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Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts Is Like (this is a contest)

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" driving your car off the cliff, paying a tow truck twice the price of the car to haul it back up, then driving it back over because your brother-in-law's cousin's friend told you this time it will fly.

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Celebrating your one day sobriety pin with a cognac and crack party.

Getting gonorrhea from unprotected sex, and after you get rid of it, going back to the bath house to see if you can get something incurable this time.

A 400 pound person going on all McDonald's diet.

After the drunk British football hooligans have rioted and burned down the stadium, you rebuild the stadium and, this time, to make it better, you offer free al-you-can-drink beer.

A prostitute getting out of "the life' by switching from cash to credit cards.

Losing all your money with Bernie Madoff, then convincing the rest of your family to break him out of jail so they can invest all their money with him too.

After the earthquake rebuilding your house on the fault line, instead of just next to it.

Giving your local alchemist your life savings to turn lead into gold, and after the lead remains lead, robbing the bank to pay him to do it again.

Invading Afghanistan to get Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, then, after you fail, invading Iraq to get weapons of mass destruction that don't exist.

Putting poison in your food to teach the dog not to eat off the table, then forgetting what you did and eating it yourself.

After you get lung cancer, smoking again because the worst has already happened.

Knowingly doing 2001-2009 all over again, a few people get rich, no new jobs are created, and the whole economy collapses.

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This is a contest. It's open to everyone. The writer of the best comparison gets to live with the consequences of whatever our loony legislators and waffling president do.

 

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Like the NAACP giving its money to the KKK. by Don Smith on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:39:20 AM
Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts Is Like... by Glen Marshall on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:08:21 AM
Obama repeating so many of Bush's failed policies is like by Tracy Turner on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:07:20 PM
Groundhog day by Dan Suilem on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:09:59 PM
Yes, but by Don Smith on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:00:41 PM
We're trying to do a contest here by Kevin Gosztola on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:55:09 PM
I know, and I contributed my entry by Don Smith on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 2:22:45 PM
I don't think they forget to oppose Republicans by Kevin Gosztola on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 2:27:08 PM
Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts is Like by Kevin Gosztola on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 2:04:52 PM
Renewing the Bush Tax Cuts Is Like... by phidipidese on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 3:10:11 PM
renewing the Bush Tax cuts is like by Rob Kall on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 4:08:34 PM
Wow by zonie on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:50:51 PM
Lol nice ones guys. by steve windisch on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 4:16:49 PM
I if win, do i get my last article "Headlined" lol? by steve windisch on Sunday, Dec 12, 2010 at 7:24:44 AM
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"Renewing Bush Tax Cuts is Like... by Emily Dale on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:14:11 PM
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Is like the Pope promoting condoms by Vaikunthanath Kaviraj on Saturday, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:20:39 PM
Obama agreeing to renew the Bush tax cuts . . . by Nathan Nahm on Sunday, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:26:16 AM
Oh Crap! by phidipidese on Sunday, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:42:00 AM
It's like... by John Sanchez Jr. on Sunday, Dec 12, 2010 at 8:36:28 AM
Hitting the pt in the chest with a log... by zonie on Sunday, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:14:25 AM
Precordial thump is the reason.... by John Sanchez Jr. on Sunday, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:34:38 AM
Good on them... by zonie on Sunday, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:36:33 AM
RENEWING THE BUSH TAX CUTS IS LIKE... by John Reed on Sunday, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:45:56 AM
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