Only Putin, or that guy Betty just posted, has big enough balls for the House Republicans.
(via BooMan, who’s guest blogging at the Washington Monthly Political Animal site this week.)
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Only Putin, or that guy Betty just posted, has big enough balls for the House Republicans.
(via BooMan, who’s guest blogging at the Washington Monthly Political Animal site this week.)
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Jay C
Can’t fault the guy’s premise: Democratic candidates in Texas have for so long seemed just like sacrificial
lambsgoats against the GOP machine, it’s a refreshing change to see even the possibility of one who might be a sacrificial mountain lion instead. I think the likelihood of of Wendy Davis actually winning anything is stil unfortunately slim, but at least it looks like it may be a real fight.mai naem
Ted Cruz looks like one of those segregationist governors from the 60s. Or at least like one portrayed in a Hollywood movie.
dmsilev
With regards to Putin, this video from John Boehner is just plain pathetic. From the TPM description,
Earth to numbskulls: (a) Obama is more open to negotiating with you than with Putin because there’s a non-zero chance that he can reach an agreement with Putin and (b) Man up already and stop whining. It’s what Vlad would do.
RaflW
Just was going to post in the last thread about this (via National Journal). *Popcorn!*
The Dangerman
Wall Street Journal. CNN. The Power Brokers are making it pretty clear that there will be extra helpings of shit sandwiches when the deal is eventually done…
…or, to be more topical to the post, there will be a Lorenna Bobbitt solution for those that cause the shutown.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@mai naem: Many think Cruz bears an uncanny resemblance to Sen. McCarthy. Fitting, as he’s equally dangerous and creepy. But I get the idea of a very, very polished segregationist southern governor.
RaflW
@dmsilev: They desperately want a fight with Obama so that the above-mentioned infighting can stop.
But why the fuck should Obama even talk to these insurrectionist asshats?
BGinCHI
When are we herding these fuckers into re-education camps? I’m sharpening my crook.
Comrade Dread
Well, Calgary Cruz did sort of shoot down their hail Mary pass by effectively telling them, “I knew this was pointless and you were dumb enough to believe me, so who’s the idiot now?” Then he cackled evilly and pet his white cat.
dmsilev
@The Dangerman: Hell, the fucking Chamber of Commerce is starting to weigh in telling the GOP that a shutdown and/or a default would be a really really stupid thing to cause.
I think we’ve reached the point in the movie where the mad scientist has lost control of his creation and the monster is about to turn on him.
dmsilev
@Comrade Dread:
Wrong type of villain. James Bond villains generally have some sort of nefarious plan. These folks are more like Scooby Doo villains; I’m just waiting for someone to rip the mask off Ted Cruz and reveal that he’s really Old Man Carruthers who lives down by the mill.
WereBear
@dmsilev: So President Obama should threaten to bomb Congress?
I could be persuaded…
max
(b) Man up already and stop whining. It’s what Vlad would do.
For the first five years or so after 911 Putin threw in with us to go after Al-Qaeda, including cooperating with basing arrangements that could be used to encircle the Russian Federation (should we decide to go all Bunker Cheney). The FSB cooperated with on terrorism, and so on and so forth. The reason was that Putin saw himself as fighting Muslim terrorism, so he was happy to help us since he saw that as helping him. (It would be fair to say he was pretty rough with suspected terrorists and also suspected ‘terrorists’, and we can’t say we were better. We might have been worse.)
We shit all over him every chance we got.
So he stopped cooperating and starting acting like an overt asshole (sometimes with just cause) to us, and now everybody (or at least Republicans) has decided they admire him.
max
[‘I’m not sure this country could wedge its head further up its ass.’]
Amir Khalid
Almost certainly true, in the figurative sense of course. Was Dana Bash surprised by what the aide said, or by how the aide said it?
@dmsilev:
Sorry for the nitpick, but I think you meant to say
Felonius Monk
Cruz is proving to be what most of us already knew — A BULLSHIT artist. Or as Molly used to say of another Texas twerp — All hat and no cattle.
dmsilev
@Amir Khalid: Yes. I flipped it around by mistake. I blame Obama.
and lack of coffee. But mostly Obama.
