Tom Price: The U.S. House needs ‘red state’ leadership
Hours before New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tore into House Speaker John Boehner for pulling the plug on Hurricane Sandy aid, a Georgia congressman was getting his licks in from the GOP right.
U.S. Rep. Tom Price was on WMAL in Washington this morning, a conservative talk-radio station aimed at the D.C. elite, to discuss Tuesday’s House vote on the fiscal cliff.
Price voted against the measure and his speaker – as did every GOP member of the House from Georgia. But Price, who becomes vice-chairman of the House Budget Committee in the next Congress, is undoubtedly the most ambitious member of the Georgia delegation. And Boehner is up for re-election tomorrow.
Listen to Price’s interview in full here:
A truncated transcript follows:
Price: “At the end of the day these kinds of bills are never all good or all bad. My assessment was that it ultimately raised taxes and didn’t decrease any spending. In fact it increased spending.”
WMAL: “You voted against your speaker of the House.”
Price: “The vote is really fascinating. If you look at the votes that were ‘yes’ on the Republican side – there were 85 of them. Seventy of them come from blue states. I really think, and I’ve been talking about this for a couple months now. I think this is a red state-blue state issue.
“When we were talking about previous ‘solutions,’ it really broke down in our conference between Republicans who are from red states and those who are from blue states. It’s a different conversation that we need to have within our own conference as we move forward with the kind of positive solutions that I think are out there.”
WMAL: “Is there a leadership crisis within the Republican caucus?”
Price: “I don’t think so….
“At some point, you have to draw a line in the sand, and we have been unwilling as a conference to do that. I think that’s where we will come out of this debate and out of this process, recognizing that the president has not been an honest broker and has not been willing to put any spending reductions on the table….”
WMAL: “You’re saying this is a red-state, blue-state issue. We’ve got leadership from blue states. You’re from a red state. You’re saying, yes, we do need to draw a line in the sand….There needs to be a change here in the party, doesn’t there?”
Price: “I think you will see a significant change in perspective and a significant change in strategy, and it will come from the maturation of the now-sophomore class, of the 87 new folks who came last year, and the 37 new folks who are coming to the Republican conference right now….”
WMAL: “We’ve heard there are 20 or more Republicans who are willing to block the speaker’s election tomorrow. Have you heard anything about that?”
Price: “I don’t know anything about that.”WMAL: “If something happens, would you be willing to step forward? A lot of people have mentioned your name.”
Price: “This palace intrigue is wonderful for these discussions, but the fact of the matter is, what we need to do is to get down to business and get spending under control in this country…”
WMAL: “You didn’t answer the question….”
Price: “I think we need red-state representation in both our leadership as well as the organizing committees that we have.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
3:17 pm
And?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
3:18 pm
Of course we need Red State leadership unless we want to be a blue state, like Greece.
United States
January 2nd, 2013
3:35 pm
Is Greece going to be the new GOP bogeyman to scare Americans into voting their way or else? Red States LOST the last election. Can we start talking in terms of UNITED States… ALL Americans?
DJ Sniper
January 2nd, 2013
3:45 pm
Good question United States. Nothing like code words to fire up the low information portion of the GOP voter base.
keeping it real
January 2nd, 2013
3:50 pm
As bad as Boehner is, this nut case really scares me.
Chris Carson
January 2nd, 2013
3:51 pm
The GOP may have finally splintered into two regional factions in advance of what has long been promised – a civil war for the soul of the Republican Party. May the North win (again)!
Old South
January 2nd, 2013
3:52 pm
We aren’t the United anything anymore. The only thing keeping the nation remotely together is the unified economy. One size fits all government that can’t even fit all anymore.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
3:53 pm
democrat infested Kalifornia, Illinoise, Michigan’t – America’s living, breathing next best things to……..greece.
Native Georgian
January 2nd, 2013
3:54 pm
United States and DJ Sniper…. AGREED!
I’m sick of these Congress people making everything a partisan issue. They are basically bashing the “blue state republicans” for voting with their constituents instead of with the party.
If all we need is 1 party vote then we don’t need 535 members of Congress to vote 2 separate ways!
Terry Tucker
January 2nd, 2013
3:58 pm
With all due respect to Rep. Tom Price, I would prefer American Leadership instead of Red State Leadership. But, I believe I am asking too much of somebody that puts party before country.
Question
January 2nd, 2013
3:59 pm
This is such a red district and Dr.Price will win easily, but he always goes and collects cash and if you look at this voting it closely matches what his campaign dollars he got..
Political Man
January 2nd, 2013
4:03 pm
Price has absolutely no concept of the common good. People of his ilk are in Congress for only one reason: promote the interests of the rich and business and keep the average man down. Most people of unbiased thought recognize that only government can step into the cracks where business fails or is not interested. Price is not principled but he is an ideologue.
On My Way
January 2nd, 2013
4:03 pm
I’m for budget cutting and spending cuts. I just don’t know what to cut. But I know there’s got to be something to cut. Because I’m for budget cutting and spending cuts.
BPJ
January 2nd, 2013
4:05 pm
Without “blue state Republicans”, the Republican can’t win elections. And the more that “red state Republicans” are in control, some of those blue state Republicans will vote for Democrats. (Look at the Indiana Senate election.) With guys like Price, Cantor, and Ryan in charge, the GOP could go the way of the Whig Party.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
4:08 pm
Keep in mind, these are the same people that ran Joe Lieberman out on a rail.
Tired of Brain Dead comments
January 2nd, 2013
4:11 pm
Aesop: Did you think of Illinoise all by yourself, or did your 7 year old help you?
The Dems will spend us into the poor house with domestic spending and the GOP will spend us into the poor house with “defense” spending. Either way, we are going to the poor house.
R U Kidding Me?
January 2nd, 2013
4:13 pm
The problem in Washington is a total lack of leadership and political courage from BOTH parties. Everyone knows the Georgia Legislature is a joke, packed full of self-serving individuals who constantly place their political party above the people whom they represent. I always thought Congress was better than this, but after spending time in Washington, it’s as bad or worse than the Georgia Legislature. And that is quite an accomplishment!
