Jonah Goldberg channels Rodney King:
The ugliness of the GOP schism will probably have a long half life, as various parties feel the need to point fingers and shout “I didn’t do it!” But if at all possible, I think conservatives and Republicans would be well-served by putting these disagreements behind us, like family fights at a Thanksgiving table that are best forgotten. If this were a very special episode of a 1980s TV show, we could resolve all of this with a simple break-dancing competition. But as that is not a viable option at this juncture, neither is any other emotionally or intellectually satisfying settlement to this argument.
Yeah, why can’t we all get along?
The break-dancing idea, however? Not bad.
Does anyone of any importance listen to Doughbob Loadpants?
Yeah, this argument they are having is just like those family debates with your grizzled old uncle about who makes a better car, Ford or Chevy. Or whether USC or UCLA will prevail in the Bowl game. Just a simple disagreement. At the end of the day, it’s all good, right?
Nice try, Doughy Pantload. You get an A for effort. But no amount of Febreeze is going to mask the stink from this pile of shit that the GOP has dropped.
Been a busy day at work today. Still haven’t had a chance to check whats going in, but from the twitter I see there is a deal.
I gotta get back to work, but my only question I guess is did Obama and the Dems sell us out?
No, they didn’t sell us out.
You can sit and watch Jonah Goldberg poplock and Sarah Palin do the wop, centipede and the jump up twerkin it, but I, for one, shole the hell will not be.
It’s 2013 so we’ll have to settle for a twerking competition instead. Can’t wait to see Boehner partake.
As long as he doesn’t have to dress like Miley Cyrus – I do not think the nation could recover from that visual travesty.
And Lindsey Graham begging Dems to be magnanimous is rich, too.
Let the schadenfreude begin. And who better than with son-of-the-stain-on-the-blue-dress-agent-runner.
All the Republican finger-pointing going on — and missing the big things they gained:
Isn’t that exciting? It’s like Bill Cullen giving you $100 on The Price Is Right — right there on the TV.
You can shorten that.
THD, why do you say that Obama’s letting them do it all over again in January and February? Is that Obama’s doing all by himself? I thought there were valid budgetary reasons those times were chosen, and just perhaps, the Senate GOP wasn’t gonna go along with a much longer extension on the debt ceiling.
The reality is that they have the rope again if they want to hang themselves again.
It is interesting how narrow the negotiating parameters in the Senate were. Especially since the GOP were on the ropes.
This was a decision to continue the rope-a-dope another round.
Good analogy, Ali knew if he was winning the early rounds with that strategy, by mid fight his opponent would have expended much energy wasting their punches and he wasn’t so the second half of the fight(if it lasted that long) was his to dominate, cause he was already ahead in points, and had more reserve energy left.
travelling these past 2 days. Heard a game on the radio between 2 morning deejays
Rapper or Republican congresscritter?
one would say a name and the other had to guess was it a rapper’s “real” name or the name of a Republican congresscritter.
good tiimes
Cruz actually said this? Snark aside, I’ve long believed that thanks to certain textbook influencers and other factors, we’ve produced a generation or two that’s weak on the actual facts of our history. I shall be watching Cruz with real interest. Trying to decide the limits of his deviousness and cunning, if they exist at all. Not for a moment do I believe that he’s not fully cognizant of how much lying he’s doing.
No, but Cruzites are using similar framing about their victory.
Here’s another one:
And the Twitter game seems to be #GOPplaylist, such as:
Batcrap Fever #GOPplaylist
Dreher jumps ship (or maybe throws the GOP over the side?) at the American Conservative. Well, revisit that next summer and see what he says.
Channeling Rodney King? When I saw the headline, I thought, “It’s more like the Pantload is channeling Bill Murray in ‘Meatballs’.”
And then I got to the end of his post, and there it is, the scene from ‘Meatballs’. Oh my God, it’s beyond parody.
Goldberg’s analogy to a family does have one redeeming virtue: like your crazy uncle, the GOP fruitcakes are not going anywhere for a while. They have to be dealt with. You can’t just lock them in the basement. They will continue to disrupt .
One idea: my crazy uncle moved to florida, and I don;t have to see him much anymore. Can we get all the GOP fruitcakes to move to Florida? Then we could do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=xiTM2HQ0g98
(embedding no work, sorry)
Dagnabit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiTM2HQ0g98
A telling quote from a Republican Senate aide, after the House failed to pass anything at all: “They are a majority party that wants to be a minority party. . .This is not how a majority party acts. The majority party takes the power that it has and puts it to use. And in this case, they refused to use the power they had because they would rather rail against the majority that they should be trying to deal with.”
I guess they really didn’t realize how bad things had become.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-dilemma-house-majority-failure-means-best-hope-is-weak-senate-mino
rity/article/2537285
This is priceless as Alex Castellanos compares the Cruz to bunny sex. And Anderson asks the only possible question, ‘are you high’?
Cooper is either stupid or extremely prudish or both. I didn’t understand what C. meant either — at first — but then he explained it very clearly. Cooper was too busy having kittens to understand him. It’s actually a good analogy.
HA! Paraphrasing another classic wingnut: “In the 2000s you can’t say ‘n*gger n*gger n*gger’ anymore so you say things like ‘break-dancing'”
Make no mistake, Jonah fits the dictionary definition of evil.