Are these people fucking kidding me with this?
We are being governed by incompetent and inflamed assholes:
“Because you have not presented any written detailed proposal to raise the debt ceiling, our constituents are left in the dark as to what specific cuts you propose as well as what taxes you are planning to raise,” the letter, which was signed by 64 House Republicans, says.
I’m with Cole. We really are just screwed as a nation. You can bet your sweet ass that tomorrow the media will back these idiots who, as Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out last week, had never even heard the term “debt ceiling” before a couple months ago, and tell Americans that it’s Obama’s fault that these nutless dickwigglers can’t wrap their tiny brains around the global clusterfuck that will ensue if they don’t raise the fucking debt ceiling.
Fuck these people.
I hate everything.
[via Politico]
[cross-posted at ABLC]
TenguPhule
Perhaps a few Madam Gulletine props in front of the House as symbolic reminders of what happened to the last bunch of asswits?
Yutsano
House froshes: Don’t make us face the consequences of trying to get you out of office at all times, you durn nigra!
Suffern ACE
Maybe they shoulda read up on the federal government, its finances, and budget before promising their constituents that they’d close the deficit without pain to anybody but cadillac welfare queens. Maybe they should have read it before running for office,
Cowardly pissypants all.
burnspbesq
Fuck them?
No, you don’t get to fuck them.
They get to fuck you. And me. And 310 million of our closest friends.
I may have picked the worst possible time to bail from BigLaw and go solo.
asiangrrlMN
They want to see the long-form of EVERYTHING!
O, Canada….mumble mumble mumble….
Our neighbors to the north are looking better and better all the damn time.
Southern Beale
Oh gah. I have insomnia worrying over this shit.
Think I’ll call all the Teanut congresscritters in TN tomorrow and tell them to cut the crap.
Yutsano
@Southern Beale: Welcome to the night shift sweets. We haz cookies.
@asiangrrlMN: Sigh. Can’t go nowhere til I’m licensed number cruncher. After that though…
LongHairedWeirdo
If the world were a fair place, Obama’d be able to say “Look, I said that I thought that cops acted stupidly for arresting a man in his own house. Okay? Not that they were bad cops, or that they’d overstepped their authority, just, hey, they acted stupidly. And what the *fuck* happened then? Huh? And now, the brethren of the people who tried to make hay out of that perfectly reasonable statement are trying to get me to stick my neck out by detailing specific cuts and taxes that I’d like to see? *FUCK* that noise.”
But if liberals had half the noisemaking ability of the right-wing, this would be all over the news. The very people who have the responsibility for spending and revenue – the fucking *House* of fucking *Representatives* – are whining that the fucking *executive* won’t do *their* fucking homework for them! These clowns should be fired for incompetence, though we would like to see video of them writing this letter with their thumbs *that* far up their asses.
Sorry about the language… it’s the drink. I haven’t had any. And that makes me crankier than it should right now.
Southern Beale
@ Yutsano –
Thanks! I think I’m gonna give counting sheep another try….
Yutsano
@Southern Beale: I’m about to join you meself. The hour is upon us, and I’m just flat-out pooped.
PeakVT
It’s looking to be another blockbuster day in dear old Blighty.
Southern Beale
Apparently Michele Bachmann doesn’t know the difference between a legal settlement and a government program. She just called the Pigford case settlement a wasteful government program.
boss bitch
So today is being billed as a day of reckoning for the Murdoch’s. Are they kidding? we’re just beginning to learn what this empire is capable of and TODAY is their reckoning?
JWL
When the leader of the democratic party continues to accord today’s GOP the courtesy of being considered an “honorable opposition”, what else do expect of them? Of course they’re pulling out the stops. Who is going to stop them?
MikeJ
@boss bitch: Newscorp stock is already back up on rumours Rupert is leaving.
MikeJ
Gah. Even BBC sucks up to Rupes. Going on and on about MPs being “sanctimonious” and saying the hearings will be a “media circus” and MPs will be “grandstanding”.
Villago Delenda Est
The dissent is not the problem.
