Low As a Mole’s Navel On Digging Day
Well, it’s half past Crunch Day and negative Republican poll numbers are high enough to see the lights of El Paso.
Three more points and they can pass the driver’s license test in five states.
Look, I’m not saying I enjoy this but … oh hell, who am I kidding — this is more fun than recess in heaven. And the diamond tiara on top of all this is that Texas Republicans are leading the suicide mission.
To add a little hot sauce to this Republican bonfire, Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert got caught with enchilada juice on their chins while holding a secret meeting meeting in the basement of a Tex-Mex restaurant in Dee Cee called Tortilla Coast, plotting ways to destroy any deal that might be made. There were about 15 – 20 of the most conservative House members in attendance.
The group appeared to be talking strategy about how they should respond to a tentative Senate deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling without addressing Obamacare in a substantive way, according to sources who witnessed the gathering. The Texas Republican senator and many of the House Republicans in attendance had insisted on including amendments aimed at dismantling Obamacare in the continuing resolution that was intended to avert the current shutdown.
Can you spell o-b-s-e-s-s-i-o-n? Cruz is even considering another filibuster. You know, because the first one worked so well.
The best part of their little Boys Only Club meeting? They got caught by Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, who was not invited to the conservative cabal but was a tad interested in what the fool damn tarnation did they think they were doing.
So even if a deal is reached, these clowns aren’t getting back into the clown car and leaving the circus. No, siree. They will have all three rings filled with tomfoolery.
And I don’t want to be one of those people who says which side won or lost, but I will say this: If there is a black man in the White House when this is over, Republicans did not get what they really wanted.
Thanks to Kyle, who called me with the heads up because I still don’t have email.
Well, that just shows they have no taste. Tortilla Coast is a chain that is just awful.
1Bless their hearts. One of my lifelong Republican friends in Houston was frothing at the mouth yesterday about what the nutcases in the party are doing to it. I added to her heartburn by telling her about Ted being a Dominionist and about his hijacking the veterans’ protest and how embarrassed the vets were. And you know, if you were Ted, you know you’d want to be hanging out with those other guys, especially Louie.
2And while I’m at it, my Republican friend is grieving over the pain being caused to people without work at this time. We agreed about it. Of course she said if there were an election right now she’d vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE. To each her own.
3Oh, bleep! I know Tortilla Coast. Its on the corner of the next block down from the RNC (Republican National Committee) building. (Not the best watering hole in town but not the worst from the looks of the main dining room. I would hate to see what a back room would look like!) If Tester et al. were on the up and up with their own party, they could have met in the RNC and enjoyed their white linen dining room with liveried wait staff. This just tells me that the mainliners in the RNC, the ones who are going to be bankrupted if Tedster gets his way, don’t want anything to do with him and his flying monkeys!
Note to President of the Senate: Yes, you can expel this guy. Just look up your rules and your Senate history. Its as easily done as said.
4Tortilla Coast is one block down from the Capitol Hill Club the R Party Country Club on the Hill. Tortilla Coast is basically a hang out for young House side staffers. Sad to see Texans at a fake Tex-Mex place. The food is eh the margaritas sub-standard the gossip and juicy tidbits heard from talkative staffers: Priceless.
5You’re right about enjoying this. I feel like a slacker for not having balloons, fireworks, and an open bar to celebrate the success of the suicide caucus. And every time I see a tea bagger I break out in a grin and suppress rude laughter.
Sometimes I think about all the great Democrats who have passed on and I wish they were here to share our glee.
6So let me get this straight:
In this, the 21st Century, the Republicans use
20th Century HUAC tactics to promote
19th Century economic and social policies while misquoting
18th Century Enlightenment political documents in service of
17th Century religious tenets.
All of which ends up benefitting the white, male squirearchy.
That about cover it?
7And may I say, your mole brigade is amazing. I learn so much from you and them. Keep up the good work, and I will keep up passing it on to others who need to know.