Boehner is a complete baffoon, being brow-beaten by whackos like Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan. He has lost control of the House and his days are numbered. Mitch McConnell could care lees about the united States as long as he can find a tv camera to whine and complain to. Harry Reid may be the limpest guy to ever be Majority Leader. How can a guy with no balls become Majority Leader of the United States Senate? Where are the statesmen? Where are the men and women with vision? Where are the men and women with the political courage to make the decision that is right for America rather than what is right for their own political survival?
Congress is just like the Georgia Legislature…garbage in equals garbage out. I feel sorry for the small handful of individuals who are trying to do the right thing, but those folks are few and far between.
It is sad what our state and nation has become.
war eagle
January 2nd, 2013
4:15 pm
Still don’t understand why the reps don’t call for the releasing of the obama transcripts and prove he is not eligible to run. Reps should run ads stating that obama has refused to cut spending and instead has asked for a platinum amex card to keep spending and spending. No job growth, no increase in GDP, just keep spending on pork. The democrat way. Why? b/c there are no jobs out there!
Retired Soldier
January 2nd, 2013
4:16 pm
Political Man-
You might want to change your handle, because you aren’t very politically savy. Democrats raise more money from big business than republicans do, it’s a fact. Republicans are the party of small business, main street, those who are self reliant and the party that ( I hope) wants fiscal sanity.
Just because MSNBC, Obama and those of the same ilk like to accuse republicans of being for big business doesn’t make it true. Follow the money and you’ll have your real answer.
Newt is nuts
January 2nd, 2013
4:21 pm
I know Tom Price and I know what motivates him. If he runs for speaker, he will get squashed because a lot of other people know Tom Price and what motivates him.
Retired Soldier
January 2nd, 2013
4:25 pm
Well said war eagle.
RAMZAD
January 2nd, 2013
4:27 pm
The Republicans seek to form a Right Wing cult dictatorship. If you want proof, just look at what happens to a Republican who dares to disagree with the GOP body politic.
Ask Richard Lugar if you have questions.
MIssgrace
January 2nd, 2013
4:27 pm
It amazes me that Price keeps getting reelected but if he wants to start a circular firing squad within the GOP, maybe that’s a good thing. It might clean up the log jam in Congress.
Purple
January 2nd, 2013
4:28 pm
I have lived in the same place for the last 11 years and had the pleasure of voting against Cynthia McKinney until she finally was tossed out. After the last census, I was gerrymandered into Price’s district and had the pleasure of voting against him in the last election. Where are the statemen and women? It is too limiting to be locked into an ideological paradigm and to never, ever compromise on anything. Compromise is imperfect but necessary – like our Constitution.
Purple
January 2nd, 2013
4:28 pm
I have lived in the same place for the last 11 years and had the pleasure of voting against Cynthia McKinney until she finally was tossed out. After the last census, I was gerrymandered into Price’s district and had the pleasure of voting against him in the last election. Where are the statemen and women? It is too limiting to be locked into an ideological paradigm and to never, ever compromise on anything. Compromise is imperfect but necessary – like our Constitution.
GaBlue
January 2nd, 2013
4:31 pm
So basically, Dr. Price flapped his yap and said absolutely nothing — as usual.
Retired Soldier
January 2nd, 2013
4:32 pm
RAM-
Only republicans? Ask Joe L.
early to bed
January 2nd, 2013
4:35 pm
Good luck with that red state leadership in the house in the future- red state leadership? sounds like an oxymoron to me
clem
January 2nd, 2013
4:38 pm
thank the tpers for the lousy deal; repubs could have had better deal in august 2011
clem
January 2nd, 2013
4:45 pm
some light reading for broun:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/01/peking-man-clothing_n_2390026.html
R U Kidding Me?
January 2nd, 2013
4:46 pm
Elected officials who want to do the right thing and banished by their own party if they step out of line with party politics. Compromise has no place in the current political arena. Solid ideas to solve our problems have no place in the current political arena. The only agenda that matters is the political agenda to destroy the other party and to hold the majority.
Here’s a novel idea. Let’s banish ALL political parties. Let’s make all elections non-partisan just like the elections for our judiciary. Elected officials would then be beholden to only one thing … the people who elected them.
curious
January 2nd, 2013
4:48 pm
Republicans raise more money from a relatively few individuals like Adelson, Koch, etc.
Only if you could get 1 vote for each dollar donated.
curious
January 2nd, 2013
4:49 pm
republicans prefer to eat their young.
Shine
January 2nd, 2013
4:51 pm
Kook Price, another nutcase yankee transplant who has snookered Georgians into electing several times. This embarassment needs replacing asap.
Richard
January 2nd, 2013
4:54 pm
I am a Republican but Tom Price will never receive my vote. He and his wife are scumbags.
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
4:54 pm
“democrat infested Kalifornia, Illinoise, Michigan’t – America’s living, breathing next best things to……..greece.”
What a boob. Spelling aside, any fool could have found out that in 2011 the STATE of Michigan had a higher GDP than the COUNTRY of Greece.
Epic failure of analogy and common sense (or is that cents)?
GaBlue
January 2nd, 2013
4:56 pm
“People of his ilk are in Congress for only one reason: promote the interests of the rich and business and keep the average man down.”
Oh, the good doctor has a couple of other reasons. None of them have to do with the well being of this nation, doing what’s right, or representing the good, godly masses he cons by pretending to agree with them, though. But there are definitely reasons that mean a lot to him personally.
Yellowjacket
January 2nd, 2013
4:56 pm
Where was the Prez in all this? Dealing but uncompromising. Aloof to the end and not a leader. At the end Biden worked with McConnel. Where was Sen Reid ? probably trying to find his way out of the mens room – what a non-entity!
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
4:58 pm
RU:
I’ll give you $100 for each reference in the U.S. Constitution to political parties.
Yellowjacket
January 2nd, 2013
4:58 pm
@Richard .. When all logical argument fails, resort to personal insult….
