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15 Aug 2011, 7:12 pm

WEST CHESTER, Ohio - A bomb squad was called to House Speaker John Boehner's West Chester office Sunday.

A West Chester officer on patrol spotted three black suitcases at the door of Boehner's office around 11:30 a.m.

West Chester police and fire and the Butler County Bomb Squad responded to the scene.
http://nation.foxnews.com/john-boehner/ ... r-s-office

Thankfully, no explosives were discovered when the suspicious briefcases were detonated. If it was simply the individual hadn't considered the fact that it would cause a bomb scare, I think they should come forward, but I'm guessing it was intended to cause a bomb scare.



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15 Aug 2011, 8:50 pm

that is almost poetic justice after the way he and others like him scared this country sh*tless
btw...I think it was intentional too


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15 Aug 2011, 9:00 pm

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that is almost poetic justice after the way he and others like him scared this country sh*tless
btw...I think it was intentional too


Excuse me?

Pointing out we have a deficit problem and that we need to get serious about our out of control spending habits is not terrorism.


The last time this fight occurred it was under Ronald Reagan, and taxes were raised with the Democrats promising to reduce spending, those spending cuts never materialized (in other words the Democrats lied). Why should we agree to tax cuts now and future spending cuts (which we know are not going to materialize).

Furthermore, the tea party isn't the one that spent us into this situation, both Republicans and Democrats did, the Tea Party is just working through the Republican Party, because at least they get it.


My last point, the fact you approve of these kind of tactics, shows once again why I have such a low opinion of liberals in general.



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15 Aug 2011, 9:10 pm

I wasn't serious

I dont approve of bomb scares, but I did find the irony in it


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15 Aug 2011, 9:33 pm

jojobean wrote:
I wasn't serious

I dont approve of bomb scares, but I did find the irony in it


Only irony I find is liberals resorting to tactics that they falsely accuse conservatives of.



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15 Aug 2011, 10:05 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
jojobean wrote:
I wasn't serious

I dont approve of bomb scares, but I did find the irony in it


Only irony I find is liberals resorting to tactics that they falsely accuse conservatives of.


I dont remember a conservative being accused of putting a bomb scare in front of a political leader's door.
But I do know of some of those on the far right actually blowing up abortion centers.
so I guess your right conservatives have not put a fake bomb in front of a political leader's door
However there have been many asassination plots on Obama discovered and stopped.

It is corrupt on both sides.

There are some conservatives I actually agree with and many liberals that I disagree with. As for the party line...most of both sides are corrupt. But Boehner and few others in his group nearly cost this country its life, and may well have before its all said and done.
Sorry I offended you, but if it was a dem that pulled that stunt in congress and a conservative that did the bomb scare...you would probably react differently.


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15 Aug 2011, 11:11 pm

jojobean wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
jojobean wrote:
I wasn't serious

I dont approve of bomb scares, but I did find the irony in it


Only irony I find is liberals resorting to tactics that they falsely accuse conservatives of.


I dont remember a conservative being accused of putting a bomb scare in front of a political leader's door.
But I do know of some of those on the far right actually blowing up abortion centers.
so I guess your right conservatives have not put a fake bomb in front of a political leader's door
However there have been many asassination plots on Obama discovered and stopped.

It is corrupt on both sides.

There are some conservatives I actually agree with and many liberals that I disagree with. As for the party line...most of both sides are corrupt. But Boehner and few others in his group nearly cost this country its life, and may well have before its all said and done.
Sorry I offended you, but if it was a dem that pulled that stunt in congress and a conservative that did the bomb scare...you would probably react differently.


And I don't condone those actions either.

I remember liberals jumping to accuse every single conservative of the Tuscon shooting.



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15 Aug 2011, 11:21 pm

What happened with the Tuscan shooting? I dont remember that.


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16 Aug 2011, 1:21 am

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What happened with the Tuscan shooting? I dont remember that.