The Dangerman
From Erick The Red:
Cue Monty Python:
I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wildflowers
I put on women’s clothing
And hang around in bars
Ash Can
@dmsilev:
I think the monster has already turned on the mad scientist and has his hands wrapped around the scientist’s neck. The only thing now is whether the monster succeeds in offing the scientist and then goes on a rampage and destroys 3/4 of the village before he’s finally subdued by the surviving masses, or whether the scientist is saved by the Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street bursting into the lab and ambushing the monster.
danielx
@dmsilev:
As noted. Putin is an asshole (there’s a shock, a former KGB officer being unpleasant), but is a rational human being. In contrast to House Republicans, who are basically a bunch of kindergarteners with Tourette’s syndrome. If Obama negotiates anything away to these bastards, he ought to just go ahead and quit now.
Tone in DC
@The Dangerman:
LULz.
I’m glad these brain donors are gonna feel the pain on this one.
Gin & Tonic
I don’t like that hashtag of Dana’s. I prefer #gopvgoplulz.
Tone in DC
@WereBear:
Not that. Just have the Sergeant at Arms put them up against the wall and have TSA staffers strip search them for Advil.
VOR
I’m no fan of Putin, but at least he is grounded in reality. We don’t have to constantly wonder if the sky is the same color in Putin’s world as our world.
kindness
So House TeaHaddists are more brain dead than Senator Cruz, eh? I didn’t know there was even a contest. But those who elbow their way to the front of that line deserve the trophy they will no doubt receive.
Redshirt
@Ash Can: It might be a good thing if this Monster destroys The Village. Start with Chuck and Luke, and move on from there.
schrodinger's cat
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I am sorry I don’t see any polish. He is a slimy SOB
shortstop
…as they anonymously run their mouths off.
We once had a pooch who loved to tell other dogs some shit from behind gates, chairs, dutch doors and other sources of protection. I often think of him while watching the modern GOP’s intraparty skirmishing.
shortstop
@mai naem: I keep saying this here while insisting upon my own now-doubtful pacifism, but the guy has the most punchable face in America. Like an Elmer Gantry and Eddie Haskell mashup.
Redshirt
@dmsilev: Some monsters just want to see the world burn.
For Jesus!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@shortstop:
Yes,.. and he thinks he can run for president?
? Martin
Shorter GOP: If you’re really committed to the cause, you shoot the hostage first.
gene108
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Nah, Cruz isn’t as dangerous as McCarthy. Everyone basically agreed with McCarthy that Commies had to be purged from America. The House had House UnAmerican Activities Committee spend over a decade blacklisting Hollywood writers, directors and actors to keep us safe from Communism.
McCarthy just overstepped the leash people expected those in power to use to restrain themselves from going after “good Americans”. McCarthy started talking about Commies in the DoD and Pentagon he was targeting “good Americans” and it bit him in the ass.
If he stayed to punching labor organizers, teachers and who ever else might’ve been to the left of FDR, in the 1930’s, people would’ve kept applauding him.
There was no real political blowback, with regards to HUAC’s blacklisting of Hollywood people, in the same way there was for McCarthy.
EDIT: There are enough people, who think Cruz is nuts that he’s never going to get the sort of power that McCarthy had.
gene108
Also, too I want to punch all the morons, who voted these people into the House. They are to blame for this mess. But save our own necks, we need to save theirs, so they will never fully realize the folly of their faith.
scav
@? Martin: And remember, the easiest hostages are to be grabbed at home. Close, and they least expect it.
BruinKid
I’m a bit surprised this hasn’t happened before, but two CCW permit holders in Michigan were involved in a case of road rage where they shot and killed each other. It seems that the tailgater is the one to blame; the other fired back to protect his family in the car with him. They didn’t get shot, so in that sense it worked, but he was shot and killed, but not before shooting the road rage guy dead as well.
