Just so we’re clear here, LaTourette is admitting it was TEA Party conservatives who prevented the Republican Party from surrendering to a Marxist class warfare paradigm in exchange for funding the government for what, two days? Cool. You’re welcome, bitch. **** update: Writes Ed Morrissey: That’s not to say that LaTourette doesn’t have a genuine beef, either.  Steve Doocy defends the Tea Party opposition to Plan B as a response

This is one sure way to know you’re living in a post-constitutional police state:  when some bloated legacy pol believes it within his power — or the government’s power generally — to seize private property protected under the Bill of Rights simply because he doesn’t care for its aesthetics.  In fact, even by floating the idea of confiscation of firearms, what the left is admitting here is that to them

Jesus.  I’m in agreement with Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders, for Chrissakes. Are we sure the world didn’t end, and that this is just some version of hell I’ve been sent to for that one time I coaxed a couple of very hot, slightly drunk coeds into, you know, touching each other for me? (h/t geoff b)

From what I understand, Boehner was threatening committee seats, subcommittee seats, and everything in between in order to get the “insane” teabaggers — or as I like to call them, principled Constitutionalists — to go along with his plan to jettison Republican party principle, adopt the paradigm of class warfare (as Romney had before him), and set the precedent for punishing successful people in order to fund the government for

Because our own national media likes to excerpt and edit and pick and choose what to show you. Otherwise, you may not take way the correct lesson — or have the proper context for the planned “outrage” in response. It’s who they are. It’s what they do. So, from the Guardian UK: The National Rifle Association’s 4 million mothers, fathers, sons and daughters join the nation in horror, outrage, grief

Begging the question, then why the fuck did you vote for him? Morons.  

In my previous post on the Boehner failure to get his caucus to fall in line and hike taxes — which would have been the first time they’d done so in decades of their having held a House majority — I half-jokingly attributed to the GOP ruling class establishment the headline, “Stupid unnuanced purists stab only adult in the room in his adroit and savvy back; prove they ain’t worth

Alternate Rovean / Kristol headline:  “Stupid unnuanced purists stab only adult in the room in his adroit and savvy back; prove they ain’t worth the salt in his (orange-tinged) tears” CNS: Conservative members of the House of Representatives dealt a stunning defeat to the House Republican leadership on Thursday night, forcing Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to cancel a vote on his “Plan B” tax-increase proposal. Earlier in the evening, the