Atlbirdawg
January 2nd, 2013
5:00 pm
“Red State Leadership?” Really? What we have now is too much extremist influence I can’t call it leadership with a straight face. What Price is calling for would only ensure more partisian politics and gridlock. What we need is SWING STATE LEADERSHIP!! Politicians who have to be moderate and can’t be outflanked by the extremists in their own party. Tom Price is an idiot.
R U Kidding Me?
January 2nd, 2013
5:01 pm
Real Athens:
Never said a thing about them being referenced in the US Constitution. So I asume you agree making all elections non-partisan is a good idea?
burntgrassroot
January 2nd, 2013
5:03 pm
I recall Aesop’s fables as stories of resourcefulness, ingenuity, and consequences. And Americans may be better served by a return to empirical methods of arithmetic and generally accepted accounting practices (excluding zero-based accounting) than economic theories, liberal or conservative. As far as Dr. Price’s advocacy of ‘red-state’ leadership, it seems disingenuous since he’s originally from Michigan(’t?), can’t answer a direct question about his ambition for the Speakership, and this type of leadership appears to be more divisive than effective. Also, some items on a wikipedia entry about Dr. Price gave me pause. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Price_(U.S._politician)
early to bed
January 2nd, 2013
5:05 pm
Aesop’s Fables and other Lib Economic Theories And you and Price think that more red state leadership is in the future for the repuke party? It would seem to me that you are not paying attention to the winds of change in your own party- if anything there will be less red state leadership in the near term- the world has seen how well your plan works to blow everything up
DJ Sniper
January 2nd, 2013
5:05 pm
War Eagle, what the hell are you talking about? Are you still clinging to the birther bandwagon? Obama’s transcripts don’t have a damn thing to do with whether or not he was eligible to run for president.
It’s a shame that some people are still holding onto that cracked out conspiracy theory.
MB
January 2nd, 2013
5:05 pm
It totally amazes me that we have men and women in Washington that don’t understand basic economics and offer not effective leadership. We are faced with an economic crisis and it is a crisis that was not created due to a lack of revenue but excess spending.
As a true conservative, I am totally willing to allow the President and the rest of the democrats to raise taxes as much as they like provided that for every dollar they increase in taxes there is also 2 dollars in spending cuts in that given year. That is an option that the democrats will never select because they are not the least bit interested in spending cuts and balancing the budget!
Kirs
January 2nd, 2013
5:06 pm
keeping it real “As bad as Boehner is, this nut case really scares me.”
Very true, and yet another GOP slime bag slithers out….God Help US. Too bad price missed the clown car when it went off the cliff….too bad.
Lars
January 2nd, 2013
5:06 pm
Oh please, go ahead and run. Make my day.
early to bed
January 2nd, 2013
5:12 pm
War Eagle A mind is a terrible thing to waste
R U Kidding Me?
January 2nd, 2013
5:12 pm
MB:
“That is an option that the democrats will never select because they are not the least bit interested in spending cuts and balancing the budget!”
Why don’t you look back and see who was the last President to balance the budget and actually pay down the national debt. I will save you the time. Democrat Bill Clinton.
WOW
January 2nd, 2013
5:14 pm
@ Retired Soldier:
You must have missed those campaign disclosure forms from the Presidential Election. Just for fun look at the total number of donors, then look at small donors (you can pick what you call small under $500 or so) for Obama and Romney vs the number of maxed donors. Then tell us again who is the party of big business?
Rick in Grayson
January 2nd, 2013
5:15 pm
STOP THE SPENDING! We can’t pay our bills and haven’t for two decades.
Obama is still adding additional spending and we can’t pay for it. When are we going to start paying back our debts?
Oh…that would be the job/burden we have placed on our children who won’t be able to get jobs in the new global economy.
early to bed
January 2nd, 2013
5:15 pm
MB so the free ride for the past 12 years with the bush tax cuts did not cost us? Did not add hugely to the deficit when putting 2 wars in the credit card? Of course we have had a revenue problem with 2 wars and those tax cuts.
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
5:17 pm
RU:
Absofreakinglutely. We have non-partisan, local elections in Athens. They were called for by and ushered in by the relatively silent, GOP.
It didn’t improve their chances of getting elected.
As a result, the GOP leadership passed GA House Bill 158 which takes all non-partisan races off the General Election ballot (held on the first Tuesday in November) in consolidated local governments and places them on the General Primary Ballot in July.
Can anyone say “vote suppression”?
WIth “Citizens United” though non partisan elections run the risk of elections becoming “blindfolded public relations contests where the person with the best smile, and probably the most money, wins”.
Peter
January 2nd, 2013
5:19 pm
It’s a shame that some people are still holding onto that cracked out conspiracy theory.
YUP and how many Republican’s still beleive the Cheney Lie… Bin Laden and Saddam were working together…..?
honested
January 2nd, 2013
5:23 pm
MB,
‘inadequate revenue was not the problem’….
REALLY?
For a dozen years and adding in two unfunded wars and the costs of building the biggest domestic security apparatus since the Soviet Union?
No part of this equation stands alone. We not only need more revenue now, we need adequate total revenue to make up for the LOST DOZEN YEARS.
And then we need to cut military spending, massively!!
I’m sure Congress can count on your vote for that!
SB in ATL
January 2nd, 2013
5:31 pm
Tom Price is just another crook who imagines himself as ‘Emperor’. He is also protected by the gerrymandered districts that our ‘wonderful’ state legislature has built. I wouldn’t trust or vote for him for dog catcher. He makes me sick! We don’t need more of him…we need less.
I am highly in favor of term limits and get all the buffoons in Congress out! Any takers?
Kirs
January 2nd, 2013
5:36 pm
SB…”I am highly in favor of term limits and get all the buffoons in Congress out! Any takers?”
I’m in….
term limits and add RECALLS.
Pizzaman
January 2nd, 2013
5:37 pm
We need strict enforcement of the Constitution, especially Article 1, Section 2, Para 2 which states “……and, who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen”.
This means Price should be representing another State. Pretty smart, the Founders. The Senate, members appointed by the Governor till the 17th amendment, worried about the State. The House, not serving the State from which he shall be chosen, worried about the Country. Why aren’t we doing it that way?
