I've been trumpeting Obama was a corporatist since late January 2009 based purely on the return of the Robert Rubin crowd and the dumping of the team that ran the 2008 campaign so beautifully. But that's water under the bridge. I was right and you were wrong for continuing to make excuses, playing patsie to the GOP and buying into every single fascist idea the Right could come up with. But in the interest of fair play, I'm willing to coddle you wimps on more time.
Even though you're all scared shitless of the threat of a gov't shutdown and are ready to be sodomized by the Tea Party one more time, I'd like to outline a few talking points which brave Dems should be using to respond to all of the assholes who blather that shutting down the Federal Government for a while might be a good thing.
Now, don't expect a econometric analysis, or a projection on the impact of different ways to close it all down as so many would like to do. Stop crying about how the elderly and the poor would be harmed and start thinking about the ways we can have the aristocrats hurt most from the threat of the shutdown.
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