it would be refreshing, were their goals grounded in something closer to reality
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "But as far as I can tell the debt ceiling stance is ideology wrapped in > stupidity and very dangerous stupidity at that. You dont even seem to be > arguing that." > > Wrong, wrong, wrong. I am saying that the ideology on both sides is > stupid. > > > > "Your point seems to be solely that 'your guys do it too' --- that might be > a good point at a time when they are..." > > You've missed the point completely. My point is that they all do it. > Pointing fingers at one party is stupid since both are corrupt. > > J > > - > Transcript (Anderson Cooper 360, 7/28/11): > > COOPER: "What happened? It looked like things were moving in the right > direction for Speaker Boehner earlier today. They had the test vote. It > went > big. What happened?" > > BORGER: He ran up against freshmen who don't owe him anything, Anderson. > They were elected outside of the establishment, and honestly a lot of them > don't care if they get reelected. > > COOPER: (coughing) > > BORGER: They believe they were sent to Congress to make government smaller > and, duhh, to cut the deficit, and this is what they intend to do -- and > they believe that the Boehner bill is not strong enough because they > understand that, at some point, there's going to have to be a compromise. > So > they want the House to have the strongest possible bargaining position that > it can have. > > COOPER: Gloria, it seems when you talk to some they don't care necessarily > about being reelected. > > BORGER: (incredulous) No! They don't! These are -- > > COOPER: Which is actually kind of refreshing, I gotta say. > > BORGER: Well, it is, but -- BUT! > > COOPER: (chuckling) It is a big "but." > > CHUCK TODD: Boehner ... Cantor ... and McCarthy were ... linked ... in > this. > This isn't necessarily about John Boehner not being able to corral these > folks. The question is could any Republican speaker have corralled these > votes at this time. Here's the issue they had: They can't buy them off. > They > don't want earmarks, they don't care about their committee assignments -- > and many of these newcomers didn't get there raising a lot of money anyway > so being promised fundraising all that doesn't work. It may be refreshing > on > one hand, but it makes it that much harder to try to arm-twist and get this > vote count to happen. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:341119 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
