Well, he’s a guy who got more votes than some other guy. So why shouldn’t he have a right to tell millions of people what perfectly legal beverages they can and can’t put into their own bodies on city property? I mean, he got more votes than another dude! That practically makes him a GOD, does it not? We no longer live in a free country. Simple as that. Oh.

Don’t worry: This time they really really mean it: Despite the tension and the glare of the media spotlight, the fledgling relationship between Boehner and Reid actually grew stronger over the last couple of months, according to sources close to both men. That is important because the next political crisis of raising the nation’s debt ceiling is just around the corner. Over the weekend, Reid told The New York Times,

The Shrieking Shack of Schlitz.

All this talk that we live in a soft-tyranny? Just the rantings of “anti-government” rabble rousers — extremists looking to confront and incite. Move along. Nothing to see here: At […] Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria. Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to

Wait, you mean it’s never really been about the environment — that it’s always been about money and power? I’m OUTRAGED! (h/t Dave O’C)

Hey, isn’t that what Obama and the Dems think, too? Serendipity!

Meh. Nitpicking. Stop being such an extremist. I mean, at least now we’re talking about cuts rather than spending, right? We’ve entirely changed the terms of the debate! To wit, if we’re going to spend — and we know now that, even at the non-essential level, the federal government is simply too important to shut down or extensively pare down (blessedly, the GOP just affirmed that view of federal governance)

Fresh off the Historic Loss of roughly 1% of his proposed $3+ trillion dollar budget* suffered at the hands of John Boehner and his relentless, cost-cutting GOP jungle cats, a clearly weakened President Obama will try to regain footing Wednesday when he offers what the Washington Post is calling a “new approach to deficit reduction” — one that very timidly and bashfully ignores both his own debt commission’s recommendations and

Well, not me me. But you get the idea: These are the voices of the perpetually aggrieved on the right who will oppose any deal because their aim is not conservative governance but confrontation and incitement of an anti-Washington base. Got that? People like me — who have taken the position that Boehner’s entire play, from beginning to end, could only end with the GOP taking crumbs before ridiculously congratulating