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fleur-de-lisa
(14,676 posts)1. Yep, THAT'S his problem! n/t
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patrice
(47,992 posts)2. I think it's interesting that $130K was from a STATE/PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' pension at a time when such
pensions are being discovered to have been raided through various means, so there are a lot of such "retirees" (if that word can be applied to Todd Akin) who didn't do nearly as frakkking well as Akin did with his pension.
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fleur-de-lisa
(14,676 posts)3. He has no grasp of science or math or law or, well, shit . . .
it might just be easier to list what he DOES get . . . 'cunsurvatif curstyan valoos' . . .
and yet he sits on the CONGRESSIONAL SCIENCE COMMITTEE ! ! ! Someone please explain this to me !!!
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gordianot
(15,539 posts)4. Akin Science Committee = Bachmann Intelligence Committee both oxymoron's
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broiles
(1,404 posts)5. And Ryan, the big numbers man on the Budget Committee, forgot about his wife's big trust fund.
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