# Budget Near Collapse as GOP Leader Quits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 24, 2011, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686 "2011-06-24T09:08:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/41 "2011-06-24T16:44:16Z")
I hear they have butter mountains in Europe as a result of the [Common Agricultural Policy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy). Why doesn’t Obama send in the Marines to liberate some of that butter? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/42 "2011-06-24T16:46:10Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I hear they have butter mountains in Europe as a result of the [Common Agricultural Policy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy). Why doesn’t Obama send in the Marines to liberate some of that butter? No Blood for Butter! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/43 "2011-06-24T16:59:07Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > And in other news, the Pope is a Catholic. [Bull **shit** he is!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/44 "2011-06-24T17:11:56Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > unioncorns I am very angry with you. This caused me to have a mental picture of a group of pastel-colored My Little Pony type unicorns, trotting back and forth before a building (presumably a business) with “Unfair to Mythical Beings” signs impaled on their little horns. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/45 "2011-06-24T17:14:07Z")
Never, ever tell a unicorn that his horn is too small. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/46 "2011-06-24T17:33:52Z")
Meanwhile, as both parties madly scrape at their fiddles, the stock market burns in anticipation of the debt ceiling not being raised. Pension funds, IRAs, etc. take major hits, and retirement becomes a more distant dream for millions. Fuck all of them for a bunch of self-indulgent, tantrum-throwing, out-of-touch cocksuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/47 "2011-06-24T17:37:35Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Bull **shit** he is!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism) What can I say? Except that I had no idea that so many people [claim to be the Pope](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conclavism), including an anti-pope who is [in prison in Australia as a sex offender](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kamm)! ---
**Author:** ![HookerChemical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@HookerChemical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HookerChemical)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/48 "2011-06-24T17:40:14Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > No Blood for Butter! Or margarine! No blood for vegetable oil! ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/49 "2011-06-24T18:10:46Z")
Questions for **Stan** : 1. How many issues of The New Frontiersman…er, National Review do you keep in your bathroom? 2. Do you use them to wipe your ass, like I do, or are you actually reading that garbage? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/50 "2011-06-24T18:17:50Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I pit cows. Evil fuckers. If I were to get one of those “vanity lines” between my name and my rank, (can’t remember what they are called) this would be it. I find it inexplicably hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/51 "2011-06-24T18:20:38Z")
Taxes make baby Jesus cry. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/52 "2011-06-24T18:23:32Z")
I think Paula Deen’s hoarding all of the butter. (Seriously, have you ever read one of her recipes? That’s pretty much the only ingredient) I’m surprised the OP didn’t try to link it to the cops somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/53 "2011-06-24T18:25:54Z")
Eric Cantor quit? What happened? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/54 "2011-06-24T18:48:27Z")
Getting out while the getting is good. Or not as shitty as it will be. The Pubbies desperately want to hold on to thier deranged base, yet still keep the sweet, sweet money flowing in from “business Republicans”. Biz Pubbies, being comparatively sane, know what has to happen. But somebody is going to take the fall, and it ain’t going to be Cantor. Boehner is a bit of a cipher, nobody seems to know who he is, exactly. So they can use him, they can wring out whatever concessions they can, cave on the rest, and blame it on a “failure of leadership”, and give Boehner a jolly good rogering. Could be wrong, of course, could be that they are so utterly in thrall to the batshit battalion that they will pull the whole magilla down around their ears for the sake of some deranged principle. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/55 "2011-06-24T18:50:49Z")
Did he resign his seat, or did he just quit as majority leader? I’m just not finding the news anywhere, and I think they’d report it. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/56 "2011-06-24T18:51:39Z")
Sounds like he just pulled out of the talks. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/57 "2011-06-24T18:55:44Z")
Mr Cantor sees a very bright future for himself, but perhaps a somewhat limited horizon for the Prince of Orange. How that knife ended up in the Speaker’s ribs is a mystery to him, but the fingerprints are definitely Photoshopped. Resign? He’d sooner staple his scrotum to his desk. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/58 "2011-06-24T19:00:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Resign? He’d sooner staple his scrotum to his desk. Probably does that for jollies already. ---
**Author:** ![meflin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@meflin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meflin)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/59 "2011-06-24T19:00:43Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > No Blood for Butter! It would be irresponsible of us, and cost us more lives later, to allow the EU to continue to produce WMB ( Weapons of Mass Butter ). Meflin ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686/60 "2011-06-24T19:20:42Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > What can I say? Except that I had no idea that so many people [claim to be the Pope](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conclavism), including an anti-pope who is [in prison in Australia as a sex offender](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kamm)! “Suffer the little children to come unto me, for such is . . .” never mind. Did you know that, not only that, but the RCC has no copyright on the title of “Pope”? The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria has a Pope. The Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria has a Pope. The One True Church, that is, [Discordianism,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism) has **countless** Popes (but in The Other One True Church, [SubGenius,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubGenius) we have **better** Popes, so there!). So, next time somebody asks you, “Is the Pope Catholic?” answer, “Depends. Which one?” And then get into a barfight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-near-collapse-as-gop-leader-quits/586686.md?page=4)