Helluva job, boys!
Meanwhile, the Hobbits trudge on.
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update: McCain is himself an objective correlative, a dust-farting faux “realist” relic whom an awakened populace is now (thankfully) getting wise to.
The truth, Mr McCain, is that it would have taken 3 or 4 Democrats to break with their party — of the 20 or so who ran on balancing the budget — to pass CC&B. Several of those Dems run as centrists in their home states, and are up for re-election in 2012, so a a no vote would have left them particularly vulnerable. And if none were willing to vote for CC&B, as you suggest, wouldn’t it have been politically savvy of the GOP to have those Senators on record having broken their promises — and for voting down the legislation that S&P says would have prevented the downgrade?
No, this is not about the “pragmatics” of how CC&B couldn’t pass. It’s about DC politicians of both parties who didn’t want it to pass, because it controls them and takes away all that they know: the permission to give away other people’s money without consequence, and with great personal enrichment.
McCain is protecting the status quo against us. And what’s most galling is, he is unwilling to apologize for doing so — because, by virtue of his being a Senator, he has decided he is our superior in every important way. And rulers don’t apologize to subjects.
Wouldn’t a Pyrrhic Defeat be a loss that cost you nothing?
Sowell was also one of those calling for the House Republicans to take the deal because it was the best we could get, unfortunately.
that had a very fighting the last war feel to it
the whole debt ceiling thing is so two weeks ago
this week is all about how bumblefuck ruined America’s credit and sparked a stock market crash and has no clue what to do next
Hobbits trudge on
Not without second breakfast we won’t.
Sowell was also one of those calling for the House Republicans to take the deal .
Yeah, what’s up with that? He couldn’t see that no matter what happened, the GOP would be blamed for the inevitable disaster, so they might as well do the right thing, for the history books if for nothing else?
Guess not.
Maybe it’s early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Are any of you fellas closely familiar with Tolkein’s politics? I haven’t read his stuff for over four decades now, but seeing the tail-end of the middle movie of the trilogy and the beginning of the third the other day, I got the distinct impression he’s on Swift’s side in the quarrel.
I read his collected letters and there really wasn’t a tremendous lot of politics what I can remember
I can thumb back through the book later
He talked a good game, but I saw a “Don’t blame me, I voted for Sauron” sticker on the back of his girlfriends wagon.
Tolkien was something of a pastoral conservative. He disliked what he perceived as the industrialization of more and more of the English countryside. He disliked the growth of HM Govt that attended this change. Heck, he disliked Vatican II and the switch to English Mass.
It’s something of a cliche, but his depiction of the Shire seems to reflect his personal politics: pastoral, self-reliant, quiet, suspicious of change, neighbo(u)rly, and somewhat oblivious to the wider world.
hobbits fight back
Angry Tea Partiers Confront McCain on ‘Hobbit’ Comments at Town Hall
this is the story about what it’s like to dive into poo
McCain is the modern American version of a Victorian era British officer turned PM. He has the “right to rule” the wogs and the mob simply don’t understand the subtleties of governing, and by Jove he’ll blubblublublu not stand for any of this childish rabblblblblblblbble rousing nonsense from those people.
(You have to picture him in a tight waistcoat wearing a bushy mustache)
re: you update….the GOP doesn’t play a very deep game, and hasn’t for a long time. If ever.
That’s why they keep losing the important fights. That and they are big governmentalists at heart.
That’s why they keep losing the important fights.
Pretty hard to communicate and execute on bedrock principles that you don’t really believe in. Maybe that’s why they always fold: they want to.
Well, it is certainly true that we won’t survive many more victories like this.
But murderous deadly when roused and properly led. See the “Scouring of the Shire”.
(And therein lays a contradiction. The insular Shire didn’t do much against Saruman and his brutes until the worldly and combat-hardened four returned. But, then, Tolkien himself was a veteran of WWI, and likely he didn’t see a contradiction in WANTING such a life and it being good that NOT EVERYONE GETS TO LIVE SUCH A LIFE. I’d love to know what he thought of the Athens, TN “revolt” where ex-GIs took on a corrupt sheriff and local machine.)
The Scouring of the Shire is what leads me to believe that Tolkien would understand something like the Tea Party movement. He distrusted the state, and indeed, in Scouring he shows the Sheriffs as collaborators, all too willing to trample their fellow hobbits. The idea of a defense movement led by locals didn’t seem to scare him the way it does his countrymen today.
I’m not sure the guy would be a big booster for the Second Amendment (can’t have lower class wearing swords, now can we?), but I’m pretty sure he’d understand its importance in times of trial.
dingy harry rolls out his team for the superduper committee:
Link
What a gas this thing is destined to be.
And for its part the status quo is creating rioting in the streets. Good idea, John, ya cheap turncoat.
By the way, with it come to rioting in the streets, we get exactly one opportunity to reform the DC-Wall Street corridor before the place goes up in flames.
Instead we’re printing even more money.
I think it would be fun to see Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Ron Paul nominated from the House, and Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Jim DeMint from the Senate.
Don’t let up.
the key thing is that the committee people be staunch but also good communicators on tv as well as congenial and pleasant I think
it’s an election year … the congresswhore committee’s work doesn’t mean shit really just what happens in november
cause of November is when people vote
we need a leader who can bake tasty cupcakes
tasty cupcakes of austerity!
I’m hoping for a Pyrrhic Defeat of the recall crazy unionists in Wisco today — say, they shoot their wad to get a net three tie and come up short with only a net two. In which event, it’ll be schadenfreudes all around, loser unionists.
Don’t you understand, McLame’s JOB is maintaining the status quo. He is too senile to be able to manage any new information or process, and screwing the taxpayers the same old way has worked so well for him for so many years that he has no incentive to change. The fact that the idiots in AZ put this turkey back in the Senate after amply demonstrated incompetence on his part proves the point that he doesn’t need to change (at least in his world view).
The thing that I thought he missed in his analogy was that the hobbits were fighting raw, unadulterated evil that threatened civilization and that the evil appeared to be easily able to conquer all who came before it. Hobbit seems sort of an honorific viewed that way. But that’s just me.
“Hobbit seems sort of an honorific viewed that way. But that’s just me.”
a caller to rush was making that point today
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