Democrats Control the Senate
by Mark Horne
The votes dont lie; despite the Republican victory the Democrats control the Senate. So who does Mitch McConnell work for?
This is one of the most profound pieces of news analysis I have seen on exactly what the massive Republican victory has meant for the Senate. What did you win by voting for Republicans?
You won the ability to pass laws that are supported by a majority of the remaining Democrats. Why? Were you expecting something more?
[W]ith two minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. Senate since the beginning of this Congress in January has passed with at leastusually more than93 percent of support from Democrats.
While Republicans have done nothing to create jobs and help the middle class, on other topics like passing clean funding for Homeland Security and confirming Loretta Lynch, Senator McConnell has done the right thing by bringing bills and nominations to the floor that Democrats can support, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reids spokesman Adam Jentleson told Breitbart News. Democrats hope this trend will continue.
Since January, according to the U.S. Senate vote count website, there have been 10 nominations confirmed. Each one has seen unanimous support from Democrats who voted, but varying levels of Republican support.
The most important of these, of course, was the confirmation of Loretta Lynch. When he was running for re-election, Mitch McConnell promised that no Attorney General would be confirmed who agreed with Barack Obamas executive amnesty. Now that he is not running for re-election for several years, he led some Republicans and all Democrats in voting for her confirmation. Or rather, Harry Reid and the few remaining Democrats led McConnell and a large number of Republicans to confirm Lynch.
[T]he so-called doc fix which raised the national debt by nearly $200 billion without offsetting cuts to pay doctors who accept Medicare more, passed with unanimous Democratic support and only eight Republicans voting against it. Those eight Republicans were: Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), David Perdue (R-GA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Tim Scott (R-SC).
The only two areas where Republicans used their majority against Democratic opposition were the Keystone Pipeline vote and the National Labor Relations Board votea bill that overruled a Presidents rule that a Union could call for an ambush vote, an election within eleven days.
Obama vetoed both laws.
The bottom line is that voters handed the Republican Party a huge victory and yet voting behavior in the Senate has simply not changed. If Harry Reid were still the majority leader little would be different from what it is now. And since the Republicans refuse to use the power of the purse, they are at the mercy of Barack Obamas veto even when they do bother to vote against the Democrats.
So the question is: Is there any Republican political candidate we can trust to change this?
I'm starting to think....Its all by design!!
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Democrats Control the Senate
by Mark Horne
The votes dont lie; despite the Republican victory the Democrats control the Senate. So who does Mitch McConnell work for?
This is one of the most profound pieces of news analysis I have seen on exactly what the massive Republican victory has meant for the Senate. What did you win by voting for Republicans?
You won the ability to pass laws that are supported by a majority of the remaining Democrats. Why? Were you expecting something more?
[W]ith two minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. Senate since the beginning of this Congress in January has passed with at leastusually more than93 percent of support from Democrats.
While Republicans have done nothing to create jobs and help the middle class, on other topics like passing clean funding for Homeland Security and confirming Loretta Lynch, Senator McConnell has done the right thing by bringing bills and nominations to the floor that Democrats can support, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reids spokesman Adam Jentleson told Breitbart News. Democrats hope this trend will continue.
Since January, according to the U.S. Senate vote count website, there have been 10 nominations confirmed. Each one has seen unanimous support from Democrats who voted, but varying levels of Republican support.
The most important of these, of course, was the confirmation of Loretta Lynch. When he was running for re-election, Mitch McConnell promised that no Attorney General would be confirmed who agreed with Barack Obamas executive amnesty. Now that he is not running for re-election for several years, he led some Republicans and all Democrats in voting for her confirmation. Or rather, Harry Reid and the few remaining Democrats led McConnell and a large number of Republicans to confirm Lynch.
[T]he so-called doc fix which raised the national debt by nearly $200 billion without offsetting cuts to pay doctors who accept Medicare more, passed with unanimous Democratic support and only eight Republicans voting against it. Those eight Republicans were: Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), David Perdue (R-GA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Tim Scott (R-SC).
The only two areas where Republicans used their majority against Democratic opposition were the Keystone Pipeline vote and the National Labor Relations Board votea bill that overruled a Presidents rule that a Union could call for an ambush vote, an election within eleven days.
Obama vetoed both laws.
The bottom line is that voters handed the Republican Party a huge victory and yet voting behavior in the Senate has simply not changed. If Harry Reid were still the majority leader little would be different from what it is now. And since the Republicans refuse to use the power of the purse, they are at the mercy of Barack Obamas veto even when they do bother to vote against the Democrats.
So the question is: Is there any Republican political candidate we can trust to change this?
I'm starting to think....Its all by design!!
