# On Republican Disillusionment

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-republican-disillusionment/234545>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 16, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-republican-disillusionment/234545 "2004-03-16T00:27:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-republican-disillusionment/234545/81 "2004-03-20T15:03:50Z")

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[Here](http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2004/03/19/opinion/19KRUG.html&tntemail0), by the way is Paul Krugman’s take on why Kerry voted against the $87 billion Iraq spending bill:

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> Mr. Kerry wasn’t trying to block funds for Iraq — he was trying to force the administration, which had concealed the cost of the occupation until its tax cut was passed, to roll back part of the tax cut to cover the expense.

I don’t know if this was Kerry’s main motivation or not. But, what it does remind me is that even people who try to keep up on all this Administrations shenanigans such as myself seem to be incapable of keeping track of all of the deceptions flowing from this Administration. I had forgot all about this ditty!

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**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-republican-disillusionment/234545/82 "2004-03-31T17:54:01Z")

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Hey **Shodan**.

You planning on just ignoring this thread now that you’ve had your nose rubbed in your own droppings?

Just wondering. I figured you might want to finish ignoring the facts in one thread before jumping into [other threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=245920&page=3) .

-Joe

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-republican-disillusionment/234545/83 "2004-03-31T21:16:02Z")

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Don’t bring up Krugman to me **Jshore**! Every right-thinking American knows that Senor Kerry had no other intention but to deny our brave soldiers the equipment they needed, in the hope that more casualties would bolster his radicalliberal agenda, and cause embarassment for the Shining One. Gets his orders straight from Hanoi Jane. My wife’s sister’s hairdresser knows this guy who has the inside info.

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-republican-disillusionment/234545/84 "2004-03-31T22:56:11Z")

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**Moderator’s Note:**  **Merijeek** , knock it the hell off. You want to start a Pit thread about another poster, go right ahead. If you disagree with a decision by a mod or an admin, you can start a Pit thread about that too. What you _can’t_ do is just keep on doing what you were just warned about.

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