The GOP leadership needs to get on the same page. This morning, Speaker Boehner was indignant about outside conservative groups opposing his budget plan:
House Speaker John A. Boehner delivered an uncharacteristically forceful response to conservative groups lining up against the budget compromise announced Tuesday, accusing them of “using” people to advance their own goals rather than the GOP’s.
Speaking with reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, the Ohio Republican mocked the powerful conservative forces that he said were staking out opposition to the deal even before its full details were public.
“They’re using our members and they’re using the American people for their own goals,” Boehner charged. “This is ridiculous.
“If you’re for more deficit reduction, you’re for this agreement,” he added.
Then, this afternoon, we got this:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will vote against the deal brokered by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, a knowledgeable source close to the Kentucky Republican told The Daily Caller on Wednesday.
While the budget proposal is expected to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, McConnell joins a growing list of Republican senators — including Marco Rubio of Florida, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Rand Paul of Kentucky — who oppose the deal.
Assuming that Tucker Carlson’s horrible rag has their information right, it seems that the leader of the Senate GOP is being used by outside groups, is being ridiculous, and doesn’t care about deficit reduction. At least, that’s the logical conclusion of Boehner’s thinking on the subject.
The Democrats in the House should vote down this piece of crap agreement and let Boehner and McConnell shut down the government again if they won’t accede to more spending and an extension of unemployment insurance.
Speaking with reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, the Ohio Republican mocked the powerful conservative forces that he said were staking out opposition to the deal even before its full details were public.
Anyone know where I can find a super-tiny violin for The Tan Man?
Right here.
The Democrats in the House should vote down this piece of crap agreement and let Boehner and McConnell shut down the government again if they won’t accede to more spending and an extension of unemployment insurance.
This, all day long.
The Republicans are self-destructing.
If Democrats want to take back the House, retain the Senate, and own the White House, all they have to do is stand back and let the fascists hang themselves.
Fuck, I’ll walk to Washington, supply the rope and tie the knots myself. Please. I’ll pay for the privilege.
Democrats are eager for this bill. Tammy Duckworth e-mailed me praising it.
She also voted with Republicans to delay the ACA for another year. Sometimes (often) I wonder why I bothered to vote against Joe Walsh. Meanwhile Pat Quinn attacks state retirees while preserving huge pensions for politicians like Richard Daley. The Democrats are no better than Republicans.
Joe Walsh was a lunatic.
No argument there. But Tammy Duckworth is shaping up as another Melissa Bean.
If you actually believe that “the Democrats are no better than the Republicans” than you’re voice isn’t just in the wilderness.
You’re lost.
On economics, yes, that’s what I believe. They are owned by the same corporations.
So you choose to ignore the economic benefits of the PPACA as compared to the status quo?
Or how Democrats, as bad as they are, aren’t trying to actively hurt people, and try to pass SNAP and unemployment benefits while the Republicans would instead cut or dismember them?
I understand the animosity towards politicians, even Democrats. But you PuresTM confuse the hell out of me.
Is the best bet to just not vote for anyone, or vote for a third party, while letting the fascists get the power they want?
Once again, Obama doesn’t know who he is “negotiating” with. There is no “compromising” with a mob.