>>>>>>>Facts are overrated when trying to make an argument.
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>>>>>This is true.
>>>>
>>>>Spoken like a true Republican from last election ('we won’t let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers’')
>>>
>>>You mean the "fact-checkers" who were using Google then posting their findings on the web so Google could find them in a search...lather, rinse, repeat... ;)
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>>No the ones with videos and other irrefutable evidence. Well that and the ones capable of 2nd grade math (which at times I question in regards to some of these Republicans)
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>If only those stupid Republicans were as good at 2nd grade math as the 2nd ranking US senator.
>http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jun/23/richard-durbin/durbin-misstates-debt-growth-during-bush-years/
>http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/11/28/fact-check-durbin-social-security/1732877/
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/updating-a-ruling-social-security-and-its-role-in-the-nations-debt/2012/11/29/1cd3e8aa-3a68-11e2-8a97-363b0f9a0ab3_blog.html
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>I hope you appreciate my use of "fact-checker"s. ;)

Although interesting it doesn't really talk about math or his inability to add and subtract - just that he didn't know (or lied) that Social Security is adding to the debt.

I think we can probably both agree that there are a fair number of elected officials that are idiots.