nothing to rebuild in Belize."
Isn't there? But there could be, couldn't there, if....
