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Mike
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

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The difference is that Republicans spend money on guns, and Democrats spend money on butter.

Oh no. You should have seen the "Democrats" at the gun show here last weekend. They had the cash too!

They were wearing baggy pants and had their caps turned backwards. You could tell a lot of the vendors were ignoring them.

They weren't buying hunting guns either.

I think it ought to be against the law to sell a gun to a Democrat.

Jinglebob
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:43 am Post subject:

[quote="stevec"]

BBJ wrote:

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And now, Athenians, I am not going to argue for my own sake, as you may think, but for that you may not sin against the God by condemning me, who am his gift to you. For if you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me, and therefore I would advise you to spare me. I dare say that you may feel out of temper (like a person who is suddenly awakened from sleep), and you think that you might easily strike me dead as Anytus advises, and then you would sleep on for the remainder of your lives, unless God in his care of you sent you another gadfly.

Good quote. What passage is it?

theHiredMansWife
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject:

And now, Athenians... I'm gonna guess Socrates, just before he drank the hemlock.

theHiredMansWife
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject:

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Besides, everyone knows Democrats like to spend. It's the Republicans who have claimed to be fiscally responsible.

I think you're right, Dis. Like I said, I think the balance is out of whack. Democrats are expected to spend money. Republicans are expected to restrain that spending. That's a basic premise of their platform, afterall. But they've been doing just the opposite.

That's also what put those "disingenuine Democrats" in that strange position of looking at the raising of the deficit lid and saying, "Hey...Wait a second..."

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