The Government Shutdown Countdown Lowdown MEGATHREAD

[merithyn]

On a different note:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/republican-failure-may-boost-tea-party/article14824273/

Budget battle may strengthen Tea Party grip on GOP

That's horrifying.

[derspiess]

Tamas was only taking a lot of the anti-Tea Party rhetoric here & elsewhere to its natural conclusion.  He gets all his info second-hand, so it's kind of hard for me to blame him for what he said.

[derspiess]

On a different note:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/republican-failure-may-boost-tea-party/article14824273/

Budget battle may strengthen Tea Party grip on GOP

That's horrifying.

Hyperbole much? 

[Grey Fox]

Ok, not neo-Nazis.

But how they are not the far-right of the American spectrum, I fail to see.

No one is arguing that they are not. They are just saying Nazis are still a couple more notches to the right.

[CountDeMoney]

Hyperbole much? 

It is horrifying, particularly to people who used to belong to the party.

I wish Poppy Bush would kick all these Teabaggers in the ass.  With colorful socks.

[garbon]

I was laughing at the idea that Obama has destroyed the Republican party.

In a way, he has;  their pure hatred of the man and all things black has turned them inside out to a degree not seen since the Democrat's hatred of Nixon totally fractured the party.

Ok, sunshine.

[Grey Fox]

On a different note:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/republican-failure-may-boost-tea-party/article14824273/

Budget battle may strengthen Tea Party grip on GOP

That's horrifying.

Hyperbole much? 

No, it's pretty scary actually. At some point the executive will just shut legislative out of governing.

[CountDeMoney]

I was laughing at the idea that Obama has destroyed the Republican party.

In a way, he has;  their pure hatred of the man and all things black has turned them inside out to a degree not seen since the Democrat's hatred of Nixon totally fractured the party.

Ok, sunshine.

You wouldn't consider the GOP in as much of a fractured mess as the Democratic Party was in 1974-76?  You think it's in better shape?

[merithyn]

Hyperbole much? 

Not at all.

I've been pretty vocally opposed to the Tea Party and what they represent. That they are the only alternative to Democrats is... terrifying to me. I'd hoped that with time, the Republican Party would move away from social conservatism. I don't see that happening with a stronger Tea Party contingent.

[garbon]

I was laughing at the idea that Obama has destroyed the Republican party.

In a way, he has;  their pure hatred of the man and all things black has turned them inside out to a degree not seen since the Democrat's hatred of Nixon totally fractured the party.

Ok, sunshine.

You wouldn't consider the GOP in as much of a fractured mess as the Democratic Party was in 1974-76?  You think it's in better shape?

I don't see any sign that the party is falling to pieces. Discipline still seems, for the most part, high.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't see any sign that the party is falling to pieces. Discipline still seems, for the most part, high.

Right, John Boehner is totally in control of his party's caucus. 

And you call me sunshine.

[garbon]

I don't see any sign that the party is falling to pieces. Discipline still seems, for the most part, high.

Right, John Boehner is totally in control of his party's caucus. 

And you call me sunshine.

I'm not sure his weakness belies the fact that the Republicans have still largely voted en bloc against opposing legislation.

[Berkut]

Scaremongering.

[Tamas]

Ok, not neo-Nazis.

But how they are not the far-right of the American spectrum, I fail to see.

No one is arguing that they are not. They are just saying Nazis are still a couple more notches to the right.

I am not sure about that. People, is the Tea Party a far-right organization?

[Berkut]

Tamas was only taking a lot of the anti-Tea Party rhetoric here & elsewhere to its natural conclusion.  He gets all his info second-hand, so it's kind of hard for me to blame him for what he said.

I do blame him.

Nobody on Languish this long should still be naive enough to take that kind of rhetoric at face value. I've told Tamas specifically over and over that he needs to think a bit more critically about how various groups are portrayed in the various press around the world.