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“AP Sources: House GOP offers debt limit hike, end to shutdown in package with spending cuts”

Or, to put it in more proper terms, the House GOP offers unconditional surrender in exchange for a slowdown in the rate of increased deficit spending.

Even better, try this one:  the House GOP offers surrender in exchange for fig leaf we can all see their shriveled junk right through.

If — and there’s some people who are saying that the AP sources are wrong on this, so let’s take it w/ a grain of salt for now — but if the GOP folds and takes the Ryan route, where nothing is done with respect to ObamaCare, and the GOP is looking for a way to claim victory while telling us they helped avoid a “default,” they are simply done as a Party.

If they can’t represent the 68% of the American public, not all of whom obviously identify as Republicans, that do not want ObamaCare — and who are enjoying, for the most part, a respite from ever new government regulations and molestations (save for the newly juiced NPS, where Ranger Bob has become a Hessian mercenary following orders from a Marxist ideologue) — then what’s the point of even pretending we have a representative government?

This to them is all about politics and positioning, with the legacy media being its target audience.  It’s about the status quo.

The fact that the GOP continues to use the left’s frame — “government shutdown,” “default,” “pay our bills,” et al — is further proof that the party simply doesn’t represent the interests of those it purports to represent.

Spit.

20 Replies to ““AP Sources: House GOP offers debt limit hike, end to shutdown in package with spending cuts””

  1. Mueller says:

    Unfortunately you are right.
    Also unfortunately I’m going through my personal moral inventory and wondering if it would be a bad thing if we took this to the streets. I shudder at the thought of it, but I’m not seeing any other recourse.

  2. Darleen says:

    You know the party is finished when Hewitt has spent the last several days screaming at Republicans (he eviscerated Charlie Dent to his face on-air) to stop surrendering to Obama.

  3. happyfeet says:

    In addition to ending the shutdown and increasing the debt limit, the proposal includes an easing of the across-the-board spending cuts that began taking effect a year ago

    jesus fuck these people are goddamn useless

    The sequester is the only thing Team Boehnerfag has accomplished in many many moons.

    Entitlements will reform themselves as hordes of greedy boomer whores retire and get glaucoma and what have you.

    But our cowardly congressional fuckholes will never be able to put a framework in place that reigns in the oinky oinky pentagon piggies and the rest of America’s increasingly belligerent and fascist bureaucracy ever again.

    It was a goddamn accident it ever happened in the first place.

  4. happyfeet says:

    Among them is a plan to raise the cost of Medicare for better-off beneficiaries.

    “better-off beneficiaries” are the ones what worked really hard and finally started making decent money in their 40s and 50s – Team R’s plan is to redistribute their moneys to food stampy losers!

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  5. palaeomerus says:

    Well, to be honest I wasn’t going to vote for the fuck shits anyway. Primary Cornyn.

  6. RI Red says:

    ‘feets, I’m worried about you. Recently you’ve lapsed off into complete understandability, proper grammar and regular sentence structure. Are you ok?
    If not, there’s this neat federal healthcare for which you can sign up.

  7. happyfeet says:

    it might could be the phentermine

  8. dicentra says:

    I heard ugly rumors about making Obamacare more palatable: raising the hourly limit to 39, or the headcount to 100.

    You know the party is finished when Hewitt has spent the last several days screaming at Republicans (he eviscerated Charlie Dent to his face on-air) to stop surrendering to Obama.

    Yesterday in the Tribble feed I was making dark pronouncements about Boehner and the rest not really being against Obamacare but rather being about power, Big Gubmint, and more power, and Duane said I was coming off as a nutter.

    Which, if your livelihood depends in part on staying on good terms with Those People, and on Being Reasonable and center-right, then yeah, insisting that the Establicans aren’t stupid, they’re venal, is definitely nutter talk.

    Just as Churchill was a nutter for all his warmongering about the Nazis.

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  10. dicentra says:

    I was thinking this morning about the dynamic that is portrayed in an event from the New Testament (Matthew 12, Mark 3, Luke 6).

    Jesus goes into a synagogue on the Sabbath where he finds a man with a withered hand. The Pharisees had been chastising him for healing people on the Sabbath because it went against the multitude of ticky-tacky regulations they’d prescribed for Sabbath-day activites. (None of which were in the original Mosaic law.)

    Or at least that’s what they SAID their objection was.

    He asks them whether it’s lawful to do good on the Sabbath day, and when they don’t answer, he asks the man to stretch out his withered hand, and right there in front of everyone the hand is made whole.

    Instead of recognizing an act of divinity — or even being astonished at the miracle — they “straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him” and “they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.”

    This is the reaction of evil men to the presence of a good man: how do we destroy him? The man’s good works and principled behavior (or even a bona fide miracle) don’t give them pause, they instead become enraged and attempt to destroy him.

