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donini
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Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 18, 2013 - 07:50pm PT
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3) The media is even more moronic than we imagined and we had them pretty far down the phylogenetic scale as it was.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Oct 18, 2013 - 07:56pm PT
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4) Werner is a "stupid American".
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MisterE
climber
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Oct 18, 2013 - 08:42pm PT
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6) When they finally get to put a new ceiling in the White House, the zoos open again.
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jstan
climber
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Oct 18, 2013 - 09:17pm PT
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7) The 2012 election strategy will continue until there is no more US.
After Bitter Defeat, Will the GOP’s Next Move Be Impeachment?
October 18, 2013 | Posted by Jackie Jones
One thing you can say about the most diehard Republicans, they are not gracious losers.
Within hours after Republicans ended their budget fight with President Obama and allowed a measure ending the federal government shutdown to go through, a Republican congressman from Texas arranged for the distribution of a book to House members, which makes an argument for possible articles of impeachment against the president.
WND, a conservative website, reported that each of the 435 members of Congress received a copy of “Impeachable Offenses: The Case for Removing Barack Obama from Office,” by Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott, courtesy of Rep. Steve Stockman.
The book contends that Obama has violated the Constitution several times, including the introduction of his health care legislation, which the authors called taxation without representation, gun control and his handling of the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Approximately 15 Republicans have discussed a possible move in the House several times previously, according to WND, but it appears the reluctance to move is pragmatically driven. Some GOP lawmakers said they believed they could get enough votes for articles of impeachment through the House, but couldn’t win a conviction in the Senate, which requires 67 votes. There are 46 Republicans in the Senate, but impeachment advocates are not convinced they would vote in one block and win enough votes from any disgruntled Democrats.
It’s interesting to see there is a discussion of impeachment less than a full day after Republicans conceded defeat in the showdown against the administration over the funding of the Affordable Care Act and the debt limit.
The Senate voted 81 to 18 Wednesday for a measure negotiated by GOP and Democratic leaders. The House then voted 285 to 144 – including 87 Republicans – for the Senate version.
“If you look back in time and evaluate the last couple of weeks, it should be titled ‘The Time of Great Lost Opportunity,’” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told The New York Times in describing the failed exercise by Republicans.
Instead of defunding the health care law, derisively referred to as Obamacare, the GOP instead exposed its own deep divisions, put the nation on the brink of financial ruin—diminishing the party’s stature among voters in the process—and failed to win major concessions from Democrats.
Republicans squandered their advantage when the president was facing heavy questioning, if not criticism, over long-term debt and whether he was smart or just lucky in the showdown with Syria, which ended with President Assad agreeing to let his cache of chemical weapons be destroyed. The GOP even blew the opportunity to make political hay about the website snafus hundreds of thousands of Americans encountered when they tried to get information about or sign up for the Affordable Care Act.
And yet, in the midst of figuring out how it all went so wrong and whether there is anything to salvage from this episode, there are Republicans who want to take the fight right back to the administration, suggesting that articles of impeachment might be a logical next step.
If nothing else, the Republicans bought themselves some time: The deal finances the government only through Jan. 15 and raises the debt ceiling until Feb. 7.
Jackie Jones, a journalist and journalism educator, is director of the career transformation firm Jones Coaching LLC and author of “Taking Care of the Business of You: 7 Days to Getting Your Career on Track.”
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labrat
Trad climber
Auburn, CA
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Oct 18, 2013 - 09:25pm PT
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8) People cannot do simple math or count?
How about we take in this much cash so we can only spend this much cash?
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Oct 18, 2013 - 09:33pm PT
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9. The whitehouse lawn becomes overgrown & overrun with wildlife.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Oct 18, 2013 - 09:54pm PT
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10. Not much. Folks will still allow donations by wealthy interests to political candidates. Real solutions will not be allowed a large public forum by those very interests.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
san jose, ca
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Oct 18, 2013 - 11:59pm PT
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14) I hate tea
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clinker
Trad climber
California
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:08am PT
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15a I thought they were my parks. Why is he stupid?
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Climberdude
Trad climber
Fresno, CA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:34am PT
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The stupid American public will bitch to the end of the earth about the situation, but then vote to re-elect the same legislators and parties - isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
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MisterE
climber
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Oct 19, 2013 - 01:04am PT
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12. Supertopo posters that were foaming at the crotch with their continuously lame postings are now on a list of dumbasses to stay away from.
I wish some of the more rabid posters were observant enough to realize the value of this statement - alas, we all know how this goes...
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 07:45am PT
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1. NOTHING
2. NOTHING
3. NOTHING
4. NOTHING
The writing has been on the walls for years.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 19, 2013 - 09:32am PT
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how gerrymandering and unchecked monied interests can derail the best efforts of our forefolks and vets
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crankster
Trad climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 10:38am PT
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1. Tea Party Republicans shut down the government over a law they don't like.
2. They come from districts where voters are even crazier than them.
3. John Boehner is a spineless tool.
4. Anyone who listens to talk radio has the brain of a flea.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Oct 19, 2013 - 10:50am PT
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1) Clapton is God
2) Frodo Lives
3) You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish
4) Twerking
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crankster
Trad climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 10:52am PT
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^^^ all true. And Sarah Palin is still as dumb as a rock.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Oct 19, 2013 - 01:19pm PT
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8) People cannot do simple math or count?
How about we take in this much cash so we can only spend this much cash?
On the face of it, it is obviously not true.
But looking deeper, you appear to argue that if our country is attacked, we can do nothing about it, because it was not budgeted. No WWII after Pearl Harbor.
That's what I would call a real patriot.
You appear not to understand that an unbudgeted national financial disaster, like the Great Depression, requires extraordinary things, including deficit spending.
So during the term of the current President, we have had BOTH things.
What is the excuse of Reagan Ford, Bush and Bush? Clinton ran a surplus.
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craig morris
Trad climber
la
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Oct 19, 2013 - 01:34pm PT
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1. puppets have stings
2. pink slime is OK
3. 1 dollar 1 vote
4. Earth rocks
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