The Government Shutdown Countdown Lowdown MEGATHREAD

[grumbler]

I like Boehner and I think he's one of the few Republicans who would go for a deal (on most subjects) unfortunately the party are just very extreme now. Herding cats doesn't even cover the difficulty any leader would have dragging them to a reasonable position.

It probably doesn't help that, from what I can tell, there are so many peacocks around the House Republicans, preening to become Speaker once they decide to dump Boehner.

I keep on thinking some sense will get through but the GOP really look like Labour in the 80s

Boehner is a pleasant coward, I'll give him that.  The problem is that even a pleasant coward is a coward.  Boehner could have the deal done any time he wanted to.  All it would require is the slightest exhibition of leadership.  He doesn't want to do that, though, as it would make some people mad at him, and he won't have that.  Better to fuck over the people who elected him than upset someone who works with him.

You are right that there are a fair number of peacocks looking at his job.  That's one of the reasons Boehner won't actually do his job: he loves being Speaker more than he wants to actually act the Speaker.

I think Cantor is a prick and a moron, but he'd be a better Speaker, because he wouldn't be afraid to act the Speaker.  He wouldn't get anything done, but that would be an honest impasse, as opposed to the current cowardly one.

[grumbler]

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

My God, he's going to start a war.

The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one he said
The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one...
but, still, they come.

[Darth Wagtaros]

No one could have imagined that in the early years of the 21st Century....

[Josephus]

ooh...nice reference to an old forgotten prog rock classic

[Tonitrus]

So is Siege going to going to get paid on time?

Uninterrupted military pay has been signed off on.

[citizen k]

So is Siege going to going to get paid on time?

Uninterrupted military pay has been signed off on.

The Coors Light must flow.

[Ed Anger]

I am available to be dictator for a year. A year of my steady, bloody hand on the ship of state will do the United States wonders.

[PDH]

The lists of those to be proscribed are all drawn up.

[Ed Anger]

The lists of those to be proscribed are all drawn up.

All with only one name.....

Tim

[Darth Wagtaros]

The lists of those to be proscribed are all drawn up.

All with only one name.....

Tim

Not Dorsey or that ranger spec ops ninja guy, or Lady Europa, or Emmauk, or BiB, or Hamilcar, Rocky HOrror, Rocky, Rocket, ITBitch?

[Jacob]

Not Dorsey or that ranger spec ops ninja guy, or Lady Europa, or Emmauk, or BiB, or Hamilcar, Rocky HOrror, Rocky, Rocket, ITBitch?

Ah... you see... there's a department tasked with changing appropriate people's names to "Tim" whether they want it or not.

[CountDeMoney]

Looks like a shutdown is going to happen...

All this fuss, just to make sure I can't get affordable healthcare.  The GOP hasn't made me feel this special since the Willie Horton ads scared me about black people.

[CountDeMoney]

I think Cantor is a prick and a moron, but he'd be a better Speaker, because he wouldn't be afraid to act the Speaker.  He wouldn't get anything done, but that would be an honest impasse, as opposed to the current cowardly one.

Maybe, but Cantor is just creepy.  And not in a Lindsay Graham way, either.

[Jacob]

Uninterrupted military pay has been signed off on.

Keep the legions paid.

[Ideologue]

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.