Citizen_X
Well bless your heart. Go git that unicorn, cowboy! Dream the impossible dream!
Source here.
Redshirt
@? Martin: Makes sense: There’s always more hostages.
gene108
@dmsilev:
The “funny” thing, now that Obamacare is law, is that businesses have adjusted to it. They’ve had 3-4 years to get ready for it and most of them have adjusted to Obamacare being the new normal.
The Chamber of Commerce types realize that undoing Obamacare, after businesses spent the last 3-4 years getting ready for it, will just cause more problems for businesses to undo what has been done.
Defunding / repealing Obamacare now would cause more economic problems for companies, yet the morons, who are the GOP base do not realize this. They keep wanting their Representatives to repeal it.
Comrade Dread
@dmsilev: He does have an end game. Assuming he is actually a true believer, his end game is to get the Federal government to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Corporate America because Freedom!
Assuming he’s a charlatan, he is positioning himself as the One True Conservative here to take back America for 2016.
And either way, a lot of human misery is going to be sown.
xian
@Citizen_X: bully pulpit!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
From Matt Damon to Jane Hamsher to a good number of our own trolls, the belief that “balls” are more important than votes is not limited to the Tea Party.
nemesis
Nothing is impossible!
Well, damn. Now I believe. Why have I waited so long? At 56 years of age, I will pursue my lifelong dream of playing in the NBA. I want it sooo much. Now I realise its been me holding me back all along.
On second thought, Ima want real hard to be rich, without having to sweat for it. Gonna happen any day.
Ill be back in a minute…its Meals on Wheels at the door.
Violet
Wendy Davis said yesterday she’s going to announce in two weeks whether or not she’s running for Governor. Her dad died recently and that delayed her announcement. I sure hope she does.
scav
Pope’s off splodey-heading again.
NYT
hoodie
@gene108: The fear of Obamacare is now mostly for rallying reactionaries under one flag. It has no tie to the content of the program. In a few years, a lot of these corporate types will be down with national health insurance if it means they no longer have to insure workers. Then the battle with shift to taxes.
Cassidy
Have the PUMAs found something new and shiny?
MomSense
@gene108:
Can we also also too punch the people who stayed home, didn’t vote, and let the morons win?
Cassidy
@MomSense: Don’t hate them for their purity.
Karen in GA
Totally OT, but I got the job offer this morning. The HR person said, “I know [Jane Doe] told you during the phone interview that we can’t pay [in the range of what I make now].” Um… no. Jane didn’t mention that at all. I said I’d let her know my decision later today. I just emailed and asked, basically, “Has it been confirmed that $X is as high as the company can go?” Yes, that’s as high as it gets.
(Sort of on-topic — I don’t have Wendy Davis’ balls, and suck at negotiating.)
But I just had someone here at my current job make a snide remark about my recent doctor’s appointments (the ones I needed in order to confirm that I don’t have cancer), so I’m probably going to take the pay cut.
Besides, I can ride my motorcycle there. And it gets me the fuck out of my current job. So while not 100% thrilled, certainly a lot happier than I was, and a lot happier than I thought I’d be at this point two months ago. :)
scav
@Karen in GA: Yeah! Wave good-bye to the so-called-colleagues emphatically for many of us!
Roger Moore
Shorter Republicans:
chopper
@dmsilev:
my neighborhood coffee place sells an ‘obama blend’. a well-educated, smooth yet bold mixture of african and hawaiian beans, they say.
so i can blame both!
MomSense
@Cassidy:
But in the name of purity we allowed the Congress to be infected by virulent madness.
Gin & Tonic
@Karen in GA: Happiness is worth money. You have to calculate how much. But congratulations.
chopper
@danielx:
putin’s an asshole. but you can negotiate with assholes.
nihilists, on the other hand…
MomSense
@Karen in GA:
Well done!
And I will now cross my fingers, toes, knees and eyes that you receive confirmation of NO cancer.
Gin & Tonic
@scav: “We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.”
