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madokie

(51,076 posts)
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 04:49 AM Jul 2013

America Is on a Path to Turn into Detroit, and Republicans Are Cool with That

Thanks to the record-breaking inaction and gridlock in Washington, the entire country is following in the path of Detroit.

Over the weekend, CBS’ Bob Schieffer asked Speaker of the House John Boehner very bluntly about the current gridlock in Congress, its failure to pass any important legislation and its record-low approval ratings among the American people.

Boehner responded by saying that, “We should not be judged by how many new laws we create, we ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.”

In other words, “Laws are bad and government is bad, so who needs either.”

More: http://www.alternet.org/economy/america-path-turn-detroit-and-thats-just-how-republicans-are-cool

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America Is on a Path to Turn into Detroit, and Republicans Are Cool with That (Original Post) madokie Jul 2013 OP
So Boehner is an anarchist? Downwinder Jul 2013 #1
apparently. i think we should tar him with that brush, though his ratings are so low already HiPointDem Jul 2013 #2
Maybe tar and feather his sorry ass madokie Jul 2013 #6
Yup!! It's the ALEC agenda all the way!! Grind the US Constitution into the dust!! $$ Rule!! hue Jul 2013 #3
John Boehner Hubert Flottz Jul 2013 #4
If ever there was a sorry mo'fo' madokie Jul 2013 #5
I knocked back a few in my day too and smoked like a freight train for 40 years. Hubert Flottz Jul 2013 #9
Oh, what can Obama do in the face of Republican opposition? Here's an idea. Sign the TPP to send AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2013 #7
as long as they don't lose their internet Puzzledtraveller Jul 2013 #8
That IS the plan. bluedeathray Jul 2013 #10
Looks like your thread smoked out some of Boinger's fan club. Hubert Flottz Jul 2013 #11
Follow the money malaise Jul 2013 #12
 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
2. apparently. i think we should tar him with that brush, though his ratings are so low already
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 05:32 AM
Jul 2013

maybe it would make him *more* popular...

Hubert Flottz

(37,726 posts)
4. John Boehner
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 07:22 AM
Jul 2013

Don't give a damn about anything but John Boehner.

I hope his pickled liver repeals his life expectancy very shortly.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
5. If ever there was a sorry mo'fo'
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 07:36 AM
Jul 2013

John Boehner would be the person. Well he and Mitch (the turtle) McConnell but Mitch is another story for another day.
I was a person who got up in the morning and went for my bottle of snaps for a drink so I think I can honestly say what I'm fixing to type. John Boehner is a drunk, a drunk who starts drinking from the time he wakes up until he passes out. No sleep as sleep is, because he is drunk off his ass by the time he passes out.
Luckily I no longer drink, been sober for several years now and I love it.
I can't understand how I could or would allow myself to get that way to begin with, it was a slow progression that crept up on me, best I can figure.
John Boehner is like madokie was at one time, a fucking drunk.
only difference is I wasn't in a position of power where I could affect other peoples lives.

Disclaimer: Not all people who drink are drunks although all drunks are drinkers

Hubert Flottz

(37,726 posts)
9. I knocked back a few in my day too and smoked like a freight train for 40 years.
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 08:26 AM
Jul 2013

Nothing wrong with that, IF you don't do things that hurt other people.

John Boehner seems to get his kicks, kicking the least able to defend themselves around.

Like the punk ass kids on the corner, that like to gang up on someone who walks by and attack them like wolves going after a stray animal. The same type of adolescent punks that drank their way into adulthood, having never learned right from wrong, because their ignorant parents always stood by to bail them out of trouble.

My neighborhood was full of the John Boehner type punks/drunks when I was a kid. Probably seeing these bastards in action, kept me from drinking until I was an old codger of about 15. I was smoking a pack of lung busters a day by then too.

John Boehner and Mitch McConnell seem to enjoy inflicting pain and hardship on people they don't even know, because they can. I hope after the next election those two SOBs end up on the unemployment list.

Disclaimer: I liked my Absolut, but I never went to work drunk, and I usually only drank on days that end in Y.

 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
7. Oh, what can Obama do in the face of Republican opposition? Here's an idea. Sign the TPP to send
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 08:15 AM
Jul 2013

even more jobs to foreign countries. It's called NAFTA on steroids. That ought to do it.

It's all the Republicans' fault.

Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts)
8. as long as they don't lose their internet
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 08:18 AM
Jul 2013

americans don't care what gos on around them. If TV was the opiate of the masses this is crystal meth.

bluedeathray

(511 posts)
10. That IS the plan.
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 08:53 AM
Jul 2013

And the democratic party, with a major boost from our Secretary of State, is negotiating the next chapter. In secret no less!

malaise

(269,157 posts)
12. Follow the money
Wed Jul 24, 2013, 12:10 PM
Jul 2013

Who do you think will buy up everything on the cheap? The plan is to loot government to themselves.

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