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Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:53 pm
by Snowstorm
Can someone decipher this article to me?
Senator McConnell agreed that yesterday’s vote “sent a powerful message,” adding, “If the American people think that just because they voted us into office and pay our salaries, benefits, and pensions, we are somehow obliged to listen to them, they are sorely mistaken.”
Rest of article.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04/courageous-senators-stand-up-to-american-people.html
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:54 pm
by Snowstorm
“We kept hearing, again and again, that ninety per cent of the American people wanted us to vote a certain way,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). “Well, at the end of the day, we decided that we weren’t going to cave in to that kind of special-interest group.”
90% of the American People is a special-interest group?
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:06 pm
by benjamin801
It's a parody article, making fun by exaggerating the fact that lawmakers seem to be defying the will of the majority by not enacting stronger gun control legislation. But the article itself is a joke.
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:08 pm
by Snowstorm
benjamin801 wrote:It's a parody article, making fun by exaggerating the fact that lawmakers seem to be defying the will of the majority by not enacting stronger gun control legislation. But the article itself is a joke.
Ok good. Phew. I couldn't fucking believe it when I was reading it. I was like, this must be wrong. Ok good. Thanks.
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:53 pm
by Micter
The fact that pundits were saying 90% of Americans want gun control is pure propaganda!
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:59 pm
by rear naked
the fuck
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:19 pm
by BroSlinger
Micter wrote:The fact that pundits were saying 90% of Americans want gun control is pure propaganda!
This.
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:43 pm
by Viesczy
Micter wrote:The fact that pundits were saying 90% of Americans want gun control is pure propaganda!
Quoted for truth.
Derek
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:06 pm
by ovid9
Murdoch wrote:Being from the state of Kentucky, I can confirm that Mitch McConnell is also a joke.
Quoted for truth.
I think we should give all of Congress, both the House and Senate, a free, MANDATORY cruise on Carnival Cruise lines. I'm fairly certain there's a 75% chance none of them would come back to bother us again.
Re: Courageous Senators stand up to American People?
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:21 pm
by marshallnoise
Cougar Hunter wrote:Micter wrote:The fact that pundits were saying 90% of Americans want gun control is pure propaganda!
This.
Double this.