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Jim Weidt of Holyoke, MN is a Big Fat Douche!

Posted on August 28, 2009 by fruitfly

From “Readers Write” in today’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Jim Weidt of Holyoke, MN says:

We have to vote yes on health care for Ted! For Ted! For Ted! Once again the Democrats will attempt to use their dead for political power. What a shame.

JIM WEIDT, Holyoke, Minn.

Awww, Now isn’t that a slice of American apple-pie laced with GOP hypocrisy?

…Because it isn’t like the GOP has been carrying around that moth-ridden corpse of Ronald Reagan’s for the past five years. Even before that Old Goat finished eating his last tin-can, the GOP was screaming to get his mug on Mount Rushmore for God’s sakes!