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This Quote Says Everything About The GOP's Shutdown Stand "We're not going to be disrespected," Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) told The Washington Examiner. "We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is." This is better than The Onion. You just cannot make this sort of bullshit up! A coffin nail for the GOP? Nope. This is the epitaph.
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While the Republicans may not have an endgame Obana does.
As I said in another post, it's my guess Obama has that $ trillion coin in his hip pocket, waiting.
And then, it finally dawned on me as I was showering a few minutes ago. That's his game plan. This whole thing is to wrest out of the hands of the Congress the authority to raise the debt ceiling. The refusal to negotiate has been crafted cannily for almost a year.
The very first time the Republicans refused to go to conference committee on the budget Obama had them by the short and curly hairs. And they fell into that trap EIGHTEEN times. Not to mention 40 plus votes to defund Obamacare. It just took a while to get a good grip on the scrotum. But now Obama has only to sit back and wait until the day before the Treasury goes into default.
Then, out of the West (well, west of the Capitol Building anyway) comes a knight in shining armor. "I will save the world from the Republicans. I hold here in my hand a piece for our times." But this time it's a piece of platinum with LOTS of zeros on it. et voila! and if I were Obama I would hold that damned coin up in front of all the world and explain how this is going to work.
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What's you talkin' about Willis? 'Splain to us Lucy. What coin? What knight?
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Ted, thanks to the "war on terror" rulings the President just has to declare a national emergency and raise the debt ceiling by an E.O.; however, I hope that won't be necessary.
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Ted, thanks to the "war on terror" rulings the President just has to declare a national emergency and raise the debt ceiling by an E.O.; however, I hope that won't be necessary. What rulings are those, Joe?
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The same ones that allow him to inter citizens indefinitely and to murder them without due process of law. Raising the debt ceiling shouldn't be a problem, Ted.
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This is probably the best response to the Stutzman quote that you will read all day: Link to Charlie Pierce article This is an excerpt: The Intertoobz is alive this morning with the plaintive wail of Congressman Marvln Stutzman of Indiana, who finds that he is being disrespectedby history even as he is in the process of making it.
"We aren't going to be disrespected...We have to get something out of this. And I don't know what that even is."
Have a cookie, Marlin. Have a cookie and go play with your toes. Please click on the link and read the rest.
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The same ones that allow him to inter citizens indefinitely and to murder them without due process of law. Raising the debt ceiling shouldn't be a problem, Ted. Oh, I thought you meant something specific. Silly me. As to interring citizens indefinitely, if they are dead you sort of have to inter them, don't you?
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...As to interring citizens indefinitely, if they are dead you sort of have to inter them, don't you? Good luck with that if they're zombies.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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