The GOP is going to fold. It’s in the air. Like the stink of skunk, or the static electricity radiating from the fur of a fuzzy hamster who goes round and round and round on its wheel but never really gets anywhere.
Or like John Boehner, without the tears and the orange skin.
Rush – cave and I’m leaving for a TEA party.
Was just going to mention that, motionview. He’s predicting a cave leads to a third party and an end to the NRC — and another term for Obama.
Which could kill the country just in time to avoid a true opposition party that could have saved us.
Someone has to stand up and say “raising top marginal tax RATES will not raise REVENUES enough to offset the increased spending on unemployment benefits for the people who will lose their jobs as a result of the rate increase.”
There is a practical limit of tax revenues, the peak of the Laffer Curve. We may not agree on exactly where it is, but I believe we’re pretty damned close to it already. The increased rates may generate a bit more revenue, but the deficit will actually go up as outlined above.
Unfortunately, you can’t fit that on a bumper sticker, which means most voters will never get it.
this is what a feckless Meghan’s coward daddy-nominating loser party gets when it puts the same McConnellwhore Boehnerfag leadership in place what led them into the failshit darkness last time they were in charge I think
But just you wait til Romney’s in charge!
Him a turn this tugboat around for the American Way!
Work the phones gang. All of the Reps and Senators need to hear this talk, not just us among themselves.
Tell them they’re through and are guaranteeing an Obama re-election, in economic straights that favor a generic challenger when polled.
Call. E-mail. If you’re in DC, stand outside their offices and shout…
I hope the rat bastards understand the threat in the manner I hope he intended. Push has come to shove, and like the true politicians they are they have somehow come around to the conclusion that the best course for the country happens to be what the standard political marketing tools tell them will get them re-elected. They are dead wrong on both counts. Clearly the arguments to do the right thing have no weight. Maybe the argument, the reality, that if they cave they will lose their jobs in 2012, might stiffen their spines. They need to understand that we are leaving if the choice is between a slow road to serfdom and the HOV lane.
Of course they will cave. It’s what they do. The pragmatists will congratulate them all, and they will hopefully be primaried out of office.
Obama will be re-elected, and the fun will really begin.
An Obama unfettered by worries of re-election and spineless congresscritters who would be afraid to impeach him to matter what he did (because of the RAAAAACISM!) would be a frightful result. I can see the executive orders flying off his desk, and orders to government agencies to really start cracking down on the economy and doing some more damage.
Nothing Obama has done so far would make me believe otherwise.
jaysuseffingkeeristonapony … didn’t the feckless GOP elites get spanked enough the last time they “agreed” to a faux-cut in spending??
Yep … I think 3rd parties are losers & spoilers, but unless we can pull a palace coup on these fuckers, I’m all in for the TEA Party.
The only good thing about Obama still being president is that it will be the Democrats presiding over the collapse, though they will of course still try to blame it on Republicans. I don’t think that will work for them.
I wish you were right about that not working for Obama cranky but he does have the home-court, bribed referee, loaded dice advantage in the MBM.
a true opposition party that could have saved us
I don’t think that any party, opposition or otherwise, will save us. We passed those exits a long time ago. Any fixing that a political party could have done needed to have been done decades ago.
We’re going over the falls, that’s for sure, but there’s no other way to roll back the massive gubmint expansion (both bureaucracy and entitlements) except to let it collapse under its own weight.
Too much momentum behind the juggernaut at this point, the current is too strong to paddle against, and even if it weren’t we’re too close too the edge to make it to shore.
Brace yourselves and get ready to rebuild.
Does a lacrimating Oompa-Loompa have the balls to win for the American people? Stay tuned.
We all need to be sending our Representatives and Senators copies of this:
http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/07/08/why-the-gop-should-reject-tax-increases-in-one-chart/
In case they are afflicted with short memories regarding what happened the last time the Democrats promised to follow through on an “X dollars in cuts for every Y dollars in ‘revenues’ raised” alleged deal. I have a feeling that Big Bush remembers…
Coincidentally, it was a reprise of the famous double-cross they pulled on Ronnie in 1986.
The words change, but the song remains the same…
Sorry, I put this on the wrong thread earlier.
It sure sounded to me like Rush retracted his threat by the end of the show.
I’ll go third party in a hot minute if they screw this one up. I’ll back it up with more money and volunteer time than I have ever given the GOP. Last. Straw.
They like getting spanked.
There really isn’t an alternative to raising the debt ceiling. It is tragic but it has to be done and Boehner knows this. The only question is how many trillions of dollars in spending cuts he can wring out of the situation. If this isn’t good enough I don’t know what to tell you. No politician is going to destroy the faith and credit of the US and have to shoulder the blame.
Sterling, I have this sneaky suspicion I can’t entirely trust you.
Riddle me this, how much is left over after mandatory debt service? Yes, I’m willing to accept “lots and lots” for an answer.
So, why do you say “destroy the faith and credit of the US”? Because you’re dumb? Because you think we’re dumb?
Hint, it can only be one of those two.
In your answer, I want you to imagine that I can’t see when Murfreesboro shows up on the lower toolbar.
Go. Wow me.
“There really isn’t an alternative to raising the debt ceiling. ”
um pay your bills on time and cut spending?
the bh cat with words here:
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Heh, yeah. Geoff mentioned that to me as well, nr.
I think it works. I fully approve.
Don’t tell me…Sterlinggray is Willie the racist hilljack cat molesting skin flute player?
Where is JD when we need him.
Not entirely sure, Bob. 1) He’s dumber than shit. 2) When you search sentence length strings you see that he’s just using other people’s words and thoughts. 3) And… Murfreesboro was in the house for that time period.
But, he’s about 8% less retarded than classic Willie.
So, I can’t give a firm ID.
That twerpy elf kid was from around there somewhere too.
Poor showing for Murfreesboro either way, really.
We should maybe see if we can’t volunteer to send children’s books or “how I kicked paint huffing” cassette tapes.
Wait, where did sterlinggray go?
(See, that’s very paella-serving midget. That characteristic lead to one of his funniest threads awhile back.)
We have another Murfreesboro regular as well. A professor from Willie’s school – a scientist, so a real academic – commented here a week or so ago. When I made an oblique remark about how grateful we’d be if he punched a midget guitar teacher in the testicles, he said that he reads here all the time and knew who/what I was referring to. So the place ain’t all bad.
It’s days like this that I wish my Rep were someone other than David Cicilline. On the bright side, he’s not Patrick Kennedy, so he’s still an improvement.
I suspect it’s mostly good, and that they all know that the guitar teacher is a weirdo. It’s Tennessee, ferchrissakes. I have similar suspicions about Moorehead State and Perfesser Caricature.
I am willing to entertain the notion that Murfreesboro is two parts imbecile to one part scientist, Abe.
Pretty sure that’s how we ended up with Pop Rocks.
Here’s another thing that won’t fix things: raising the capital gains rate to the upper-bracket rate. You’d get about $100b that way, but you’d still be a trillion and a half short of balance.
Mmmm … Pop Rocks.