The Tea Party Way, Governing By Extortion

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Charles

Does this mean that you're finally going to buy one of them pumpkin slingers you're always talking about and hoist the black flag???

Chas

Not me. That's a young man's game, Chas. Admit it you old nailslinger, a trebuchet sure would be a fun project though.

[bobabode]

More political circus from that clown, RNC's Reince Priebus. Kudos to the DNC Chair's response.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...wwii-memorial/

[finnbow]

This may be enough to get the Teabaggers to throw in the towel. The shutdown has forced the cancellation of a KKK rally at Gettysburg. I'm sure a lot of these clowns have robes and hoods as well as tricorner hats festooned with teabags.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...ef=mostpopular

[bobabode]

As Carl said, "Thems some mighty big teabags they're wearin'."

[CarlV]

Ted Cruz faced a barrage of hostile questions Wednesday from angry GOP senators, who lashed the Texas tea party freshman for helping prompt a government shutdown crisis without a strategy to end it.

At a closed-door lunch meeting in the Senate’s Mansfield Room, Republican after Republican pressed Cruz to explain how he would propose to end the bitter budget impasse with Democrats, according to senators who attended the meeting. A defensive Cruz had no clear plan to force an end to the shutdown — or explain how he would defund Obamacare, as he has demanded all along, sources said.
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“It was very evident to everyone in the room that Cruz doesn’t have a strategy – he never had a strategy, and could never answer a question about what the end-game was,” said one senator who attended the meeting. “I just wish the 35 House members that have bought the snake oil that was sold could witness what was witnessed today at lunch.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/1...#ixzz2gc9SOvip

I would have enjoyed being a fly on the wall for this.


Carl

[bobabode]

We now live in a libertarian utopia, Carl. I think this was their goal from the beginning. Shut it down for as long as they can and the Kochsuckers and Deminted will back their campaigns or at least not primary them.

[bobabode]

Looks like Boehner could pass a clean CR since 18 Repub House members have gone on record as supporting it. Of course that would require the Speaker to actually have some balls.

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

This may be enough to get the Teabaggers to throw in the towel. The shutdown has forced the cancellation of a KKK rally at Gettysburg. I'm sure a lot of these clowns have robes and hoods as well as tricorner hats festooned with teabags.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...ef=mostpopular

Don't look now, but the the so - called "Tea-Party dominated Republicans, who you deem as to stupid to come in out of the rain, just got Harry Reid to move their way a bit.

"The budget conference is something Democrats have long sought, however, and the proposal was quickly shot down by Boehner’s office.
Reid offered to include tax reform, which has bogged down in partisan politics this year, on the agenda. The letter suggested that Democrats would be willing to negotiate changes to ObamaCare as part of budget talks as well."

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-mone...nds-government

Of course, its a proposal that's as transparent as auto glass, and I wouldn't trust Harry Reid further than I could throw him. But, it is movement.

[bobabode]

...and you have this from the latest meeting of the President.


Reid, Pelosi say Boehner cannot take yes for an answer

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) came out of the meeting with President Obama at the White House and again blamed House Republicans and Speaker John A. Boehner for the government shutdown.
“What the speaker has to accept is yes for an answer. He said that he wanted to go to conference. He sent us something from the House, so I thought we would throw him a lifeline. I said, ‘Fine, we’ll go to conference; all we want you to do is open the government.’ … We’ll talk about anything you want to talk about. And he says no,” Reid told reporters.
“All we want to do is go to conference on a short-term [continuing resolution]. We have the debt ceiling staring us in the face and he wants to talk about a short-term CR? .. My friend John Boehner cannot take yes for an answer,” he said.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the meeting with the president “worthwhile,” and that the congressional leaders held some “candid”discussions, but reiterated that the GOP’s aim of overturning Obamacare will not be achieved.
“If they won’t take yes for an answer, I can only conclude they want to shut down the government. … We know what that is, overturn the Affordable Care Act, and that’s not going to happen,” Pelosi said.
Mr. Reid said: “One thing we made very clear in that meeting: We are locked in tight on Obamacare.”

WaPo

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

Don't look now, but the the so - called "Tea-Party dominated Republicans, who you deem as to stupid to come in out of the rain, just got Harry Reid to move their way a bit.

"The budget conference is something Democrats have long sought, however, and the proposal was quickly shot down by Boehner’s office.
Reid offered to include tax reform, which has bogged down in partisan politics this year, on the agenda. The letter suggested that Democrats would be willing to negotiate changes to ObamaCare as part of budget talks as well."

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-mone...nds-government

Of course, its a proposal that's as transparent as auto glass, and I wouldn't trust Harry Reid further than I could throw him. But, it is movement.

As Bob's post makes clear, the 'Baggers, represented by Boehner at the White House meeting, refused this offer. And yes, the 'Baggers are still too stupid to come in out of the rain, as is anyone who thinks they're doing the right thing.