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Just now starting to think that? Well, better really late, than never.
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Democrats Control the Senate
by Mark Horne
The votes dont lie; despite the Republican victory the Democrats control the Senate. So who does Mitch McConnell work for?
This is one of the most profound pieces of news analysis I have seen on exactly what the massive Republican victory has meant for the Senate. What did you win by voting for Republicans?
You won the ability to pass laws that are supported by a majority of the remaining Democrats. Why? Were you expecting something more?
[W]ith two minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. Senate since the beginning of this Congress in January has passed with at leastusually more than93 percent of support from Democrats.
While Republicans have done nothing to create jobs and help the middle class, on other topics like passing clean funding for Homeland Security and confirming Loretta Lynch, Senator McConnell has done the right thing by bringing bills and nominations to the floor that Democrats can support, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reids spokesman Adam Jentleson told Breitbart News. Democrats hope this trend will continue.
Since January, according to the U.S. Senate vote count website, there have been 10 nominations confirmed. Each one has seen unanimous support from Democrats who voted, but varying levels of Republican support.
The most important of these, of course, was the confirmation of Loretta Lynch. When he was running for re-election, Mitch McConnell promised that no Attorney General would be confirmed who agreed with Barack Obamas executive amnesty. Now that he is not running for re-election for several years, he led some Republicans and all Democrats in voting for her confirmation. Or rather, Harry Reid and the few remaining Democrats led McConnell and a large number of Republicans to confirm Lynch.
[T]he so-called doc fix which raised the national debt by nearly $200 billion without offsetting cuts to pay doctors who accept Medicare more, passed with unanimous Democratic support and only eight Republicans voting against it. Those eight Republicans were: Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), David Perdue (R-GA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Tim Scott (R-SC).
The only two areas where Republicans used their majority against Democratic opposition were the Keystone Pipeline vote and the National Labor Relations Board votea bill that overruled a Presidents rule that a Union could call for an ambush vote, an election within eleven days.
Obama vetoed both laws.
The bottom line is that voters handed the Republican Party a huge victory and yet voting behavior in the Senate has simply not changed. If Harry Reid were still the majority leader little would be different from what it is now. And since the Republicans refuse to use the power of the purse, they are at the mercy of Barack Obamas veto even when they do bother to vote against the Democrats.
So the question is: Is there any Republican political candidate we can trust to change this?
I'm starting to think....Its all by design!!
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You make some good points, I was not in favor of Lynn getting AT & I am not happy with many republicans & there democratic ways...I am backing on Dr. Ben Carson a NONpolitical of getting the nomination for pres & becoming our next President. I feel he has the intelligence to get our country back on track. PERIOD
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Democrats Control the Senate
by Mark Horne
The votes dont lie; despite the Republican victory the Democrats control the Senate. So who does Mitch McConnell work for?
This is one of the most profound pieces of news analysis I have seen on exactly what the massive Republican victory has meant for the Senate. What did you win by voting for Republicans?
You won the ability to pass laws that are supported by a majority of the remaining Democrats. Why? Were you expecting something more?
[W]ith two minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. Senate since the beginning of this Congress in January has passed with at leastusually more than93 percent of support from Democrats.
While Republicans have done nothing to create jobs and help the middle class, on other topics like passing clean funding for Homeland Security and confirming Loretta Lynch, Senator McConnell has done the right thing by bringing bills and nominations to the floor that Democrats can support, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reids spokesman Adam Jentleson told Breitbart News. Democrats hope this trend will continue.
Since January, according to the U.S. Senate vote count website, there have been 10 nominations confirmed. Each one has seen unanimous support from Democrats who voted, but varying levels of Republican support.
The most important of these, of course, was the confirmation of Loretta Lynch. When he was running for re-election, Mitch McConnell promised that no Attorney General would be confirmed who agreed with Barack Obamas executive amnesty. Now that he is not running for re-election for several years, he led some Republicans and all Democrats in voting for her confirmation. Or rather, Harry Reid and the few remaining Democrats led McConnell and a large number of Republicans to confirm Lynch.
[T]he so-called doc fix which raised the national debt by nearly $200 billion without offsetting cuts to pay doctors who accept Medicare more, passed with unanimous Democratic support and only eight Republicans voting against it. Those eight Republicans were: Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), David Perdue (R-GA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Tim Scott (R-SC).
The only two areas where Republicans used their majority against Democratic opposition were the Keystone Pipeline vote and the National Labor Relations Board votea bill that overruled a Presidents rule that a Union could call for an ambush vote, an election within eleven days.
Obama vetoed both laws.