Road Scholar
January 2nd, 2013
5:39 pm
Maybe we should give Price and his red state cohorts their wish….cut all entitlements in red states? Esp since the red states have the higher dependency on welfare!
honested
January 2nd, 2013
5:49 pm
tom price is not a man to be held back by reality!
Step forward and run for speaker…….it will be just like t-ball.
clem
January 2nd, 2013
5:51 pm
oh fine job john bolton, hannity, ingraham, west, gimp, etc on clinton feigned illness.
MiltonMan
January 2nd, 2013
5:54 pm
Give them hell Dr. Price!
MiltonMan
January 2nd, 2013
5:55 pm
“Maybe we should give Price and his red state cohorts their wish….cut all entitlements in red states? Esp since the red states have the higher dependency on welfare!”
That dependency comes from the scumbag liberals in the red states. Guess who gets the most aid in Georgia – none other than liberal hell holes like DeKalb, Clayton, South Fulton.
Tap Out
January 2nd, 2013
5:56 pm
If we can vote out the Ga. Gop in the next cycle, there’s a chance it will take the state less than a decade to recover from their rule.
td
January 2nd, 2013
6:00 pm
Tap Out
January 2nd, 2013
5:56 pm
Dream on my friend.
td
January 2nd, 2013
6:02 pm
Tap Out
January 2nd, 2013
5:56 pm
If this nation does not wake up in two years and throw out a great deal more progressives in Congress then the nation may be lost forever.
yuzeyurbrane
January 2nd, 2013
6:02 pm
I for one think Price should put his money where his mouth is. If he dislikes the present Speaker’s performance and thinks he can do better, he should run for the job. He won’t. Price is like the kid who was always talking about others behind their backs to manipulate others to do his dirty work.
honested
January 2nd, 2013
6:10 pm
Think Fast, since price has been there for a few cycles and feels he should somehow be qualified as
‘leadership material’, somebody enlighten me to ANY TWO of his grand legislative accomplishments?
I’ve got time.
midtownguy
January 2nd, 2013
6:14 pm
If they elect Red State Leadership the GOP will go down just like ‘Ole DIxie. We live in an Urban-Blue Country. Not enough rural conservatives to control anything.
nathan's political arsonist
January 2nd, 2013
6:14 pm
price is one of the team of ga gop embarassments, a more intelligent gene pool will do wonders for this state
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
6:15 pm
What a boob. Spelling aside, any fool could have found out that in 2011 the STATE of Michigan had a higher GDP than the COUNTRY of Greece.
Wow, a higher GPD than Greece and it only took a federal bailout to make it happen.
Aren’t we impressed?
nathan's political arsonist
January 2nd, 2013
6:16 pm
milton man and td are the same person
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
6:17 pm
@honested-”Think Fast, since price has been there for a few cycles and feels he should somehow be qualified as
‘leadership material’, somebody enlighten me to ANY TWO of his grand legislative accomplishments?
I’ve got time.”
lol..so funny, please enlighten us to obozo bin biden’s grand legislative accomplisments or any political experience he had to run for president? And it shows!
Bobby
January 2nd, 2013
6:20 pm
Red States with politicians such as Price have no “leadership” qualities. Price and the entire Georgia GOP gang is just that – a “thug” gang with no interest in governing. They have their own political agenda based on their ability to stay in office and mooch off of tax payers. And isn’t it interesting the red states mooch more than the blue states off of citizens.
Roswell Resident
January 2nd, 2013
6:22 pm
Honested – You’re exactly right. Price doesn’t have any legislative accomplishments. He’s not a leader, he’s a follower. He would be a terrible speaker. What efforts did he make to prevent the fiscal cliff? None. He voted against the compromise bill. He represents a super-conservative district, always votes the party line, and does nothing to govern or lead. Nice work if you can get it. I won’t vote for him again.
Hootie
January 2nd, 2013
6:22 pm
Anyone thinking Price or anyone else besides the current Speak will be SOTH probably thought Romney was going to win last month.
packing
January 2nd, 2013
6:22 pm
start packing all republicans must go
Bobby
January 2nd, 2013
6:23 pm
The GOP has done as much damage to this country economically as the terrorists who flew the planes into the Twin Towers and Pentagon. There is no difference between Price and any other terrorist extremist.
bookman parrot
January 2nd, 2013
6:23 pm
to United States
January 2nd, 2013
3:35 pm
It would be great to be “united”, but the demonstrated ideology and actions that most libs and their Dem pawns in political power, especially the great one in the white house, espouse show zero concern for anyone that does not bow to that “flavor”. I.e. 52% are holding 48% hostage and that 52% does not give a damn about the 48% and the 52% is not one bit interested in compromise, tolerance, etc…
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
6:25 pm
@Bobby – “thug gang”
Great description of the Democrats also. They just “blackmailed” and pushed thru a worthless piece of legislation by telling the weak sisters in Congress that if they don’t vote yay, they would pay for it politically. So who are the real thugs here?
DJ Sniper
January 2nd, 2013
6:26 pm
Nice attempt to spin that fact MiltonMan.
bookman parrot
January 2nd, 2013
6:28 pm
to Bobby at 6:23pm; you seem to forget that the Dems have had great power in Congress for along time now … i think i would fall over from shock if a dem/lib ever took responsibility for anything… and that liberal theology of “gimme gimme gimme” entitlement has led huge deficit and to the housing bubble and that the housing bubble contributed greatly to the recession
but but but … it is all Bush’s fault… got that outta the way for ya
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
6:28 pm
@Bobby – “The GOP has done as much damage to this country economically as the terrorists who flew the planes into the Twin Towers and Pentagon. There is no difference between Price and any other terrorist extremist.”
Again another great decription of the Democrats and obozo bin biden. I suppose the so called “fiscal cliff” was Bush’s fault. lol
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
6:30 pm
@Bobby – get informed and stop towing the liberal line. You need meds quickly.
