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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:20 PM
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Krugman - Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo.
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Which brings me to the special election in NY-26. (OK, it only includes some of the Buffalo suburbs, but still.)

The obvious point is that Republicans, having run in 2010 largely by scaring seniors with tales of death panels, are now horsed on their own pet aardvark, or something.

The difference is that whereas Democrats were not, in fact, trying to impose death panels, Republicans really do want to dismantle Medicare – and that’s the truth no matter how many times Very Serious People reach for their smelling salts when Democrats say that. And you would think that would make Medicare an even more potent weapon for the Dems than it was for the Rs (unless they go out of their way to ignore what the electorate is really concerned about.)

It’s now starting to look like a real possibility that we will have had three electoral waves in a row – a Democratic sweep in 2006-2008, a Republican countersweep in 2010, and a countercountersweep in 2012 as voters realize that the GOP is the same as it always was, only more so.


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lapislzi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:21 PM
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1. That's my favorite sentence in the world.
Took me 2 hours to explain it to someone once, with diagrams, and arrows.
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:47 PM
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3. It's not quite grammatical. though, because you would need a past participle in there
Edited on Wed May-25-11 07:47 PM by tblue37
somewhere, or a relative clause:

Buffaloed Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

OR

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, who then buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
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Eagle Mall Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:25 PM
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2. mmmmmmm Countercountersweep
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 04:53 AM
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4. The Republicans believed their own
propaganda. They keeping saying, "The American people have spoken. They sent us here to stop the spending and cut the size of government."
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