"We really did go too far. We screwed up."

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64. Welcome to DU, stage left!

Glad you're here! AMAZING, isn't it? Just mind-blowingly AMAZING. Wrong person's admitting this, though. I won't be satisfied til I see boner, cruz, mcconnell, cantor, ryan, bachmann, that little twit mike lee (only claim to fame is being ted cruz's shadow, in much the same way as lindsey graham is john mccain's shadow) - any one or any combination of those fiends - come out and admit this.

I just had a thought - if I were a parental figure with any clout here, I'd say - you want it fixed? Okay. Here. Mama fix. You go over there and sit down and zip it. I will handle this.

Government opens IMMEDIATELY.
NO debt ceiling - now or EVER again. You will agree to doing away with it.
NO further sequester.
NO further obstruction in the Senate.
NO further attention paid to the teabaggers. They're a MINORITY. They have no right to swagger around like they own the place. And some of 'em haven't even been here a full year yet!

If I were really ruthless I'd throw in a couple more, but I'll be generous and stop there. This or NOTHING. Then you can go explain to the koch brothers why they're gonna lose so much money in this default and why you just had to screw them, too.

They keep talking about how government should be run like a business, and how "I raised a family, ran a business... so I know how this should be done" so okay then. Here's a microcosm for you, since you like boiling it down that simplistically: I'm a mom. My teenager just crashed our car - in a wanton, deliberate, and "nobody is the boss of me" recklessness. Why then should he/she be entitled to continued driving privileges, OR, assuming we can afford to replace the wreck, to be handed the new set of keys? I'd put it to each of those CONS and baggers - "you raising your kid that way?"