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
6:33 pm
@bookman parrot – Well said
early to bed
January 2nd, 2013
6:51 pm
MiltonMan were you born racist or simply evolve?
Political Man
January 2nd, 2013
6:55 pm
The idea that Republicans are the party of the little guy and small business is ludicrous. Of course, if one wants to define the little guy as those making $1M a year, then they most assuredly are. On issue after issue, Republicans favor policies where the little guy takes it on the chin. Of course, their policies are usually described as maximizing freedom, but on close examination it is always the freedom of the rich and business that wins out at costs to the rest of us.
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
7:05 pm
@Political Man – Blah blah blah. I’m sure ALL millionaires are Republican’s because not one Democrat could ever make a million dollars a year. Or are you saying all Democrats are part of the 47% entitlement crowd, welfare, foodstamps, assisted living, free cell phones,etc?
GOP Doctor Demagogue
January 2nd, 2013
7:11 pm
What we need is a cracked goober plutocracy.
We sure got enough representation from crazy land ‘leaders’ in the Georgia delegation. Maybe with South Carolina’s delegates, these red statesmen can learn how hard it it to actually accomplish some of governments goals when most of your minions are just operating on greed and bad information. They think everyone is everyone is on welfare but them.
Maybe Tom and Lindsey can muster up enough courage to come out, too. They aren’t hiding it very well…
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
7:14 pm
“Wow, a higher GPD than Greece and it only took a federal bailout to make it happen.”
I’m sorry, if you truly believe your hyperbole, you are a fool.
Talk is cheap. You need to get out more.
hiram
January 2nd, 2013
7:17 pm
td/cc/voter = “The Three Faces of Eve”? Multiple personality disorder, or schizophrenia?
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
7:19 pm
@hiram – Sticks and Stones. Where are your facts? You actually think this bill is a good thing?
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
7:23 pm
@hiram – are an even better question? You think this administration or Congress has done anything good in the past 4 years?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
7:50 pm
Yeah, that whole auto bailout thingee never happened, did it, RA?
innerjuju
January 2nd, 2013
7:58 pm
“Red State leadership”? Are you kidding? If this didn’t teach these guys that what we need is the ability to show leadership through bipartisan compromise, what does? No party has the monopoly on being correct nor should either side hold the country hostage for 100% of what they want. Compromise leads to the best for the majority of Americans. Where did that concept get lost?
hiram
January 2nd, 2013
7:58 pm
td/cc/voter,
“You’re travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination – Next stop, the Twilight Zone!”
You need help.
td
January 2nd, 2013
8:04 pm
hiram
January 2nd, 2013
7:58 pm
You just can not believe that there are at least 3 good conservatives on this blog. It is driving you crazy that your Obama loving opinions can not be the only voice on the blog.
Serious Robuck
January 2nd, 2013
8:20 pm
So, when Sonny Perdue became Governor, Georgia ranked 25th among the states in per capita income. Not bad for a confederate backwater that had prospered under Carter/Busbee/Miller/Barnes leadership. (Remember, winguts, Miller drank the right wing koolaid only after he got to Washington and came under the spell of Phil Gramm.)
Now, after 10 years of Republican rule, Georgia is 39th among the states in per capita income. What a great performance, huh? Google it, you Fox Fans. And Dr. Prissy Price wants Southern Republicans to be in leadership positions…just imagine that.
Kris
January 2nd, 2013
8:28 pm
@ Seriious…..10yrs from 25 to 39th…hummm…probably will be 49th when deal and sax leave in 2014.
Good Job President OBAMA
Rabbit
January 2nd, 2013
8:48 pm
It is with regret that I am compelled to speak intemperately about the GA House delegation and Price in particular. To a middle-aged white man, every one of these cruel hearted sycophants choose to follow the most senseless anti American political path imaginable. With unapologetic jingoism they have whipped their sadly manipulated base into a state of constant fear such that gun brokers have broken one day sales records over the last two months over a half dozen times.
The President and the sensible Representatives know our country can go forward if leaders will come together. The small mr. price just wants to divide the country. I just wish my fellow Georgians could see.
Village Idiot
January 2nd, 2013
8:57 pm
“You’re saying this is a red-state, blue-state issue.”
This story is exactly what is wrong with our federal government right now. The federal government is supposed to deal UNITED STATES issues! It is very sad that Republicans blame the president for creating the antagonism that permeates both chambers of Congress. It is also very sad that many people in the GOP, including their candidate for president, claimed that a large portion of the electorate view themselves as victims of society. This is what is known in psychology as projecting. The Republicans are simply putting their own emotions onto the general public. They believe that since they hate the Democrats, Democrats must also hate them. Since they despise the elderly and the lower classes, the elderly and the lower classes must also despise them. It is very childish and immature to view the world in such stark terms, but nobody ever claimed that you had to be a mature person to run for Congress. If you couple that with the fact that many of these people ran unopposed on the ballot, you can see where many problems in our legislative bodies originate. Please put aside your blatant hatred of those whom you were elected to represent and do your job!
Serious Robuck
January 2nd, 2013
8:58 pm
Well said, Rabbit. Dr. Prissy Price’s divisive comments should get him defeated in a well educated district, but they won’t, unfortunately.
td
January 2nd, 2013
9:02 pm
Rabbit
January 2nd, 2013
8:48 pm
You, my friend, are delusional. Tom Price and the Tea party want to make sure we do not go bankrupt and you call it wrong and instead you support more spending, higher taxes and more borrowing to the point that we will not leave our children and grandchildren better off then we are.
Now explain to us how this is suppose to be better for American then living within oue means?
hiram
January 2nd, 2013
9:05 pm
@ serious
In a state, where every business with a waiting area, has wide eyed, bulging veined, red faced, simpletons sitting on the edge of their seats, watching the big screen tv, tuned to fox-made-up news, with the volume so loud, it’s vibrating the windows, why do you waste your time citing actual facts? They’ve been hypnotized by Rupert, Rush, and Glenn, et al., and if given the command, they will crawl on all fours and bark like dogs. You are wasting time that could be spent on something productive.
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
9:13 pm
@hiram – take your meds, drink some water and swallow. It’s time for adults to talk.