It’s the torrents of stupid. I can’t stand them. They can’t argue on the basis of fact, utility, or anything else rational. It’s all based on outright lies and a belief system that is contradicted by empirical reality.
Geoduck
MikeJ: Unfortunately, everything you quote there is probably going to turn out to be true. Doesn’t make Murdoch and Co. any less a bunch of evil sleazeballs.
arguingwithsignposts
Even as political theatre, the Sternly Worded Letter from a bunch of n00bs from the opposition party has to be about the dumbest. I imagine the chuckles from the WH.
James E. Powell
@Southern Beale:
It’s simple and it’s consistent: any money given to non-whites is wasteful. What’s frightening isn’t that Bachman said this, it’s that her audience agrees with her without giving it a thought. It’s reflex.
Pat
Well, gee whiz, maybe in 2012 SOME people should get off their asses and VOTE the GOP out.
harlana (meaning, she who holds the popcorn)
:D
harlana (meaning, she who holds the popcorn)
James E. Powell: It takes a lotta chootz-pah to say a thing like that!
gene108
Didn’t President Obama already outline a plan for controlling future spending and to raise the debt ceiling?
I mean it’s these guys job to write legislation and not the President.
That’s the Constitutional option for how legislation gets written.
smedley
This is another clue that Rove and company will run against Obama as the one who tried to cut SS and Medicare. See the last panel of yesterday’s “This Modern World.”
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/18/995602/-Middle-Man-and-the-Debt-CeilingDebacle?via=blog_736099
giltay
gene108:
It’s because the Republicans are the natural governing party. That means they hold the executive power, so it’s the Democrats’ job to propose legislation and the Republicans’ job to veto it. The actual structure of the government doesn’t matter; it’s not like it’s in the constitution or anything.
Luthe
@Southern Beale:
Sky blue, water wet, Michele Bachmann idiot. Next you’ll be telling me Tunch is
fatbig-boned.bemused
Politico didn’t print the letter with the list of 64 who signed it. The usual blockheads, I’m sure, but I would like to see how the letter is worded and who the signers are.
Peter Herb
SO what do we do? There a large ignorant minority in this country that doesn’t care if it being lied to by astroturf organizations. They just want their Murica back. I live in NYC so my vote is part of a large Blue population. How do we get the purple states or the pink states bluer? The solution lies in answering that question.
Yellow Dog
Starting to ask myself if global financial armageddon would be worth it to finally kill the GOP once and for all.
John Puma
To stick with the meme: it’s Obama’s job alone to “fuck these people” today.
To the extent he fails to do so is the extent to which “tomorrow the media will back these idiots.”
Take it back to Jan 2009. Obama was elected precisely °to fuck these people” into the political oblivion they so richly deserve.
But he deferred to them in his “strategy” of counter-mandated, pathological bipartisanship. After about two years of his active revival of the Republican brand, so utterly trashed by Booshie-boy, those who swelled the voting ranks of 2008 stayed away in droves for the 2010 midterms. Then to prove the wisdom of their polling-place absences, Obama forced his congressional caucuses to renewed the Booshie-boy tax cuts – thus accelerating the arrival of and magnifying the importance of the current crisis.
For two years having dictated the terms of the radical reich to his two former, massive majorities in congress, now we are to expect Obama will fight off the drooling, mindless turds all by himself?
There is nothing in his prior record to suggest that we wants to do so, much less that we would be able – even if he did want to.
Chris
What would come next would probably be a Republican base that had abandoned the GOP and charged into outright fascism.
rikryah
ABL,
stop hating everything.
I bet these are the same whiny ass titty babies that wrote the President to ‘go back to zero on Medicare’.
fuck these economic illiterates and the mofos who voted for them.
Dennis SGMM
What’s profoundly disturbing to me is the tens of thousands of like-minded idiots who voted these freshmen into office.
The Raven
In other news, water wet.
I don’t know if this quite deserves “Croak of the Day”–it’s been said before, after all–but it’s up there.
Bulworth
I hope Obama’s response isn’t more than a page or two or else the teabaggers will complain about how long Obama’s plan/bill, etc is.
catclub
Southern Beale and Luthe @ 27
The name is unfortunate. It must be a porkbarrel project.
