# Dems - Defend your Senators holding the budget bill hostage

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 19, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-defend-your-senators-holding-the-budget-bill-hostage/806968 "2018-01-19T14:29:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dems-defend-your-senators-holding-the-budget-bill-hostage/806968/181 "2018-01-20T06:01:01Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> For those following at home without a scorecard, my understanding is that **Mr. Ditka** ’s opinion of **Mr. McVeigh** ’s murder of 168 people is that it was [**“not an entirely unreasonable reaction.”**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20716465&postcount=165) (There’s already another thread if you need to debate whether this mass murder was _more or less not unreasonable_ than the Antifa terrorist who threw a stone toward a Nazi.)

I considered issuing a warning for this given my previous note in post #166, but I am open to the possibility it wasn’t crystal clear. McVeigh isn’t germane to this thread. Introducing it in this fashion is akin to harassment. Don’t do this any further.

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