The bottom line is that voters handed the Republican Party a huge victory and yet voting behavior in the Senate has simply not changed. If Harry Reid were still the majority leader little would be different from what it is now. And since the Republicans refuse to use the power of the purse, they are at the mercy of Barack Obamas veto even when they do bother to vote against the Democrats.
So the question is: Is there any Republican political candidate we can trust to change this?
I'm starting to think....Its all by design!!
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Jetboy-the republican control of the Senate merely means that they control the agenda. As you know, it takes 60 votes to open/close debate on a bill. The republicans have 54 votes so they still need 6 democrats to join them in bringing up a bill for debate and closing the debate. One way this changes is for republicans to gain the White House. Then the majority leader could invoke the nuclear option,which only requires 51 votes, and pass legislation which would be signed by the president. As it is , if they invoke the NO, Obama will veto anything that is passed without democrat support. Another way is for republicans to gain 60 senate seats. Barring those two events, Harry Reid is still bogging the senate down and there is absolutely nothing the republicans can do about it. The democrats are sticking together to ensure the republicans do not get much done. Regrettably, the senate is full of Hillary Clinton clones who are in the game for themselves only and to hell with the citizenry. If you know of any other way the republicans can get legislation passed in the senate please advise. Good Luck America !!!
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Democrats Control the Senate
by Mark Horne
The votes dont lie; despite the Republican victory the Democrats control the Senate. So who does Mitch McConnell work for?
This is one of the most profound pieces of news analysis I have seen on exactly what the massive Republican victory has meant for the Senate. What did you win by voting for Republicans?
You won the ability to pass laws that are supported by a majority of the remaining Democrats. Why? Were you expecting something more?
[W]ith two minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. Senate since the beginning of this Congress in January has passed with at leastusually more than93 percent of support from Democrats.
While Republicans have done nothing to create jobs and help the middle class, on other topics like passing clean funding for Homeland Security and confirming Loretta Lynch, Senator McConnell has done the right thing by bringing bills and nominations to the floor that Democrats can support, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reids spokesman Adam Jentleson told Breitbart News. Democrats hope this trend will continue.
Since January, according to the U.S. Senate vote count website, there have been 10 nominations confirmed. Each one has seen unanimous support from Democrats who voted, but varying levels of Republican support.
The most important of these, of course, was the confirmation of Loretta Lynch. When he was running for re-election, Mitch McConnell promised that no Attorney General would be confirmed who agreed with Barack Obamas executive amnesty. Now that he is not running for re-election for several years, he led some Republicans and all Democrats in voting for her confirmation. Or rather, Harry Reid and the few remaining Democrats led McConnell and a large number of Republicans to confirm Lynch.
[T]he so-called doc fix which raised the national debt by nearly $200 billion without offsetting cuts to pay doctors who accept Medicare more, passed with unanimous Democratic support and only eight Republicans voting against it. Those eight Republicans were: Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), David Perdue (R-GA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Tim Scott (R-SC).
The only two areas where Republicans used their majority against Democratic opposition were the Keystone Pipeline vote and the National Labor Relations Board votea bill that overruled a Presidents rule that a Union could call for an ambush vote, an election within eleven days.
Obama vetoed both laws.
The bottom line is that voters handed the Republican Party a huge victory and yet voting behavior in the Senate has simply not changed. If Harry Reid were still the majority leader little would be different from what it is now. And since the Republicans refuse to use the power of the purse, they are at the mercy of Barack Obamas veto even when they do bother to vote against the Democrats.
So the question is: Is there any Republican political candidate we can trust to change this?
I'm starting to think....Its all by design!!
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:thumbup: Unfortunately you are correct, it is all by design. Nothing but smoke and mirrors. The chess game of life, which we the people have been in check for many many years and the chess champs are about ready to put us into checkmate. Open your eyes people, stop blindly following a party. They are all in it together, it really is us against them. It's "our" lives they are messing with. The same game has been going on for many many years. The repubs give tax breaks to big business, the dems cry foul and act like they are outraged. When the fact is, when the lights go out they all go to dinner together, drink together, know each others families, etc.. Sure there are some decent people on both sides, but they can not fight the elite either. I mean really, over half of Congress are millionaire and about 67% of the Senate are. Does anyone really think they give a rats rectum about us, our wants and needs? All these social programs are not put into place to help people. They are put into place to keep people of lower economic status enslaved to their master, to keep the middle class funding these programs while pushing them down into the lower economic status so they have both levels enslaved. See it yet? We will then have the rich and the poor. Sure social programs are needed, but not to this extent, sure our military needs to be funded and kept up to date and stronger than any other country especially with the ways things are int he world. But do we really need 800 bases all over the world?
