What petulant children the GOP are.
I have to confess I mostly tuned out this weekend because I can't handle the stress. I had my daughter visiting me so I took time to be with my family. I went to bed last night not knowing if HCR had passed.
This morning, I opened up Kos, saw the very good news, smiled, and then opened up Redstate. Wow. The poutrage is trembling over there. A tear-streaked Erk son of Erk has posted a FUCKING HILARIOUS temper tantrum over Bart Stupak, who apparently was looking out for his re-election prospects instead of burnishing his fake Republican creds:
They want to send him 100 silver coins, like he's a Judas. Of course, Erk can't even get the reference right -- it's supposed to be thirty.
Even in poutraged revenge, Erk is a chowderhead who can't get the details right.
Only a bonehead would try to make a stunt like this look more impressive by sending more money. Erk implores his readers that it's only $4.00 a piece for 100 of them to send Stupak his, erm, "blood" money.
I find it hysterical that apparently the entire right-wing's hopes and dreams for defeating this bill, that they do not understand, had been swinging from the coat of a Democrat who they hoped was conservative enough for them.
Does this point up some serious weaknesses in the GOP's strategy? Perhaps if they had applied themselves seriously to the task of negotiating with the Democrats, they might have felt like they were part of this inevitable process.
No, instead, the Repukes chose to bring nothing to the negotating table. Between lying about the existence of the problem, lying about the contents of the bill, promoting a phony grassroots movement to oppose it, lying about the process, and in short pulling every blatantly dishonest trick out of the book to derail it. And without even trying to hide what they were doing, Republicans referred to this moment as Obama's "Waterloo" and made plain their plans to derail ANY healthcare legislation regardless.
Republicans have made it clear that they have no interest in governing. They would have preferred that this issue be shouted down to silence by their angry, violence-prone extremist minority. They've shown zero interest in even admitting that a majority of Americans could have a problem with this.
And today, I was talking to a friend of mine who is not very politically savvy, and he was of the distinct impression (fomented and supported by a press full of liars and frauds) that the public didn't really want this legislation, and that Congress is doing something against the very vocal opposition of the public. This is entirely untrue, but it's amazing that people who aren't informed about the topic can believe that. It's amazing how tenacious Republican lies can become.
So, after months of lying, obstructing, and trying as hard as they can to derail this process, the extremist nutjobs of the Republican party were reduced to depending on a member of the Democratic caucus to sabotage their plan for them. And amazingly, it appears that an arm or two got twisted and the GOP's mole didn't come through for them.
And they are so upset about being shut out of the process that they shut themselves out of that they're throwing a red-faced shitfit.
I love it. Suck on it, Republicans. Suck it DOWN.