That headline from the Washington Examiner. Which I offer isn’t a good start in helping us win the battle to save our liberty via our own health care choices.
If we’re going to do this, we need to start producing better headlines — not just because they are more helpful in making our case (though that plays a role), but rather because they’ll more accurately depict what is happening.
For instance, why not “Harry Reid rejects House compromise bill that would have delayed ObamaCare for all Americans, not just big business.”
Or howabout, “Harry Reid vows to shut down the government over Republican attempt at a CR compromise”
From there, we can start getting more pointed: “Obama/Reid tell the American people it’s either accept ObamaCare as is or the Senate will not approve measures to keep the government running”
The point being, we need ostensibly conservative — or at least right-leaning — media outlets to apply the proper emphasis. I worried early today that they might not — many of such “conservative” organs being no more than GOP establishment mouthpieces — and the early returns haven’t convinced me otherwise.
So why not take to Twitter and using the hashtag #realheadline set the mainstream and establishment media straight from the outset. Let them know that we know what it is they are up to.
It’s the ruling class vs. the rest of us.
More conservative members want the GOP to keep passing measures that diminish the impact of the health care law and then blame Democrats for a shutdown that might result if they don’t pass the House version.
More senior and moderate Republicans, however, want to abandon the Obamacare defunding effort because it’s clear Democrats will continue to reject any bill that includes it.
Republicans tend to get blamed for shutdowns, polls show. And the latest CNN/ORC International survey shows 46 percent of respondents would blame the GOP.
“We are not going to repeal Obamacare,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said just after the Senate rejected the latest House proposal Monday. “We may do this for a day, we may do it for a week. But it is going to end up the same way.”
Spoken like a truly broken POW, Johnny.
Now, I’m a liberal arts major, and even I know that 46% — in what is likely a skewed CNN/ORC poll — isn’t a majority.
But beyond that, who cares? Isn’t it the job of “leaders” to make the case to the American people, to show just exactly why the shutdown is occurring and who is protecting the interests of the American people?
The problem with the GOP isn’t just that it’s unprincipled. It’s that it’s both unprincipled AND cowardly, and as a result, it only fights battles whose outcomes are predetermined.
Which makes it like the WWE of politics.
Honestly. Would you be surprised if Lindsey Graham showed up in tights and a cape wearing a mask and calling himself Captain Capitulation?
I hope the GOP conservatives in the House can hold off what I’m sure is a frantic push by the old bulls to surrender the fight; because surrendering, the establishment has found, is so much less stressful than spoiling for a fight, regardless of what their constituents overwhelmingly want them to do. And with an 85% re-election rate, they also figure that it’s likely they’ll get to keep their jobs no matter how they vote, if only they can come up with political cover. Just like all but 19 GOPers in the Senate did.
Spit.
Old bulls and their shit.
Left on wrong thread
#theydidsomethingtohisbrain
#hehasabrain?
#noevidence!
Jimmy Oleson’s been writing the headlines at the Daily Planet again, eh?
tonight on mark levin, just in time for halloween, obamcare horror stories
Just read some old Theodore Dalrymple columns about the NHS.
Same, same.
The Federal government should never be able to cause harm by not doing something. The fact that they can is a crime against liberty.
How many fucking committees is Jim Moran on, anyway? He’s out here waving his arms and screaming about “It’s the law a th’ lan’!”
Shave that beard off, Santa.
Arizona, send that whipped old man home.
steny is babbling about something about cr 3
moran and steny – old white proggtards
Steny is a moron, for sure. So is Moran, for that matter.
end 1st q yea 44 nay 51
roaring rinos at 4 nays with 5 mins to go
@ the 2 min warning yea 119 nay 105
oh my 6 rinos naying
newrouter, would you mind explaining what your last two posts are referring to, since they’re near perfectly obscure?
make that four posts now, rather than two.
house cr 3 vote
So, there are Republicans voting with the Democrats for this, eh, and they don’t feel the least bit odd about it?
final score yea 228 nay 201 rinos 12 dinos 9
42….63 left….Obamacare…hut!
#InscrutibleTundra
orangeman should do cr 4 and tell the baracky the O!care exchange is open and he can pick his
bronze, silver, gold and platinum coverage
cr4 should to tell harry reid to pass a budget
dingy harry has the “table” ready and is serving now
I about choked when I heard Obama whining about the Republicans not allowing the funding of government as Congress had done for 200 hundred years or some such bilge.
I was thinking: Congress hasn’t passed a budget, and you haven’t signed one, as was done for 200 years.
I wish someone (besides us, of course) would scream at him when he starts in whining with the debt ceiling and “jeopardizing the full faith and credit of the United States”.
Conflation much, moron?
harry 54-46 dish is excellent. cr4 – fu harry-
if orangeman were smart he’d start saying “if you like your cr you can keep your cr” not
“Look, the bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling and the full-time CR,” said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). “You cannot negotiate when they take hostages and when they extort, period.”
Here’s Widespread Evidence that Obamacare is Hurting Jobs
Well, have they called forth the magic of strategery and fucked us all over yet? I mean things Dems want are suddenly “hostages” now. Transmutation is in full swing. Any heroic caving going on? Any orange streaks I should know about? Is primarying Slick Johnny “the eel” Cornyn a terrorist act now?
http://www.dailycal.org/2013/09/30/campus-wide-power-outage-disrupts-classes-early-monday-evening/
Berkely exploded a little bit today.
