Mitch McConnell Mouth Brain Disconnection

[RhodaA]

Run time: 02:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaoHP7i6r4k   Posted on YouTube: June 30, 2011 By YouTube Member: thethinkingblue Views on YouTube: 38   Posted on DU: June 30, 2011 By DU Member: RhodaA Views on DU: 1121

 
I can think of a better title for this, but it's a great video.

[fascisthunter]

1. It IS too late.... and the WHOLE GOP is filled with nutcases

... who obviously do not live in reality but make shit up in their heads and then try to force it down every American's throat.

[RhodaA]

3. Good David Waldman article today

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/30/990127/-Republican-sabotage:-GOP-again-rejects-own-budget-position?via=blog_1

Nutcase describes some of them, but not McConnell ...

[RhodaA]

8. Geithner Kneecaps McConnell

Geithner is well aware of the 14th Amendment unconstitutionality of the debt ceiling:

"I think there are some people who are pretending not to understand it, who think there's leverage for them in threatening a default," Geithner said. "I don't understand it as a negotiating position. I mean really think about it, you're going to say that-- can I read you the 14th amendment?"

Geithner whipped out his handy pocket-sized Constitution. Allen tried to brush it aside. "We'll stipulate the 14th Amendment," he said.

"No, I want to read this one thing," Geithner insisted. "'The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payments of pension and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion' -- this is the important thing -- 'shall not be questioned," Geithner read.

So as a negotiating strategy you say: 'If you don't do things my way, I'm going to force the United States to default--not pay the legacy of bills accumulated by my predecessors in Congress.' It's not a credible negotiating strategy, and it's not going to happen," Geithner insisted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/tim-geithner-14th-amendment_n_887925.html

This doesn't mean Administration will use it, but they won't be taken hostage; and it also proves McConnell is nothing but bluster, if he is anything at all.

[fascisthunter]

9. thanks!

[hedgehog]

2. kick!

[RhodaA]

4. I would love to see this get front page - he needs to be publicly flogged.

[izquierdista]

5. Behavior modification

It's said that rubbing a dog's nose in his mess does no good, for the dog has no long term memory connecting his action with the later punishment. Now humans are supposed to be a thinking species, capable of feeling remorse for past actions and remembering not to do it in the future. But I don't think there is a pile of shit big enough to rub McConnell's nose in. The only thing that Repubs propose to remedy the disasters of their own making is MORE of what caused it. All I can conclude is that Repubs are stupider than the dumbest canine.

[RhodaA]

6. Bonus: White House rejects McConnell invite for Obama to meet GOP

White House rejects McConnell invite for Obama to meet GOP

The White House has rejected Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell's (Ky.) invitation for President Obama to meet Thursday with Senate Republicans about their position on the debt-ceiling talks. White House press secretary Jay Carney said McConnell was asking Obama to visit and "hear Republicans restate their maximalist position" in the negotiations to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.

"We know that position. That's not a conversation worth having," Carney said at his daily briefing.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/169207-mcconnell-challenges-obama-to-meet-with-senate-republicans

[RoryK]

7. The poor man strikes me as senile.

Is that a word permissible on American websites? :scared: