The Rude Pundit: John Boehner Will Not Compromise, But You Must Compromise

[meegbear]

Here's the entire strange, ominous, and enraging place we find ourselves in our politics right now, boiled down to a simple conversation, a playlet, if you will:

Sane Person: We need food. Can I use your car to go to the store?

Crazy Person: We do need food. However, you can use my car only if you punch yourself in the balls until you vomit.

Sane Person: That's ridiculous. One thing has nothing to do with the other. How would that accomplish anything?

Crazy Person: It's what I want.

Sane Person: Well, I guess we'll just starve.

Crazy Person: Yes, but remember that if we starve, it will be your fault because you didn't punch yourself in the balls until you vomit.

Aaand...scene.

Yesterday, House Speaker John Boehner said of the coming battle over raising the debt ceiling, "Now the president says, 'I'm not going to negotiate.' Well, I'm sorry, but it just doesn't work that way." The House Republicans had just released a conservative wet dream about the stuff that Obama needs to agree to or the debt ceiling won't be raised. It's an odd strategy, considering that not hiking the debt ceiling will fuck up things for everyone, not just Democrats.

That list of shit what'll pleasure teabaggers? If you thought the GOP was filled with motherfuckers before, now it's just a bunch of motherfelchers. They want it all: like approving the Keystone XL pipeline, tax "reform" a la Paul Ryan, gutting every regulation on everything, delay that Affordable Care Act, stripping the president of the power to make rules on...you know what? It's the whole thing. In other words, it's calling on Obama to surrender his presidency to the Tea Party (pretty close to the kind of ante-upping that a certain blog-based pundit predicted a mere week ago).

So Obama has proclaimed he will not negotiate on any debt ceiling deal. He said, "This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles."

Oh, wait. That quote wasn't from President Obama. No, that was from House Speaker John Boehner, vowing to never negotiate on repealing Obamacare back in October 2010. Apparently, it does work that way when Boehner says so.

Barack Obama has compromised and compromised on every piece of legislation, on every appointment, on everything. And all it has gotten him is to a point where his opponents think he will fold again. At some point, he's gotta look in the mirror and say, "I don't have to win any reelections. Time to let Republicans hang themselves and laugh while they twist in the wind."

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[Xipe Totec]

1. Where do you want the deck chairs, Captain Boehner?

[DemoTex]

8. Deck chairs, Captain Boehner? Good one!

Also: "Here are your steel ball bearings, Captain Queeg," and "'Thar blows your white whale, Captain Ahab!"

[mindwalker_i]

2. It really is way past time

that America stopped taking it in the ass for these fuckers. More precisely, it's time for Obama to stop making us all take it in the ass for these fuckers.

Here's the deal: Republicans don't care if they didn't win the 2012 elections. They don't care what most of America wants. The don't give a rat's ass whether their goals would help of hurt the country or the world, only whether it will help the rich people who contribute part of what they gain from Republican legislation back to Republicans. So they can pass more legislation that helps their rich buddies at the expene of the rest of the country. And the world.

[Liberalynn]

4. Exactly

The more you compromise the more they demanf.

Maybe its time to let the consequences of voting TeaPuke to be shown. I don't like the idea of everyone having to suffer but maybe falling on our collective asses is the only way to get the message through that the TEA PUKES are insane and don't belong any where near a responsible elective body.

[mindwalker_i]

5. And each iteration we go through

where we give in to the demands of these terrorists makes them more likely to just do it again with the regularly occurring hostages. Letting them pull this trigger will turn the entire world against them, probably doing a lot of damage to this country in the process, but it's going to be damages sooner or later anyway by these nutcases. Maybe if we stop hiding the insanity and ugliness from the people, said people will get sick of it.

[AAO]

6. They don't give a rat's ass about their rich buddies either...

Only in the sense that they get MONEY from the rich do they care at all about anything or anybody. If the poor could cough up more money that the rich on a regular basis, they'd then sell out to the poor.

These people have no heart, no soul, and no morals. The suffer from one of the ugliest of sins, which is avarice. They are traitors to the American way of life. They should be ejected from the land that some of us actually care about.

[russspeakeasy]

3. Thanks for posting.....

[joeybee12]

7. Always spot on...knr