Wow.
Belafon
@dmsilev: Maybe Obama needs to threaten Jack Daniels with a cruise missile strike. That might get Boehner to see that it’s in his best interest to negotiate with Obama rather than helping the dictators in his own party who think nothing of trying to kill their constituents.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
OT: Chuck Todd just introduced the fact that sequestration (and gov’t shutdown, and GOP policies in general) disproportionately hurt the poor by apologizing for ‘what might sound like class politics’. Josh Marshall said years ago that people like Cokie Roberts and Tim Russert (who was still with us) find it crude and embarrassing to mention that politics is more than just a game, that people’s lives are actually affected by votes in Congress. He was right then, and it’s only gotten worse.
He also called chained CPI a ‘radical’ change in Social Security. I wonder if he even realizes how far he strayed from the Village hymnal.
Mnemosyne
@Karen in GA:
Are there at least other benefits (ie better medical coverage, vacation time, etc.)? Otherwise, I have to admit I would be wary of going down in salary because once you do that, it’s hard to get back up again.
balconesfault
My favorite has been the sniping from GOP operatives here in Texas that Davis is “stupid”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-williams/the-republican-game-plan_b_3949414.html
This from the people who brought you 13 years and counting of Governor Rick Perry.
lurker dean
@Karen in GA: Congrats! I took a pay cut to be where I am now and I’m much happier for it. Not having to hate going to work every day is worth a whole lot.
Citizen_X
@scav:
Yes, Francis’ vision of the church is much more all-encompassing, universal, very, uh, what’s the word? Starts with a “c”…
Cassidy
@MomSense: That is the price we must pay so that people can make comments/ posts on blogs about how much more pure their leftist feelings are than the rat of us. Such is life.
Villago Delenda Est
@Gin & Tonic:
He just kicked Ratzi the Nazi in the groin.
You go, Francis!
eric
@Citizen_X: communist? ;)
Karen in GA
Thanks, all.
MomSense, thanks. It’s a thyroid nodule — extremely common, and other tests have already strongly hinted that it’s benign. Biopsy in a couple of weeks, but the doctor made it sound like he just wanted to check thoroughly to be on the safe side.
Mnemosyne, it’s actually not that big a difference at my lowly support staff level — I think I’m just afraid of having a bad day and then having “and the bastards shafted me on pay!!!11!one!!” in the back of my head to make me feel worse. Frankly, it’s not much of a shafting. The people I’d be surrounded by all day seem a lot better, and the hours are much better — I’ll have something of a life again. (I think I just talked myself into it.)
RaflW
Oh, and this bit of useless mewling from Fix the Debt is exactly why faux-centrism is worse than silence:
Oh, it’s time, is it, Bowles and Simpson? What a tiny bleat of irrelevance in the shitstorm that is brewing.
Karen in GA
@Citizen_X: Cromulent? (I’m ambivalent about him.)
bemused
@Karen in GA:
So the co-worker making snide comments was in your shoes, he/she wouldn’t also be going to dr appts? Idiots.
imonlylurking
@Karen in GA: I have taken pay cuts to get out of unpleasant work situations before. Some things aren’t worth the money.
nastybrutishntall
rich white men just can’t a break, can they? ah, Texas justice. Good luck, Ms. Davis, you’ll need it.
gelfling545
@max:
Yes, this would naturally excite the admiration of the Republican Party.
Karl
I misread that hashtag. Can we make pugliness a word?
Jebediah
@Karen in GA:
Glad for both bits of good news! On your way out the door at old job, please give Snide Commenter a one-finger wave from me. People who are waiting to find out about cancer do not need to hear assholish comments.
Mnemosyne
@Karen in GA:
If the hours are better, then that alone can be worth it. Technically, I’m making slightly less per hour in my current job than I did in my previous one (I think it’s still a dollar or two) and making way less in overtime, but that’s because I’m not having to work until freakin’ 8:00 or 9:00 at night anymore. Having those hours back in my life was definitely worth the “pay cut.”