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2013-10-16 Government

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Posted by Fred 2013-10-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The Stupid Party has more than earned its nickname during this clusterfarg. Better for the House to have passed a "clean CR" - with spending remaining set at sequester levels - and then sit down, pop some popcorn, crack open a couple of brewskis and watch the Obamacare rollout disaster unfold. Even the MSM couldn't have kept that covered up for too long. But noooo...the Trunks had to pretend that they could draw lines in the sand, with their principled stands finally getting honest media coverage and swinging public opinion their way. Got news for you, guys - the Low Information Voters haven't discovered a Tocquevillesque passion for public affairs in the past eleven months. They're still mostly ignorant and mostly spoonfed their political opinions via the corrupt news/entertainment media.

And now the Trunks are getting their testicles handed to them by a relentless shitstorm of negative media coverage and disastrous polling (yeah, I know the polls are rigged and front-loaded with Quislingrats and government employees. Like knowing that made a difference for our side last November??), they're going to have to swallow a CR deal that allows the 'Rats to throw away the sequester cuts and go wild with the credit card yet again, and they're setting up a damn strong likelihood of the 'Rats retaking the House next year.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2013-10-16 01:46|| 2013-10-16 01:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Basically, the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine is forcing a return to the choice of King or Parliament. Too many want a King with the facade of a 'republic'. Go ahead and panic. IIRC at this time out from the last election the PPPM was reporting that the one was ahead by double digits by their polls and the election in 12 or 13 months was just a formality. Who was panicking those last couple of months?

BTW - hardcore conservatives who bear primary responsibility for driving the dysfunctionality that has been evident in Washington over the past couple of weeks.

As opposed to your Imans in the Taliban territories who push death and intolerance in your little region? The actual body count seems rather higher over there.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-16 08:35|| 2013-10-16 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm still optimistic. It is better to fight something that you know is wrong and then later when it fails say 'we tried but they villified!' than to let everything fall to pot and say 'we knew but felt you had to suffer before we'd do anything.'.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-10-16 10:27|| 2013-10-16 10:27|| Front Page Top

#4 THE idea of bringing the government of the United States of America to its knees

Isn't it what happened in 2008?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-10-16 10:28|| 2013-10-16 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Anybody doubt that if not funded soon, Obama will make the Shutdown look like a party. The NPS will close all parks, everywhere, no checks will go out to anyone, while the gubbamint continues to rake in the coin, while they decide what is the correct priority for paying the bills.

Lessee - Air Force One and the golf course would come first...

Posted by Bobby 2013-10-16 11:56|| 2013-10-16 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 We fought a Revolutionary War with the Brits over taxation without representation which is basically what we have now. Our government has been a clusterf&*$ for some time now; an elitist mutual admiration society consisting of basically one party--the liberal (or radical) democrats and the rhino republicans being in charge. Neither of these groups work to the benefit of the American people. They seem to care only about creating a cushy job for themselves and re-election. We really need term limits to break-up this structure. I don't know how these limits should be created--maybe on the basis of total time at the trough.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-10-16 20:00|| 2013-10-16 20:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The can has been kicked down the road once again. Only this time the next fight in congress will be even tougher and the stakes even higher.

FORWARD to the Detroitification of America!

Posted by Airandee 2013-10-16 21:05|| 2013-10-16 21:05|| Front Page Top

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