Pat Buchanan: "Don't you get it Sean? The Repubs have created an ongoing Budget Doomsday Machine!"

[kpete]

While stuck in traffic in a torrential downpour late yesterday afternoon, I happened to catch a little of Sean Hannity on the radio and decided to play my favorite car game "How Many Minutes Of Hannity Before Throwing Open Door To Retch". Records are made to be broken, right? Plus, one has to keep up with the prevarication du jour in order to deprogram friends and family members.

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Pat let drop something that I thought was worth paying attention to.

While he and Sean ruminated about Republican tactics and strategies for making the President and the Dems the ones ultimately responsible if the debt ceiling wasn't increased and the economy crashed, Pat Buchanan said (paraphrase) - and he was literally chortling -

"Don't you get it Sean? The Republicans have created an ongoing Budget Doomsday Machine! These talks are going to happen again and again!"

the rest:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/09/992813/-A-Chortling-Pat-Buchanan-Calls-Debt-Ceiling-Debate-a-Republican-Doomsday-Machine?via=siderec

[kentuck]

1. Indeed, they have ...

and they will use it again and again, forever...

[Posteritatis]

2. I find Buchanan incredibly fascinating

On the one hand, he's completely around the bend and some (okay, most) of his views put him pretty far off into the land of vilemotherfuckerdom, but he'll say things that are bang on target or at least interesting just often enough that I keep finding myself wondering what he's got to say about various situations.

Heaven knows the discourse would be more useful these days if we swapped out neocons for paleocons.

[spanone]

4. i find him incredibly obnoxious

[Posteritatis]

11. That does not conflict at all with what I said, of course. (nt)

[Bluenorthwest]

9. If one finds entertainment in sexism, homophobia and racism

Pat Buchanan is your guy! I have a list of his quotes that I am thinking about right now, which I bet you have never read. Lovely stuff about Jews, gays, women, blacks, you name it. Incredibly fascinating is not the word that springs to my mind for such men as Pat.

[Posteritatis]

12. Excellent job reacting to the entirety of my post. Oh wait. (nt)

[Nevernose]

10. And he took Al Gore's side in the 2000 selection

The quote was something to the effect of "I seriously doubt I got the Jewish vote in Palm Beach." It's a very small credit I give him, but he's been right before. Not often, mind you, but it h as happened.

[spanone]

3. the democrats have no sense of political 'hardball'

they will get their asses handed to them over and over again

[crikkett]

14. They're not playing "hardball"

they're not playing at all. They're criminally exploitative.

[Turbineguy]

5. Things are always scary

when Buchanan makes sense.

[kenny blankenship]

6. I can't believe Buchanan actually spoke the truth for once.

As I've said before, the debt ceiling deal Obama is negotiating will not be the end of a national hostage taking crisis but the beginning of a permanent emergency. If the Republicans get any of what they want, they will do this again and again.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Republicon Family Cesspool Values. As usual.

Why do Republicons HATE America?

[Nevernose]

8. More specifically

The tea party republicans are like a doomsday machine (I'm thinking of Dr. Strangelove here). It's a machine designed to do something stupid and self-destructive, because of political advantage and paranoia, and for various reasons can't be stopped. It seems insane to almost everyone else (except the air force general who says "we've got to get a doomsday machine of our own!"), but by the time the designers realize what a bad idea it was, it's unstoppable.

[TheKentuckian]

13. It can be stopped, our side has to do it and is either too complicit or cowardly

to stop legitimizing these fuckwits and laugh at their nonsense.

Treating them as serious and substantive is a form of insanity.

[kentuck]

15. Absolutely.

Buchanan assumes that the Democrats will fold everytime they pull out the old Doomsday Machine. It only works if the Democrats fold.

[Maccagirl]

16. But that's our point Kentuck, the "leadership" of the

Deomcratic party WILL fold, and has done so again and again. Buchanan knows this as well as anyone.

[kentuck]

17. Yes, they have but...

Congress can change in two years. There may be new leadership? There may be a new Democratic Party after the next election?

They should not assume that the Democrats will fold forever.