In my last article, I made the point that the GOP will pull this hostage-taking crap again

[WilliamPitt]

...because it worked.

Well...


"In the future, any president, this one or another one, when they request us to raise the debt ceiling, it will not be clean anymore. This is just the first step."

- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in an interview with Larry Kudlow, suggesting fights over the debt ceiling are the new normal.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/08/02/extra_bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

...but no, this deal wasn't a fucking disaster.

Not at all.

:banghead:

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Absolutely.

[DainBramaged]

2. Republicans are terrorists

[MissHoneychurch]

3. McConnell forgot to add the words "...any DEMOCRATIC president"

Do you really believe the Repubs will complain when an REPUBLICAN president is raising the debt ceiling?

[ProSense]

4. Personally, I think we're doomed. Robert Reich:

The Hostage Crisis Continues: Why Obama Can’t Pivot to Jobs and Growth

[WilliamPitt]

6. ...and we enter Bizarro World...

[rhett o rick]

30. I would like to see a graph of the decline of the middle class in the last 30 years and have The

Third Way'ers explain how we are turning this around.

[Major Hogwash]

31. Ed Schultz had one on his program that also paralled the decline of unions in the US

The graph showed that both numbers were on a downhill decline.
The middle class has had its living standard lowered in the last 10 years due to the fact that their wages didn't go up at all during the last decade.
While the cost of gasoline doubled, and in some cases went up more than that for awhile, the middle class actually lost much of its discretionary spending power since Bush was the prez.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Negotiating with terrorists.

I thought we didn't do that.

[pscot]

22. We didn't

and now we do.

[robcon]

7. I think what we have to acknowledge is that the Tea Party is outraged that THEY gave up so much.

They want more - a lot more.

[Pholus]

12. The capitulation they just saw is akin to the teens finding Mom and Dad's credit card.

It's gonna get USED...

Too bad nobody put limits on it.

[mmonk]

8. They know it. They were smiling like Chesire cats.

They have a bird in a cage and they have the key.

[hifiguy]

9. This country is done. Just plain done.

Welcome to the new feudalism. Pull the fucking plug now and get it over with. Then people may wake up enough to fight back. But I doubt it.

[emulatorloo]

10. All the more reason to GOTV for 2012 and get the House back from these assholes

and get a bullet proof majority of good Dems in the Senate.

McConnell can bitch all he wants then.

[MBS]

11. +1 n/t

[Solomon]

13. Come on Will, you can do better than this. They/re going to do

that anyway, not "because it worked."

They've been doing it to everything that Obama suggests. And they would do it again even if Obama let the country go into default. Hell, they were doing it before Obama.

It's a cheap argument you're making here. I respect your opinion even if I disagree with it, but this one is a little cheap. It's akin to piling on.

As far as predicting it would happen again, hell, that one was easy and doesn't require any special skills or insight.

[DainBramaged]

17. The more we pile on these stupid bastards, the more people pay attention

defending the Pukes is reprehensible.

[Armstead]

18. I beg to differ..... Obama made it too easy.

It worked because Obama (and too many centrist Democrats) gave it all to them from the start.

The only opposition the GOP leaders faced was trying to keep their Tea Party troops under control enough to avoid really tanking the economy at the end.

Otherwise it was smooth sailing, with Obama providing much of their hot air with his own nonsense about "bipartisanship" and "compromise" -- both of which are worthy ideals, but not the way to compete with the GOP machine at this point.

[WilliamPitt]

28. Say it once

One person listens.

Say it over and over and over and over...

...and maybe the message gets through.

"It's a cheap argument you're making here."

Indeed.

I hope your job is easier than mine, for your sake.

My job sucks.

[Warren Stupidity]

14. Oh but our leaders are so clever!

They put in a poison pill - defense cuts - so that the terrorist hostage takes will have to negotiate in good faith. What could possibly go wrong with that stratergery?

meanwhile wall street is voting "Double Dip".

[Ganja Ninja]

15. That's a door that can swing both ways if the Dem's have the balls to go there.

The next time the GOP is in charge and they need to raise the debt ceiling the Democrats can demand a tax increase.

(Yeah I know like that'll happen.) :banghead:

[KittyWampus]

16. Sorry, I'm going with Sullivan's take- the Republicans are Financial Anarchists >

They're going to blow the Economy up any way they can.

Please answer this- why do you think they'd ever stop the destruction?

[Forkboy]

21. If the Republicans were holding a tank of gasoline Obama would offer up matches for bipartisanship.

why do you think they'd ever stop the destruction?

They wont.

Now answer this - if they are hellbent on economic ruin, why is Obama hellbent on meeting them halfway?

[rhett o rick]

32. Every time we compormise we lose more and more. Sooner or later we need to stand our ground

and fight back. Are you for us or against us?

[NightWatcher]

19. If it ain't broke..... Next tantrum will be over the bush tax cuts and they'll win

Hell, they may even give the job creators a bigger tax cut and a blowjob while theyre at it.

[OHdem10]

20. We have a budget coming up. There will be hostage taking

continuously---It works for them.

I thought the US did not reward Hostage Takers---uhhhmmmm

[Bandit]

23. And Democrats will be just as oblivious then as now..

:shrug: If they are not going to represent the people then the people need to find representation....Somewhere, somehow....

[RaleighNCDUer]

25. Democrats won't be. Third Wayers will. Unfortunately, there ain't many Democrats

left in the Democratic party leadership.

(edit for clarification)

[EC]

24. And he was grinning ear to ear when he said it

like he thinks holding the country hostage was fun and a good thing...They can't do their work without threats it seems.

[Major Hogwash]

26. We need to primary McConnell.

He's just not conservative enough!!

I saw an interview with Orrin Hatch and that wretch, Greta Van Suckstern on Faux Snooze the other day, and he said he was Tea Party before being Tea Party was cool.
I thought I was going to puke on my shoes.

They just can't run to the right fast enough these days!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. I pointed this to my mom

I expect hostage crisis galore. This is the new way to do bidness in DC.

[Solomon]

29. Well then I guess we should all take glee in shouting "we're right

and they're wrong" as we all cascade over the cliff into the abyss. Yeah, that'll teach 'em to pull this shit again.