[ClearCase_guy]

It was a hill to die on.
The GOP died, but not on that hill.
2014 will not be a good year.

[knarf]

Every year ... certainly every pre and actual election cycle, we read what we should do.

Then, following whatever period we're in, we read what we should have done when we didn't do what we should have done.

And I'm tired of reading that shit.

I'm pretty close to losing any passion at all for the salvation of America.

I had more passion and hope for Bob Dole than I did with Mit Romney ... THAT'S how bad I am.

I can't drink or do recreational drugs anymore.

So I'll sit here and be pissed off and spout whatever comes to my brain.

[DB]

I’m not a big fan of Pat, but he’s dead right on this issue.

We are in a world of hurt.

[Past Your Eyes]

Words cannot describe the contempt I have for that toxic sonofabitchin loser John McCain.

[Venturer]

One thing is for sure , we cannot win while the party is filled with John McCains, Grahams, Kings, and Boehners.

They have to go.

[alloysteel]

The one fight you cannot possibly win is the one you won’t commit to winning. Half-hearted or no effort is doomed from the start.

The supposedly unified Democrats know that every fight they actually engage in is a fight for their very existence, and failure to engage fully is tantamount to defeat. While it is fun to watch them fighting each other (they fight like bratty girls), it is rather like watching different factions of Muslims fight. When their internal fight is over, or at least until they come to temporary truce, they will turn against the outsiders, battling with the same dirty tactics and ruthless vicious assaults, knowing they will never be held to account to abide with any code of ethics or reciprocity in combat.

Democrats, like Muslims, do not recognize anything like the Geneva Conventions when engaged in this deadly struggle. But unlike Muslims, the thought of actual bloodshed is abhorrent to Democrats.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Steal this tag line.

[DouglasKC]

House Republicans should vote to fund Obamacare in a clean CR. Then exploit the disaster of the rollout to show what a horror it is. This will pump up our polls and improve our field position for 2014. Then we can pick up some seats! Bottom line: Let's vote to impose Obamacare on America and make Democrats pay the price of the calamity we voted to impose.

Yeah, but...if the GOP HAD done that without a fight does Pat really think the libs and dems would just quietly accept all the blame (if any) for Obamacare?

Heck no. They would find a way to pin it on the Republicans. They would say "It's was passed by both houses and the Republican led house KNEW it would fail and did nothing to stop it.

That's assuming there will be any type of critical reporting. And the press is NOT going to criticize it. Oh there are stories NOW but only because the press thinks it's a done deal and is licking their chops to have a one payer system. But all stories do not BLAME Democrats or Obama. They call it "glitches". Or they kind of wink and say "Well that's government for you".

Nope. Shutdown the government. Again and again and again until everyone knows that every member of the GOP who does not make a principled stand against Obamacare will be tossed out of their job or exposed as a destroyer of the American way.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Then they should demand that the incompetent at HHS be fired and her entire entourage with her. Unless, of course, the party fears it might be charged with waging a "war on women."

Pat's best column in a while. Ousting Sebelius would indeed be a worthy goal, and one even RINOs should have no problem with...unless they are actually AINOs (Americans in name only).

[dfwgator]

If we go down, we’re taking the RINOs with us.