Serious Robuck
January 2nd, 2013
9:18 pm
Hiram, I hope you’re not really in or from Hiram. I’m out there a lot for work, sorry to say. Your perfectly drafted description of those waiting in every business there could not be more accurate. “Hideously stupid” is my description of that crowd.
Serious Robuck
January 2nd, 2013
9:23 pm
Hiram, in re-reading your post, I’m sure you meant the entire State of Georgia, and not just pathetic little ignorant Hiram, Georgia. I reiterate my point in your larger, more appropriate and accurate context.
td
January 2nd, 2013
9:29 pm
Serious Robuck
January 2nd, 2013
9:23 pm
I live in this same area and there are mostly good God fearing conservatives that live here that pay their taxes and commit few crimes. I call these good citizens. I am sure you can say the same about your downtown neighbors.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
9:35 pm
I’ve been to 5 Points and other such places and I can safely say that mindless immorality is not a sign of intelligence. I can understand if decency frightens you, especially the way they look at your purple mohawk. And they are not at all impressed with your new boyfriend, mister! So why don’t you just stay up in happy land where you can hate those who don’t clutch their pillow and cry out for government help like you do?
Rabbit
January 2nd, 2013
9:35 pm
(first, I’ll ignore the insult)
“…explain to us how this is suppose to be better for American then (sic) living within our means?”
We are not a parliamentary government. We should not have an opposition party.
In a system built around an administration and a bicameral Congress, everybody is part of the government — and the government only functions if there exists a certain baseline spirit of cooperation between the mutually indispensable parts.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
9:38 pm
Ooops-
I’ve been to 5 Points and other such places and I can safely say that mindless immorality is not a sign of intelligence, serious. I can understand if decency frightens you, especially the way they look at your purple mohawk. And they are not at all impressed with your new boyfriend, mister! So why don’t you just stay up in happy land where you can hate those who don’t clutch their pillow and cry out for government help like you do?
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
9:41 pm
“Yeah, that whole auto bailout thingee never happened, did it, RA?”
The Michigan economy is solely auto manufacturing. Again, you’re just not that deft are you? Education is your friend.
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
9:44 pm
“mindless immorality” is projecting a stereotype on everything that is not exactly like you.
What did you call yourself on this blog 2 months ago?
Voter
January 2nd, 2013
9:49 pm
For our liberal Democrats who love obozo bin biden, riddle me this: this bill recently passed, how does $12.1 Billion in tax credits to the Wind-Energy Industry help us? That’s $12.1 billion in cost to the tax payers. More $ to the debt with no return.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
9:51 pm
Just how important is the auto industry? Each year, auto manufacturing generates $500 billion in paychecks and $70 billion in tax revenues. It’s an industry whose future is getting brighter once again. Since 2010, Michigan has added more than 23,000 automotive manufacturing jobs, an increase of 20 percent, and the auto industry will produce two times the number of cars it did three years ago. – Governor Rick Snyder
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
9:53 pm
I wasn’t on this blog two years ago.
And what is “Hideously stupid” if not a stereotype?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
9:55 pm
Pardon me, two “months” ago.
I was not on this blog then.
ACG
January 2nd, 2013
9:55 pm
Tom Price is just another extremist ideologue. He doesn’t strike me as being strong enough to be a leader. Watch him during press conferences. His shifty eyes mean he has something to hide.
td
January 2nd, 2013
10:00 pm
Rabbit
January 2nd, 2013
9:35 pm
Our founders were very concerned about tyranny and therefore made it very difficult for any one branch or even one house to get anything accomplished in a short period of time. The intentionally deluded power of each branch in the Constitution. They intentionally made it where one party could not dictate. There is a process that the Congress has set out to deal with money and it has not been followed. The executive nor the Senate is allowed to deal with money the house has passed a budget and all the appropriation bills that the Senate refuses to take up. This is the real problem.
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
10:00 pm
I said two months ago, Mr. Smith.
Hideously stupid? Must be self projection. I didn’t write that.
Rabbit
January 2nd, 2013
10:02 pm
Economic calamity is less dangerous to the republic than a government that cannot function.
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
10:03 pm
“The executive nor the Senate is allowed to deal with money the house has passed a budget and all the appropriation bills that the Senate refuses to take up. This is the real problem.”
The problem should be self evident. It is to the rest of us here.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
10:05 pm
I was projecting a stereotype upon a stereotype and you inserted yourself in the center of it. Do you only read my comments, girlfriend? You don’t lust after me, do you?
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
10:10 pm
“Do you only read my comments, girlfriend? You don’t lust after me, do you?”
Sexist, baseless, hyperbole.
Class.You can’t buy it.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 2nd, 2013
10:12 pm
See, I got you all excited.
hiram
January 2nd, 2013
10:15 pm
@ serious
Not from Hiram, the place. For Brig. Gen. Hiram Bronson Granbury,(Granbury’s Texas Brigade), Cleburne’s Division, Hardee’s Corps, Army of Tennessee – one of four dead Confederate Generals, including Maj. Gen. Pat Cleburne, laid on the back porch of the Carnton Plantation House, after the Battle of Franklin, Tn. Having knowledge of Southern history makes Georgia’s current state of affairs even more depressing. The state is no stranger to scandal and corruption, but it hasn’t been this openly corrupt since the Yazoo Land Fraud. The current politicians are lucky that it’s not 1795, when the corrupt politicians involved in that scandal had to literally flee for their lives. I’m convinced that we have the most ignorant population since the state has been in existence.
