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Beyond pointing the finger at bought-off politicos, there is the option of refraining from participation in their sham elections.
Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves Randall Amster 2011
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Beyond pointing the finger at bought-off politicos, there is the option of refraining from participation in their sham elections.
Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves Randall Amster 2011
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Beyond pointing the finger at bought-off politicos, there is the option of refraining from participation in their sham elections.
Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves Randall Amster 2011
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I think lots of people are arguing here that Obama did not really try hard to pressure bought-off conservadems into a little bit more than they otherwise wanted.
Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Depression, the Upside of Optimism 2009
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They extorted it from unwitting taxpayers and with a handful of bought-off politicians in schemes just like the one going on now.
Why are taxpayers paying Paulson's peanut vendors? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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President Obama had a choice: stand up for real solutions like Medicare for all and start a war with the corrupt, bought-off Senators like Lieberman, all of the GOP, and 5 to 10 Democrats, which would put his whole agenda in jeopardy, OR put up with this baby step forward which saves lives but really does not address the issue of spiraling costs.
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Here's one from Tuesday's show, where Washington correspondent Wyatt Cenac portrays a bought-off Washington journalist reveling in his freebie tickets to the Wizards 'home opener.
Wizards make the Daily Show Dan Steinberg 2010
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I think lots of people are arguing here that Obama did not really try hard to pressure bought-off conservadems into a little bit more than they otherwise wanted.
Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Depression, the Upside of Optimism 2009
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Just two more bought-off losers jumping on the sinking ship and trying to make things appear other than they really are.
Obama adds two superdelegates, one's a former Clinton backer 2008
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Most of today's politicians are just that - politicians – another word for useless, bought-off greedy traitors to our country.
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