Anyone else getting tired of hearing this crap?

Is that a threat?



Wow...............the government is going to shut down. Sounds like a reason for a party, not a concern.

Sweet. Pack your shitt, lets go claim some land.

Uhmmm, the feds send out Social Security checks, pay Medicare, and who knows what else.

If it does shut down, I'm gonna' buy my Oregon fishing license and go springer fishing on the Willamette. Might as well make productive use of any shutdown.

Sg

Bucket and I are running to Barkley Sound in case they shut 'er down, we'll be safe and Sound in Kokanee Land

Checks for social security will still go out.

Hopefully the IRS will shut down too.

It's a good thing that all the Tea Baggers and other assorted nuts that got elected last cycle on a "We must create jobs!" platform haven't been wasting their time on being Birthers, going after abortion, and saving big bucks by trying to defund NPR.

The funny thing is that all those who voted for them, including many of the whackjobs right here on this very website, won't mind one bit...because they'd rather foist their untenable social opinions up the flagpole than go about the actual business of running a country, too.

Fish on...

Todd

I think the best will be when we get to see the GOP hopefuls debate before they go into the Iowa caucus...talk about a hotbed of fruitcakes and nutjobs.

If any GOP'r wants to win the Iowa caucus, they'll have to come somewhere far to the right of Pat Robertson, call Obama a Nigerian Muslim, and blame the Japan earthquake and resulting nuclear fiasco on Al Qaeda...if they don't, they won't win Iowa...and if they do, they'll have to explain themselves for the rest of the campaign.

Won't be too hard during the runups, since they'll all be debating each other, probably trying to prove who's the biggest fruitcake (cornering the fruitcake vote is the lynchpin to the Republican nomination)...but then they'll have to debate on a national scale with folks who don't support opinions that any random 3rd grader knows are retarded...and the worse thing ever, in the history of America will happen...

A black Nigerian Muslim socialist will be re-elected...and it will be all their own fault.

Fish on...

Todd

isn't the armed forces part of the federal government and their pay will stop

Bachmann could run away with it in Iowa...but that should, from now on, be considered the kiss of death to a Republican hopeful...even the dingbats and nutjobs from other corners of the country think Iowa caucus members are dingbats and nutjobs.

A smart GOP wannabee should skip Iowa altogether...you'd have to get so fuckin dirty to win Iowa that you could never clean up enough to win anywhere else.

Fish on...

Todd

I may have been hasty...the Republican who wins the Iowa caucus might be able to win West Virginia, and South Carolina, too.

Fish on...

Todd

I wasn't pointing the finger at one side of the aisle, just tired of hearing both sides biatch and whine.

Ron Paul/ Jesse ventura

They already threw one old man to the wolves because they knew they didn't want to ruin the career of any up and comer...problem is, there aren't any up and comers who aren't nuts running around in the bottom of their cookie jar right now.

Who's the next sacrificial lamb? Dimwits like Palin, Bachmann, Santorum, etc., are good choices (they aren't going anywhere anyway), but they don't even pass the straight face test for the PTA, much less the Presidency...throwing one of their own to the wolves so they can start planning for 2016 is one thing, making themselves look even more ridiculous by putting up a sock puppet is worse...

They need an elder statesman who's career is pretty much over anyway, who won't mind lending even an air of legitimacy to their cause, and won't be hurt by being soundly whooped.

They gave up McCain last time...who's turn is it to take one for the team? Trot out Colin Powell to run against Obama? That'd be interesting...how about Joe Lieberman?

Fish on...

Todd

Reps could run Bozo the Clown and he would have a good chance since Pres O is gonna have to explain why Gitmo is still open, why we are still in Iraq, why his plan for Afghanistan hasn't worked, why he hasn't created any jobs other than Czars and IRS employees, why the price of gas is $5 a gallon and he has no long term energy plan, and the list could go on and on and on. Healthcare could be a 3 night debate mini series all on its own.

The reason that this is becoming so comical is that even accepting everything you just typed as true...Obama is still going to blast anyone the GOP can put up. They've got nobody but fruits and nuts willing to run...anyone with half a brain who really wants to be President (and let's be honest, that might be an oxymoron right there) won't throw their hat in the ring against Obama.

They'd rather wait wait four more years, if they actually value their political career...and if they're really lucky, the Tea Baggers and their particularly nutty and fruity fan base will fade into the wordwork by then.

If they don't, they'll be stuck in the same conundrum they are in now...no one with half a brain will cater to those nutjobs, and no one can win the GOP nomination without those nutjobs.

If I were into conspiracy theories, instead of pinning the creation of the Tea Baggers on Dick Armey and Justice Thomas' wife, I'd pin it on some very crafty Democratic think tank...because the nuts who created the Tea Party have done more damage to the GOP than any Democrat could ever do.

Fish on...

Todd

Nobody is revealing the plan on which essential personnel will remain working. Usually national security will remain. I guess we'll see come the end of the week.

My prediction is that when the government shuts down. Newt Gingrich will have Obama, and Biden, assassinated in a coup leaving Boner in charge with the rest of the teaparty.

Future POTUS.

Ryan's budget plan does two things...cuts a bunch of older folks out of Medicare/Medicaid, and gives a huge tax break to the ultra-rich.

It's nothing new, and fully expected from a young GOP upstart...but if he pushes it, he'll get mashed in any national election...he'll only be able to keep his seat in a conservative district, and his budget plan will never pass.

As usual...pandering to the base, without offering anything that will actually solve any problems...unless your problem is that you're ultra-rich and don't like paying taxes.*

Fish on...

Todd

*or if your problem is that you're old, and need healthcare, but don't want it...it'll solve that problem for you, too, by putting your healthcare into the stock market to make others rich, while putting your health at risk. Like I said...bidness as usual from the Tea Baggers.