Welcome to DU, gldstwmn!

Short for Gold Dust Woman?

Great song!

Welcome to DU, summer_in_TX!

I feel the same way. Not gonna give up, but it sure doesn't look good. I'm in my mid-60s now, and I've NEVER seen it this bad.

And the sad part, this shit is something the CONS brought upon themselves.

I think the reason so many Americans wanted to do something drastic last November ("just burn it all down!&quot because government sucks and doesn't work and is for shit - is BECAUSE OF THE GOP. The GOP spent the previous eight years DELIBERATELY DOING NOTHING.
They obstructed. Plans for that began on Inauguration Night in January 2009. Thank you Mitch McConnell - who led this pack of vermin in a VERY evil, stupid, and colossally counterproductive scheme to say no to EVERYTHING. Obstruct EVERYTHING. Not allow the new president to put ANY points on the board. Even when he wanted to put THEIR points on the board for the benefit of everyone! Even when he wanted to bring THEIR original ideas up for discussion. The plan was to make sure Barack Obama was a one-term president. That's all it was. So they sat and did absolutely nothing, on the taxpayers' dime, for EIGHT FREAKIN' wasted useless squandered years. I'm frankly amazed that Obama and the Dems got anything done AT ALL.

So that, I think, is what ignited the so-called "angry voters" and the "forgotten Americans" who didn't see anything getting done, and they decided to say a big fat F-You and blow the place up. Put the most incendiary and flakey home-made human pressure-cooker bomb to the White House and just let him go off.

But not one of 'em thought this through. NOT ONE. Not ONE of 'em thought - uh - gee - wait a minute - what if they DO take my "Obamacare" away? I've got nothing else!" "Uh - gee - um - wait a minute ... uh, hey - I didn't mean for THAT to happen... " Not ONE of them paused for even one instant to consider what the consequences might be if they did this. What would the ramifications be if you help send Captain Chaos into the job site? And all HE knows how to do is slick-talk and sell you snake oil that you don't need and that doesn't work anyway, but he does know how to create chaos.

But it was far more important to give themselves an outlet to express their anger. Seems to me you do that in some therapist's office or group counseling session, or bull session with your buds over beer or something. You DON'T take your mad-on and vomit it all over the rest of us from coast to coast!

Do you think the deplorable contingent REALLY wanted all this? Or maybe they don't even view it this way. After all, he's signing all these important-looking pieces of paper in important-looking leather menus. So he's gettin' stuff done!

I think about this stuff and sometimes I just want to go back to bed and pull the covers up over my head and hide in there. I don't know that there is any hope. I don't know if enough of the deplorables are redeemable, or even just minimally reachable.

BINGO!

This Is IT.

They don't like government. They don't want it. They want to shut it down, defund it, obstruct it, fuck with it.

So when they find themselves in charge of it, and have to start acting like responsible grownups for the sake of the public trust - they're total nincompoops.

It's one thing to be a hostile know-it-all back-seat driver. Just wait til that back-seat driver has to get into the driver's seat.

And that's ANOTHER good one, oxbow!

We NEED labels like this that dumb it down to its basics - that it's basically gonna screw you.

This is really remarkable.

Just takes a few to start it. Or two. Or even just one.

See, THIS is Excellent, oxbow!

Their "shut up and die bill".

YYYYEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!

Now, WE have to frame it. I've heard a few good ones.

This one, "The shut up and die bill."

"The American Hell-Care Act."

"The American DON'T-Care Act."

And I know there are more, what with the explosion of guerrilla creativity that's been ignited by this new era.

WE decide what it's called. Because at least WE are gonna be honest about it.

I've always kinda liked working the acronym IGMFU in there somewhere, regarding anything the republi-CONS do or push for. It kinda sums up their basic philosophy of government. The letters stand for "I Got Mine, F-U."

So maybe, then, the GOP's incredible new "IGMFU Healthcare!"

And free health insurance, too. That's part of the perks package.

I think it was on CNN where someone offered the observation that - this does NOTHING for the Congressional staffers. They get paid shit, they're basically nobodies so they have NO perks, they work tremendously odd and unrelenting hours, and they don't have any "housing allowance."

This is typical republi-CON. They're the IGMFU party. "I Got Mine, F-U." If I can get myself a $2500 housing allowance, then I'm cool voting for this bill that screws all of YOU peons back home whose best interests I supposedly "represent".

Selfish schmucks!

Understood. I totally get that. But it's damn EXCRUCIATING having to wait to see this all play out!

And he seems to be a very bad businessman, with lousy "instincts."

That building on 666 Fifth Avenue - that's financially underwater that his family can't get rented so they can pay off the horrendous debt they incurred to buy the damn thing in the first place. I could easily be mistaken but as I understand it, acquiring that building was HIS decision. And he's risking the entire family fortune on a very bad miscalculation. So no wonder he went around fishing for money. And now he's in even deeper trouble.

I bet if anybody's gonna flip, it'd be him. Flynn too, I bet. He's used to that impressive dress uniform festooned with all his flashy military decorations, so I'm sure he doesn't fancy himself being issued one of those humiliating orange jumpsuits. From what I've heard and read, Flynn's already singing like the proverbial fat lady.

If it was a Democrat, the answer would have been a loud and resounding YES.

That old cliche - "the Democrats fall in love, the republi-CONS fall in line." They stick together alright. They're gonna have his back till it damn near kills them (or costs them their jobs - the same jobs that come with that wonderful free taxpayer-paid-for health care, among other nifty little perks).