# Thanks, GOP!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-gop/329762>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 6, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-gop/329762 "2005-11-06T06:16:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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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:** [November 9, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-gop/329762/81 "2005-11-09T04:53:46Z")

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Gonna be a long row to hoe, B’rer **bdgr**. First we have to overcome business regulation of government before we can make any real progress towards government regulation of business.

Not sayin’ can’t be done. Saying its gonna be a bitch of a job.

They won, and they figure its forever. First thing we gotta do is convince them It Ain’t Necessarily So.

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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:** [November 9, 2005, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-gop/329762/82 "2005-11-09T05:03:18Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> **FinnAgain** : Experience is the best teacher.

[Master Po]Oh, no, grasshumper: Worst teacher! Give test first, lesson after. Now go practice the style of the Cringing Mantis.[/MPo]

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**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-gop/329762/83 "2005-11-09T05:27:19Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Gonna be a long row to hoe, B’rer **bdgr**. First we have to overcome business regulation of government before we can make any real progress towards government regulation of business.
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> Not sayin’ can’t be done. Saying its gonna be a bitch of a job.
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> They won, and they figure its forever. First thing we gotta do is convince them It Ain’t Necessarily So.

Um. Isn’t what’s happening the reason we passed anti trust laws in the first place? I didn’t just dream those, right? They do exist?

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