Fun to see your name in lights.
And I love the teaser (which I didn’t write).
About The Author
BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Corker: Republicans are ‘in a bad place’
By Jonathan Easley – 10/14/13 07:44 AM ET
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on Monday acknowledged that Republicans had taken a severe political hit from the government shutdown, saying the GOP was “in a bad place,” but getting closer to righting the ship.
“Look, we’re in a bad place,” Corker said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Let’s face it, we all know that the House Republican strategy — that came from a few Senate Republicans, was the strategy that took us to where we are.”
A rash of Republican infighting has boiled over because of the shutdown, as establishment Republicans have stood up to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other members of the Tea Party, blaming them for instigating the showdown without a defined endgame.
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Proposed Senate Debt Ceiling Deal Is a Complete Crushing of the Republican Party
By: Jason Easley
Monday, October 14th, 2013, 3:24 pm
Do you want to know what Republicans get out of the proposed Senate debt ceiling deal? Nothing, but a crushing surrender.
Republicans will get no changes to Obamacare. They will get no further spending cuts. The government will be funded until mid-late December, and here’s the kicker according to Greg Sargent, “According to the Democratic aide, Dems are likely to demand a debt limit extension into early summer — nine months, rather than six – with the idea being that the closer to the 2014 elections we get, the harder it will be for Republicans to stage another debt ceiling hostage crisis. Democrats don’t want such a crisis. They would prefer that Republicans simply agree to extend the debt limit cleanly. But by pushing this so deep into the 2014 election season, they are giving themselves a kind of insurance policy that guarantees that if Republicans do stage another debt limit crisis, Republicans will pay a serious political price for it.”
If Republicans want the medical device tax repealed Democrats are going to demand that tax loopholes be closed for the wealthy and corporations, and Senate Democrats are even going to finally get the budget conference that they have asked the House Republicans for 18 times.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/14/proposed-senate-debt-ceiling-deal-complete-crushing-republica
n-party.html
Sound any different than what I have been predicting for over a month?
Uh, no. Congratulations on that, too.
I don’t like the obvious politics of not taking away the ability of the GOP to extort the debt ceiling again. It’s just a little too cute to leave the gun on the table staring at them.
Congratulations! It’s only the beginning.
And with such a good post title, too.
Hmm well once again, I can only hope you are correct as that would be the best outcome in our current situation.
Oh BTW, Palin started pushing the “impeach Obama for allowing us to default” theory today.
Lol. “Impeach him for ignoring the debt limit!” “He’s defaulting for following the debt limit? Impeach!”
I wish the motherfuckers would impeach. Make my day. In fact, start proceedings right now and continue all the way to November.
Actually it’s impeach him for not prioritizing debt payments in violation of #14.
Actually it is impeach him cause
The treasonous criminals lost the war in 1865,
LBJ signed the civil rights act
and of course ………
a “gawd dammed N***” is sleeping in our White House.
Oh and of course they have no real prospects for reclaiming it in 2016,
going forward they have diminishing prospects if they
keep “standing their ground”
as untenable as it has been shown to be in the polls.
They have been losing for 150 years and know this is their Waterloo time, not the presidents.
Right, but what I said was Palin’s public reasoning.
Her actual reasoning is probably more like “Impeach Obama because that would make me richer.”
Confirmed. You can’t fix stupid.
Congrats. Richly deserved.
been reading and replying to you over at Washington Monthly.
I’m late with congrats, but Congrats Booman.
I haven’t been back to Wash Monthly since Benen (right?) left.
Thanks to you being on the “byline”, I may just have to go back to it.
Again, congrats
Panic In the GOP: Disapproval of the Republican Party Hits A New Record High of 74%
By: Jason Easley
Monday, October 14th, 2013, 4:14 pm
A new ABC News/Washington Post is putting more pressure on Republicans to surrender. The poll found that disapproval of the Republican handing of the crisis has reached a record high of 74%.
If last week’s finding that a record 70% of Americans disapproved of the Republican Party’s handing of the government shutdown/debt ceiling scared Republicans, this week’s numbers explain why Mitch McConnell is running to Harry Reid to make a deal. In two weeks, disapproval of the Republican handling of the situation has gone from 60%-74%. A whopping 54% strongly disapprove of the way Republicans are handling the government shutdown and the debt ceiling. Congressional Democrats have a 61% disapproval rating on the handling of the shutdown and debt ceiling, but they are in a much better position than the Republican colleagues.
The Republican Party’s plan to blame all of this on President Obama has failed miserably. It doesn’t matter how many times Republicans refer to “Obama’s shutdown.” The president’s polling remains virtually unchanged. Fifty percent disapproved of the president’s handling of the crisis last week. This week that number has risen three points to 53%. The American people are blaming all of Washington, but they are blaming Obama a whole lot less.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/14/panic-gop-disapproval-republican-party-hits-record-high-74.ht
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I hope that’s the first of many more links for the Washington Monthly. Congrats. Savor the moment.
Congratulations, BooMan. It’s cool to see your name there.
Grats!
And damn well deserved.
Awesome indeed!
Congratulations! Much as I love the atmosphere of the frog pond, I’m delighted to see you get wider exposure.
Hooah, love seeing your name on the byline up there. Congratulations, it’s richly deserved!