Serious Robuck
January 2nd, 2013
10:17 pm
As a practicing attorney at age 62, raised on a dirt road in South Georgia, educated at the University of Georgia, I assure you that I do not have a purple mohawk, nor do I live in downtown Atlanta. I am, however, often in the outer suburbs of Atlanta. I do a lot of work there. I have many friends there who are admirable professionals and wonderful people. That being said, I wouldn’t want to spend the night there, and I certainly wouldn’t want my sons to raise my grandchildren there. You can have it, td, with all your God-fearing, gun-toting buddies. And you can shove it.
td
January 2nd, 2013
10:30 pm
It is unbelievable at what I am seeing on these blogs. The progressives won the election and yet it is the same progressives that are angry.
hiram
January 2nd, 2013
10:30 pm
@ serious
UGA here also. If I were you, I wouldn’t invest any emotion in arguing with td. He has never had this much attention in his life – he’s addicted – here 20 hours a day spouting unqualified radical right wing nonsense, he either reads on fringe sites, or hears in the right wing screaming media. He’s never had an original, or rational thought about anything in his life.
Real Athens
January 2nd, 2013
10:36 pm
“See, I got you all excited.”
Isn’t that the only reason you’re here?
You really should engage your neighbors across the fence or in your front yard. Talk to random people on the street. Gather around the water cooler at work and engage in an open forum of ideas and opinions. Leave the county once in awhile.
I understand it’s hard for you, but you’ll be a better person for it and the world will be a better place.
123
January 2nd, 2013
10:52 pm
What do you expect from td?
He is a dolt who had to pay a date service to find him a mail order bride
Says a lot about his social skills or lack of them.
td
January 2nd, 2013
11:09 pm
123
January 2nd, 2013
10:52 pm
Up to your same old tricks Auntie Christ or should I say Satan.
123
January 2nd, 2013
11:15 pm
td
Its true. Why lie?
Kris
January 2nd, 2013
11:29 pm
Kinda looks like this is no longer a political forum as the Name implies….
About Political Insider
From the ATL to DC with Jim Galloway: Because all politics is local.
But has become a personal attack forum….
td
January 2nd, 2013
11:32 pm
Kris
January 2nd, 2013
11:29 pm
Well the world must be ending because I actually agree with you.
Kris
January 2nd, 2013
11:35 pm
td…..thanks…….now if the donkeys and elephants can learn to play together!
Kris
January 2nd, 2013
11:44 pm
And speaking of house jokes…..
Pulling no punches, Christie declared: “Last night, the House majority failed most basic test of leadership and they did so with callous disregard to the people of my state. … It was disappointing and disgusting to watch.” He also unapologetically named names: “There’s only one group to blame … the House majority, and their Speaker, John Boehner.” He added that the relief bill “just could not overcome the toxic internal politics of the House majority.”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/opinion/avlon-christie-sandy-aid/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
yuzeyurbrane
January 2nd, 2013
11:47 pm
I disagree with those who think td, cc and voter are the same poster. The key evidence is spelling—td spells like he went to a govt. school.
Shine
January 2nd, 2013
11:55 pm
Gov Christie, Rep King, and other republicans think the House needs less nuts like Rep Price.
td
January 3rd, 2013
12:00 am
Shine
January 2nd, 2013
11:55 pm
Gov Christie, Rep King, and other republicans think the House needs less nuts like Rep Price.
That is because those establishment Republicans know the Tea party wing is just about ready to take over the leadership of the party.
Kris
January 3rd, 2013
12:06 am
Prime example is why we need term limits, fat jawed politicians like this..
http://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell–fiscal-cliff-deal-not-great–but-it-shields-americans-from-tax-hike-010532341.html
Doug
January 3rd, 2013
12:07 am
Let’s just pray someone like Tom Price replaces Boehner. This will certainly assure Democratic takeover of the House in ‘14.
td
January 3rd, 2013
12:11 am
Doug
January 3rd, 2013
12:07 am
Let’s just pray someone like Tom Price replaces Boehner. This will certainly assure Democratic takeover of the House in ‘14.
The great statistics man of the left Nate Silver wrote an article and said there is less then a 5% chance that Dems will control the house for the next 10 years.
Kris
January 3rd, 2013
12:15 am
Doug……Agreeed Bonehead “boehner” needs to GO~
123
January 3rd, 2013
12:25 am
td
Forget Nate. What is your man Rove saying?
jeepers
January 3rd, 2013
12:26 am
td tea party on its way out the door my friend- their zenith is long past
Serious Robuck
January 3rd, 2013
12:27 am
td, Nate Silver is a VERY smart guy. You…are not.
United States
January 3rd, 2013
12:38 am
We’ll face default issue again soon. Some have already called for letting it happen. Question to ask ourselves…let it default, or compromise? Because it’s clear NO ONE is going to get 100% of what they want, if everybody is elected based on a no-compromise platform.
United States
January 3rd, 2013
12:50 am
I respect the Tea Party’s right to their opinion…For anyone thinking Tea Party will be quiet… I just read Reuters article… excerpt:
“Previous battles in Congress have been marked by Tea Party activists around the country bombarding their elected representatives, mostly Republicans, calling on them to hold the conservative line.
Many did not bother ahead of the fiscal cliff deal, a bipartisan agreement to raise tax rates on incomes of more than $450,000 per household.
“We knew the Republican leadership would cave in,” said Debbie Dooley, a coordinator at national umbrella group Tea Party Patriots and a founder of the Atlanta Tea Party. “So we didn’t expend a lot of energy on this issue.”
Instead, Dooley said activists in her home state of Georgia are focused on educating voters about America’s spiraling debt and seeking a replacement for Saxby Chambliss, who was forced into a runoff election in 2008 and only narrowly managed to return to the Senate.
No one has announced a challenge to Chambliss, but Georgia representatives Tom Price and Paul Broun are seen as potential candidates. Chambliss could not be reached for comment.
“If a credible candidate comes forward, then Saxby Chambliss is in major trouble,” Dooley said.
United States
January 3rd, 2013
1:17 am
Negotiate. Compromise. Either solve the problem or be the problem.
Jim Philips
January 3rd, 2013
6:05 am
All it would take to lower congressional approval rates to single digits would be to put someone like Price in a leadership position.
Travis McGee
January 3rd, 2013
7:07 am
The problem with the Republican Party is they keep running idiots and their elected candidates keep making stupid statements. Their total focus is power and pandering to their wealthy benefactors — and to hell with the country!
