Uh, Could You Define “Managed Catastrophe” Please
It must be Scary Okie Day at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
Listen to this calm disaster from Tom Coburn …
“I’d rather have a managed catastrophe now which I don’t think will be there,” Coburn told CNN’s ‘New Day’ with Chris Cuomo. “I’m not saying we shouldn’t pay our bills. What I’m saying is we should put ourselves in a position where we have to start making hard choices now.”
Now, I do not know what Coburn means by mild catastrophe, but I suspect it means that I starve while he eats just fine.
Yeah, I’ve seen how Republicans manage catastrophes. Katrina, anyone? Catching Obama bin Laden? Lowering the national debt? Oh yeah, I’ve seen their disaster management, so catastrophe management scares the peewaadoddle outta me.
Yeah, I got that. My catastrophe, his management. Then the little twit calls himself, “the most apolitical person in the Senate.” There ain’t a crap wagon big enough to haul that sludge to the dump.
Thanks to Aggieland Liz for the heads up.
Neat garbage! Take that, Senator!
1I hear talk that next up is Medicare and Social Security regardless how this plays out. So-called moderates have re-opened calls for means testing and chained CPI, both ways of destroying these two vital programs.
If that happens, we’ll be back to the ’90’s again.. the 1890’s.
2JuanitaHoney, I think you must have meant “Osama” bin Laden. Love and Fried Okra, Deb
3Deb … yes, she definitely meant “Osama” … the girl was excited!!
Crazy talk about messing with MY Social Security and Medicare scares the peewiddledoodle out of me!!
4That is right up there with “compassionate conservative”.
5Marcia, it scares me, too. It should scare everyone who works and pays into it, and everyone who is currently retired.
Unfortunately, it rose above the level of crazy talk when Obama suggested it as part of his grand bargain.
6Now there’s nobody in the gym but old white guys and me. There is no truth to the rumor that I ever said the towel boys were hot.
Sincerely,
Sen. Huckleberry J. Butchmeup
Seriously, I’ have a little more respect if he’d just come out. Choosing to be a politician rather than being honest about a core element of your being is f****d up.
7What I think he really meant was “we have managed to create one hell of a catastrophe” and I don’t know what to do about it. Horse has left the barn, no need to shut the door.
8This segment from All In With Chris Hayes last night should be required viewing for all of these lunatics:
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/all-in-/51362794#53222938
9Managed catastrophe sounds like an admission of guilt on the part of rethuglicans. Yup,you managed to create a catastrophe,all by your widdlw wonesomes. Cluster F$%K is more appropriate(sorry Mama). To cut the budget may I suggest Uncle Sam fire all rwnj in the House of Reprehensibles and the worlds greatest deliberately obstinate body politic.
10I think that the President should negotiate and have this as the starting point–we need to raise taxes on the one percent equal to the Clinton years tax rates in order to pay for the billion dollars worth of damage you d***heads have done to the country, and that tax rate will stay in place until our debt is payed off. Every day that the clear CR is not passed, every day that the debt ceiling is not increased we will raise the tax rate until they are at the pre-Reagan level…then he could do it by executive order and have the signers of the Williamsburg Accord all thrown in jail for treason–because that is what it is…then when he gets impeached –which won’t sail in the Senate and the TP is in jail or hung we can get back to having a country that is a bit more functional…the TPers would 1st undergo tests to see if they are competent to stand trail, and if they are not then special elections will need to be held to fill their seats! If they are, then bye-bye traitors.
11Sorry-paid off–need new glasses! Recovering from hand surgery and have only 1 thumb instead of two to type with! Gets tricky!
12Call me crazy, but couldn’t the House and Senate SHARE one gym club?? Maybe it would even force them to talk, they are isolated enough, like with all children, you don’t re-enforce bad behavior.
13I just now poked around in Wikipedia. Tom Coburn lives in Muskogee, Oklahoma, a city of about 40,000 hardy souls. It is my opinion that I have shared periodically with some Tea Party friends my age, more or less, that folks who live in smallish medium cities kind of have a different viewpoint from folks who live in small uncorporated villages of 100,000 like we lived in on Long Island years ago. Countryish folks can generally get together with their tools and fix stuff if they set their minds to it. Folks who live in cities of around seven million have kind of a different mindset. Of course Tea Partiers who live in Atlanta or Fort Worth, they ain’t got no explainin’ their way of doin’ things. I guess they all go out to the country for Thanksgiving. Most folks in NYC don’t have a front-end loader or two ton truck settin’ in the side yard. It would do everyone good to swap places in both types of towns/cities and see how it works.
14Do you suppose ol Tom will return to Muskogee when he’s done with being a senator?
15p.s. Lots of city folks use all kinds of tricky language, like “managed catastrophe”. My guess is it means whatever you want it to mean.
16Elise, you’re right on with taxing the 1% more. & Phoenix Justice, “compassionate conservative” is an oxymoron. Gawd I hate rhat phrase.
17“We have to start making hard choices now.”
18Ninety eight percent of Americans have already been making those hard choices, you dimwit, or don’t you recall the sequestration you forced on us? Take your managed catastrophe back to the repug table and think again. Your repug doublespeak hasn’t fooled anybody.
You know, in just about any other country, this “takeover” would be called a “bloodless coup”.
19Ellen, I asked somebody that the other day: “Is this a coup?” Folks have mostly forgotten about the sequestration except for all those who lost jobs during it. I think I’ll go back to bed.
20Managed catastrophe = tea party management.
21Heading back to bed.
Actually, I think it’s a malapropism and he MEANT “manufactured catastrophe” which has the ring of truth about it!
22Elsie,at LEAST you have thumbs. Neanderthal nutjobs are de-evolving and can’t “grasp’ the gravity of America’s bad situation.
23Egolitarian pretty well describes all rwnj,especially those of the t-bag persuasion.
24“You’re doing a great job, Brownie.”
25My daughter works in the financial sector. She said it will be a financial disaster if we default.
How stupid we must look to the rest of the world.
26A high school friend of mine is the “liberal preacher-lady” of Muskogee, OK. We grew up together, her Dad was a Brig Gen, had retired to the “family farm in the Panhandle”, then became the Tx Ad Gen about the time we graduated from high school. I’ve asked her numerous times about Tom Coburn’s basic nature. There ARE times when he seems somewhat cognizant of reality…. and then there are times like this when he is literally out in the weeds, lost, shotgun in hand ready to shoot anything that moves… nonetheless, she says that while they have been known to go round-n-round over issues, he is basically a decent human being. I find it somewhat comforting to know that someone of her stature in the ecumenical community in Muskogee is taking Coburn to task over things like food stamps, Meals on Wheels, food banks, healthcare, etc. Of course Sen Coburn is Doc Coburn in Muskogee, further shading his thought processes. Ann tends to think at this point that the Republicans will not be happy until there are people literally starving and expiring on the streets. Yeah, their church runs a Sat morning free breakfast kitchen for the indigent in Muskogee. Her tapdances between the evangelical rwnj’s who vote like (R)obots and her Presbyterian congregation she tries to keep on the path of being their brother’s keeper is fascinating to behold. I just laugh and tell her, Pearls in your Crown, Girlfriend… I don’t know how you do it.
27Your friend Ann sounds awesome Ms. P!
28Definition of “managed catastrophe”–a completely unnecessary economic and political catastrophe that House Republicans managed to create out of thin air.
29e platypus onion: “House of Reprehensibles”
30Love your turn of phrase.
For henceforth it shall be called House of Reprehensibles!
Obama bin Laden??
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