The Vent / Metro

Instead of letting politicians get away with referring to themselves as "public servants", why not label them, far more accurately, as "lobbyist servants" or "self-servants"? Serving the public is pretty far down on the list for most of those guys - and not even on the list for the rest.

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Finally heard how they're splitting up the Hostess company: the State Department will hire all the twinkies, the Secret Service will hire all the ho hos, the generals are sleeping with the cupcakes, and the voters send all the ding dongs to Congress.

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Before the liberals kneejerk about gun control anymore, answer this. Why did the fireman ambush shooter only serve 17 years for beating his grandmother to death with a hammer?

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Harry Reid has a great opinion of his leadership skills and calls John Boehner dictatorial. When did you last pass a budget ?

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Guns are here. You can't just ban them and think they will go away.

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Obama jokes with Babawawa about wanting "men with guns" to protect his daughter in dating. Where is the outrage? Where is Piers Morgan? Imagine if Paul Ryan had said that.

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A 60 year old looking for a younger woman better have money because that is what she is interested in.

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The Congress that is supposed to agree on something about going over the cliff could not agree that it's going to be dark tonight

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Hey State Farm, the first twenty times I saw your TV spot with the dopey blond and the "French model", it was clever, but enough already!

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As a political atheist I am clearly stuck in the middle but I would like to point out that both the left and the right should learn from the lessons we try and teach our children. Treat others as you want to be treated. Share; say please and thank you.

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The news article that posted all the gun owners names will dissuade law abiding people from registering their guns.

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No. It's now the thugs know where they can break in when no one's home to get more guns. How did you think they acquired guns?

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Switzerland has been a neutral country in all of the wars. You are right, it ain't the guns. It's about a mentality of violence and the US is at the top of the list. Great for empire building, really lousy for the people who live in the country.

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Rupert Murdoch is a guest in this country, but you don't seem to mind him chiming in. Frankly I don't listen to or watch either one of them.

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And do the taxpayers fund the eleven guards at Sidwell Friends? Can we post eleven guards at every public school? Can we raise your taxes to fund it?

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The republicans should just give Obama what he wants and sit back and wait for the fall out. Trouble is, the fall out will also come to them as well.

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MERRY CLIFFMAS

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You need to do you research... those 15 million automatic machine guns are only in the hands of the POLICE and MILITARY!

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I guess it's time to put Nostradamus back in the box.

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Our Georgia Republican Congressmen will save us from the fiscal cliff--wait--they're home stuffing themselves with fried pork rinds?

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Overheard: The original reasons for the second amendment are no longer valid, but that does not mean the amendment is no longer valid.

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Oil and gas drillers are dipping their toes in the water in southeast Georgia and the media is totally ignoring the whole thing. i wonder why.

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Switzerland doesn't have a Wild West culture. It's a First World nation, and not fascinated with guns as we are.

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What cloud did you pull those Switzerland figures from? You want us to believe that nearly EVERY adult has a machine gun?

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Why doesn't anyone complain about John Boehner going on vacation when his own party wouldn't pass his bill?

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The original purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to protect the rights of the states from the Federal government. It was used in the Civil War by the Confederacy.

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