[central_va]

Actually all the federal interest is paid automatically, so it would require someone to stop it. This is all hype, even O’Bastard isn’t that crazy. Not buying the scare tactics. Call his bluff. This is poker not chess.

[Zeneta]

This is all hype, even O’Bastard isn’t that crazy.

Really ?

[Tench_Coxe]

"Actually all the federal interest is paid automatically, so it would require someone to stop it. This is all hype, even O’Bastard isn’t that crazy. Not buying the scare tactics. Call his bluff. This is poker not chess."

Rove is out repeating the same default meme. What you have is the "Establishment"--Republicans, Democrats, corporate moochers and their lobbyists, and other special interests--who have a vested interested in the status quo DC has been operating under for the past 20 or more years.