Posted on 07/27/2011 9:40:47 AM PDT by Huck
I though tat poor excuse for a magazine had died a long time ago..No one reads this garbage but filthy communist democrats..
I though that poor excuse for a magazine had died a long time ago..No one reads this garbage but filthy communist democrats..
Now is an opportunity for tea-partiers to prove that they are non-partisan. We must resist Boehner’s business-as-usual garbage.
Taibbi could have substituted any one else’s name for Boehner’s and the article would still essentially ring true (eg., Harry Reid, Orrin Hatch, the entire black caucus, etc.).
It’s enough to make one want to go Galt (after getting Boehner to shaft Zer0’s re-election).
I prefer to do it without using prompts and lines from a Rolling Stone article.
Gee, where was the Rolling Stone article on Pelosi stating what a business as usual hack she was. Drain the swamp? Please, the culture of corruption flourished under her watch. Favors for her district and her husbands business. A rich woman hiring illegals while claiming to be looking out for the little guy.
Oh, wait, Rolling Stone... part of Pravda, nevermind.
Ouch!! Sticks'n'stones....I think he's playing well with the hand he was dealt..so deal with that.
Exactly. Boehner is a surrender monkey in the finest tradition of the french army. He will sell us out.
He compares him to Reid and Dodd:
In this regard, Boehner has had a lot more in common with campaign-contribution-devouring Democrats like Chris Dodd and Harry Reid than he has with the Tea Party Republican voters he now ostensibly represents.
Wow, Tiabbi writing an acerbic hit piece on a Republican? I can’t BELIEVE it.
Someone might want to tell him that there is another party with people to attack....
Taibbi could have substituted any one elses name for Boehners and the article would still essentially ring true (eg., Harry Reid, Orrin Hatch, the entire black caucus, etc.).
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Quite true. The exceptions can be counted on one hand, and even those few are not pure.
Bump to read later
Reading the snips I find little to differ with
>>Its enough to make one want to go Galt (after getting Boehner to shaft Zer0s re-election).<<
I am. I make the final drive from Seattle to rural Kentucky beginning next Tuesday morning. :-)
But there are TARP-like votes ahead that will prove to be the real indicators of whether or not Boehner leads the Republican caucus, or whether the caucus will end up leading him.
Sometime in the spring, for instance, the Republicans will likely be forced to choose between raising the debt ceiling or shutting down the government. Refusing to raise the debt ceiling was an explicit campaign issue for many Tea Party-backed candidates, and in the wake of the election, several prominent Republicans, including dingbat party chief Michael Steele, have vowed to oppose any move to raise the debt limit next year.
"It's going to be really interesting to watch," says one Democratic aide. "Is Boehner going to let the Tea Party shut the government down?"
Boehner, somewhat predictably, has indicated an unwillingness to do so. Reflecting the sentiment of veterans in both parties, he calls raising the debt ceiling a procedural no-brainer, something that simply has to be done.
Give us a holler when you get setup. ;-)
I think this right here is the problem our side faces.
We continually self sabotage ourselves by expecting miracles from the GOP leadership. So we put all our focus on them instead of focusing on how the 0 Democrats are blocking every real reform being presented.
Rather then continually blame the GOP leadership for doing the best they can with a weak hand, how about Conservatives finally focus on the real roadblock here?
The 0 Democrats.
If the GOP held the Senate majority CCB sails through this week leaving 0 in an untenable political position.
So instead of endlessly complaints that the GOP isn’t doing the absolutely impossible, how about we focus on the real enemies to our values?
The current leadership of the Democrat Party.
"We have found the enemy and he is us." [Pogo]
The TEA PARTY should look out for itself first, not carry water for shills like Boehner. Now is the time to show America that we mean business, that this isn't just something we're doing because we're out of power. We need to show hacks like Boehner that we mean business, that we're not going to go back to sleep when the GOP regains control.
You talk about what would happen if the GOP held the majority. How quickly you forget. Just a few short years ago, they DID. And what did they do? They raised the debt limit and increased the debt. Where was the tea party then?
GOPers think we're stupid. They think we'll go back to sleep. They think they can hoodwink us, and maybe they are right. Time will tell.
Get it through your head. The GOP is not our party. They are a professional political organization that we will either control, or be controlled by.
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