Trollenschlongen
This is what happens as a result of Obama playing this stupid game with the pukes, by their stupid rules. He should never have entered into negotiations to tie ANYTHING to a raised debt ceiling; he should have demanded and required and settled for nothing less than an absolutely clean bill to do so.
And then called them out on the psychotic behavior, day in and day out, as long as they continued the madness.
Instead, he’s got idiots coming to the white house to present idiotic letters that they can now justifiably present as part of the normal “process” of negotiations to raise the debt limit.
Cain
Reddit said it best:
“REPUBLICANS 2012 – Keeping millions out of work to put one man out of a job.”
Ash Can
I’m willing to bet that a large number of these 64 signers — if not all of them — genuinely do not understand what their Congressional jobs entail. It’s a sign of the times when candidates elected to federal office have no idea what to do once they’re actually on the job.
Bruce S
I think part of the problem with the freshman Republicans is that they are so deeply concerned about the country that they see this debt ceiling Kabuki as taking Americans’ minds off of bigger issues such as the Constitutional right to bear incandescent light-bulbs, keeping the gay out of their clearly very vulnerable marriages and holding fast to separation of church and state by outlawing mosques.
That and flunking math…
catclub
Trollshlagen @ 38 “And then called them out on the psychotic behavior, day in and day out, as long as they continued the madness.”
Of course, you have noticed that he does not do that for ANYTHING. He waits, he gives a speech, he waits, things happen, he stays calm, things get passed.
Trollenschlongen
“Things.”
That’s a definition even I can roll with.
piratedan
well if these guys are such big idiots, maybe Obama can convince them that this has been one long drawn out national apprentice show and that they are now fired and they’ll have to resign as Congressmen. Who knows, we may be able to pick off a few that way.
burnspbesq
@catclub:
What you’ve failed to take into account is that Trollenschlongen is identical to the average Tea Party adherent in one important respect: he absolutely and unequivocally rejects the notion that politics is “the art of the possible.” He wants 102 percent of what he wants, and he wants it right the fuck now, and if he can’t have it he is reduced to spluttering rage and weak snark.
I believe this is because he mistakenly believes that he voted for a progressive firebrand for President in 2008. This is, of course, absurd. He voted for a centrist technocrat for President in 2008. Why he believes that he is entitled to take out his disappointment on the rest of us is anybody’s guess.
Berto
catclub,
Tell that to the whistle-blowers.
mds
Yeah, they’d start talking up how this is the world’s exceptional nation, chosen by God; embrace the fusion of big business with government; endorse a militant foreign policy; use domestic problems they themselves helped create as grounds for gaining more power; and demonize gays, ethnic and religious minorities, left-wingers, and intellectuals. I only hope that day never comes.
Trollenschlongen
Burnspeck: I know you are only concerned for my welfare, and that is why you have done a long distance psychological/political evaluation of me. Thank you, but you remain as per usual an idiot.
The proper summary of Obamaism is “The art of the least possible,” most precisely signified by the art of capitulating before negotiations even begin and always playing the game as determined by the other side’s rules.
Oh, and continuing wasteful, murderous, and illegal republican wars while starting new ones, not prosecuting treasonous presidents or fraudulent bankers, flip flopping on FISA, protecting torturers, persecuting whistle blowers, etc. etc. etc. …
Hugs.
agrippa
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
It will get very interesting when we get to the end of July.
BH in MA
“As well as what taxes you are planning to raise”?
WTF?
The president cannot raise taxes. Congress has to create law that raises them and he can veto it or not. If he vetoes it, taxes stay the same. If he signs it, taxes go up, but he only gets a chance to sign something if Congress passes a bill first.
And yes, the president can sometimes raise taxes by not doing something. The Bush tax cuts came with a sunset provision – Congress had to pass a bill to extend them. If Obama didn’t sign then taxes would have gone up, but that’s the way the original tax cut legislation was designed. You could argue that Congress wanted taxes to go back up if we ended up with a sane President and they didn’t have a veto proof majority.
burnspbesq
@Trollenschlongen:
As a world view, “Obama fucked up” is a bit incomplete.