Posted on 12/17/2013 1:21:33 PM PST by cotton1706
Paul Ryan defused the likelihood of a government shutdown in January with the bipartisan budget deal he helped strike last week. But on Sunday he did nothing to tamp down the possibility of a showdown over the debt ceiling.
The House Budget chairman said that Republicans will gather after the holidays “and discuss exactly what it is we’re going to try and get” for voting to suspend or raise the legal limit on federal borrowing.
You can stop laughing now.
I can answer what they are going to try and get. Nothing. Bupkis. Diddly squat. **** all.
After throwing away the hard-fought success that was the sequester for fairly dust and unicorn farts twenty years down the road, Paul Ryan and the House GOP leadership is now trying to convince us that they will TOTALLY GO TO THE MATTRESSES ON THE DEBT CEILING.
We all know that isn’t going to happen.
When all the House had to do was pass a clean continuing resolution to lock in actual cuts in federal spending it chose, instead, to bail on fiscal sanity and authorize a new binge of federal spending. (If you want the answer to that mystery, see who is funding the GOP leadership’s war on conservatives.)
This is just a successor to the three dozen meaningless Potemkin votes that have been taken on defunding Obamacare. It is an empty gesture that the GOP leadership throws our way to convince us they are doing something when, in fact, they are perfectly happy with Obamacare in place because it lets them fundraise off rubes and yokels who think they actually care about either Obamacare or spending.
You don’t need to be David Mamet to write this play. The GOP will offer some token bluster. They will accept new spending. They will demand more cuts 30, 40, 50 years in the future (somewhere far enough out there that they don’t have to worry about being part of that fight). They will whine and mewl about the nation’s credit rating. Then they will do what they do best: fold like a cheap suit.
Kick their own and my butt.
Headline appears to be from the Onion
I think that headline should read that the Republicans will get their butts kicked on the debt ceiling.
Then they’ll grant amnesty to millions of illegals.
They they’ll wonder where their majority went when the conservatives they’ve been dissing since 2010 stay at home in 2014.
We are at, or near, the high-water mark of the Republican Party.
Paul Ryan is the Bankrupter.
“The House Budget chairman said that Republicans will gather after the holidays “and discuss exactly what it is we’re going to try and get” for voting to suspend or raise the legal limit on federal borrowing.”
is interpreted as
“The House Budget chairman said that Republicans will gather after the holidays “and discuss whether to cower under our desks, behind the drapes, the janitor’s closet or under a rock”.”
“The GOP/GOPe are spineless, gutless, traitors and from virtually all accounts as worthless as their Dem counterparts.”
They’re all in cahoots. This is a fun game to them.
And they know that we know it, so they don’t care to try to appease us anymore, just fool us into voting form them again, with the old “well the other guy is worse” game.
Ryan is a buttkickee.
The only real butt involving Republicans is the one their heads are stuck in ...
Why are they going to treat it any differently than the budget deal? If their strategy is to turtle-down and stay out of the way while Obamacare implodes, why would they treat this any differently?
CAVE, it’s automatic. What trash.
How ignorant are these people? Cave on the budget so no shutdown of his precious government and then talk about drawing the line on the debt ceiling. The shutdown was a shoulder shrug. It was the credit rating/debt gamesmanship that upset people. That’s why Obama manipulated it to have both arguments at the same time.
RedState is now owned by Townhall.....
Which ‘wimpifies’ every once conservative site that they take over, and turns the staff into a bunch of moderate GOP-Elite party hacks.
They ruined HotAir when they bought it from Malkin, They will ruin Twitchy, RedState and and that conservative book publishing company they just bought out.
Missed the first time...
To the ‘Rats credit, they do at least stand behind their evil intentions and nefareous ways. The RINOs are just gutless pansies all around...
It’s the Republican way...
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