So if you haven't heard, the soulless bastard Fearless Leader of the Oil Wall Street Tea Crazy Republican Party in the Senate, Mitch McConnell has grandiosely threatened to hold more or less the entire world economy (via the US debt ceiling) hostage, unless Medicare gets cut.
Don't believe me? I'm sure you do, but just in case you don't, you can see it right here
Mitch McConnell has just openly admitted to wanting to play a dangerous game of Russian Roulette with not only the United States of America, but if some of the dire scenarios put out by economists are to be believed (and they are) the entire World economy, potentially.
You know what? If ever there was a time for Democrats to not cave and to find whatever semblance of a spine they have, this would be it. As far as I am concerned, if McConnell or Boehner or Cantor or any other deluded fool thinks this is a good idea, then I have only one solution to the problem:
Spin the chamber, and put the revolver in McConnell's hand, and wait for him to shoot himself with it.
(Sidebar: If you don't realize that's rhetorically speaking and not literally speaking, please adjust your Context-o-Meter. Not a product of Koch Industries)
Republicans these days are openly and with extreme prejudice coming out and basically telling everyone who isn't a white, rich male that they can just drop dead.
Not wealthy? Fuck you.
Not white? Fuck you.
Not straight? Fuck you.
Not Christian? Fuck you. Praise be to God.
Not conservative to the point of blindly walking off a cliff? Double Fuck You
Not a "job creator" (which is code for Rich)? Fuck you.
That Bastard I Will Not Name (He comes from Wisconsin, and people think he's "Courageous") today said straight up that the Teapublican Party doesn't operate on any pesky "facts" or even "figures" or anything that most rational, sane people (from any side of the aisle) would tend to utilize in order to formulate policy prescriptions.
Nope. Not raising taxes is akin to simple ideological belief. Nothing more. Nothing less. Just a pie-in-the-sky, twinkly-eyed belief that ever, ever causing someone's tax rate to go up is just, well...not feasible.
Right Here:
Rep. RYAN: I don’t yeah, I don’t see it. And let me explain why, and this isn’t a political thing. It’s an economic belief. It’s an economic doctrine thing.
That's right. A belief in screwing people over, because that's what Grover Fucking Norquist believes.
The thing is, if the Insane Right Wing of this country is willing to literally send the entire global economy potentially cratering into the ground just because they don't want to hurt someone's fee-fees or their wallet a little to, you know, help pay for useful services...then I say we should fucking let them.
Republicans control the power in the House, whether we like it or not. If they, or the recalcitrant soulless fobs in the Senate aren't willing to do what - as Greg Sargent often points out - everyone has already agreed has to be done, then they and they alone will bear the fallout from their actions.
When more or less the entire country, rich, poor, etc, feels the potential brutal sting from what could happen...because they chose to stand proud for a tiny but foam-at-the-mouth crowd that make up their base told them to...
The Republicans won't just go the way of the Whigs. They'll go the way of the dinosaurs.
Here you go Mitch. Your pistol awaits.