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What do you want to bet the parts that he and his cronies and backers depend on day-to-day won't be the "part" that shut down?<\/p>\n

If I were a credit rating agency, I'd already be dropping the US credit score, on the assumption that bills aren't going to get paid on time — and make it clear that it will continue to drop the more dolts like this keep saying exactly that.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Top Senate Republican says government shutdown \u201cmay be necessary\u201d in coming months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn an op-ed published Thursday in the Houston Chronicle, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) suggested that a partial shutdown of the federal government may be necessary in the coming months “in order to secure …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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What do you want to bet the parts that he and his cronies and backers depend on day-to-day won't be the "part" that shut down? If I were a credit rating agency, I'd already be dropping the US credit score, on the assumption that bills aren't going to get paid on time — and make … Continue reading “"We have to destroy the economy in order to save it."”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15490,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/lack-of-credit-where-credit-is-due.html","url_meta":{"origin":32064,"position":0},"title":"Lack of credit where credit is due","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Aug-09 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So at lunch I handed my main credit card over to the gal. 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