I've been trying to figure out exactly WTF the House Republicans have been thinking these last few days and I got nothing. I like John Boehner and, in many ways, actually feel sorry for him. He has to deal with around 75 adolescent males every day (enough to make any parent or teacher cry!) in his caucus so cutting him some slack seems like the right thing to do.
But this latest game with the aid for Hurricane Sandy victims shows just how fucked up the Right is these days. They are run by a group of people who see any sort of government spending (except defense) as the equivalent of raping children. I guess the general welfare clause also does not apply to people whose homes were lost to natural disaster. Why should we have to pay for their loss? They just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, stop spooning off the government, and get to work, by gum!
Boehner finally gave in after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie unleashed holy hell and a vote in the House will now be scheduled on Friday. Honestly, though, this is a larger issue that we are going to see play out in the coming months and it really only has one conclusion: more Democratic victories and a likely retaking of the House in 2014.
In what has to be the finest example of "Doing it again, only harder," GOP leaders have already indicated that they are going to play chicken with the debt ceiling again. It worked so well last time so why not try it again? With all the good economic news (more on that tomorrow), it makes perfect sense to try to ruin any chances of improvement. After all, they have been rooting for America to fail since the president took office in their never ending quest to not be proven wrong and win the argument. Who gives a shit if the economy continues to sputter?
The Right has also indicated that, in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook tragedy, that: a) more people being armed is the answer (see: 1984, George Orwell) and b) we can't really do anything anyway because we are free and freedom means impotence. So, a far right stance on guns will be taken with no possibility for even a reasonable discussion or alternative solutions, We are talking about a choice between our freedom or burning in hell under a totalitarian regime. The stakes have never been higher, folks!!
Even with immigration, the Right remains steadfast. They don't have time for the details. It's "Fuck you, get out!" They don't seem to mind that, if they continue down this path, possibly in 2016 (2020 is more likely), Texas will turn blue and the Republican Party as we know it will have gone the way of the Whigs.
I think the head of the conservative organization Club For Growth, Chris Chocola, summed up the thinking on the Right (and the "voices in my head") when he said, of the debt, "The numbers-at some point it's got to catch up or else we are all going to die." Look out, folks! We have to stop government before they inflict any more evil on the world!!! AHHHH!!!!
I guess the Right didn't learn anything from the election last November and their possible end is becoming more and more clearer every day. Politically, that's great for me but my concern is how many Americans they are going to drag down with them in their teenage male stomp down the hallway.
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You didn't read the link I gave you to Samuelson, did you? No, of course you didn't.
Of course not, juris. Don't be foolish. The Marky script has FINALLY learned a new phrase, "Doing it again, only harder," and will use it over and over again until it's obvious to all that it's no longer working and learns a new catch-phrase after the aphorism finally that "the phrase, "I do not think it means what you think it means", penetrates it's thick virtual skull But it's a piss-poor script incapable of true machine-learning, so it must wait until a particularly clueless and idiotic maintainer realizes the problem and then re-writes some of the core modules ... again. Just wait until the Marky script begins wondering whether he's the poorly maintained script or the clueless maintainer. Wait, never mind. The script could never realize that fact, and the clueless maintainer is too clueless. Hmm, pretty much the standard issue social studies teacher of the last 30 years. Oh well, I tried. It's like trying to teach a pig to fly -- even after you stuff it onto a plane, it never realizes it's flying, so you're just wasting your time except to enlighten those those who thought the "Pig from Animal Farm" was actually a "Wise One".
Well, Larry, I can't take credit for the phrase...that's Kevin's big heading off at the pass-type comment. That's a nice diatribe as well but no one in there was something that could filed under "New Idea" which is exactly my point.
$44 of tax increase to every $1 in spending cuts.
It doesn't solve the debt. It doesn't fix the spending mess. Neither the left or the right had a plan that would do so.
The entire city is filled with adolescents.
And you are complaining that they didn't spend more while in the same breath complaining about hitting the ceiling again?
You are just as much as a problem as they are.
Republicans were able to retain the House only by gerrymandering states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. They put all the Democrats, who live in cities, into a few districts. The rest of the districts were made marginally more Republican.
If Republicans continue to alienate moderates and conservatives who refuse to drink the Kool-Aid by repeatedly doing things such as threaten to deny disaster aid and continue to appear the puppets of the NRA and Grover Norquist, they are in danger of quickly losing those marginally Republican districts. Add in demographic shifts and movement of better educated (wealthier) liberals and moderates into suburban Republican districts, and you could see a sudden and drastic shift against Republicans.
The big prize for capturing so many state houses in 2010, just before the census, may be lost. The gerrymandering could backfire and leave Republicans vulnerable to a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in 2014 or 2016.
That's pretty much right, Nikto.
...leave Republicans vulnerable to a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in 2014 or 2016.
So when was the last time that a 2nd term incumbent party in power gain seats in the House?
When was the last time we had a party filled with nutbags who want to destroy our economy just to win a blog argument?
I ask something about history and M replies with stupidity. One of us doesn't seem to understand the other.
M: When was the last time we had a party filled with nutbags who want to destroy our economy just to win a blog argument?
Never, you hyperbolic wingnut. You're such a cartoonlike caricature of a Deep Blue partisan hack you should've named your blog Smurfadelphia.
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