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#1 Oct 04 2013 at 4:50 AM Rating: Excellent
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And there it is, the budget dispute in plain English.

"We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is."

Somehow his words bring this to mind.Guard your bunnies, people. The teapots are not gonna be ignored.

Oh, Boehner. You need a few hundred ball gags. And some aspirin. And these matches. - The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control, and the paddle ball... And this lamp.
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#2 Oct 04 2013 at 5:44 AM Rating: Good
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While Obama is the king of caving, it seems like the Very Serious old white guys he blindly listens to have come to the conclusion that there's nothing to be gained by making concessions this time. It'll be interesting to see if he can resist his desire to be the reasonable one again. Jbone has been leaking out that he's likely to bring a combination "clean" CR and debt ceiling solution to the floor, and people I know who are closer to the situation than me seem to think that's fairly likely the resolution. Obviously if he can win some sort of face saving concession from the white house that would help, but it probably goes that way regardless. General opinion seems to be that he's pantomimed party loyalty enough to not really be at threat of losing his leadership position in '14 over this. Life is uncertain, though. I don't have a good handle on what Jim DeMint wants, and that obviously matters a fair amount.
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#3 Oct 04 2013 at 6:53 AM Rating: Decent
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The negro smarty-pants pres says....
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Think about that. You have already gotten the opportunity to serve the American people. There's no higher honor than that. So the American people aren't in the mood to give you a goodie bag to go with it.


Not very politic. Sounds like Barack is done being polite with the turdheads.
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#4 Oct 04 2013 at 7:15 AM Rating: Excellent
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Samira wrote:
The teapots are not gonna be ignored.

Oh, Samira... you SO overestimate the power of the Tea Party! Why someone told me so the other day just on this very forum!

Ignore the fact that this whole shutdown started with a few Tea Party loyalists coming up with a plan the establishment GOP called an unworkable fringe idea. Ignore how the Heritage Foundation championed it and helped get it rolling. Forget how, even now, everyone from both sides agrees that the primary thing stopping Boehner from passing the clean CR on his desk is fear of the Tea Party extremist wing. The thing to remember is that the Tea Party doesn't really control anything in the Republican Party.

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While Obama is the king of caving, it seems like the Very Serious old white guys he blindly listens to have come to the conclusion that there's nothing to be gained by making concessions this time.

You can tell how well the GOP is "winning" by how happy they are with Cruz for bringing them into it.
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#6 Oct 04 2013 at 8:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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I composed a short poem about the situation:

Once there was a president, a straight up murderous G,
Bonafides like Bonaparte's, he'll leave you holier than See.
Now this cat passes a budget, seems healthcare can be
'til the GOP throws a protest party and gets it down to a T.

Now the government's shut down, what's a guy to do?
Angry veterans mill around, smelling of poo.
You ain't in Iraq, don't try throwing a shoe
There's only one thing a player hater can do.

Burn down the Whitehouse, they did it before,
Prank call Obama and call him a *****.
Find Boehner and castrate him with a door
Leave him screaming filibusters on the House floor.

If anyone needs me, I'll be waiting for my laureate nomination.
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That sort of works to the tune of The Beverly Hillbillies if you play with adding or dropping a word here and there ("...they did it [once] before")
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#8 Oct 04 2013 at 9:12 AM Rating: Excellent
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Samira wrote:
Somehow his words bring this to mind.Guard your bunnies, people. The teapots are not gonna be ignored.
I don't see how they could be, so loud and angry all the time. I'm not sure we could tune that out if we tried.

And I'm not sure I'd take a group hug from a politician; good way to catch cooties, or find a knife in your back.
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That sort of works to the tune of The Beverly Hillbillies if you play with adding or dropping a word here and there ("...they did it [once] before")
Well that certainly made my day slightly better. Smiley: laugh
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GOP has no idea what it actually wants out of this except to be less embarrassed. A lot of people recognize that they're not going to stop the ACA but have no idea how to end this without looking stupid.
Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL) via NYT wrote:
“Republicans have to realize how many significant gains we’ve made over the last three years — and we have, not only in cutting spending but in really turning the tide on other things,” Mr. Ross said. “We can’t lose all that when there’s no connection now between the shutdown and the funding of Obamacare.”