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 3rd, 2013
7:43 am
Their total focus is power and pandering to their wealthy benefactors
Uh huh -
The “fiscal cliff” legislation passed this week included $76 billion in special-interest tax credits for the likes of General Electric, Hollywood and even Captain Morgan. But these subsidies weren’t the fruit of eleventh-hour lobbying conducted on the cliff’s edge — they were crafted back in August in a Senate committee, and they sat dormant until the White House reportedly insisted on them this week.
honested
January 3rd, 2013
8:18 am
Do price’s absurd delusions of grandeur suggest detachment from reality or fear that the teaclowns will run ’someone to his right’ in the next primary?
Just how much more detached from reality than price would a candidate have to be in order to find a position ‘to his right’?
Real Athens
January 3rd, 2013
9:01 am
Aesop:
Post Carney’s whole column instead of cherry picking the lede.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-how-corporate-tax-credits-got-in-the-cliff-deal/article/2517397#.UOWNSqXA5UQ
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 3rd, 2013
9:05 am
Yeah, you’re right RA, I missed this -
A Republican Senate aide familiar with the cliff negotiations tells me the White House wanted permanent extensions of a whole slew of corporate tax credits. When Senate Republicans said no, “the White House insisted that the exact language” of the Baucus bill be included in the fiscal cliff deal. “They were absolutely insistent,” another aide tells me.
Thanks.
Real Athens
January 3rd, 2013
9:07 am
“Red State Leadership”? What exactly does that mean?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/10/25/blue_state_red_face_guess_who_benefits_more_from_your_taxes.html
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/26/blog-posting/red-state-socialism-graphic-says-gop-leaning-state/
Real Athens
January 3rd, 2013
9:10 am
But you forgot:
“Former Sens. John Breaux, D-La., and Trent Lott, R-Miss., a pair of rainmaker lobbyists, pleaded for extensions on behalf of a powerful lineup of clients.” and the rest of the story.
Where do Lott and Breaux hail from? The reddest of states.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 3rd, 2013
9:18 am
Oh, I get it. You base your entire campaign on the demonization of business and evil corporate greed, demeaning them for stealing from the middle class and poor, but when it comes time to raise their taxes, like you promised, you cut them a giant tax break and hide behind the Republicans. Yep, typical democrat.
Who had the last crack at yes or no, ra?
Real Athens
January 3rd, 2013
9:56 am
UGA1999, Aesop, whomever. Campaign? What campaign? Personally have never voted a straight party ticket. You’re projecting. You’re the echo chamber.
Last crack at yes? There is no line-item veto. That was scuttled by the Scalia Supreme Court after Clinton used it like, 100 times or so. Passage of the bill could have been blocked by the House or the Senate.
From your post, you’re for the maximization of corporate and shareholder profits at the expense of the middle class, poor and workers? What are you bitching about?
Back to the blog topic: Please, what is this “red state leadership” as ballyhooed by Priceless? Is it leadership by example?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/10/25/blue_state_red_face_guess_who_benefits_more_from_your_taxes.html
Or as another blogger wrote earlier: “… when Sonny Perdue became Governor, Georgia ranked 25th among the states in per capita income. … Now, after 10 years of Republican rule, Georgia is 39th among the states in per capita income. What a great performance, huh? Google it …”
And where are Lott and Breaux from again?
What do “red states” stand for?
joe
January 3rd, 2013
9:57 am
Amen Tom…anyone who voted for this stupid tax increase that only cuts $1 for every $41 raised in taxes needs to be voted out no matter their party.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 3rd, 2013
10:02 am
From your post, you’re for the maximization of corporate and shareholder profits at the expense of the middle class, poor and workers? What are you bitching about?
Republicans said no, obozo insisted. Fact.
Shrieks emanating from within your hollowed out, alice in wonderland world of propaganda somehow make everything okay?
Mr. Romney lost the women’s vote, the black vote, the Latino vote, and the stupid student-aged vote. I say stupid student-age vote because these lunkheads are going to be paying for my Social Security and other entitlements for years to come. They will most likely never know the prosperity of today’s middle class.
You are a total sap and sucker. Enjoy it.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
January 3rd, 2013
10:04 am
Let’s try this one more time -
From your post, you’re for the maximization of corporate and shareholder profits at the expense of the middle class, poor and workers? What are you bitching about?
Republicans said no, obozo insisted. Fact.
Shrieks emanating from within your hollowed out, alice in wonderland world of propaganda somehow make everything okay?
Mr. Romney lost the women’s vote, the black vote, the Latino vote, and the stupid student-aged vote. I say stupid student-age vote because these lunkheads are going to be paying for my Social Security and other entitlements for years to come. They will most likely never know the prosperity of today’s middle class.
You are a total sap and sucker. Enjoy it.
Rabbit
January 3rd, 2013
10:11 am
“That is because those establishment Republicans know the Tea party wing is just about ready to take over the leadership of the party.”
..and they know such an event would cast the Formerly grand OP into political obscurity (and cast Ga into a group of politically irrelevant states on the national scene.
Voter
January 3rd, 2013
10:13 am
Well said Joe.
Voter
January 3rd, 2013
10:16 am
New jobless claims on the rise.
How can this be? The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 was passed in Feb. ‘12
Real Athens
January 3rd, 2013
10:25 am
So you’re Emmett Tyrell Jr.?
https://www.creators.com/conservative/r-emmett-tyrrell.html
Still angry, about the election? Sap? Sucker? Using your diminished vocabulary and suspect reasoning that would make you a “loser”, right?
What is this “red state leadership” Tom Priceless is talking about? I’ll refer you back to my post at 9:56.
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10:45 am
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Frankie
January 3rd, 2013
12:33 pm
Ahem …. Greece is not a state. Blue states tend to be the donor states to the country and Red states tand to be the takers. So in the GOP world the takers are the losers.
Frankie
January 3rd, 2013
12:37 pm
POTUS cut taxes for 98% of the American people. Why are the GOP so pissed off — I thought they loved tax cuts. Now the GOP are saying that the tax cuts that POTUS supported are going to increase the deficit, but whhen they were Bush tax cuts they didnt increase the deficit??? I’m confused
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