Budget talks: This is getting nasty

I posted this a few days ago, but I think it's the basis of what everyone is saying as far as the Tea Party getting fat on perks just like the rest.

 

That's a stretch.

And, I'd say it's least true about these folks. They're doing what they said they'd do.

The fact that changing their vote might end their career doesn't mean it's their motivation.

 

They aren't doing what they said they'd do. Unless, of course, they promised to stomp on the accelerator as the bus nears the edge of the cliff.

 

When I was in middle school, a kid on my bus was saying he was going to shoot somebody. Nobody thought much of it. A couple days later he actually shot another kid before school.

All this time I thought he was a crazy bastard. Turns out he just had integrity and was true to his word.

 

Good for (not sure..."I thought was a crazy bastard" is rather confusing).

By the way, stories are so much better when they have a point to them.

 

Thanks for pointing out the missing word.

C'mon you're a smart guy, I'm sure that one word didn't stop you from missing the point.

 

That's funny. You made me laugh there. For anybody with sense, that was an aprapos story by Staley. But you made me laugh at 2 a.m. Good for you.

Staley, your story is even better if it's true.

 

It's true. It happened when I was in sixth grade. The crazy kid, Joe, had a tendency to make empty threats, though he did get into plenty of trouble. He kept repeating on the bus he was going to shoot somebody. Everybody I knew just blew him off.

A couple days later, we're riding to school in the bus and we stopped at a railroad crossing, like we did every day. A car pulled up next to us at the crossing. The kid in the passenger seat, who usually rode our bus, flashed a small handgun. A split second later, I noticed Joe was sitting in the seat directly in front of me. At that moment, I realized Joe was going to make good on his crazy ramblings. It later came out that the kid in the passenger seat had supplied the gun.

I wish I could say I was the valiant kid who prevented the shooting by notifying a cop at school or a teacher. But I wasn't. In my frightened 12-year-old mind, it made more sense to stay quiet, because I didn't know for sure if anything would happen and suddenly Joe was a lot more scary than crazy. Walking around the courtyard before school I was nervous and my friends asked me what was up. I didn't want to tell them.

Suddenly there's a POP ... POP (it was only a 22), and I saw Joe, gun in hand, sprinting away from the scene of the crime.

I said, "Holy shit, he did it."

My friends just looked at me, confused.

 

The "compromise" which will be enacted offers the Republicans MORE than Boehner originally proposed. What a useless set of cowards the Democrats are. They will be eviscerated in the 2012 elections when the Medicare and Social Security cuts kick in, and rightly so. Obama may not take as many states as Carter did in 1980.

 

So, as a Conservative Republican, should I still be mad at the "Tea Party"?

And, as much as some of you have been speaking about a rift in the Right and predicting doom for Boehner's hold on the Speakership, the Times noticed something else:

 

There are serious divisions in both parties, but as the party with the smaller share of power, it is far easier for the Republicans to deal with theirs. Should they win the White House in 2012, and I see no reason why they won't, that formula will be reversed, as President Romney or Perry tries to get the Congress to do the minimal stuff Congress must do to keep the country running.
The Republican nominee whoever it may be will run, naturally, on the economy. But they'll have to have some suggestion as to what they'll do about it. This will be -- still more tax cuts. This will lead to, wait for it, bigger deficits, more debt ceiling votes, and a huge rift when said President does not want to be responsible for accompanying budget cuts.
Look at the approval ratings of all those Republican governors elected in 2010. Not pretty. People judge executives by different (and higher) standards than they do legislatures. Not what Madison and Hamilton intended them to do, but that's how it works.
Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, if they are totally the minority as the Republicans were in 2009, THEIR base will become proportionately more influential within the party.

 

Good post.