Call me petty, call me mean-spirited. But I want to see Republicans publicly mocked, excoriated and humiliated for their shenanigans with the CR and DL. For the second time in his presidency (the first being January 2009), Obama has them on the mat and down for a 9-count. This time around, no playing nice. I want Obama, Reid and Pelosi to squish them like bugs into the dustbin of history, mixed metaphors be damned.
Those assholes actually thought they could use the sovereign debt of the United States as a bargaining chip and get away with it. Now even the bankers and business elite are abandoning them. Time for Obama to administer the final coup de grace. For starters, any deal on the CR and DL should be coupled with the resignation en masse of the entire House Republican leadership from their leadership positions. Next, the 49 Teabillies should have to apologize publicly for their role in undermining the full faith and credit of the United States. Finally, any deal to let Republicans off the hook should be predicated upon a rider that the DL never again be used in such a manner.
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A party that retains its power only through use of gerrymandering and pocket boroughs, even while receiving 1.5 million fewer votes nationally in the last round of national elections, is a party wholly lacking in any meaningful legitimacy. As such, the Republican Party is not entitled to a place at the table with the adults but must stay at the kids' table until dinner is over in November 2014 and it is excused once and for all.
Who in the fuck do these people think they are, putting 800,000 public servants out of work (and countless others who work in businesses that depend upon the dollars of those same pubic servants)? Who the fuck do these shitheads think they are, threatening the default of obligations solemntly undertaken in the past to our nation's debtors, veterans and seniors? I want to see some major fucking humiliation and some abject groveling from that entire Republican-Teabilly anarcho-nihilist cadre.