    Ted Cruz is not the son of God or even his official messenger, and the Establicans are not plotting his murder (I hope), but they are definitely behaving as the Pharisees, rending their clothes and exclaiming that “he’s violating the Sabbath,” or in other words, of course they’re in favor of miracles, they just don’t think they should be done that way.

    If you prefer a more secular, modern example, take the cop Serpico, who refused to take bribes when his fellow officers did nothing but. His principled behavior drove them to madness — instead of being chagrined at their corruption they tried to take him out. It was only after the corruption was exposed in the press that things got cleaned up (and only then because there were enough non-corrupt people in high places to want to set things right.)

    Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are operating on pure principle, not pragmatism or self-interest. They’re not pretending to be conservative while privately expanding the size of gubmint or pretending to be fighting for us while actually fighting against. The fact that Cruz’s filibuster provoked such rage means that we’re not dealing with a difference of opinion over tactics but that the difference is in goals and intentions. Those Establicans who are not actually against Obamacare — because they want a piece of that sweet power when it’s their turn — are naturally enraged when someone actually IS against Obamacare and does something effective to damage it. Instead of jumping aboard the bandwagon in recognition of A Real Effort To Change Things, they try to destroy him.

    Which is why charges of perfidy and venality against the Establicans are entirely warranted. Were the Establicans merely ignorant or foolish or blind, Cruz’s actions would have stirred them to action, or they’d at least have been given pause.

    Instead, the behave the same way that evil men always do in the presence of a man of principle.

    By their fruits ye shall always know them.

  11. Bones says:

    The National Park Service certainly hasn’t covered themselves with glory during this shutdown… I think they’ve permanently tarnished their brand.

    Not that they care, apparently.

    Time for budget cuts.

  12. daveinsocal says:

    From Matthew Bracken’s “What I Saw At The Coup”:

    “We could both be facing prison time just for talking like this.”

    “Not as long as we’re in power. You know how I know? Operation Fast and Furious. At least four hundred dead and there was no blowback that we couldn’t handle. Our media stuck right with us all the way through. For me, that was the final test. We can do almost anything if we get the timing right, and most of the media stays with us.”

    I replied, “But those were Mexicans. And not two thousand.”

    “It doesn’t matter. I have the majority leader on a leash. I could drag him around the White House on all-fours if I wanted to. We have nothing to fear coming out of the House. Without the majority leader, Congress can’t do anything but hold hearings that the media won’t cover.”

    “But he hammers us every day in the press…”

    “Of course he does, he has to maintain credibility with his base. But it’s pure bluster. Trust me—I own him when it counts.”

    Looking less and less like fiction by the day.

  13. daveinsocal says:

    And more:

    Dennis’s knack for finding the hidden scandals almost seemed occult-like. After the big national health care decision, he showed me compromising “men’s health club” photos of the younger chief justice and his pals. Dennis just couldn’t resist the irony and had to share it with me, but that was a rare case of candor about his methods.

    So I wondered what he had on the majority leader, that holier-than-thou redneck prick. Was he kinky, greedy, or both? Had Dennis’s minions discovered ancient history long buried, or had they lured him into some new honey trap? It didn’t matter, and I didn’t really care. But it did explain why the Congress could never seem to move past first base on Fast and Furious, even with so many dead.

  14. palaeomerus says:

    Boehner needs a yellow stripe applied during a regimental drum tattoo and a frog march to a back bench during which no one will look at him, to wait for his primary.

  15. palaeomerus says:

    “So I wondered what he had on the majority leader, that holier-than-thou redneck prick. Was he kinky, greedy, or both? Had Dennis’s minions discovered ancient history long buried, or had they lured him into some new honey trap?”

    Sometimes they fear el plomo. Sometimes they last after la plata.

  16. Curmudgeon says:

    From Matthew Bracken’s “What I Saw At The Coup”:

    Nice link. My only difference would be that I would prefer that the narrating character, “Jacinda Hamden”, rather than being hanged in the end, would be placed into cell after cell with more cooperative enemies. In return for turning in other traitors, these more cooperative enemies would get to have their way with her. The ultimate punishment for a Leftist Media Cupcake Whore.

  17. palaeomerus says:

    last-> lust

  18. newrouter says:

    Ted Cruz confronts President Obama at White House

    “I told the president exactly the same thing I have told you here today: That we need to work together and fund the government and at the same time provide substantial relief to the millions of people who are hurting because of Obamacare, who are losing their jobs, being forced into part-time work and losing their health insurance,” Cruz said. “If the outcome doesn’t impact people who are struggling, who are hurting because of Obamacare, then I don’t think it would be a good outcome.”

    Asked to give a breakdown of the exchange between Cruz and Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney simply responded: “No.”

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