“I think now it’s a lot about pride,” he said.

Who needs good governance when you have warm fuzzies and pride instead and you'll shut down the government until you have them?
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#11 Oct 05 2013 at 10:57 PM Rating: Default
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So, we have a Republican who is willing to man up and face reality and CNN spends their efforts trying to make him look like one of "them". That's what I got out of it.
#12 Oct 05 2013 at 11:13 PM Rating: Excellent
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He's a much better tactician than Cruz, sure, but still a maniac willing to play the game of brinkmanship. He states they should have run this technique during the debt ceiling debate. Negotiation failure there would be significantly more disastrous for our nation.
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I didn't see Jake Tapper as unfair to him and Tapper ain't much of a liberal. But when you admit the disastrous Tea Party origins of this crisis and then say you support Boehner's decision to keep it going out of party unity, you pretty much are one of "them".
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#14 Oct 06 2013 at 2:14 AM Rating: Default
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Jophiel wrote:
I didn't see Jake Tapper as unfair to him and Tapper ain't much of a liberal. But when you admit the disastrous Tea Party origins of this crisis and then say you support Boehner's decision to keep it going out of party unity, you pretty much are one of "them".


I can see that point of view, but unless I have mistaken his argument (which maybe flawed) is that there's a process, and when you decide to bypass the process and take matters in your own hands, then you're doing exactly what Ted Cruz did. If I'm not mistaken, the "process" is to simply have the bill up for vote. His part is to voice his concern, which he did behind closed doors. He's only publicly speaking about it because it was leaked. If he breaks off, creating his own faction, as opposed to convincing the leader to take another action, you're only creating more divisional chaos.

Then again, he could be full of crap and trying to play both sides. However, I believe the former based off all of the other GOP actions.
#15 Oct 06 2013 at 11:47 AM Rating: Good
The "process" was that a law was passed (Obamacare/ACA), upheld by the Supreme Court, & implemented starting lass Tuesday REGARDLESS of the government shutdown. The shutdown only happened because some uppity pubbies are still /butthurt about it & have little clue how Congress actually works.

If they also allow us to default because of it, they're insane. I predict the "shutdown" stays until zero hour of the debt ceiling increase & they have no choice but to eat their hats or bankrupt the USA. Why take two bullets when you only have to take one, ya know?
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I can see that point of view, but unless I have mistaken his argument (which maybe flawed) is that there's a process, and when you decide to bypass the process and take matters in your own hands, then you're doing exactly what Ted Cruz did.

Cruz didn't bypass any "process", he just convinced a bunch of Tea Party affiliated Republicans to agree with him and pressure Boehner into doing what they wanted. Nunes, at this point, is essentially saying "I think this shutdown is wrong and damaging and we're in it for the wrong reasons but party unity beats what's best for the country right now".

I think asking him why he thinks that is a perfectly legitimate question.
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Lol, let me clarify. The two of you took the opposite meanings of "process".

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The "process" was that a law was passed (Obamacare/ACA), upheld by the Supreme Court, & implemented starting lass Tuesday REGARDLESS of the government shutdown. The shutdown only happened because some uppity pubbies are still /butthurt about it & have little clue how Congress actually works.

If they also allow us to default because of it, they're insane. I predict the "shutdown" stays until zero hour of the debt ceiling increase & they have no choice but to eat their hats or bankrupt the USA. Why take two bullets when you only have to take one, ya know?


You are absolutely correct. That wasn't the process that I was referring to. In this instance, if you want the GOP to stop abandon this plan, the proper way would be to convince the leader to let the bill go up for the vote. This is as opposed to rallying a group of people to persuade the leader to do something different. At that point, he is no longer a leader, but a follower.

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I can see that point of view, but unless I have mistaken his argument (which maybe flawed) is that there's a process, and when you decide to bypass the process and take matters in your own hands, then you're doing exactly what Ted Cruz did.

