Defunding ObamaCare might mean a government shut down, and people, we’re told, love them some government and would punish Republicans at the ballot box were the government to cease functioning in order to block the single largest government intrusion into the lives of free citizens in the history of ever. And if we can’t get Republicans elected, how do we hope to defund ObamaCare?
Pragmatism!
Fact: government takes care of itself first. Party no longer even rates, for the most part. And yet, if we don’t vote for the latest establishment candidate, we’re merely giving Obama four more years. So. Checkmate!
Turns out 2010 was a sham. Now. Get your asses in line / eat your peas. Hobbits.
Time to get WOPR on they asses
WOPR: Greetings, Professor Falken.
Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.
WOPR: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
So. Looks like the first line of the ballot won’t be the only line I’ll be skipping this November.
They must be careful, these idiotarian republicans, for were they to insist on government shutdown, people might just figure out how little government they’d actually miss, as one republican Governor wag has recently put it.
I for one do not relish the prospect of budget sequestration. You might say that Congressional bumfuckery in the matters of budget may have an immediate, personal effect on me.
Excerpt from a Henry Hazlitt essay from 1956. Sound familiar?
My congressman, Lynn Westmoreland, has a primary challenger who’s making more-conservative-than-thou noises about issues that really aren’t congressional in nature — and I’ve just sent Westmoreland a message demanding to know how he’ll vote on funding ObamaCare.
Absent the right answer, I’m voting for the challenger.
Sequestration as a result of the last time the GOP folded, you mean?
For a guy who can’t seem to find his own ass with two hands, Boehner nonetheless has a particular knack for offering it up for the using.
Feh.
I didn’t have the luxury of supporting a primary challenger —the state apparatus, through the office of the Secretary of State disqualified enough ballot signatures to keep the two prospective challengers off the primary ballot.
Have I mentioned that Republicans can run a banana republic just as efficiently as Democrats? (Hell, probably more effectively —they don’t feel the need to steal quite as much).
GOP House Rule No. 1: Can’t risk bad PR in an election year or the year before an election year.
Failshit nation speaks via another of my congressman’s insipid reader polls:
Screw it.
It’s so weird continuously demanding a distinctly American revolution in America.
This is the USSA, William.
Screw compromise, unless it’s us starting with everything we want and nothing of what they want and working from there. All compromise so far has been starting with everything they want and them throwing us a bone and then bitching forever about it.
I left out the part where the GOP declares victory.
You forget, Cranky-d. It’s the Beta male compromise. To whit: Give up the female to a male bigger than you without raising a fist and hope they look the other way enough so you can awkwardly impregnate her after everyone’s had too many melon balls during the jungle prom. Swoon.
I read the completely bizarre short story: “Tarzan’s First Love” last night, just in case anyone’s curious why I overworked that metaphor.
So far, 127 House Republican members have signed a letter urging the GOP House leadership to use the appropriations process to defund Obamacare.
2010 was not a sham. It was one battle in a much larger war. If that letter has 200+ signatures on it next time, it won’t be “urging” the leadership — it’ll be demanding. Not that the current leadership would remain in place, should we send another 80-100 angry budget-cutters to Washington.
I’d love to see Bachmann promoted to senior leadership, if only because of the wave of head explosions it would create among the chattering classes.
My first question back to the congresscritter asking that would be “Compromise on what?, Smiley? The wrong answer will get you a swift kick in the ballot.”
Loophole Alert!
The reporter is inferring that GOP plans to fund O-care, when all Boeher will specifically say is that they don’t want to shut down the gubmint.
So they can still put a provision into the bill to cut off funding for the HHS mandate.
Melt the switchboard, peeps.
I am SHOCKED. Shocked I say that members of the party that has vehemently sworN that they would repeal ACA asap are even considering funding the law.
In these times it’s shocking that we no longer can take a man(or woman)’s word for granted and expect them to honorably withstand any contrary influences.
