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Why Giving Republican Bullies a Bloody Nose Isn’t Enough (Barf Alert and lies, nothing but lies)
Google ^ | October 13, 2013 | Pamela Zuppo

Posted on 10/14/2013 6:46:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

Why Giving Republican Bullies a Bloody Nose Isn’t Enough

Now is the time to lance the boil of Republican extremism once and for all.

Since Barack Obama became president, the extremists who have taken over the Republican Party have escalated their demands every time he’s caved, using the entire government of the United States as their bargaining chit.

In 2010 he agreed to extend all of the Bush tax cuts through the end of 2012. Were they satisfied? Of course not.

In the summer of 2011, goaded by an influx of Tea Partiers, they demanded huge spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling. In response, the President offered an overly-generous $4 trillion “Grand Bargain,” including cuts in Social Security and Medicare and whopping cuts in domestic spending (bringing it to its lowest level as a share of gross domestic product in over half a century).

Were Republicans content? No. When they demanded more, Obama agreed to a Super Committee to find bigger cuts, and if the Super Committee failed, a “sequester” that would automatically and indiscriminately slice everything in the federal budget except Social Security and Medicare.

Not even Obama’s re-election put a damper on their increasing demands. By the end of 2012, they insisted that the Bush tax cuts be permanently extended or the nation would go over the “fiscal cliff.” Once again, Obama caved, agreeing to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts for incomes up to $400,000.

Early this year, after the sequester went into effect, Republicans demanded even bigger spending cuts. Obama offered more cuts in Medicare and a “chained CPI” to reduce Social Security payments, in exchange for Republican concessions on taxes.

Refusing the offer, and seemingly delirious with their power to hold the nation hostage, they demanded that the Affordable Care Act be repealed as a condition for funding the government and again raising the debt ceiling.

This time, though, Obama didn’t cave — at least, not yet.

The government is shuttered and the nation is on the verge of defaulting on its debts. But public opinion has turned sharply against the Republican Party. And the GOP’s corporate and Wall Street backers are threatening to de-fund it.

Suddenly the Republicans are acting like the school-yard bully who terrorized the playground but finally got punched in the face. They’re in shock. They’re humiliated. They’re trying to come up with ways of saving face.

With bloodied nose, House Republicans are running home. They’ve abruptly turned negotiations over to their Senate colleagues.

And just as suddenly, their demand to repeal or delay the Affordable Care Act has vanished. (An email from the group Tea Party Express says: “Are you like us wondering where the fight against Obamacare went?”) At a lunch meeting in the Capitol, Senator John McCain asked a roomful of Republican senators if they still believed it was possible to reverse parts of the program. According to someone briefed on the meeting, no one raised a hand — not even Ted Cruz.

It appears that negotiations over the federal budget deficit are about to begin once again, and presumably Senate Republicans will insist that Obama and the Democrats give way on taxes and spending in exchange for reopening the government and raising the debt ceiling for at least another year.

But keeping the government running and paying the nation’s bills should never have been bargaining chits in the first place, and the President and Democrats shouldn’t begin to negotiate over future budgets until they’re taken off the table.

The question is how thoroughly President Obama has learned that extortionist demands escalate if you give in to them.


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To: TexGrill

Poste du jour.


61 posted on 10/14/2013 7:45:29 AM PDT by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: central_va
I went to the Senate.gov site but couldn't find anything on it about this

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_111_2.htm

62 posted on 10/14/2013 7:46:42 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
I've been seeing this sort of expression emanating from the Left with increasing frequency during the past year or so.

Assuming that you're aware of them, you can hear the historical echoes.

Loudly.

For collectivists, the need to control others frequently manifests itself as ridicule and rage; mockery and meanness. It reflects the inner turmoil of people who are emotionally-driven and dismissive of reason, preternaturally angry as they so often are at the world for not being "fair".

But they reserve their most poisonous bile not for people they perceive as being too wealthy (though they envy them) or too powerful (ditto)... but for those that are happy, content, peaceable, and secure in their own skin.

Nothing makes them angrier - because the very existence of such people serves as a rebuke to the Collectivist's existential despair, and exacerbates their secret self-loathing.

And so they must be laid low; brought down; destroyed. But first, they must be dehumanized - made into something so terrible and awful that it would be morally abject not to destroy them.

Then, all of the collectivists' pent-up, projected loathing and hated is directed at a named enemy. The Aristocracy. The Kulaks. The Jews. The Tea Party.

"They're evil! They're all rotters and thieves! They're crazy!! They... are dangerous. Get 'em!"