Cruz didn't bypass any "process", he just convinced a bunch of Tea Party affiliated Republicans to agree with him and pressure Boehner into doing what they wanted. Nunes, at this point, is essentially saying "I think this shutdown is wrong and damaging and we're in it for the wrong reasons but party unity beats what's best for the country right now".

I think asking him why he thinks that is a perfectly legitimate question.

Read above. Don't get me wrong, it's a legitimate question, but he gave a legitimate answer. The problem is, they kept on the subject as if they didn't understand or wanted him to change his position. That's what I didn't like.

Followers don't make decisions, they follow. If a follower has a suggestion, then s/he can voice their concern to the leader. If the leader decides to go against it (which Boehner originally did), then you follow.

Now, I understand what you mean, there is no FORMAL process and at the end of the day, 'twas the GOP who decided to go along with the strategy. However, the point that Nunes is making, is if he rallies up a group of people to follow his strategy, then he can't criticize Cruz for doing the same thing. Furthermore, he would only be dividing the GOP even further. Nunes realizes that in this instance, he is a follower and as a follower, he is giving his opinion. It's the leader's responsibility to voice the message and persuade the people. If you believe that the leader is weak and should be replaced, then you take his spot, else remain tacit.
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Nunes has an interview in the conservative National Review if you're so interested.
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Left wing has their healthcare, right wing has their "slimmed down" government. Who says the system can't produce something for everybody?

Don't mind the lemmings. Smiley: rolleyes
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if you're so interested.
Can't imagine anyone honestly being so.
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#21 Oct 07 2013 at 2:58 PM Rating: Good
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Left wing has their healthcare, right wing has their "slimmed down" government. Who says the system can't produce something for everybody?

Don't mind the lemmings. Smiley: rolleyes


That's all fine and dandy for the nonexistant budget, but right now Wall Street and all affiliated people are staring at the US default think it's going to be the Apocalypse.

Holy smokes, I just realized this is exactly what the right wingers want because they fully expected the End Times ala Left Behind. If God won't bring Armageddon to us, we'll bring (financial) Armageddon to God!

(God also smited the Olympic torch on its way to Russia because he loves gay people.)
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Holy smokes, I just realized this is exactly what the right wingers want because they fully expected the End Times ala Left Behind. If God won't bring Armageddon to us, we'll bring (financial) Armageddon to God!
Yeah, please don't do that. It's fun watching your political soap from across the ocean but if your government ***** that up it's going to hurt me too and I'd rather not have that.
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That's all fine and dandy for the nonexistant budget, but right now Wall Street and all affiliated people are staring at the US default think it's going to be the Apocalypse.
Oh I'm confident they'll find a solution for that part at least. No budget is good for some free airtime for your political rhetoric, default would hurt the money behind the scenes too much to be a valid option at this point.
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That's all fine and dandy for the nonexistant budget, but right now Wall Street and all affiliated people are staring at the US default think it's going to be the Apocalypse.
Oh I'm confident they'll find a solution for that part at least. No budget is good for some free airtime for your political rhetoric, default would hurt the money behind the scenes too much to be a valid option at this point.


The GOP wont block the debt ceiling increase if/when it comes down to it. As I said in the other thread, the real objective here is to do something to offset out of control spending without any debate, negotiations, or compromise. The ACA is just the most obvious low hanging fruit in said argument. The debt ceiling is not the goal here. But if the only way to get the Dems to even come to the table to discuss spending is when there's some imminent problem that must be solved (like government shutdown or default), then unfortunately that's the only tool the GOP has to get them to do that.

It takes two sides to disagree.
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#25 Oct 07 2013 at 3:37 PM Rating: Excellent
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As I said in the other thread, the real objective here is to do something to offset out of control spending without any debate, negotiations, or compromise


False. The real objective is political posturing. Blah blah you're an idiot blah blah.
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gbaji wrote:
It takes two sides to disagree.
One side being utterly ******* ridiculous makes it easy to disagree though.
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