How bad is it that if you asked me what year he ran, I would have said 2008? He had to withdraw from the race so early so people like Donald Trump could run I seriously thought it was a different race until I double-checked.
Pretty bad.
Point is, there are non-scum Republicans (I voted for Andy Barr for the House and haven’t lost sleep over it, though he didn’t cover himself with glory during the budget crisis and is something of a yes-man for the party) out there, they’re just on the margins, waiting to reclaim leadership of the party when the radicals lose power (or so I hope, otherwise I’ll have to start voting Democrat).
By all indications, the radicals are gaining power. Until recently they were eunuchs, frothing ineffectively about Benghazi and forcing Boehner to schedule endless futile votes to repeal Obamacare. This month they shut down most of the federal government. That’s… well, not an achievement, but certainly an impact.
This could well be their high-water mark, though, based on polling data:
Time will tell, of course.
You fools! You’re committing to something before the most important question has been answered:
What do the uniforms look like???!!!???
Ezra Klein says this only holds until Feb 7. 
I think he’s wrong. Page 25 says
…February 8, 2014, the limitation in section 3101(b)
of title 31, United States Code, as increased by sec-
tion 3101A of such title and section 2 of the No
Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (31 U.S.C. 3101 note),
is increased to the extent that–
(A) the face amount of obligations issued
under chapter 31 of such title and the face
amount of obligations whose principal and in-
terest are guaranteed by the United States Gov-
ernment (except guaranteed obligations held by
the Secretary of the Treasury) outstanding on
February 8, 2014, exceeds
(B) the face amount of such obligations
outstanding on the date of enactment of this
Act.
If the voters of this country were not so damn stupid and so willing to drink the Repub/TeaParty/Limbaugh/Beck Koolaid, I would say this should end his “career” and the “career” of many others.
Just a bunch of two year olds, who were screaming NO NO NO and breaking shit - to the tune of hundreds of thousands of jobs possibly lost and billions of dollars wasted, all to throw a bitch fit. To hell with ALL of them.
This, in droves, plus over 9000
I feel no need to gloat, but I wouldn’t mind a lap dance from Michele Bachmann.
Never [del]stick[/del] get your dick [del]in[/del] anywhere near the crazy.
No true Scotsman? Something like that?
Why don’t they (the supposedly sane moral ones) do something about it? Why do/should they support them in elections, or even allow them to run on the party name? Why not disavow them?
Inaction and indifference can be kinds of evil too. And, they are more insidious than outright lunactic “bad guys”.
Somewhat surprised at the number of Republicans voting to end the clusterfuck. I figured they would count up the number they were going to need and let at least some of their Reps off the hook so they wouldn’t have to vote for it and wouldn’t have to explain it back home. Assuming, of course, that they expected that vote to be unpopular back home. So, I expected them to have just enough Pubbies voting to get over that 217 number. But that’s not what happened, the vote was 285 with 87 Pubbies voting for it.
I’m wondering why.
Based on the way this is being reported I’m pretty sure Klein is right. If the debt ceiling thing was effectively gone forever, that would be getting more attention.
Not likely. Better chance of getting one from her husband.
I’m sure everyone does it, too! Or at least, most people. Screw them welfare queens.
I really only breezed through this thread 'cause I don’t have a dog in the fight, but I did have the good fortune to be asked to interview University of MD Economist Peter Morici yesterday and ended up having a very interesting conversation. My station agreed to put the whole interview (minus the stutters & let me start agains) on the web.
Here it is. I found it to be a fascinating conversation and I offer it for the discussion.
Yeah, well, that still leaves 144 Republicans who basically clearly stated with their ‘no’ votes that they had far less concern about possibly collapsing the world economy than whatever the hell their objections were to the ACA.
Regarding another ever-popular subject in this thread, I promise you I roll my eyes every time DT posts another of his monotonous, pro forma “all Republicans are evil” screeds, but hey, when I see stuff like the above I can’t help thinking at least 144 Republicans may be evil.
That’s what I’m feeling too, but I want to know what I’m missing in the text. Obviously it’s something, but what?
Well, no, not really, once they decided that the bill would pass, all they really had to do was to supply whatever number of Pubbie votes was required, then that consequence became moot.