Super Fun Time Politics Thread in Which We Discuss Stuff

by **Grotewold** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:37:35

Yeah I really don't get this. The GOP will be blamed for us going over the cliff, after which Obama can propose cutting taxes on people under 250K, no?

by **pacino** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:39:36

yeah...through no fault of his own, obama might actually end up doing what i wanted.

by **drsmooth** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:42:25

Psycho Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp propped up as Morning Joe's House punching bag, apparently one of the few cockroaches that didn't scuttle out of town already. Punchable face for sure.

Congrats Tim, you're the face of American governmental dysfunction. He doesn't deserve the piling on now (he's also essentially being blamed for Sandy Hook, and he's obliging by sticking to "it's not a gun problem" - the man has schoolchildren, what a cretin, even fucktard Scarborough's pissing on him), but he's there, and that's that

by **drsmooth** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:43:50

Hilarious now. Scarborough ready to punch this fool down

by **pacino** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:45:42

wow, joe looked like he was going to go 'the ring' on that guy

by **pacino** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:47:55

'Tonight in Washington, Republicans are wasting our time'

by focusing on Plan B, something that wouldn't have passed either chamber or gone past the Prez, Boehner has allowed the Prez to have all the cards. he really is the tops. early xmas present, i guess?

by **Grotewold** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:50:22

Sounds like it was more the rank and file than Boehner, no? Really not seeing the logic of their play here

Gave away the little leverage they had

by **pacino** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:51:28

yes, but his and the leadership's job is to hit them up on the side of the head. plus, that he focused on it was a complete waste of time

by **pacino** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:52:51

at least they passed the bill to cut SNAP and meals on wheels

by **drsmooth** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 08:56:57

Some pretty funny tweets on Huelskamp's appearance. like "Tim Huelskamp answers the musical question, "What's the Matter With Kansas?"

by **pacino** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 09:08:56

so Joe Scarborough is still not open to the idea that Republicans may be led around by the crazies. It's not crazy to think that 50% of income is taken from you, blah blah blah, etc

missing the boat

by **drsmooth** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 09:14:38

It's like a bizarro version of Mr Smith Goes to Washington, with the Republican caucus bravely fighting collectively for Claude Rains' pernicious dam project, and losing

by **drsmooth** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 09:17:03

Scarborough's resident goofballs confidently evaluating this as a tactical stumble. Uhhhm, ok, no, it's more than that

by **Soren** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 09:38:18

The Nightman Cometh wrote:Party first, country second.

GOP: For Money, God and country

by **kimbatiste** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 09:55:38

pacino wrote:wow, joe looked like he was going to go 'the ring' on that guy

Glad I wasn't the only one who saw this interview. Really incredible to watch and then everyone's comments afterwards. I was a little disappointed that no one took him to task for the four-five references to Harry Reid being out of town and going to Hawaii, which he was doing to make it seem like Reid was going on vacation and not attending the funeral of the President Pro Tempore.

by **kimbatiste** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 09:57:02

drsmooth wrote:Scarborough's resident goofballs confidently evaluating this as a tactical stumble. Uhhhm, ok, no, it's more than that

I think they reacted harsher than that. At least two of them said "Wow" as they were going to commercial break and Eugene Robinson called it one of the most absurd things he had ever seen.

by **kimbatiste** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:01:52

wikipedia wrote:On February 16, 2012, during a contentious three-hour House Budget Committee hearing with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Huelskamp warned of the looming threat of an economic crisis similar to the one then taking place in Europe. Representative Huelskamp accused Geithner and the entire Obama administration of failing to correct the U.S.'s debt crisis, which he believed would lead the country down the same path as Greece. Secretary Geithner replied that Huelskamp had an “adolescent perspective on how to think about economic policy.”[

by **drsmooth** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:02:23

kimbatiste wrote:
drsmooth wrote:Scarborough's resident goofballs confidently evaluating this as a tactical stumble. Uhhhm, ok, no, it's more than that

I think they reacted harsher than that. At least two of them said "Wow" as they were going to commercial break and Eugene Robinson called it one of the most absurd things he had ever seen.

that's true. mostly Joe & Halperin(?) on the other thing

by **drsmooth** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:05:55

a McConnell aide laying defeat of Plan B at the feet of Democrats.

Apparently the same zoonosis infecting House Republicans has spilled over to the Senate minority

by **pacino** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:35:15

kimbatiste wrote:
wikipedia wrote:On February 16, 2012, during a contentious three-hour House Budget Committee hearing with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Huelskamp warned of the looming threat of an economic crisis similar to the one then taking place in Europe. Representative Huelskamp accused Geithner and the entire Obama administration of failing to correct the U.S.'s debt crisis, which he believed would lead the country down the same path as Greece. Secretary Geithner replied that Huelskamp had an “adolescent perspective on how to think about economic policy.”[

yeah. no matter what one thinks of it, we have the ability to literally create more of our own currency. greece no longer has this in its bag of tricks.

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