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With President Obama’s new spending blueprint delivered to congress, there can be no more question about it: the Wall street wing of the democratic party has completely taken over and won. How decisive is the victory? The wall street wing of the democratic party, has given the “we-are all in this together-lets look out for our neighbor- America is capable of a grand new deal ” wing of the democratic party” a rooffie and dragged it around from house party to house party, raping it- handing off to friends so the rape can be repeated and then posting the pictures of the rape to twitter. That is how brutal Obama’s grand betrayal is.
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