63 posted on 10/14/2013 7:54:47 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: deadrock

I know that, but to me all left wingers are lunatics or in plain English idiots


64 posted on 10/14/2013 7:55:34 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
The Bush tax cut marginal rates were held hostage to the repeal of DADT. I posted the link. I guess history is being buried. Trust me I followed the story minute by minute.

For the record it was Collins that officially sold out to Obastard in '10, here is picture frm Dec '10 of her stabbing us in the back.

65 posted on 10/14/2013 7:55:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

Yup.


66 posted on 10/14/2013 7:59:58 AM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: chuckles
Unfortunately, I think too many share your view. You, along with many, appear to speak to something of a declared action where everybody understands and can “see” battle lines. I don't think this will be the case. I think you will see asymmetric actions by the Left. I think you will see sporadic, seemingly isolated, acts of violence that will increase in frequency and brutality, while at the same time there will be coordination. There will be targets, but all this will not be obvious, at least for a while.

All of this may occur while the majority of Americans seem to think these are isolated incidents the result of a general breakdown in society. And, then at some point the government will significantly ramp up their police actions. Most people will welcome this as a seeming means quelling the violence, but then it will be too late. The government will start taking “crisis” measure. Confiscating guns and curtailing personal liberties.

I don't even think the government will have to declare Martial Law as the corrupt MSM will do whatever is necessary to support the growing heavy-handed government while continuing to float or parrot the increasing virulent anti-Conservative rhetoric.

No need for Martial Law to be declared when everyone seemingly agrees to the government's actions, and those who don't agree with the governments growing action must be, according to the corrupt MSM, enemies of peace and order and therefore deserving of any outcome they face. Which may then lead to targeted violence from the Left which no one seems to mind too much because it was “justified”.

And this may go on until people are disarmed, suffering economically, and forced into submission.

(Wow, I'm even depressing myself now!)

67 posted on 10/14/2013 8:00:29 AM PDT by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: central_va

Collins looks like the sad girl that got picked to dance by the popular guy in school.


68 posted on 10/14/2013 8:03:14 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

Selling your country out makes you ugly.


69 posted on 10/14/2013 8:07:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

But Barry “I will not compromise” Soetoro is no extremist.


70 posted on 10/14/2013 8:08:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: central_va
Yeah that is where I went by, but I did not find anything on the Senate.gov site about DADT. Perhaps I didn't look at the correct date. The date in your link said December 15, 2010

I did check again and this time I found it.

It was under December 9, 2010

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00270

I think that's it.

71 posted on 10/14/2013 8:11:11 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: ClearCase_guy
the language used by Germans in the 1930s

Alles muss anders sein.

It's IDENTICAL.

72 posted on 10/14/2013 8:13:32 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Kaslin

The repeal of DADT was slipped in the week before Christmas, when all the weaselly leftist $h!t happens...


73 posted on 10/14/2013 8:14:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Obadiah

Sure, “tea party terrorists” are being groomed as the new “Jews” to be scapegoated for any economic calamity. This is why Obama won’t negotiate the debt ceiling, he wants to crash the economy and blame it on the evil white racist republicans.

I wrote this two weeks ago:

“Will Obama Stop the Music This November?”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3076688/posts

The current “shutdown” of 17% of the federal government has primed America for chaos with constant left-wing rhetoric and news media reports couched in apocalyptic terms such as crisis, brink, catastrophe, hostage, arsonist and terrorist. But a catastrophe is useful to a would-be tyrant only as long as it can be blamed on a hated enemy. In 1933 Hitler’s agents burned the Reichstag, not just to sow fear and confusion, but primarily in order to charge his Communist enemies with treason as an excuse to obliterate them. The German “mainstream media” dutifully parroted the Nazi Party line, without investigating the true source of the arson.

A similar pattern of scapegoating has been followed in the United States throughout the term of President Obama. For example, leading Democrats and their shills in the mainstream media have long been salivating at the prospect of a “Tea Party” conservative going on a violent rampage. We saw this in Tucson immediately after the Gabby Giffords shooting, after the Aurora, Colorado, theater attack, and after the recent Washington Navy Yard shooting, when Democrats and their media allies rushed to blame “Tea Party terrorists” in early reports based upon zero evidence. As far as we know, all of these attacks were carried out by deranged individuals following the orders of inner demons, but still the left hopes for a violent response by right-wing “bitter clingers,” so named by President Obama himself during a private fund raiser.

The current “government shutdown” seems to be designed to provoke a violent right-wing reaction. War memorials have been barricaded, even iconic national parks such as those at Valley Forge, Yellowstone, and Mount Rushmore have been closed to the American public that purportedly owns them and undoubtedly funds them. At Yellowstone, senior citizens and foreign tourists have been rousted from paid private hotel rooms by armed federal agents and forcibly bused out of the park. Around the closed Mount Rushmore National Park, cones have been set along public highways to prevent tourists even from stopping to take photographs. Meanwhile, a demonstration on the otherwise “closed” National Mall by illegal aliens demanding amnesty was welcomed by the Obama administration with open arms.

