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  • By going where no other state dares to tread, Illinois could prove itself to be a policy pacesetter or the opposite – a place so dysfunctional that officials created a jaw-dropping budget crisis and then tried to fix it by knee-capping the economy.

    Neighboring States Celebrate Tax Hike, But Will It Really Help Them? AP 2011

  • Just wait until Rahm "Dead Fish" Emmanuel gets to knee-capping Hoyer.

    Dems send out mixed messages on health care 2009

  • In the last article, where she questioned the prudence of knee-capping our industrial base with crap and trade requirements that India and China have already said they are unwilling to adopt, hardly any of the posters for that story addressed her comments, they just called names and hopefully felt better about themselves.

    Palin becomes MoveOn target as SarahPAC cash haul surges 2009

  • By going where no other state dares to tread, Illinois could prove itself to be a policy pacesetter or the opposite – a place so dysfunctional that officials created a jaw-dropping budget crisis and then tried to fix it by knee-capping the economy.

    Neighboring States Celebrate Tax Hike, But Will It Really Help Them? AP 2011

  • By going where no other state dares to tread, Illinois could prove itself to be a policy pacesetter or the opposite – a place so dysfunctional that officials created a jaw-dropping budget crisis and then tried to fix it by knee-capping the economy.

    Neighboring States Celebrate Tax Hike, But Will It Really Help Them? AP 2011

  • But, most Americans aren't going to believe that the First Lady, when not reading to children, was actually knee-capping terrorists a la Jack Bauer.

    Looks like Hillary's foreign policy credentials are based on one speech she made in 1995 2008

  • But, most Americans aren't going to believe that the First Lady, when not reading to children, was actually knee-capping terrorists a la Jack Bauer.

    Looks like Hillary's foreign policy credentials are based on one speech she made in 1995 2008

  • So now, like a village feud in ancient Sicily, the right and its media are knee-capping the Obama presidency for not making the Gulf's spilled oil go away fast enough.

    Blame Obama. Why Not? 2010

  • If this Democratic president stops that Democratic congressman from knee-capping school reform to protect unionized teachers from the world the rest of us live in, you can mark down August 2010 as a first step back from the crack-up.

    The Liberal Dilemma 2010

  • From that switch from blue to red flowed many awful things; Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, George W. Bush, a conservative-leaning federal judiciary, the near-total destruction of America's once robust industrial base, the knee-capping of the American middle class, an illegal war, torture, financial collapse, and more.

    Profile in Courage Time for Big O 2009

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