“UC Berkeley campus officials declare emergency following explosion around California Hall”
The only way the Republicans win on this is if they are more afraid of what the base will do than they are of what the mediacrats will say, AND if they understand that they’re right to fear what the base will do.
It’s the second part that’s going to hang the Republicans seperately
i.e., district by district and state by state.
I donated early. So if you don’t see me in the thank -you’s tomorrow don’t think me niggardly. In that single regard I mean. I have been known to bogart the last taco or grab a cola without asking from time to time. Hell, I’m practically a food pirate.
“It’s the second part that’s going to hang the Republicans seperately”
From your typing fingers to God’s eyes. Amen.
If a schlub like me can see it, God certainly has.
Making the real question: why are the Republican so blind?
Seriously, the smartest thing a Republican –and especially a conservative Republican– up for reelection next year can do is to swear before God and in front of witnesses to vote out the existing leadership team.
‘Cause they got their eyes closed! Nyauck nyuck! Woo-woo-woo-woooo.
They belong to DC. They think their districts are their estates by heritage, grant, or blood-right. Barons don’t see peasants well.
To a mighty lord of Congress the voters are like the fairy of the wood. Leave them a bowl of milk every now and then and turn the horse shoe upside down and there will be no mischief.
The Federal government should never be able to cause harm by not doing something.
– Which, as things have stood for the better part of 120 years, really means the Fed should simply go home because they never do anything that isn’t harmful in one way or another eventually.
– Shorter lede: “Reid Senate shuts down gov over ACA hissy fit.”
– In other news……
– How bad must your rep be when BOTH your friends AND your enemies don’t want your record documented?
– Hillary must be setting some kind of new history/media blackout/white wash record.
oh. i didn’t know this. I’m not getting all of the memos apparently.
There are so many loopholes for losers you might as well just take all my shit now and give it to someone with track marks and body odor.
you’re totally exempt from the joys of obamarape IF:
You filed for bankruptcy in the last 6 months.
You had medical expenses you couldn’t pay in the last 24 months.
You recently experienced domestic violence.
OR
You received a shut-off notice from a utility company.
AND ETC
As we have learned Americans are an inherently food stamp-lovin reflexively-disabled type of shitpeople.
And they learn how to spot a loophole long before they’re ever at any risk of having to learn to read at a fourth grade level.
So clearly this is just another one of those tricks our fascist brokedick government likes to play on people who bathe.
– If you can prove you voted for Obama in both elections you’re exempted. If anyone in your family declares they are Progressive, you’re exempted. If you have ever read HuffNPoop you are exempted. If you believe Benghazi was a simple protest against an anti-Muslim video you’re exempted.
– Finally, if you have managed to find some way to make having any sort of personal identity a terminal threat to your life you are exempted, and if, at the same time you’re an illegal alien recently escaped from prison, you’re exempted and you get a guarenteed school loan or home mortgage, along with disability and workers comp.
– Any questions?
i would like to ask Mr. President food stamp how he would feel if America did on his fascist ass like what he done on her broke ignant ass
– With a little more than 6 hours to go over at CSpan, the Dems are sounding more and more shrill, while the Reps are looking more relaxed.
That headline from the Washington Examiner. Which I offer isn’t a good start in helping us win the battle to save our liberty via our own health care choices.
If we’re going to do this, we need to start producing better headlines — not just because they are more helpful in making our case (though that plays a role), but rather because they’ll more accurately depict what is happening.
Given the way the media slants, how are we going to produce better headlines? *They* produce the headlines.
Berkely exploded a little bit today.
“UC Berkeley campus officials declare emergency following explosion around California Hall”
Caused by copper thieves, no less. California is like Rome being sacked by the Vandals.
“I want to thank President Obama for standing his ground and protecting my FREE Health Care because the Republicans want me to pay 10% of my INCOME for insurance. Keep up the good work President Obama and tell those bastard Republicans where they can stick their plan to make ME pay for insurance that I cannot afford. Thank you Sir.” — Typical lame voter
Curmudgeon, I think tweeting a #realheadline (per Jeff) is a good start.
I don’t think it is just sellouts like Manchurian Candidate John McLame and Lindsey Grahamnesty. I think some GOP members are just worn out, beaten down, despairing because they always lose, given the media.
But sometimes you just have to say “FUCK IT!” to the Left, the media, and the Commiecrats.
Meanwhile, wonky strategists like Dick Morris keeps saying not to shut the government down now, but to wait — what, 2 weeks?? — for the debt ceiling fight.
Gee Dick, Why does anybody think that anything will be any different then? The DemSM will still not cover that fairly either. The Demunists will still lie. The Republicans will get blamed for everything.
We can quarrel about strategy all we want but the DemSM will blame the GOP no matter what — and they will never hold Obama accountable for anything. They will always fellate their Obamasexgod and suck Donk dick.
The only thing the DemSM cannot so easily control is the fact that the American public has the attention span of Daffy Duck. So, if the GOP wants to do this, now is certainly the time.
By Nov 2014 people won’t remember. The DemSM and Democrats (But IRepeat Myself) will have moved on to some new outrage the GOP has supposedly committed.
Berkeley was a beautiful little town until the fascists took power.