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.
We ate at a diner this afternoon and thus I got a chance to read the New York Post. I will not buy the damned thing ’cause I just can;t give a dime to scuzzy Rupert. Anyway, there was a piece about the author of an Obama booked titled The Amateur. He says Obama manufactured the government shut down and debt limit debacle to help Democrats win the house in 2014. He says it’s all Valerie Jarret’s fault ’cause she’s the one who figured out how to do it. He calls her the Night Stalker because she often visits the Obamas and has dinner with them. She was the one who told him to call it hostage taking.
He’s writing another Obama book. I’m sure it will be carefully researched and full of cogent insights.
On a more local political note, Bill DeBlasio (Dem candidate for NYC mayor) had a debate with the Repub, Joe Lhota. Apparently DeBlasio did a great job but the nicest part was that he tarred Lhota with the Teaparty, Guiliani and Bloomberg, all negatives to NYers.