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Here are this week’s winners …
“The yea votes have it. We will settle it with a snow ball fight.”
– AL COHEN, Santa Rosa
“Although we appreciate your comments, Mr. Gore, the committee’s position remains that we will believe in climate change when we actually see it.”
– MARK BOWMAN, Santa Rosa
“It appears the fiscal cliff has become a slippery slope.”
– MARK BERUBE, Santa Rosa
“Michelle, girls, pack up, we’re heading back to Hawaii!”
– RICHARD SMITH, Santa Rosa
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No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
Thank goodness all of us at the White House and in Congress really know how to “shovel it.”
That’s not snow …it’s the avalanche of debt the country is buried under.
We Republicans said that we wouldn’t raise taxes until hell froze over. I guess it just did!
We Republicans should have gone to Hawaii with Obama! If only we managed to get SOMETHING DONE!
We Republicans should have gotten out while the going was good! Now we’re stuck in Grover Norquist’s mess and can’t get out!
We’re stuck here because we don’t have enough employees to dig us out, we’ve laid off so many. Time for infrastructure repair stimulus for sure!
I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.
I don’t think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it’s the old white guy party.
Global warming, WHAT global warming?!
When it snows she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Why is the freeze not letting up on the right yet?
This weather is a good example of how poloticians view each other!
“Oh, Oh, why are all those middle-class’s out there doing snow-angels?
“Turn out the lights. The party’s over. Guess which party?”
I used to be Snow White but I drifted.
It could have been a lot worse…Happy New Year!
The wind blowing hard out side has nothing over the blowhards in here!
I thought climate change was limited to Antarctica.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse.
Well, Barack, you’ve managed to pull off the biggest “snow job” in history against the American people.
Hawaii? Not so good, how about you?
We didn’t go off the cliff, just down a slippery slope.
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Why is all the freezing cold snow coming from the right?
Boehner just gave Obama a snow job.
It appears the fiscal cliff has become a slippery slope.
Snow? What snow?
Debt? What debt?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
It’s nice to see it covered in something besides B.S.
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
“Somewhere underneath all this snow is the American dream.”
The Republican party push for the “White” house is going a little too far.
Although we appreciate your comments, Mr. Gore, the committee’s position remains that we will believe in climate change when we actually see it.
its a cold day in hell
And because of global warming, you made me to get rid of the snow blower. Go figure!
Would someone please ask Joe Biden to stop singing,” Let it snow,let it snow, let it snow!”
Did the Tea Party say we will vote with Obama when Hell freezes over or Washington D.C. does?
That’s not fair, you miss one little payment and they turn off the lights. I’m going to write my congressman.
As Marie Antoinette would say, “Let them eat snow.”
The “Obamanable Snowmonster” is wreaking havoc on the country again.
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
To warm words on a cold day.
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.
Can anyone explain why we are all getting a pay raise?
Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night will keep us from our appointed rounds. Where’s the bar?!!
don’t go outside bad case of Benghazi Flu goin round
If God wants us to stay in Washington and work out a fiscal cliff deal, I’m sure He’ll give us a sign.
“The yea votes have it.We will settle it with a snow ball fight.”
Global warming my butt!
Looks like we’ve been sent to the North Pole, I guess this is where you go when people stop believing in you!
Even though we’ve been moved to Alaska, we’re sure getting a lot more done than we did in DC!
Hello FEMA… yes, I can hold.
It looks like Hell just froze over.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any deeper around here.
Another Washington snow job.
Don’t worry, It’s just another snow job by the Republicans.
Meet the flockers.
Call out the National Guard…and Dominos.
Got schnapps?
Looks like more shovel ready jobs.
My filibuster is frozen.
You win some, you luge some.
My ,”Dreaming of a White Christmas”,turned into,”A Nightmare before New Years!”
Michelle…girls, pack up, we’re heading back to Hawaii!
“It will be a cold day in hell before I let the Republican’s get thier way.”
If we don’t agree on a compromise, what follows will be known as the notorious Republican Recession of 2013!