The truly dangerous talk amongst these assholes is that of refusing to raise the debt limit. What this implies to all of our creditors is that the US would default on its loans and the “full faith and credit” of our country would come into doubt. Can you say “worldwide economic collapse”?
But since it would happen while Obama is president, it’s all good.
Lately it’s seemed tome to be more “Spending cuts!” etc. Problem is, you can’t pin 'em down on what spending to cut, other than “Obamacare”, whatever the hell they define that as. And the old perennial “wastefraudandabuse”.
So that’s why you’re hearing talk even from the likes of Boehner now about the need to have an “adult conversation”. IOW even their leadership doesn’t think their approach is “adult”. And, being incoherent, it can’t survive the acceptance of responsibility.
Last summer, there was an effort among Tea Partiers to have the lame duck congressional session canceled just to make sure the soon-to-be-defeated Democrats wouldn’t pass legislation like the cap-and-trade bill and proposed tax increases as supposedly a big FU to the voters as they went out the door. That campaign mostly dissipated when the cap-and-trade bill was set aside by the Senate and the matter of the expiring Bush tax cuts was postponed until after the election. You would think the fact that the lame duck session eventually extended the Bush tax cuts for another two years might’ve somewhat placated the Teabaggers and their ilk but there’s no satisfying these people. Thus, they are now outraged over the repealing of DADT, the passage of the arms-control treaty, and the (gasp!) granting of medical benefits to the 9/11 rescue workers.
Right, ending lame duck sessions is not a silly idea at all. Too bad this guy is only calling for it on a partisan basis, not a small-d democratic one.
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If I were Gladys Knight, I’d refuse these PIPs.
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Which is why bacon proves that intelligence is delicious and I look for Dolphin Plus certified tuna.
“Bender: Who wants dolphin?
Leela: Dolphin? But dolphins are intelligent.
Bender: Not this one. He blew all his money on instant lottery tickets.
Fry: OK.
Leela: Oh, OK.
Amy: That’s different.
Farnsworth: Good, good.
Leela: Pass the blowhole.
Amy: Can I have a fluke?
Hermes: Hey, quit hogging the bottle-nose.
Farnsworth: Toss me the speech centre of the brain!”
- Futurama, The Problem with Popplers
I heard somewhere (probably Rachel Maddow) that one of the freshman Tea Party congresscritters wants to introduce that legislation when the new Congress convenes tomorrow. He’ll be slapped down in short order and probably assigned to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry or something similar as punishment.
Don’t blame me, we saw it the Monday after Thanksgiving. 
Gee, if the Founding Fathers wanted that they’d put it in the Constitution. Funny how that only works for stuff they wanted.
Where were they and their mandate after 2008 when the
Republicans got their ass handed to them, far more than this year? Or 2006. Hypocritical scum.
Indeed. They’re about to get a crash course in sausage making.
Wouldn’t you expect them to be?
Don’t know that article, but this one draws interesting parallels between the TP and the Whiskey Rebellion.
To be fair, the GOP really didn’t have any say in the matter. Do recall that the ‘Tea Party’ is not a cohesive group, and was largely rebelling against the GOP itself. Within the large group of people who consider themselves some flavor of ‘conservative,’ there is a civil war ongoing. The insergents labeled ‘Tea Party’ have set a major ambush, and the reast of the GOP hasn’t figured out yet how to respond.
Plausibly true, and not necessarily a bad thing, IMO.
My favorite one of these was an interview I heard the day after the election. It was right after E-Day and ‘Here and Now’ had a woman who was leader of one of the three largest Tea Party groups on. The exchange went something like this:
“OK, you’ve won. What do you think congress should do?”
“Cut the budget”
“OK, what part?”
“The budget.”
“What part of the budget?”
(pause)“The budget.”
“Moving on…”
By the budget, she means government spending. Duh.
Was she the same one who was talking about how the Interstate that went through her town needed repairs, then went right on about ending earmarks?
you’d think she’d be aware that the budget is compartmentalized, if she was a leader. Possible answers could have been: “Entitlements” “Welfare programs” “Defense” “Foreign aid.” Of course, all these answers invite further questions, some of which are quite sharp and pointy. Which is why a favorite answer is: “Well, we can start with earmarks and cutting government waste.” That always sounds good. Never seems to HAPPEN but it sounds good.