Do you mean why it was such a big political deal or just what happened in general? The controversy came from this campaign image released by Sarah Palin's campaign site:

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Giffords and others names are associated with crosshairs. It made people feel very uncomfortable, and it was extremely poor taste. I know I would be very alarmed to find my name directly related to cross hairs. Giffords, in March 2010, was said to express her concern over the image but to no avail. She and others were shot by an unstable Jared Lee Loughner in early 2011.

He held a recorded an intense dislike for Giffords since 2007 when he was an independent voter and well before this image was released. Still, people instantly speculated it was this image that set him over the edge. It is impossible to know. I think he would have shot her regardless of the image.



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16 Aug 2011, 12:13 pm

techn0teen wrote:
jojobean wrote:
What happened with the Tuscan shooting? I dont remember that.


Do you mean why it was such a big political deal or just what happened in general? The controversy came from this campaign image released by Sarah Palin's campaign site:

Image

Giffords and others names are associated with crosshairs. It made people feel very uncomfortable, and it was extremely poor taste. I know I would be very alarmed to find my name directly related to cross hairs. Giffords, in March 2010, was said to express her concern over the image but to no avail. She and others were shot by an unstable Jared Lee Loughner in early 2011.

He held a recorded an intense dislike for Giffords since 2007 when he was an independent voter and well before this image was released. Still, people instantly speculated it was this image that set him over the edge. It is impossible to know. I think he would have shot her regardless of the image.


In a nutshell, the left engaged in something known as blood libel, sensing an opportunity to try to discredit, and/or legalize outright persecution of people on the right, however it ended up backfiring and getting a lot of people angry at people on the left.



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16 Aug 2011, 2:21 pm

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In a nutshell, the left engaged in something known as blood libel, sensing an opportunity to try to discredit, and/or legalize outright persecution of people on the right, however it ended up backfiring and getting a lot of people angry at people on the left.


People who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones. There is plenty of blame to go around--the partisanship and sniping (verbal) has created a poisonous environment in which everyone is concerned with winning, and no one is concerned with governing.

For every progressive who seeks to discredit a conservative, there is a conservative demonizing a progressive. Rather than scoring points on the faults of your opponents, maybe it's time to take the plank out of your own eye and start engaging in a constructive discussion.

There is no single correct answer to issues in government, and solutions are invariably found in concensus. Without it, each successive change of power simply brings with it a disestablishment of actions that have gone before. The time has come, I suggest, for the center to take power, finding a middle ground where moderates can cast aside extremists on both sides.


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16 Aug 2011, 2:40 pm

visagrunt wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
In a nutshell, the left engaged in something known as blood libel, sensing an opportunity to try to discredit, and/or legalize outright persecution of people on the right, however it ended up backfiring and getting a lot of people angry at people on the left.


People who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones. There is plenty of blame to go around--the partisanship and sniping (verbal) has created a poisonous environment in which everyone is concerned with winning, and no one is concerned with governing.

For every progressive who seeks to discredit a conservative, there is a conservative demonizing a progressive. Rather than scoring points on the faults of your opponents, maybe it's time to take the plank out of your own eye and start engaging in a constructive discussion.

There is no single correct answer to issues in government, and solutions are invariably found in concensus. Without it, each successive change of power simply brings with it a disestablishment of actions that have gone before. The time has come, I suggest, for the center to take power, finding a middle ground where moderates can cast aside extremists on both sides.


Unfortunately, you have the tea baggers insisting that compromise, by which consensus is often reached, is somehow a bad thing. Rather, it's their way or the highway. And they've sold the experienced Republican politicians on this (who really should know better), hook, line, and sinker.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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16 Aug 2011, 3:59 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
visagrunt wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
In a nutshell, the left engaged in something known as blood libel, sensing an opportunity to try to discredit, and/or legalize outright persecution of people on the right, however it ended up backfiring and getting a lot of people angry at people on the left.


People who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones. There is plenty of blame to go around--the partisanship and sniping (verbal) has created a poisonous environment in which everyone is concerned with winning, and no one is concerned with governing.

