{"id":29841,"date":"2011-08-09T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=29841"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:41:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:41:36","slug":"a-pyrrhic-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=29841","title":{"rendered":"A Pyrrhic Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helluva job<\/a>, boys!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Hobbits<\/a> trudge on.<\/p>\n

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\nupdate<\/em><\/strong>: McCain is himself an objective correlative, a dust-farting faux “realist” relic whom an awakened populace is now (thankfully) getting wise to.<\/p>\n

The truth, Mr McCain, is that it would have taken 3 or 4 Democrats to break with their party — of the 20 or so who ran on balancing the budget — to pass CC&B. Several of those Dems run as centrists in their home states, and are up for re-election in 2012, so a a no vote would have left them particularly vulnerable. And if none were willing to vote for CC&B, as you suggest, wouldn’t it have been politically savvy of the GOP to have those Senators on record having broken their promises — and for voting down the legislation that S&P says would have prevented the downgrade?<\/p>\n

No, this is not about the “pragmatics” of how CC&B couldn’t pass. It’s about DC politicians of both parties who didn’t want it to pass<\/em>, because it controls them<\/i> and takes away all that they know: the permission to give away other people’s money without consequence, and with great personal enrichment.<\/p>\n

McCain is protecting the status quo against us<\/i>. And what’s most galling is, he is unwilling to apologize for doing so — because, by virtue of his being a Senator, he has decided he is our superior in every important way. And rulers don’t apologize to subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helluva job, boys! Meanwhile, the Hobbits trudge on. **** update: McCain is himself an objective correlative, a dust-farting faux “realist” relic whom an awakened populace is now (thankfully) getting wise to. The truth, Mr McCain, is that it would have taken 3 or 4 Democrats to break with their party — of the 20 or so who ran on balancing the budget — to pass CC&B. Several of those Dems<\/p>\n

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