tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post2994964799633454584..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-79157912752555689522013-10-13T23:56:06.862-04:002013-10-13T23:56:06.862-04:00I think this is going to end just fine and the rea...I think this is going to end just fine and the reason is Boehner won't take the Senate proposal to the TPers. Rather he'll go hat in hand to Nancy Pelosi and ask her to deliver the votes. That's precisely why the Republicans will be forced to accept a deal they really don't want. There's a price for Democratic votes. Parallaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02197450068146912743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-3919862209823133632013-10-13T21:17:08.613-04:002013-10-13T21:17:08.613-04:00thousands of veterans ??
the WaPo, which is the h...thousands of veterans ??<br /><br />the WaPo, which is the home town paper, says hundreds<br />it is in the local news section, at the following url<br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/veterans-protest-closure-of-monuments-and-memorials/2013/10/13/adaf699c-342e-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.htmlSoccer Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10745967553131454562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-53298718936805052832013-10-13T16:41:31.458-04:002013-10-13T16:41:31.458-04:00Some of us think it's undoubtedly all show lea...<i>Some of us think it's undoubtedly all show leading up to the adoption of the non-Grand Bargain of the chained-CPI Social Security/Medicare permanent cuts as the only solution to both the shutdown and the sequester.</i><br /><br />Republicans could have this instantly -- all they'd have to do is accept a slight increase in rich people's taxes, which is Obama's only precondition.<br /><br />But that's a dealbreaker for them, so it never happens.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-74282103011986832652013-10-13T16:03:37.373-04:002013-10-13T16:03:37.373-04:00OT, and yet somehow relevant, I think:
Remember a...OT, and yet somehow relevant, I think:<br /><br />Remember aimai's wonderful pinch-hitting essay, "The Punishers Want to Run the Country or We Are All Tipped Waitstaff Now":<br /><br />http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-punishers-want-to-run-country-or-we.html<br /><br />She boiled her thesis down to "Shorter: Republicans are the dissatisfied and angry diners at the table of life." The entire essay is magnificent as a dissection of the angry right's mindset, with a broader implication that they see government as their employees, and a lazy, underworked, overpaid, useless lot at that.<br /><br />I was reading a story at cnn.com about an angry mob of TPer's busting through barricades in Washington:<br /><br />http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/13/at-tea-party-like-rally-obama-told-to-put-the-quran-down/?hpt=hp_t2<br /><br />Nasty stuff those loons were yelling, as you might expect. Then I came upon this passage, near the end:<br /><br />"Later on, some people from the rally walked over to Pennsylvania Avenue carrying the barricades and dumped them in front of the White House. While they gathered peacefully for the most part, some were more vocal and shouted at police on horseback. 'You work for us,' some chanted."<br /><br />And I thought immediately of aimai's essay -- how spot on it was.Never Ben Betterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814767173601107270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-77491796243102294392013-10-13T15:41:29.112-04:002013-10-13T15:41:29.112-04:00What a scream!
"...tempering its Kurtzian st...What a scream!<br /><br />"...tempering its Kurtzian streak with prudence, realism, and savoir-faire..."<br /><br />Tempering it's Kurtzians? What does that mean, stapling doilies on the corpses?<br /><br />Slather on some savoir faire, you mean like De Sade?<br /><br />What a card! White Hathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12051232164267483296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8239918041343016732013-10-13T14:08:08.721-04:002013-10-13T14:08:08.721-04:00Don't-Know-That is always a great pretender.
...Don't-Know-That is always a great pretender.<br /><br />Some of us think it's undoubtedly all show leading up to the adoption of the non-Grand Bargain of the chained-CPI Social Security/Medicare permanent cuts as the only solution to both the shutdown and the sequester.<br /><br />If the righties refuse any deal, put your bets down on that being the end game that pleases everyone.<br /><br />Except the 99%, of course.<br /><br />But they have no votes in Congress.<br /><br />See <b>http://www.salon.com/2013/10/10/looming_victory_for_gop_social_security_cuts/</b>Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-1914771594308719772013-10-13T13:48:39.348-04:002013-10-13T13:48:39.348-04:00Yeah, Douthat really sucks.
But he sucks a lot le...Yeah, Douthat really sucks.<br /><br />But he sucks a lot less than Bill Kristol - who sucks more than this Universes largest Black Hole - who inherited "The William Lewis Safire Honorary NY Time Conservative Op-ed Douche-canoe" seat.<br /><br />And say what you will about Safire - and I was never any fan of his inept and insipid political analyses - but his "On Language" column was pretty damn good!<br /><br />I'm just happy - so far - the President Obama and the Congressional Democrats haven't caved yet.<br /><br />Maybe this is why Conservatives were so against stem-cell research - they were afraid that the Democrats might get a spine!!!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-14768494558495519792013-10-13T13:33:43.729-04:002013-10-13T13:33:43.729-04:00Sing it, brother! I think your analysis of Douthat...Sing it, brother! I think your analysis of Douthat is spot on, and I'm reduced to hoping your predictions about the current impasse are wrong. debghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14824163721348960071noreply@blogger.com