Wake up people it is all by design and we are losing
righty wrote:
:thumbup: Unfortunately you are correct, it is all by design. Nothing but smoke and mirrors. The chess game of life, which we the people have been in check for many many years and the chess champs are about ready to put us into checkmate. Open your eyes people, stop blindly following a party. They are all in it together, it really is us against them. It's "our" lives they are messing with. The same game has been going on for many many years. The repubs give tax breaks to big business, the dems cry foul and act like they are outraged. When the fact is, when the lights go out they all go to dinner together, drink together, know each others families, etc.. Sure there are some decent people on both sides, but they can not fight the elite either. I mean really, over half of Congress are millionaire and about 67% of the Senate are. Does anyone really think they give a rats rectum about us, our wants and needs? All these social programs are not put into place to help people. They are put into place to keep people of lower economic status enslaved to their master, to keep the middle class funding these programs while pushing them down into the lower economic status so they have both levels enslaved. See it yet? We will then have the rich and the poor. Sure social programs are needed, but not to this extent, sure our military needs to be funded and kept up to date and stronger than any other country especially with the ways things are int he world. But do we really need 800 bases all over the world?
Wake up people it is all by design and we are losing
:thumbup: Unfortunately you are correct, it is al... (
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Correct We the People have been losing for over 6 yrs & even before that...time to get someone truly new & without a warped agenda who has the smarts & the will to get America back to what it was intended to be & to fight the ONE WORLD ORDER...as far as America is concerned...time to get a beard back in the WH need I say more?
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Democrats Control the Senate
by Mark Horne
The votes dont lie; despite the Republican victory the Democrats control the Senate. So who does Mitch McConnell work for?
This is one of the most profound pieces of news analysis I have seen on exactly what the massive Republican victory has meant for the Senate. What did you win by voting for Republicans?
You won the ability to pass laws that are supported by a majority of the remaining Democrats. Why? Were you expecting something more?
[W]ith two minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. Senate since the beginning of this Congress in January has passed with at leastusually more than93 percent of support from Democrats.
While Republicans have done nothing to create jobs and help the middle class, on other topics like passing clean funding for Homeland Security and confirming Loretta Lynch, Senator McConnell has done the right thing by bringing bills and nominations to the floor that Democrats can support, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reids spokesman Adam Jentleson told Breitbart News. Democrats hope this trend will continue.
Since January, according to the U.S. Senate vote count website, there have been 10 nominations confirmed. Each one has seen unanimous support from Democrats who voted, but varying levels of Republican support.
The most important of these, of course, was the confirmation of Loretta Lynch. When he was running for re-election, Mitch McConnell promised that no Attorney General would be confirmed who agreed with Barack Obamas executive amnesty. Now that he is not running for re-election for several years, he led some Republicans and all Democrats in voting for her confirmation. Or rather, Harry Reid and the few remaining Democrats led McConnell and a large number of Republicans to confirm Lynch.
[T]he so-called doc fix which raised the national debt by nearly $200 billion without offsetting cuts to pay doctors who accept Medicare more, passed with unanimous Democratic support and only eight Republicans voting against it. Those eight Republicans were: Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), David Perdue (R-GA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Tim Scott (R-SC).
The only two areas where Republicans used their majority against Democratic opposition were the Keystone Pipeline vote and the National Labor Relations Board votea bill that overruled a Presidents rule that a Union could call for an ambush vote, an election within eleven days.
Obama vetoed both laws.
The bottom line is that voters handed the Republican Party a huge victory and yet voting behavior in the Senate has simply not changed. If Harry Reid were still the majority leader little would be different from what it is now. And since the Republicans refuse to use the power of the purse, they are at the mercy of Barack Obamas veto even when they do bother to vote against the Democrats.
So the question is: Is there any Republican political candidate we can trust to change this?
I'm starting to think....Its all by design!!
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I'm really getting tired of saying "I told you so", but here I go again. I suggested years ago, that nothing would change - at all - regardless of WHO, or what PARTY was in office. There is no tangible difference between democrats and republicans anymore! The only differences are seen during election campaigns - but once in office - the same old thing.
Each politician picks the party they believe will get them elected - and that's the ONLY reason. Once a person IS elected - he or she is there for themselves alone. They neither ask for, nor care WHAT their constituents think - unless they have a fat check in hand.
The recent elections should have woken everyone up, about how disconnected our election campaigns are - from the behavior of those elected to office. There is what is said and promised during the elections - and then there is what is actually done and thought after being elected - and they are rarely the same. Politicians don't even try to hide it anymore, because the people have gotten used to it.
