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The Biden Blowout Is Just Beginning

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/10/2021 1:19:39 PM

A trillion dollars used to be a lot of money, even in Washington. Now, a trillion-dollar spending bill is a trifle barely worth arguing over and the stuff of bipartisan consensus. Oscar Wilde famously said that nothing succeeds like excess, but even he might blanch at the shameless profligacy that is America’s new normal. In their wisdom, Senate Republicans decided to help President Joe Biden pass a portion of his blow-out fiscal agenda, a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that is a prelude to an even bigger, vastly more consequential $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bobn.t 8/10/2021 1:24:39 PM (No. 874203)
The Rissians and Chinese are salivating: JoeBama and dems are driving the country to financial collapse. Obama's goal to destroy America.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Cindiana 8/10/2021 1:35:06 PM (No. 874224)
Lowry speaks as if HE himself has not been a major enabler of the disasters we're living with. What has he ever done to help our side?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Nimby 8/10/2021 1:35:22 PM (No. 874225)
Good grief!! these RINOs didn't have a functioning neuron between them. They should have insisted on getting the Southern border fixed before they signed on to any freaking infra structureless deals
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bad-hair 8/10/2021 1:38:28 PM (No. 874230)
The Republic of Texas approaches. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, S Dakota, N Dakota, Montana, Alberta (Canada), Saskatchewan (Canada), Manitoba (Canada), and a few states along the sides. Let's go EAST. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida. We have every shipping port in The Gulf of Mexico and half the Atlantic and more oil than the Saudis ever dreamed of. California and New York can print their own money. If they want to trade they can use Panama. We WILL protect our borders ,north, south, east, and west. If you're coming to visit Texas bring your US passport with the pre-approved visitor's visa.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 8/10/2021 1:41:50 PM (No. 874232)
Agree. Lowry forgets that he is editor of the "conservative" magazine that published the famous anti-Trump issue. Maybe if he and his fellow RINOs had spent four years supporting Trump instead of fighting him, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 8/10/2021 2:15:00 PM (No. 874270)
I don't read Lowry any more. He has earned his spot on the "never click" list alongside dozens of other folks who pretended to be conservative pundits for decades. Trump did us a great service by smoking out these Fifth Column agents.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: WesternTradition 8/10/2021 2:39:24 PM (No. 874302)
If it's Rich Lowry I don't read it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Lawsy0 8/10/2021 3:25:26 PM (No. 874353)
This new parable of a lost generation can be called ''The Prodigal Father.''
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Bur Oak 8/10/2021 4:31:56 PM (No. 874420)
Someone once said, "What can't go on won't."
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Reply 10 - Posted by: dickiedeeb 8/10/2021 5:59:36 PM (No. 874516)
Whenever you hear the term infrastructure from any politician the actual definition is BOHICA and without even the courtesy of a reacharound
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mc squared 8/10/2021 6:04:50 PM (No. 874521)
Don't discount Lowery before you read this one.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Italiano 8/10/2021 6:09:47 PM (No. 874530)
No mean tweets though, right, Rich?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: lakerman1 8/10/2021 6:26:44 PM (No. 874558)
Here is a sobering thought for you people. The last president to pay attention to excesses in government finance was - Dollar Bill Clinton!
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