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		<title>By: ChrisWeigant.com &#187; Friday Talking Points -- Just Not A Good Bad Guy</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/13/hope-joe-manchin-is-enjoying-the-show/#comment-177790</link>
		<dc:creator>ChrisWeigant.com &#187; Friday Talking Points -- Just Not A Good Bad Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2021 00:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/13/hope-joe-manchin-is-enjoying-the-show/#comment-177650</link>
		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 20:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Death Harris
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&lt;i&gt;Not true. I came up with the approach and have done the same things or more than many others have done. &lt;/i&gt;

Excuse me for stating the obviously obvious that you didn&#039;t invent small donor campaigns or citizens not voting, and claiming you&#039;ve done the &quot;same things&quot; many others have done is an admission if I ever heard one. 

&lt;i&gt;It is people like CW that have not met their responsibility to inform citizens about One Demand. &lt;/i&gt;

It&#039;s no one&#039;s responsibility to shill for your half-baked bullshit mountain. 

&lt;i&gt;Yes, I do have a shit-ton of solutions for everything but myself because I have done what I should do. &lt;/i&gt;

Yes, you do have a shit-ton of solutions for everything, and you definitely whine incessantly about inaction in everyone else while you sit on your lazy ass and complain how no one is doing anything. Lazy ass doing nothing except whining about others not doing enough whose &quot;go to&quot; retort is &quot;glass houses.&quot; *laughs* You can&#039;t make this shit up! 

&lt;i&gt;Just because it hasn&#039;t yielded results because of people like CW failing to behave propoerly doesn&#039;t mean I have not done anything. &lt;/i&gt;

Your endless trolling of a man&#039;s blog has yielded no results because he has failed to &quot;behave propoerly&quot;! *laughs* It&#039;s his blog, moron; he decides what is proper. 

Stopped reading right there. Seen one of your comments... seen all the drivel and spew already. *laughs*</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Death Harris<br />
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<p><i>Not true. I came up with the approach and have done the same things or more than many others have done. </i></p>
<p>Excuse me for stating the obviously obvious that you didn't invent small donor campaigns or citizens not voting, and claiming you've done the "same things" many others have done is an admission if I ever heard one. </p>
<p><i>It is people like CW that have not met their responsibility to inform citizens about One Demand. </i></p>
<p>It's no one's responsibility to shill for your half-baked bullshit mountain. </p>
<p><i>Yes, I do have a shit-ton of solutions for everything but myself because I have done what I should do. </i></p>
<p>Yes, you do have a shit-ton of solutions for everything, and you definitely whine incessantly about inaction in everyone else while you sit on your lazy ass and complain how no one is doing anything. Lazy ass doing nothing except whining about others not doing enough whose "go to" retort is "glass houses." *laughs* You can't make this shit up! </p>
<p><i>Just because it hasn't yielded results because of people like CW failing to behave propoerly doesn't mean I have not done anything. </i></p>
<p>Your endless trolling of a man's blog has yielded no results because he has failed to "behave propoerly"! *laughs* It's his blog, moron; he decides what is proper. </p>
<p>Stopped reading right there. Seen one of your comments... seen all the drivel and spew already. *laughs*</p>
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		<title>By: ListenWhenYouHear</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/13/hope-joe-manchin-is-enjoying-the-show/#comment-177632</link>
		<dc:creator>ListenWhenYouHear</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 21:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[7] JMfC,

I think it is more that the voter base only gets angry when they are told to be angry!  At least being publicly angry about any subject matter.  They are too afraid to think for themselves and risk being kicked out of the party!   I know a lot of Republican voters who are unhappy with a large portion of the Party’s positions, but still feel it’s better to keep their opposing views to themselves than to stand up and demand change.  Going with the flow is so much easier than fighting against the current!</description>
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<p>I think it is more that the voter base only gets angry when they are told to be angry!  At least being publicly angry about any subject matter.  They are too afraid to think for themselves and risk being kicked out of the party!   I know a lot of Republican voters who are unhappy with a large portion of the Party’s positions, but still feel it’s better to keep their opposing views to themselves than to stand up and demand change.  Going with the flow is so much easier than fighting against the current!</p>
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		<title>By: John M from Ct.</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/13/hope-joe-manchin-is-enjoying-the-show/#comment-177631</link>
		<dc:creator>John M from Ct.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 21:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listen on [5]

What you say about McConnell preferring to anger the voters rather than the contributors sounds right, but has he ever actually done that? When has the crafty old turtle actually passed a law that angered the GOP&#039;s non-rich voters, but pleased the wealthy class? As far as I can remember, his gift is that he manages never to cross either group.</description>
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<p>What you say about McConnell preferring to anger the voters rather than the contributors sounds right, but has he ever actually done that? When has the crafty old turtle actually passed a law that angered the GOP's non-rich voters, but pleased the wealthy class? As far as I can remember, his gift is that he manages never to cross either group.</p>
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		<title>By: ListenWhenYouHear</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/13/hope-joe-manchin-is-enjoying-the-show/#comment-177630</link>
		<dc:creator>ListenWhenYouHear</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 21:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kick,

&lt;I&gt; or is the GQP not interested in negotiating in good faith...&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;b&gt;DING!  DING!  DING!  WE HAVE A WINNER!!! &lt;/b&gt;I am sorry, but the GOP are still the Party whose Party Platform says that they believe and support whatever Donald J. Trump tells them to — despite the fact that he led the bloody insurrection on January 6th. 