This means that all the votes that have been taken since ACA’s passage have been merely show! Which not only highlights the hypocrisy of the party but their cynical use of the processes of this great nation to perpetrate a campaign fraud upon their electorate in hopes of gaining more power and receiving more money in the 2012 elections.
I’m at a loss for words to express how hurt and angry I am at this time.
/s
Yeah like we didn’t see THIS train chugging down the tracks since about a year ago.
3rd party or OUTLAW!!!
Rather than 3rd party, I’d rather see a classical liberal takeover of the GOP (change the name or whatnot) and kick the feckless crapweasels currently in control of that party over to the Democrat party where they belong. Then they can bow and scrape to their cowardly hearts’ content.
But then, I have a rich fantasy life.
Westmoreland’s reply reiterates that he will “fight implementation” of ObamaCare.
He’s bucked the party establishment before, in the General Assembly and in Congress, so I think he probably means it.
Probably.
Come on, McGehee. Everyone knows “Probably!” is the GOP answer to “Forward!”
too funny
Wisconsin State Senate Majority is…
Democratic no more.
16-16-1 now, thanks to Senator Jim Cullen bailing out of the Democratic party.
Democrat John Lehman just barely defeated Republican Van Wanggaard in the June Mega-Recall, with results certified earlier this month and flipping control of the state senate to the Democrats.
After months of screaming, millions blown on recalls up and down the state, and boasting and yelling by every fist-icon-sporting lefty out there, the Democratic victory that was recalling Walker barely flipping the senate (when it isn’t in session again until after the November elections which are likely to restore at least two seats to the Republicans) hit an iceberg today.
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Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) has endorsed Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) in her Senate bid, a surprising move since the seat could be in play for Republicans this fall…..
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says he supports Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s re-election because he believes Manchin is not beholden to short-sighted political interests.
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“….because he believes Manchin is not beholden to short-sighted political interests.”
– Of course….Coburn knows that Manchin is beholding to the same lobbyists and long term interests he is.
Young and Coburn are why taking over the GOP is a waste of time. They sell out to D.C. faster than we can train up a new cadre to oppose them with.
Assuming large gains for elected conservatives in November, we need to demand a change in chamber leadership. The Republican that assumes Reid’s chair better not be an establishment RINO, and Bonerfag needs to go.
They’ll probably give Senate chair to fucking McCain. Fuckers.
Senate majority leader chair that is…
Not that it matters but we’re losing another one to join the Walker administration. Safe seat but if we’re counting heads that’s one less for us. And Cullen wants to caucus with the Dems anyways.
All a big nothing.
Question:
I realize that a 3rd party in an election almost guarantees that the Lefties win, but what would happen if, after the election, all of the Conservative/Tea Party members of the House & Senate said to the GOP Elite, “Fuck you and all of your douchebagginess. We’re starting our own Conservative party”.
Seems to me that, seeing as these people were elected as known Conservatives, their constituents wouldn’t be terribly upset about it. In fact, most of their voters would probably be thrilled.
They would vote with the GOP on most issues, of course. But when it came down to issues that real Conservatives care about, and the GOP was ready to “cave” on, the Cons could stand firm.
I think it would be possible to get maybe 100 Congressmen from the House and 20 from the Senate right off the bat, which would make them a force to be reckoned with. And, after that, the GOP would be competing against a truly Conservative party, which would either pull them to the Right, or kill the GOP elites completely.
I realize that it’s probably wishful thinking, and I’m no Barfack Obambam type genius, but does anyone see anything wrong with that logic?
Postelection is when we’d expect to see open revolt from the republican party, though that would not preclude making one’s intentions known prior to the election, together with planning for eventualities. So yeah, Warmongrel, you’re onto something, which, practically speaking, is about the only obvious course events can take.
but does anyone see anything wrong with that logic?
see here
https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=42118#comments
Or here.
newrouter says July 24, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Heritage Action Scores
Hirono – 10%
Manchin – 14%
GO TEAM R!