Budget talks: This is getting nasty

Oh, and I do not blame you guys for attacking the messenger. What he was saying...well, you don't really want to talk about that.

 

Put something on the table!

Tell us where you are!

 

I'm not usually a fan of Kathryn Jean Lopez, but this is worth repeating.

The President blew it. He could have had a deal a week ago:

 

Someone need to tell the White House that their little tactic of using Twitter backfired today. He loses 36,000 followers (Dems and Repubs).

http://mashable.com/2011/07/29/obama-compromise-campaign-stats/

If he or whoever is managing his account is going to use the #compromise and #bipartisan hashtags, then post everyone's twitter account, not just the GOP.

Add that to Adrian Peterson RT (retweeting) his followers' tweet, without botherig to reply to any of them, and it was a rough day for well-known personalities.

Don't piss social media users off.

 

In true bipartisan fashion, I think we can all find common ground in the idea that this is the most useless and irrelevant point of the entire 49-page thread.

 

Oh, the whole thing is certainly about Obama -- mainly, about the shrieking screeching racist teabaggers' obsession with removing him from office whatever the cost, including a Bigger Badder Depression if need be. As long as they get their countree back, they'll be happy.

 

I would think that was pretty sad if I took you at all seriously. As it stands I enjoy seeing how out there you are willing to go.
Signed,
A racist "Teabagger"

 

I wouldn't go that far. But I do think this is now about the future of the GOP more than anything else.

And, hey, if they have to wreck the nation to flush out the RINOs, then by Gawd, that's what the tea partiers will do.

 

Self loathing Conservatives are a sad site.

Kathleen Parker, every Liberal's favorite Conservative, ensures she'll be treated well at the next cocktail party by blaming the "Tea Party" for not surrendering, right when they're on the verge of victory:

 

Yes, she must loathe herself, because no self respecting conservative would ever dissent against the Tea Party, the only real Americans who speak the truth and and have the guts to do what's right.

 

The Tea Party is a minority within a majority in the House. They represent 60 or 70 out of 230 or so Republicans.

If Boehner had any stones, he'd pick this fight vigorously and be far more conciliatory in his public appearances. The old-line Pubes will back him in a speakership vote against Cantor.

That he can hold the Baggers at bay with a SHINY OBJECT (a BBA that has no chance at all of passage) speaks volumes about their real effectiveness.