It really scares me, to see just what and how much crap the American people can be "gotten used to", by slowly eroding their expectations and demands. It's like getting less sensitive to bee venom, by introducing increasing amounts, over a period of time - until you won't even notice getting stung.
Just be prepared, there'll be way more horse pucky coming down the pike, from now until Nov. 2016 - but most people won't smell it - until sometime in 2017.
lpnmajor wrote:
I'm really getting tired of saying "I told you so", but here I go again. I suggested years ago, that nothing would change - at all - regardless of WHO, or what PARTY was in office. There is no tangible difference between democrats and republicans anymore! The only differences are seen during election campaigns - but once in office - the same old thing.
Each politician picks the party they believe will get them elected - and that's the ONLY reason. Once a person IS elected - he or she is there for themselves alone. They neither ask for, nor care WHAT their constituents think - unless they have a fat check in hand.
The recent elections should have woken everyone up, about how disconnected our election campaigns are - from the behavior of those elected to office. There is what is said and promised during the elections - and then there is what is actually done and thought after being elected - and they are rarely the same. Politicians don't even try to hide it anymore, because the people have gotten used to it.
It really scares me, to see just what and how much crap the American people can be "gotten used to", by slowly eroding their expectations and demands. It's like getting less sensitive to bee venom, by introducing increasing amounts, over a period of time - until you won't even notice getting stung.
Just be prepared, there'll be way more horse pucky coming down the pike, from now until Nov. 2016 - but most people won't smell it - until sometime in 2017.
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There is plenty of very bad "wood" in both the Dem & Repub sides & also alot of Muslim bad "wood" in the WH to be rid of before We the People can really hope to get back to where we need to be. This is AMERICA NOT ISLAM...PERIOD!
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Democrats Control the Senate
by Mark Horne
The votes dont lie; despite the Republican victory the Democrats control the Senate. So who does Mitch McConnell work for?
This is one of the most profound pieces of news analysis I have seen on exactly what the massive Republican victory has meant for the Senate. What did you win by voting for Republicans?
You won the ability to pass laws that are supported by a majority of the remaining Democrats. Why? Were you expecting something more?
[W]ith two minor exceptions, every single vote that has passed the U.S. Senate since the beginning of this Congress in January has passed with at leastusually more than93 percent of support from Democrats.
While Republicans have done nothing to create jobs and help the middle class, on other topics like passing clean funding for Homeland Security and confirming Loretta Lynch, Senator McConnell has done the right thing by bringing bills and nominations to the floor that Democrats can support, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reids spokesman Adam Jentleson told Breitbart News. Democrats hope this trend will continue.
Since January, according to the U.S. Senate vote count website, there have been 10 nominations confirmed. Each one has seen unanimous support from Democrats who voted, but varying levels of Republican support.
The most important of these, of course, was the confirmation of Loretta Lynch. When he was running for re-election, Mitch McConnell promised that no Attorney General would be confirmed who agreed with Barack Obamas executive amnesty. Now that he is not running for re-election for several years, he led some Republicans and all Democrats in voting for her confirmation. Or rather, Harry Reid and the few remaining Democrats led McConnell and a large number of Republicans to confirm Lynch.
[T]he so-called doc fix which raised the national debt by nearly $200 billion without offsetting cuts to pay doctors who accept Medicare more, passed with unanimous Democratic support and only eight Republicans voting against it. Those eight Republicans were: Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), David Perdue (R-GA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Tim Scott (R-SC).
The only two areas where Republicans used their majority against Democratic opposition were the Keystone Pipeline vote and the National Labor Relations Board votea bill that overruled a Presidents rule that a Union could call for an ambush vote, an election within eleven days.
Obama vetoed both laws.
The bottom line is that voters handed the Republican Party a huge victory and yet voting behavior in the Senate has simply not changed. If Harry Reid were still the majority leader little would be different from what it is now. And since the Republicans refuse to use the power of the purse, they are at the mercy of Barack Obamas veto even when they do bother to vote against the Democrats.
So the question is: Is there any Republican political candidate we can trust to change this?
I'm starting to think....Its all by design!!
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It's not by design, it's by ignorance of the American people.
The American people were told, don't vote for people who are too conservative and believe in the Constitution too much, because they might not win.
Sooooooooo.........the American people voted for the people they thought would win and they got just what they got, more Democrats that spell Democrat with an R instead of a D.
Stupidity is defined as doing the same thing again and again, each time expecting a different result.
We do have people in Washington that are fighting for the American people, but, they are few in number.
What they needed was more help. What we gave them are a bunch of Benedict Arnolds.
Then we sit around and wonder why that didn't work?
But, hey, the Benedict Arnolds won........................right?
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