All indications are that today the Senate will pass a bill re-opening the government and raising the debt ceiling (unless Ted Cruz or some other Republican asshole decides to put a 30-hour hold on it), and then presumably John Boehner will allow it to come up for a vote in the House and pass with almost all Democratic votes.

We shall see, of course, but if it actually happens and there’s nothing too terribly stupid in the bill, I would like Democrats (especially the one in the White House) to take a step back and reflect on what happens when you don’t cave in to these terrorist thugs. Then I’d like them to think about what might have been, had they stood up to these bullies from Day One.

Of course, even if all this goes through the way we hope it will, I hope everybody’s prepared for whatever fresh hell these assholes are probably already preparing for after the first of next year. ‘Cuz you know damn well, they’re not gonna learn a lesson from this (anymore than they did from the last election), and we’re gonna see all this nonsense again in a few short months.

Still, this is a start, at least. Or, hopefully it’s a start. I wouldn’t put anything past these teabagger types.