[politics] Why Boehner and the boyz are screwed, no matter what
Interesting couple of weeks for American politics, no?
Seriously. The dog and pony show put on by the White Hood and Crossburning Wing of the Republican Party has been putting on a blink-inducing, Dali-level surrealistic "buh...?" display for the ages. Ted Cruz butchering Dr. Seuss - no, not even going there.
In real terms, what I seem to be looking at is John Boehner and the non-Tea Party jihadists suddenly making what, for them, must be a horrifying discovery: the Republican Party is screwed.
This is what happens when you let a vocal minority run the show for you. Think about it. The House contingent of Tea Party dipshits are obsessively focused on defunding Obamacare. They're SO obsessively focused, they're willing to shut down the entire US Government if stamping their eensy little cloven hooves does't get them the result they want.
Oh, Boehner, you stupid man. Silly, silly grownups.
Look what you let your self-entitled spoiled bratlings do to you. Your failure to distance yourself from the crazypies has left you in the cleftest of sticks. If you disavow them as Republicans - "whoa, the Rand Pauls and Ted Cruz types are nuts, they do NOT represent the majority of our party, we're sane, honest!" - they will probably happily trot off and form a party of their own, which would lose you control of the House. If you DON'T disavow them, your chances in the next election, even with the widespread manipulation of voting fraud your corporate owners, are zero to nil.
By the way, lest anyone wonder or care, my position on Obamacare is that it stands to jump the cost of my annual healthcare to just about ten times what I'm paying through my city's nice lefty single payer service, which will probably cease to exist. I do not love Obamacare. I think it was grossly badly done, and basically wraps up a lovely shiny package for the insurance industry. The use of the term "affordable health care" in connection with this particular law makes me laugh hysterically, after which I curl up in a foetal ball and suck my thumb and cry.
All of which signifies precisely squat.
Because I also think it's the law of the land, and that it needs to be funded. The fact that it fucks me entirely really has nothing to do with anything, and it certainly has nothing to do with why the Klu Klux Paul party wants to block it.
As to the Republicans, pass the popcorn. I wonder when they're going to start biting the heads off live chickens? Because, yes, the freakshow is that nuts.
Seriously. The dog and pony show put on by the White Hood and Crossburning Wing of the Republican Party has been putting on a blink-inducing, Dali-level surrealistic "buh...?" display for the ages. Ted Cruz butchering Dr. Seuss - no, not even going there.
In real terms, what I seem to be looking at is John Boehner and the non-Tea Party jihadists suddenly making what, for them, must be a horrifying discovery: the Republican Party is screwed.
This is what happens when you let a vocal minority run the show for you. Think about it. The House contingent of Tea Party dipshits are obsessively focused on defunding Obamacare. They're SO obsessively focused, they're willing to shut down the entire US Government if stamping their eensy little cloven hooves does't get them the result they want.
Oh, Boehner, you stupid man. Silly, silly grownups.
Look what you let your self-entitled spoiled bratlings do to you. Your failure to distance yourself from the crazypies has left you in the cleftest of sticks. If you disavow them as Republicans - "whoa, the Rand Pauls and Ted Cruz types are nuts, they do NOT represent the majority of our party, we're sane, honest!" - they will probably happily trot off and form a party of their own, which would lose you control of the House. If you DON'T disavow them, your chances in the next election, even with the widespread manipulation of voting fraud your corporate owners, are zero to nil.
By the way, lest anyone wonder or care, my position on Obamacare is that it stands to jump the cost of my annual healthcare to just about ten times what I'm paying through my city's nice lefty single payer service, which will probably cease to exist. I do not love Obamacare. I think it was grossly badly done, and basically wraps up a lovely shiny package for the insurance industry. The use of the term "affordable health care" in connection with this particular law makes me laugh hysterically, after which I curl up in a foetal ball and suck my thumb and cry.
All of which signifies precisely squat.
Because I also think it's the law of the land, and that it needs to be funded. The fact that it fucks me entirely really has nothing to do with anything, and it certainly has nothing to do with why the Klu Klux Paul party wants to block it.
As to the Republicans, pass the popcorn. I wonder when they're going to start biting the heads off live chickens? Because, yes, the freakshow is that nuts.