Wednesday, May 25, 2011

GOP Congressional Members


Caucus behind closed doors with Paul Ryan to respectfully discuss the tricky position that his Bold and Serious Plan to Destroy Medicare puts them in.

6 comments:

Capt. Bat Guano said...

Even Mike Vick had to discipline his best Pit Bull.

Anonymous said...

That reminds me of a kid in my high school electronics class who was from an Army family. Many times he said soap parties were good things and how often the people who got them deserved them. Usually, it was for people who might possibly be tempted by ho-mo-sex-shul perversions, or who might not be Catholic (Jews exempt). He was also someone who would become instantly angry at the mention of gays or atheists, and believed the country would be better if both were in unmarked mass graves.

What bothered me most was that it sounded like his beliefs were legacy, and that his whole family was like that.

Where's Darwin and his Chainsaw of Natural Selection when you need him?

Mike.K.

Glen Tomkins said...

Obviously, they can't handle the truth.

Roket said...

Olly olly oxen free. Time for a do over. Paging Frank Luntz.

StringonaStick said...

They aren't going to back down on this one; the Koch's have tasted just a bit of victory and they're going for it, all out.

Personally, I'm glad they're so clumsily overplayed their hand; even people who never bother with politics are paying attention now that Medicare is in the crosshairs.

jim said...

I smell a Long Game being played: win or lose, putting Medicare & Social Security on the chopping-block sets a long-desired precedent - one that will come in very handy in the wake of the next economic clusterfuck. The GOP already knew 2012 was a dead loss the day Obama announced he'd had OBL whacked (at the very latest).

Also worth noting that nearly all the seats up for grabs next year are held by Democrats now anyway, & that redistricting means there's circa zero odds of them all remaining blue - so they truly do have virtually nothing to lose by playing the Radical Randian card ... & with the Dems so willing to compromise halfway, & good old historical amnesia as America's unofficial national pastime, they can get most of what they want with no real pricetag.