For every progressive who seeks to discredit a conservative, there is a conservative demonizing a progressive. Rather than scoring points on the faults of your opponents, maybe it's time to take the plank out of your own eye and start engaging in a constructive discussion.

There is no single correct answer to issues in government, and solutions are invariably found in concensus. Without it, each successive change of power simply brings with it a disestablishment of actions that have gone before. The time has come, I suggest, for the center to take power, finding a middle ground where moderates can cast aside extremists on both sides.


Unfortunately, you have the tea baggers insisting that compromise, by which consensus is often reached, is somehow a bad thing. Rather, it's their way or the highway. And they've sold the experienced Republican politicians on this (who really should know better), hook, line, and sinker.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually the tea party is right that sometimes compromise is a bad thing, particularly when past experience has shown that the other side won't keep their end of the bargain.



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16 Aug 2011, 4:26 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
visagrunt wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
In a nutshell, the left engaged in something known as blood libel, sensing an opportunity to try to discredit, and/or legalize outright persecution of people on the right, however it ended up backfiring and getting a lot of people angry at people on the left.


People who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones. There is plenty of blame to go around--the partisanship and sniping (verbal) has created a poisonous environment in which everyone is concerned with winning, and no one is concerned with governing.

For every progressive who seeks to discredit a conservative, there is a conservative demonizing a progressive. Rather than scoring points on the faults of your opponents, maybe it's time to take the plank out of your own eye and start engaging in a constructive discussion.

There is no single correct answer to issues in government, and solutions are invariably found in concensus. Without it, each successive change of power simply brings with it a disestablishment of actions that have gone before. The time has come, I suggest, for the center to take power, finding a middle ground where moderates can cast aside extremists on both sides.


Unfortunately, you have the tea baggers insisting that compromise, by which consensus is often reached, is somehow a bad thing. Rather, it's their way or the highway. And they've sold the experienced Republican politicians on this (who really should know better), hook, line, and sinker.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually the tea party is right that sometimes compromise is a bad thing, particularly when past experience has shown that the other side won't keep their end of the bargain.


Compromise is the engine of democracy, it's how things get done in a free government. Both you and the tea baggers seem to mistake campaigning for actual governing. That means, stop demonizing the opposition as lairs and evil doers, and actually sit down and get something done for the good of the American people.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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16 Aug 2011, 6:45 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
visagrunt wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
In a nutshell, the left engaged in something known as blood libel, sensing an opportunity to try to discredit, and/or legalize outright persecution of people on the right, however it ended up backfiring and getting a lot of people angry at people on the left.


People who live in glass houses ought not to throw stones. There is plenty of blame to go around--the partisanship and sniping (verbal) has created a poisonous environment in which everyone is concerned with winning, and no one is concerned with governing.

For every progressive who seeks to discredit a conservative, there is a conservative demonizing a progressive. Rather than scoring points on the faults of your opponents, maybe it's time to take the plank out of your own eye and start engaging in a constructive discussion.

There is no single correct answer to issues in government, and solutions are invariably found in concensus. Without it, each successive change of power simply brings with it a disestablishment of actions that have gone before. The time has come, I suggest, for the center to take power, finding a middle ground where moderates can cast aside extremists on both sides.


Unfortunately, you have the tea baggers insisting that compromise, by which consensus is often reached, is somehow a bad thing. Rather, it's their way or the highway. And they've sold the experienced Republican politicians on this (who really should know better), hook, line, and sinker.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Actually the tea party is right that sometimes compromise is a bad thing, particularly when past experience has shown that the other side won't keep their end of the bargain.


Compromise is the engine of democracy, it's how things get done in a free government. Both you and the tea baggers seem to mistake campaigning for actual governing. That means, stop demonizing the opposition as lairs and evil doers, and actually sit down and get something done for the good of the American people.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I'm talking about honoring their end of the bargin in the compromise, the Democrats are notorious for not following through with what they agreed to in a compromise.



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16 Aug 2011, 7:17 pm

Uh huh.

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