Take It Off – Take It All Off
Yesterday, in a column in the New York Post, Michael Walsh wrote:
Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress seem to have forgotten the last election. Led by the weepy House Speaker John Boehner, they’re bogged down in a small-bore battle over the continuing farce of "continuing resolutions" to fund the federal leviathan for a couple of weeks — instead of engaging in the principal battle over the bloated budget.
The GOP House freshmen elected with Tea Party support are demanding an end to nibbling around the edges of the country’s massive current deficit — $1.3 trillion and counting. And the Tea Party itself has announced a "Continuing Resolution Rally" today on Capitol Hill, to demand that Boehner and the leadership live up to their promise to defund ObamaCare and cut at least $100 billion from the bloated federal budget.This internecine warfare poses a serious problem for Boehner and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, who’ve resorted to meeting with conservative Democrats in an effort to find "common ground" on the nugatory cuts that would attend passage of another "continuing resolution" on April 8.
So…let me get this straight: Cryin’ John and his Whip [or is it 'Wimp'] McCarthy are meeting with ‘conservative’ Democrats [are they the unicorns of politics?] with the goal of compromising away what they were elected to do. One gets the feeling that the GOP Establishment in the Congress are like those people who put on thin-lapeled suits and fedoras and go to see the Sinatra impersonator every time he does a show because they want to relive a time that is no more. Message to Bleating Boner and his sheep: there hasn’t be a conservative Democrat in the Congress for years.
At that Rally Mr. Walsh mentioned, one of the speakers put it perfectly [tip of the fedora to Memeorandum][emphasis mine]:
…Kathy Dirr who resides in Speaker John Boehner’s Ohio district – used stark language as she spoke to the crowd, urging House Republican leadership to, "take off your lace panties" and push for deeper cuts.
You know, it’s bad enough that we’ve got a panty-wearing, effete little Nancy-Boy in The White House; we don’t need anymore in Washington. Grow a pair GOP Leadership – or borrow Sarah’s.
Backbenchers: STAGE THE COUP!
Palin: The only real man left in the GOP.
We’re doomed.
Your Majesty, I’m feeling more and more like that these days.