I don't really have a lot to say about this, I just wanted to get it out there.
It seems like this whole cycle of shutdown and budget fighting lacks a good name at this point, so i just wanted to suggest "The Koch Coup."
Democrats think the world is controlled by billionaires and corporations (especially oil companies) exerting their influence by lobbying and campaign contributions.
Republicans on the other hand believe that the world is controlled by a handful of shadowy nameless puppet masters, mostly Jews who are financiers (George Soros) or dead 30 years (Saul Alinsky) or retired academics (Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven) or the Jewish German refugee sociologists of "The Frankfurt School" who supposedly conquered the United States back in the 1960s. It's turtles all the way down, except the turtles are all Jews.
Yes, it's a world of conspiracies for the GOP: Obama's election, global warming, UN Agenda 21, and many others. Except they never seem to be able to connect the mysterious puppetmasters to these huge conspiracies. How come they can never ferret out the masterminds when these conspiracies are all so obvious. Why can't Glenn Beck's magic chalkboard ever really get down to specifics?
My point is this - the whole GOP base is pumped up on the idea of super villains. I'm not sure if their imaginary bad guy is living on Spider Skull Island in an extinct volcano or what. But the larger point is that people like this are chronically discontented, and people like that are perfectly happy to tear their own organizations apart from the inside (some of you might have experienced a twinge of guilt there). And we know they are obsessed with purity and purges, so we need to make sure the base has some fresh scapegoats.
So hows about "The Koch Brothers Coup?"