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February 27, 2015 02:59 PM UTC
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Can you imagine what the righties would be saying (screaming more like it) if a Dem majority House was holding DHS funding hostage? I can hear Modster now and see AC's cartoons, not to mention everyone on Fox and Rush Limbaugh. They'd be burning Nancy Pelosi in effigy.
As proof that the GOP can govern efficiently and effectively, this falls pretty far short. Stacked up with the anti-abortion failure on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it's pretty pathetic.
I'd say this is the gang that can't shoot straight, but they haven't missed their foot yet.
At least their problems are consistent. In a normal world, that means they can diagnose the problem and begin to address it. I don't know that it works that way in GOP-land, though.
Need to insert the animated jpeg of Boehner kissing his Speakership goodbye.
The nutters own him now.
He's been such an incompetent Speaker for so long. Nancy Pelosi managed to actually get things done, even while doing so under a Republican President. Maybe that's why the right loves to vilify her. I guess they stick with Boehner because incompetence isn't a problem when you're only goal is obstruction. It doesn't matter that he can't get anything done since they don't want to get anything done. In fact, so much the better. Let the merlot chugging, kiss blowing, orange guy be in charge.
Hell, Gingrich was better than this baffoon. Did he do that kissing thing again today?
Maybe Boehner took the Hippocratic Oath? Primum non nocere.
The comparison to Pelosi is even more stark and pronounced. Until Jan. 2011, Pelosi presided over a caucus which was probably more ideologically diverse than the gaggle of wing nuts Boner has to deal with. Until Nov. 2010 when we start to shed the Blue Dog Democrats, Pelosi had to get those white southern conservatives to work with the liberals in the party. Boner basically has three factions and there's not that much space between them: the Chamber of Commerce establishment guys, the libertarians and the nut cases.
Or what passes for libertarian today. But hey. That's what they call themselves and there isn't any other kind in office so I guess being for stuff like controlling women's family planning decisions is libertarian now just like all the stuff Headbanger objects to as not conservative is conservative now that all the conservatives in office say so.
Maybe those who consider themselves real old school libertarians and real old school conservatives can enjoy themselves in historic reenactments the way civil war buffs and fans of 19th century baseball do.
They're convinced THIS TIME it will be different. THIS TIME people will blame Obama!
Heck, Frank … that's the thing. By election time, enough people had stopped blaming the Republicans for the shutdown, and had turned to blaming the mess on "Washington" and incumbents everywhere, that the GOP was able to win almost all of the federal elections. The GOP not only didn't pay a price – but they got to turn all the dysfunction and broken government stuff around and use it against the Democrats. And it worked! So the GOP radicals are enboldened. They are going to keep doing this, keep making their base happy in the immediate term, and keep the passion plays and shutdowns and Benghazi investigations going. And then come election time they will count on running a lot of Corey Gardner style smiley moderate advertisements to swing a few percentages their way. That's the way the GOP keeps winning. Why should they stop?
Sadly, you're right but it's because the Dems keep letting them get away with it by dropping the subject and going for the "we're the party of holding hands and singing" thing. With positions reversed Rs would never let the public forget what the Dems did for a second. They're still harping on Benghazi even though every one of their own panels and committees has found no "there" there. You can bet it will be a prominent feature if they wind up campaigning against HRC. Heck, they're still sticking with the same implications that Obama is alien, Muslim not a real American, doesn't love his country that they've been going with since 2008. Nobody's going to forget any of their beefs with the Obama administration or Dems in general. You'd think Dems would have learned a thing or two about effective messaging by now but …. not so much.
Do you think this helps the GOP standing with the public in general? I get your point that in Congressional districts like CO CD 5, it does not hurt. In fact, it probably does get those people amped up.
But in that dwindling number of "competitive" districts, I don't think it helps them. That's why many of those GOP freshmen who were elected into northeastern and midwest districts were freaking out over this. (Hell, if we Dems could run an effective campaign against him, Coffman should be nervous.)
Unfortunately that's a big "if". If past performance is any indication, Dems will do nothing to make sure this isn't forgotten. So it will be.
I do think it's really wierd when Doug Lamborn, Steven King and Louie Gohmert vote the same way on a bill as Diana DeGette, Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters.
Looks like it's Everybody Bail Out Boehner night.
Reid and McConnell agreed to a 7-day extension and the Senate passed it on a voice vote. Pelosi says she's behind the 7-day extension and Dems will help to pass it, since it sounds like the Tea Partiers won't.
They're going to violate the Hastert Rule? Oh, the horror, the horror,
Looks like the original Hastert Rule is intact on this one – a majority of House Republicans voted for it. But because Boehner didn't want the extremists to come in blazing with amendments, it was passed under suspension of the rules, which takes a 2/3 majority. the final vote was 357-60.
Rumor has it that Boehner promised Dems a vote on the clean bill if the Senate rejected a conference committee, which it is expected that they will do if they don't first see a vote on their bill. Boehner is now out denying any deal is in place.
Boehner is denying any deal is in place? You know how to get the truth out of him? Give him more Merlot.
Déjà vu? Nothing to see here…move along.
Republicans say that government doesn't work then work over time to make sure their claims are true. What weird people.
They sure like the perks of being elected to the government though, don't they?
If Lamborn votes to shut down DHS next week, it's going to impact salaries in the Springs big time. Of course, Lamebrain isn't known for thinking things through.