Big-spending Washington elitist insider John Boehner has totally squandered his time as speaker of the House by failing to stop all government spending, so the teabaggers have launched a campaign to throw him out of Congress. "Replacing Nancy Pelosi with John Boehner isn't much of an improvement," says Tea Party Nation in a communique
I hate to rain on your parade (dribble 'Boehner tears' on it), but I really doubt there will be any "realizing" done by any Tea Baggers. Not exactly introspective creatures.
Rage: check. Theirs is a rage-based economy.
Impotent: check. When their core concepts are so far from reality, how can they possibly get anything done? They&#039;re &quot;Taxed Enough Already&quot; .. after entire eras of tax cuts, and income tax rates are the lowest they&#039;ve been in decades. Predictably enough, Step 3 is <i>still</i> all question marks.
Drown themselves: maybe more like batter themselves to pulp trying to tear down every Orange fool who tries to lead them, and actually has the unfortunate task of actual governance.
Realize how used they were: I don&#039;t see how. Unless someone sneaks some &quot;They Live&quot; sunglasses technology into their flat screens...
You know, I seem to remember learning that politics was about compromise. This involved the old-fashioned definition of compromise, not the &quot;I&#039;ll tell you what I want and then I&#039;ll whine if I don&#039;t get it&quot; definition that the Republicans coined.
There is a precedent for this. Some years ago, Adam Gopnik wrote a <a href="http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2004\/08\/23\/040823crat_atlarge" target="_blank">review</a> of some recent books on World War I. It included this: <i> ...The new histories suggest that the war was welcomed in 1914, and particularly by the literate classes, as a necessary act of hygiene, a chance to restore seriousness of purpose after the two trivial decades of the Edwardian Belle &Eacute;poque. The bourgeois atomization of society&mdash;with its pursuit of private pleasures at the expense of common cause, its celebration of goods at the expense of honor&mdash;would be repaired by a unifying new national purpose. Chesterton and Sherlock Holmes, in different ways, recapture the mood of dissatisfaction with the bourgeois, the decadent, the trifling, and the petty. (In &ldquo;His Last Bow,&rdquo; Holmes&rsquo;s last adventure, which is set in the summer of 1914, Holmes says to Watson, &ldquo;It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it&rsquo;s God&rsquo;s own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.&rdquo;) </i> So, off to the Somme, Verdun and Gallipoli! A default will be good for everyone! And the Galtian paradise that follows will be almost as wonderful as the rapture.
I&rsquo;m surprised Boehner doesn&rsquo;t want to shut down the government when it worked out so well for Newt. Gingrich is running for president, has a million dollar credit line at Tiffany&rsquo;s, is well thought of with the social conservatives for his exemplarity morals and he has finally found a wife that will do the nasty without puking.
Well, after yesterday I was going to move the bookmark for Wonkette from the &quot;fun stuff&quot; folder to the &quot;depressing shit&quot; folder, but this has me rethinking that plan.
Rage, rage against the whining of the shyte(s).
I hate to rain on your parade (dribble &#039;Boehner tears&#039; on it), but I really doubt there will be any &quot;realizing&quot; done by any Tea Baggers. Not exactly introspective creatures.
Rage: check. Theirs is a rage-based economy.
Impotent: check. When their core concepts are so far from reality, how can they possibly get anything done? They&#039;re &quot;Taxed Enough Already&quot; .. after entire eras of tax cuts, and income tax rates are the lowest they&#039;ve been in decades. Predictably enough, Step 3 is <i>still</i> all question marks.
Drown themselves: maybe more like batter themselves to pulp trying to tear down every Orange fool who tries to lead them, and actually has the unfortunate task of actual governance.
Realize how used they were: I don&#039;t see how. Unless someone sneaks some &quot;They Live&quot; sunglasses technology into their flat screens...
Whenever I see Boehner introduced in an article, his name in my head has a Scooby voice, as in: John Boehner (Ruh-ROH).
Don&#039;t forget the guns. They would prefer a society based on the caliber of the citizenry, so to speak.
The U.S. Government can&#039;t bribe their way to high bond ratings. You have to be Goldman Sachs to afford that.
You know, I seem to remember learning that politics was about compromise. This involved the old-fashioned definition of compromise, not the &quot;I&#039;ll tell you what I want and then I&#039;ll whine if I don&#039;t get it&quot; definition that the Republicans coined.
There is a precedent for this. Some years ago, Adam Gopnik wrote a <a href="http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2004\/08\/23\/040823crat_atlarge" target="_blank">review</a> of some recent books on World War I. It included this: <i> ...The new histories suggest that the war was welcomed in 1914, and particularly by the literate classes, as a necessary act of hygiene, a chance to restore seriousness of purpose after the two trivial decades of the Edwardian Belle &Eacute;poque. The bourgeois atomization of society&mdash;with its pursuit of private pleasures at the expense of common cause, its celebration of goods at the expense of honor&mdash;would be repaired by a unifying new national purpose. Chesterton and Sherlock Holmes, in different ways, recapture the mood of dissatisfaction with the bourgeois, the decadent, the trifling, and the petty. (In &ldquo;His Last Bow,&rdquo; Holmes&rsquo;s last adventure, which is set in the summer of 1914, Holmes says to Watson, &ldquo;It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it&rsquo;s God&rsquo;s own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.&rdquo;) </i> So, off to the Somme, Verdun and Gallipoli! A default will be good for everyone! And the Galtian paradise that follows will be almost as wonderful as the rapture.
Do not go gentle under that good bus John.
Carrion lily
True dat. At least with Manifest Destiny we got something out of the deal.
When life gives you limes, it&#039;s a sign from the universe that you should be drinking mojitos. I&#039;ll be right over.
That is one creepy magazine cover. Well done...
I&rsquo;m surprised Boehner doesn&rsquo;t want to shut down the government when it worked out so well for Newt. Gingrich is running for president, has a million dollar credit line at Tiffany&rsquo;s, is well thought of with the social conservatives for his exemplarity morals and he has finally found a wife that will do the nasty without puking.
As long as property includes mobile homes.
Well, after yesterday I was going to move the bookmark for Wonkette from the &quot;fun stuff&quot; folder to the &quot;depressing shit&quot; folder, but this has me rethinking that plan.