8A friend of mine, who works for the government (he still reports he just doesn’t get paid), said that Mitch apparently “gets” it, and that this is an unconditional surrender.
He notes that The House Teabaggers, OTOH, seem to think that if they can just hold out long enough, they will get what they want. The question is: is Boehner, in the end, Lemming enough to go over the cliff with them and take everyone else in the process?
A part of me hopes the keep on keepin on, even if it goes against my nature to allow someone to self immolate. Having said that, I’m old and I know it is important to remember to be careful what I wish for because I might just get it. The it being Eric Cantor…..
That and the fact that if Boehner feels like strapping on his suicide vest with the Teabaggers, we are going to default, and it won’t be pretty.
9What I want to know is who has Boehner’s little fuzzies in their iron grasp? That is the only reason I can think of as to why he hasn’t yet stomped on Cruz and his buddies.
10@Deb…. none of this has been pretty. And, it probably is going to continue.
Those of us who went through WWII without, sugar, meat, butter, milk, gasoline, and much more… we know we will survive this. This is nothing.
The folks I worry…. to an extent about, are people who haven’t had to sacrifice ….. and don’t know how to. Those are the ones who are watching their 401(k) accounts drop. But ironically enough, vote for these idiots.
And, the ones who wouldn’t vote for these idiots, who depend on WIC, and Head Start, and Meals on Wheels..SNAP,..fuel for their homes, in the north in the winter months, why punish old people and kids?
You’re right. It won’t be pretty. The Houston Food Bank was out here at my church on Saturday. Helping out folks in my community. So, If you can drop a can of something, or a box of something in one of their barrels… Please. It helps. And, it’s going to be a mess.
11Wa Skeptic-Boner’s speakership is at stake. If he doesn’t placate t-baggers,they and other rethugs have enuf votes to oust Boner and perhaps install an even nuttier head case as Speaker. Boner would cry himself into a puddle of orange goo.
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Carnival Cruz is not a real Texan and so I am not surprised that he was hanging out at this place. To a citizen of Canada, this place may be a good Tex-Mex place. Louie is from Tyler and I doubt that he would go into a real Mexican food place for fear of having non-whites touch his food
13Miemaw, you got that right. I would encourage everyone who hasn’t felt the hit yet to help those who have.
My husband and I live in the Truman Heritage district where the staff at the Truman Home and Library have all been furloughed. We are buying dinner for them next week at the annual neighborhood council dinner (which is actually pretty darn good as the BBQ place down the street caters it). We wanted to do something to show our appreciation for all they do and to let them know that we are aware of how difficult this is for them.
If you have extra food, drop it off at a food bank. If you have neighbors who work for the fed, invite them to dinner. Times are tough we have to help each other. It also doesn’t hurt to remind people about how we got in this mess.
14daChipster: Thanks for the succinct historical summary of the Repuglican party. Too bad we can’t use 16th century ‘methods of persuasion’ to drag them into the here and now.
15Too bad there wasn’t a “blue” server with a video camera, like at Romney’s 47% speech. I’d love to have their. shenanigans spread all over the world.
16DaChipster – may I quote you? Well said. Should be in the headlines somewhere.
17daChipster, I think you left out the Dark Ages and the Black Death.
Though maybe the House Repubs are still working up to that.
18@Wa Skeptic: According to Charlie Pierce, Cantor cut them off, put them in jar, and hid it. The Boner has been running around looking for that jar every since. And, we wonder why he drinks???
19I am a taxpayer, I vote and I will never vote republican.
Pass it on to your nearest and dearest Congressperson. OR wannabe gov. candidate.
20These guys remind me of Pinky and the Brain.
21They are doing what they try to do every day, “trying to take over the world”.
Seriously, how does one start a recall for a senator? Can we do that? How many signatures do we need? I don’t know how to do this, but I will gladly sign and could get others to do so. If nothing else, we can distract Cruz. I really mean this!
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