The Tea Party Way, Governing By Extortion

[icenine]

Damn Park Rangers closing down the parks on Obie's orders....

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by icenine

Damn Park Sturmtroopers closing down the parks on Obie's orders....

Fixed that for ya, Robbin.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Fixed that for ya, Robbin.

Terrible terrible! When Is Obama gonna reopen the government@!!!!!

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by icenine

Terrible terrible! When Is Obama gonna reopen the government@!!!!!

As soon as the azzholes in the House do it?

[bobabode]

Newsflash! Listen up Tea Party idjits!
Even your sugardaddies, the Koch Bros., are telling you stop this crazy assed game of chicken over the debt limit and shutting down the government. Not to mention every business group from the Chamber of Commerce to everybody on Wall St. is saying the same. Are you listening?

[donquixote99]

Bah. If the Koch bros. are saying that in public, it's just PR to counter the narrative that they are the evil nemesis behind all this. If they said it for real, it would happen. Like that.

[bobabode]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...y.html?hpid=z3

Jim Demint's 31 year old head of Heritage Action. Check this wack job out.

"At the moment, Needham is fighting alongside Republicans. But Heritage Action’s broader goal is to turn the GOP into a “libertarian populist” party freed from Wall Street and K Street. Slate’s John Dickerson asked whether Needham was trying to force a confrontation to induce a “massive crackup of the old order” in the GOP.
“I’m pretty optimistic that it’s going to happen and it’s going to happen pretty soon,” Needham said.
Perhaps. But Needham won’t say who’s contributing to his populist movement or how much, other than the $500,000 from the Kochs. “The laws in this country are such that 501(c)(4)s don’t disclose their donors,” he told the reporters. “If you have a problem with that, you should change the laws.”
That’s true. In the topsy-turvy world of Republican politics, a 31-year-old staffer can lead a shutdown of the federal government using secret funding.
A questioner asked whether Needham would support the ouster of House Speaker John Boehner if he ends the shutdown without destroying Obamacare.
“I don’t have a vote in who’s speaker,” Needham said.
That was a rare moment of modesty. His may be the only vote that matters."

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Bah. If the Koch bros. are saying that in public, it's just PR to counter the narrative that they are the evil nemesis behind all this. If they said it for real, it would happen. Like that.

I dunno, Don. These punks are drunk with power and believe their own bullshit. Much as I would like to believe that the Koch's have their puppet's strings firmly in hand? I'm not so sure these days. These punks are loose cannons.

[donquixote99]

You may be right. OTOH, I may be right.

I agree they are drunk with power and believe their own BS, but i still think that if their strings are yanked, they move.

But I'll give you this, you read more about this stuff than I do....

[bobabode]

I've been a political junkie of sorts since my teen years running the streets of D.C. back in '69-'70. Came back to SoCal in '80. Where do you hail from, if you don't mind me asking?