Here we all are watching the Really Stupid Wing of The Stupid Party, who thinks you are stupid, hold the nation hostage...
To get what? Something, evidently. Doesn't matter what it is, only that there is something.
Worse, we've got the media working the false equivalence trifecta:
1. Both sides. Also.
2. "But the Liberals..."
3. Forget the past, live in the moment, waking up fresh each day as if nothing at all happened.
From where I stand, the only real, material discussion is how to cut some deal that keeps those three in play. The Republicans have already lost. This is about preserving the lies going forward for some party dignity, and it's taking a while mostly because The Really Stupid Wing of The Stupid Party, who thinks you are stupid, stepped on their dicks with both feet solid!
Truth is, way too many people in the media would lose both their shit and their jobs if they actually came clean about what is going on, instead of working double over time to figure out new and interesting ways to lie about the basic, toxic truth in the GOP.
If you read this thinking, "Sheesh, the Spud is more than a little bit annoyed", you would be right! Frankly, I'm stunned! By all rights, this should be a no brainer. The Republicans take a hit, resolve to clean house and we move toward a more productive Congress sometime in the near future, but that isn't what is going to happen.
While driving around, I saw the little gatherings of "Teh Stupid" here and there, waiving their "IMPEACH" flags, banging on things, and mostly just standing around looking old. And they are OLD! Didn't see anybody under 40 for sure, and in my home town, I saw the same people I did the last time we saw the Tea Party go full toxic.
They were the ones on the corner when the Tea Party Express launched them on a fast track to crazy land. No where to go but nuts! And today they have arrived!
Nobody should own any part of this mess but the Republicans! They were the ones who decided the smart way to win elections was to find every racist, bigot, dullard, theocrat, crank, loon and fool they could find, normalize them to "Real American" status, and ask only for their vote in return!
Did anybody seriously believe these people were not going to go whole hog the first real chance they got?
Hell no they didn't, and that should be the discussion right there. Forget the deal, whatever it is. These people won't stop. They have no reason to. These are the end times baby, and there is nowhere to go but nuts!
Bat. Shit. Nuts.
The same people! Most of the gatherings I saw consisted of maybe 10, sometimes 20 people who clearly need their Uncle Sam, yet have no clue at all! To them, nothing else matters. They don't even matter. You don't matter.
The only thing that does matter is getting their way, despite their way being against most of their best interests too! There is no dealing with these people at all. They don't even value themselves enough to think this through well enough to understand they truly are cutting off their nose to spite their face.
The same people... Over and Over and Over...
If we reward this, we deserve everything we get for doing it. Seriously. And the most maddening thing about it for me is the near constant working of that false equivalence trifecta... Both sides, forget the past and "but the liberals"
We don't have Democrats and Republicans. We've got Corporatist. Too damn many of them.
I don't know how to do it. Wish I did, but I can't escape how golden of an opportunity this is to highlight the differences between the parties. Most all of the time we talk about the parties as atomic things when they just aren't.
The Really Stupid Wing of The Stupid Party sticks out right now. For most people, this is clear. We have a Republican party, and it contains these loons.
And both sides, right!! (Of course not. But, if it's gonna stick...)
Sure. There are Democrats, and then there are Progressive Democrats too. I wish I knew how to make the Progressive Democrats stand out like that so people could see all the good there waiting to check the really bad...