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Sunday, October 13, 2013

NEW VILLAGE VOICE COLUMN UP...

Posted on 7:52 PM by dimple
...about week 2 of the shutdown and the gloom gathering on the right.  Not everyone's down, though: Here's Doug Ross with a listicle called "Top 5 Reasons the GOP Will Win the Shutdown (Unless They Fold With the Winning Hand)." The parenthetical is instructive: The cause cannot fail, it can only be failed -- by RINOs, of which there appear to be more every day.

Oh, and Jeff Godlstein makes a surprise appearance:
Add another, Doug:

No increase in debt limit means O will have to cut spending to 2001 levels. Or else unilaterally declare he can raise the debt ceiling -- openly declaring himself king, supported by Democrats. 
Which should remove a lot of blinders and be one of those "teachable moments". As well as an impeachable offense.
I know the American People sometimes find crazy attractive, but usually it's when Jack Nicholson or someone like that is playing crazy, not when you pull up the curtain on actual schizophrenics.

UPDATE. I'm sorry I didn't see this Hugh Hewitt headline in time to include it in the column:
When The President Reneges, Harry Reid Overreaches, And The Greatest Generation Rallies To The GOP, Then You Can Be Sure The Democrats Aren’t Winning
It's the sort of rallying cry you only get halfway through before someone sticks a bayonet in your gut. Hewitt's associated article is even worse. It begins thus:
Proposed opening question for the first GOP presidential debate in the fall of 2015: "Was the 'shutdown showdown' of October 2013 good or necessary -- either or both -- and why?" 
I don't have any idea how it will be answered by the 10 or so potentially serious candidates who may be on that stage, but the difficulty of predicting the best answer can be found — where else? — in two movies about war.
Follow the allusion and you'll see that the shutdown is like Saving Private Ryan and Atonement because war is hell and so is the shutdown, so stay the course argh blargh. Oh, and this line goes in the Bullshit Hall of Fame:
I may be proven wrong, but I may be proven right.
I understand propagandists are compensated all out of scale with their worth, which must be nice, and that the people who do the work are beyond shame, but don't they have families?
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