There is no reason to believe that they will ever do anything in “good faith”!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kick,</p>
<p><i> or is the GQP not interested in negotiating in good faith...</i></p>
<p><b>DING!  DING!  DING!  WE HAVE A WINNER!!! </b>I am sorry, but the GOP are still the Party whose Party Platform says that they believe and support whatever Donald J. Trump tells them to — despite the fact that he led the bloody insurrection on January 6th. </p>
<p>There is no reason to believe that they will ever do anything in “good faith”!</p>
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		<title>By: ListenWhenYouHear</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/13/hope-joe-manchin-is-enjoying-the-show/#comment-177629</link>
		<dc:creator>ListenWhenYouHear</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 21:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;I&gt; McConnell, true to form, drew a line in the sand over Biden&#039;s legislative plans: the 2017 Trump tax cut was an inviolable red line and any attempt to raise the corporate tax rates or raise any taxes on wealthy individuals would not get a single Republican vote. McConnell seems to think that raising the gas tax is somehow an easier political sell to the public, which is just downright bizarre (I cannot remember the last time a Republican proposed or even expressed support for hiking the gas tax).&lt;/i&gt;

Actually, I believe that McConnell seems to think that raising the gas tax is somehow an easier political sell to those members of the public that McConnell truly cares about — the ultra rich!   If McConnell knows that he is gonna upset one group (either the GOP’s voting base or the GOP’s donor base) no matter what he does, you can confidently wager that it will be the voter base he’ll upset every time!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i> McConnell, true to form, drew a line in the sand over Biden's legislative plans: the 2017 Trump tax cut was an inviolable red line and any attempt to raise the corporate tax rates or raise any taxes on wealthy individuals would not get a single Republican vote. McConnell seems to think that raising the gas tax is somehow an easier political sell to the public, which is just downright bizarre (I cannot remember the last time a Republican proposed or even expressed support for hiking the gas tax).</i></p>
<p>Actually, I believe that McConnell seems to think that raising the gas tax is somehow an easier political sell to those members of the public that McConnell truly cares about — the ultra rich!   If McConnell knows that he is gonna upset one group (either the GOP’s voting base or the GOP’s donor base) no matter what he does, you can confidently wager that it will be the voter base he’ll upset every time!</p>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/13/hope-joe-manchin-is-enjoying-the-show/#comment-177627</link>
		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 19:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Death Harris
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&lt;i&gt;It takes a year or two to set up trials and studies, a few years to run them, they can be set up to fail or be inconclusive so that the few years of studying the results can show it doesn&#039;t work or needs more study and before you know it ten years have passed and nothing has been done. &lt;/i&gt;

Just like your website where &quot;nothing has been done.&quot;

Death Harris has a shit-ton of solutions for everything except himself. *laughs*</description>
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<p><i>It takes a year or two to set up trials and studies, a few years to run them, they can be set up to fail or be inconclusive so that the few years of studying the results can show it doesn't work or needs more study and before you know it ten years have passed and nothing has been done. </i></p>
<p>Just like your website where "nothing has been done."</p>
<p>Death Harris has a shit-ton of solutions for everything except himself. *laughs*</p>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/05/13/hope-joe-manchin-is-enjoying-the-show/#comment-177625</link>
		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 09:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CW: &lt;i&gt;It was only a couple weeks ago that Republicans were loudly promising to &quot;stop the Democrats from raising the gas tax,&quot; in fact. &lt;/i&gt;

Noticed that too, did you? Pretty sure it wasn&#039;t lost on Biden either. Perhaps the GQP has just knee-jerk confused Biden with Trump; it was Trump who originally proposed a hike on gas taxes during &quot;infrastructure week,&quot; and Republicans who opposed it. 

I hope the Trumpanzees are paying attention as the GQP shoots the middle finger at Trump and proposes the same tax hike they shot down... or is the GQP not interested in negotiating in good faith... just to state the obviously obvious.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CW: <i>It was only a couple weeks ago that Republicans were loudly promising to "stop the Democrats from raising the gas tax," in fact. </i></p>
<p>Noticed that too, did you? Pretty sure it wasn't lost on Biden either. Perhaps the GQP has just knee-jerk confused Biden with Trump; it was Trump who originally proposed a hike on gas taxes during "infrastructure week," and Republicans who opposed it. </p>
<p>I hope the Trumpanzees are paying attention as the GQP shoots the middle finger at Trump and proposes the same tax hike they shot down... or is the GQP not interested in negotiating in good faith... just to state the obviously obvious.</p>
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		<title>By: John M from Ct.</title>
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		<dc:creator>John M from Ct.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 02:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK analysis, I guess, but I found myself asking quite a number of times, &quot;How do you KNOW this is what is going on? How do you KNOW what Biden and Manchin and the gang are playing at?&quot; Is this just a restatement of a general pundit consensus? - a gut feeling that it HAS to be true because nothing else makes sense? - or a studied reading of almost-hidden tea leaves coming out of Washington that no one else but you has noticed or decoded?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK analysis, I guess, but I found myself asking quite a number of times, "How do you KNOW this is what is going on? How do you KNOW what Biden and Manchin and the gang are playing at?" Is this just a restatement of a general pundit consensus? - a gut feeling that it HAS to be true because nothing else makes sense? - or a studied reading of almost-hidden tea leaves coming out of Washington that no one else but you has noticed or decoded?</p>
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