In my opinion, the intention of these selected park closures is not only to inflict psychological pain upon the administration’s perceived “enemies” but to provoke a violent response by fed-up Constitutional conservatives. Thus far, none has risen to the bait; so what will the regime do next? I believe that President Obama may be planning to up the ante by orders of magnitude. How might this happen? The “government shutdown” over the continuing resolution bill has turned on the Democrats’ demand for a “clean” CR, but the real battle will come next week when the national debt limit is reached.

What will happen if President Obama and the Democrats in Congress demand a “clean” debt extension, with no upper limits and no attached conditions, just as they have demanded a “clean CR” to fund current government operations? In the battle over the debt limit extension, either the Republicans will fold and accede to Democrat demands for infinite debt, or they will stand their ground just as they have over the CR. If the Republicans refuse to grant Obama an unlimited debt extension, he may play the final card required to send the United States into such violent turmoil that he will be able to declare a state of emergency and rule by decree under the National Emergencies Act.

How would such horrible conditions be created that President Obama might be able to justify seizing emergency power? By cutting off all federal entitlement payments while claiming that he cannot continue them without a debt extension, secure in the knowledge that the mainstream media will continue to dutifully serve as his propaganda arm, blaming recalcitrant Republicans for all of the negative consequences.

While senior citizens on Social Security and other federal pension plan recipients may not immediately take to the streets, going on violent rampages of rioting, looting and burning, there is a segment of our population that will do exactly that: many of the 50 million Americans who today literally put the food on their tables by using an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. While the states administer their individual EBT programs, most of the money comes from the federal government. Please read my previous essay “When the music stops: how America’s cities may explode in violence” to understand the tremendous risk that will accompany a cutoff—even briefly—of EBT payments.

The fact that thousands of Americans might be injured or killed during the nationwide riots that would follow the looting of supermarkets and delivery trucks will not be a moral impediment to the architects of Operation Fast and Furious. You will recall that this infamous “law enforcement operation” resulted in the murders of hundreds of innocent Mexicans and at least two U.S. federal agents by untracked firearms supplied directly to the Mexican drug cartels by our own federal “law enforcement” agencies. With Operation Fast and Furious (“gun control under the radar” in Obama’s own words), this administration has already crossed the mass-murder-for-political-ends Rubicon—and the mainstream media cooperated in the cover-up.

A lifelong Marxist revolutionary who has caused hundreds to be murdered in an attempt at political gain on gun control is not likely to blanch at the prospect of thousands dying in bloody food riots when the stakes are incalculably higher. If “the music stops” and our cities burn, Obama may grasp the opportunity to declare a state of emergency and seize dictatorial powers from the fire and ashes. Those who resist his rule by emergency decree will be declared to be “Tea Party terrorists” by Democrat leaders and their captive media, and we may finally see why the Department of Homeland Security has been purchasing those billions of hollow-point bullets, UAV drones, and armored vehicles.

If this is their calculation, it is a diabolical plan indeed. But a plan to ride a tiger is not the same as riding the tiger. Permanent rule by emergency decree may not be as simple to accomplish as would-be left-wing tyrants believe. Millions of Americans will not be fooled by the deliberately instigated torching of our cities and will not go quietly into the night of Marxist tyranny.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3076688/posts


74 posted on 10/14/2013 8:23:27 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

I’m pretty sure old Pamela has never taken a shot to the old snot box. Tough talk from a big liberal nothing.


75 posted on 10/14/2013 8:23:54 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Travis McGee
Thank you. Yes, I read your thoughtful prose. Subconscious regurgitation on my part I suppose. A sign of both admiration and like-mindedness.
76 posted on 10/14/2013 8:30:26 AM PDT by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: Kaslin

Link to original source...

http://robertreich.org/post/63873198693


77 posted on 10/14/2013 8:30:43 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: TexGrill
Who really wrote this Op-Ed?

Appears to have been Robert Reich

78 posted on 10/14/2013 8:32:32 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: Travis McGee

A little while back I saw a couple of guys who, from their apparel, appeared to be Civil War reenactors.

Got to wondering “How many other people are going to unexpectedly become unwilling Civil War Reenactors in the not-too-distant future?”.


79 posted on 10/14/2013 8:35:19 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Libs assume that it will be the State and the military that will be doing their dirty work for them.


80 posted on 10/14/2013 8:35:30 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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