And to think, we used to make fun of Nancy Pelosi for saying such a thing. It’ll be great fun using it on the Weekly Standard crew, the FOX News Bushies, half of NRO, Jen Jen, The Commentary crowd, and all the serious, sober, pragmatic realists that, by working to drive through a tough-fought “compromise,” have shown the Tea Party extremist fringe Hobbit racist purists just how we get ‘er done in DC.
Except, oops!
Shut up, Hobbits. And just sit back and embrace your inner Greece.
(NTTATWWT).
But if Boehner & Co. had pulled way back and made the left own this shit alone they wouldn’t have re-elected Obama in a year.
Wait…
By the way: taxes will increase, either via an end to the Bush tax rates, or by the “revenue” needed to “replace” the revenue “spent” by the extension of those rates.
That’s how the CBO will score the deal. Carney and Reid have already begun talking about raising “revenue” through the committee process. And reportedly, so has Eric Cantor.
Plus, Obamacare!
#WINNING!
the emergency thing is a dealbreaker – when your little country is a cowardly failshit whore there’s nothing what’s not an emergency plus what happens if we need to subsidize contraceptives
You have to take what you can get when you can get it. I’m not a fan of this deal, but given the reality of Democrats controlling both the White House and the Senate, I realize there’s only so much that realistically can be done to turn the tide.
Not so.
In the end, each side has a veto. And no agreement results in no increase in the debt ceiling at all.
I don’t mind that the current Congress is too married to big government to make real changes now. I do wish the ones who think I consider them my friends would stop pouring piss on me and telling me it’s rain.
This is like walking into a car dealership.
We’re the prospective buyer. The Senate is the salesman. The President is the sales manager.
No deal, no car is bought. We do not have less leverage. We have more.
Fine. I’ll take CCB.
Actually, it’s like walking into a car dealership with a retarded spouse (male or female, I’m sensitive like that).
You’re negotiating and they’re saying things like “If we don’t buy this car, we won’t be able to pay our mortgage!” or “This car gets 120 mpg and goes 0-60 in negative 18 seconds.”
Not when it’s a big old dick up the ass. No sir, I don’t need to take that at all.
To be fair, Pablo, they did compromise by using the regular rubber dildo and not the one with shards of broken glass in.
Really, stop your complaining and bend over like a good Hobbit.
JOURNALISM!!!
Will the Dem base cut the legs out from under Obama, Reid and Pelosi?
Hey look, what’s for dinner!
But it won’t be, because the Dems will pass this.
I’d love nothing more. Hell, I’d love it if the Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, HHS, HUD, Labor, and Transportation Departments were abolished. But we’re not going to get it, at least not now. Maybe later, maybe not. We do what we can now and we do more later, and even more after that. This is the good fight, and you keep fighting the good fight. You don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, you take as much good as you can get until you reach the perfect (or as close as you can possibly get). However, at some point you have to recognize that that thing your head keeps bumping up against is reality.
No, J0hn, the thing I keep bumping up against is cowardice, capitulation, rationalization, and ignorance — specifically, on the part of those who routinely buy into the “best we could get” solutions, and who routinely trade in their principles when the fight becomes uncomfortable for them. And the irony is, they do so in ostensible support of politicians who don’t believe the bullshit they’re peddling.
Don’t talk to me about fighting the good fight. I’m fighting it. And you’re in my fucking way.
Besides, don’t worry about me. I’ve left your Republican Big Tent.
See, that right there is your problem. You insist on being hostile and dismissive of people who are clearly on your side. I’m not the enemy, and yet you insist on treating me as such. The world isn’t as black-and-white, all-or-nothing as you make it out to be.
By the way, you’ve got me all wrong. I’m not inside the Big Tent, I’m just realistic enough to know with whom I’ve got a better chance of getting what I want. Like the Tea Party folks (of which I consider myself a part), I know I’ve got to change things from the inside-out, and not the other way around.
You want to win the good fight? Try bringing friends into the fold, instead of squeezing them out.
[…] one can always count of Jeff Goldstein to sum it all up in one, pithy sentence: Shut up, Hobbits. And just sit back and embrace your inner Greece. […]
There isn’t any “good” to be had if getting what you think you got means surrendering principle. Friends don’t ask other friends to give up principles.
This isn’t a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good, this is a case of a fucked up ass just patch it together enough to get me a little farther down the road where it breaks even worse in a much more inconvenient place being the enemy of the good.
yup. Why this rings true true true is that defense cuts were set against discretionary spendings not entitlement reform. Discretionary spendings are include free birth control for obamasluts and a subsidized golf course for America’s piggy piggy fat-ass illiterate autoworkers.