IT'S NOT BOTH FUCKING SIDES!!!

[NightWatcher]

It's about 20-40 teabaggers and the idiotic House leadership who refuses to bring a vote to the floor on a clean CR as to not piss off or alienate those nutjobs.

Boner could bring a clean CR vote to the House floor for a vote. There are enough Dems and sane(?) Repukes who would pass it. The Senate would pass it and it would open the Government back up in a few hours.

But for some insane reason Boner doesn't want to bring a vote and piss off the teabaggers.


Like I said, IT'S NOT ABOUT BOTH FUCKING SIDES!

[BelgianMadCow]

1. Calmly lay down your remote and step away from the TV

I'm guessing you watched some M$M?

[Cryptoad]

12. Has anybody else noticed

how the subject of repealing ACA is disappearing from the GOP rhetoric .....?

[dballance]

17. How about you get real.

Nightwatcher viewed the MSM? That's rich.

For the first time in a while the MSM is actually reporting on things for a change.

The problem in DC is most certainly the Tea Baggers and the GOP. It is not the President or Dems.

[BelgianMadCow]

19. I'll calmy log of DU, then

I was just trying to be funny. That's what the could have indicated.

I have no idea whether Nightwatcher watched MSM (hence the ?), and how much she or he does so, and neither do I see why I should know her or his habits.

I don't watch MSM, but the two minutes I did flip past MSNBC, they had a banner with "when will they compromise". That could bring me to post an all caps OP title like Nightwatcher

And how you read me laying any kind of blame at the dems or Obama's feet, is a mystery to me.

Good night!

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended, they know it already but their corporate owners and masters demand

otherwise.

Thanks for the thread, NightWatcher.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. I don't think that's accurate

The Wall Street Banks -- you know, the ones led by robber barons like Legs Dimon and Pretty Boy Lloyd -- certainly don't want the kind of instability this kind of uncertainty brings. That's not good for their business, especially what's left of their legitimate business.

The fact is that the teahadists aren't even listing to their masters.

On the other hand, I don't know where hardcore corporate fascists like the Koch Brothers come down on this. Those two Birch Society born and bred bastards just might have a different perspective on the matter than sane people. We'll see if they offer their brown shirts bus rides to demonstrations or to meetings where anything constructive might be on the agenda, like they did in 2009. If they are among those trying to tell congressional Republicans to cool it, then it is further evidence that the Tea Party is a Frankenstein's monster that the Kochs created.

[markpkessinger]

8. I think you've nailed it here . . .

. . . The corporate fascist wing of the party whipped a group comprised of both the misinformed and the willfully uninformed into a frenzy. Now they have a tiger by the tail, which they can neither afford to let go of, nor continue to hang on to. Quite a predicament they've created for themselves, I would say!

[Uncle Joe]

11. I'm wondering who and how many of these fascists are shorting the dollar?

To be honest I did misread the OP and was thinking of the corporate media promoting the "both sides are doing it" meme, not the Teahadists.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Don't worry. I've fired before aiming often enough and no one dies as a result

Although you now bring up a good point, that the MSM is very careful to bring up both sides of an issue that doesn't really have two sides.

This is why FoxNews is not MSM. When there aren't two side to an issue, Fox still manages to explain the other side and only the other side.

[SunSeeker]

23. The Koch companies are privately held. So they don't care about the stock market. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

31. The Kochs should worry about it

Some of those Koch companies are Wall Street firms. Their fortunes are going to go south.

Of course, when one's father is a founding member of the John Birch Society, there's no telling what idiocy little Dave and Charlie had to listen to as they grew up. It's obvious that a lot of it rubbed off.

[Jack Rabbit]

32. This may answer my question about the Kochs attitudes about the shutdown

Please click here.

[treestar]

3. the procedures of Congress mystify me

I don't see where the Constitution says things can be voted on only is the Speaker allows for it.

It says they can make their own rules, but how can their rules defeat the whole purpose?

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

Hmmm.

[Liberalynn]

4. I agee that it isn't both sides.

It's all the Pukes. Unfortunately and this is JMHO, even if there are some pukes that are still sane, and I question that, their monetary greed and their egotistical need for power seems to trump that little bit of sanity they have left every time.

The "so called moderates" keep saying they will side with Democrats if need be but when it comes to actually act they back away. They are a bunch of lousy cowards.

[ruffburr]

5. No Shit -

I can't believe the lame stream media's pseudo equivalency of this crap, Shameful what the media has become, Thank god for the net and D.U.

[liberal N proud]

6. As always, when the Republicans are losing, they use the both sides are bad meme.

They know they are losing the battle with the public.

[Enthusiast]

35. +1

They have rooms full of highly paid people working full time to gin up misinformation designed to counter the truth. Some of their misinformation makes its way into the discussions on DU.

[benld74]

9. The Orange Man is being interviewed by Sephanapolus Sunday morning TV,,,,

more one sided crapola!

[RavensChick]

16. Thanks for the heads up!

I'll know not to even watch it. I'm so sick and tired of him!

[Enthusiast]

36. Big surprise!

[Cryptoad]

10. teh Orangeman Explained today how ,,,,

it is the rape victim's fault for being raped not the rapist.........

Orangeman: "This is no damn Game!"

idiot

[NBachers]

13. But haven't you heard?? Obama Refuses To Negotiate Obama Refuses To Negotiate

You obviously haven't heard Obama Refuses To Negotiate enough times to penetrate your cranium.

Just keep saying: Obama Refuses To Negotiate . . . Obama Refuses To Negotiate . . .

See? It's really Obama's fault after all.

[Cha]

15. Thank you!

[TxDemChem]

18. Sure isn't.

Don't even bring dems in on the blame. Not our doing.

[winter is coming]

20. Why are you screeching to the choir? We know whose fault it is. n/t

[JI7]

21. CNN is the Worst , they suck so bad, i love it when their ratings go down

they are worse than Fox news because at least everyone knows what fox is actually about.

[Nimyth]

22. with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member

Something to hope for- oh could we please get the adult congress critters to give the 'kids' a time out.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. Boner is afraid he'll be accused of pulling out too soon.

[Rain Mcloud]

25. I am sorry but it is the money that the Teabaggers bring to the GOPACs.

Blood money from the backs of the poor,working multiple part-time,no benefit jobs attempting to put food on their families amidst record corporate profits.
Some of those record profits trickle down through a new branch of lobbyists belonging to a so-called grassroots organization known as the Tea Party.
The GOP is as afraid of this group backed by multi-billionaires as they are greedy for the money that they lavish on their war coffers.
Never forget that they already have the end game in sight,shutting down the government means no oversight of their activities and no one to stand up for the people as they usher in a new century of slavery even as the carpetbaggers snap up cheap real estate and sell worthless pension funds to the government from the derivatives market.
The true face of the redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.

[Enthusiast]

37. Neo-Fascism is an apt description.........nt

[eqfan592]

28. HERE HERE!

This above all else has frustrated the hell out of me, because the media is exacerbating the problem, and failing totally to do their job effectively. They are in large part responsible for the dirty tactics we are seeing, because they have convinced the public that this is somehow "business as usual."

[otohara]

29. Jon Huntsman & Evan Bayh Say So

In a new commercial urging an end to the shutdown - it's both parties...blah, blah, blah

Evan Bayh

[lonestarnot]

30. Of course it's not.

[donheld]

33. I know. I had this argument with my sister today.

It's all making me crazy.

[Enthusiast]

34. The media says it is both sides.

So there.