Tuesday Open Thread [6.4.13]
About time. Politico:
“Scarred by years of Republican attacks over Obamacare, with more in store next year, Democrats have settled on an unlikely strategy for the 2014 midterms: Bring it on.”
“Party strategists believe that embracing the polarizing law — especially its more popular elements — is smarter politics than fleeing from it in the House elections. The new tack is a marked shift from 2010, when Republicans pointed to Obamacare as Exhibit A of Big Government run amok on their way to seizing the House from Democrats.”
By running away from it, they validated every Republican lie about Obamacare in 2010. In 2014, embrace it.
The Washington Post has a interesting article on the House GOP breaking into factions after the fiscal cliff vote and how Speaker John Boehner ultimately held onto his job during the Williamsburg Summit. Basically, God spared Boehner.
“Barely 36 hours after the caustic New Year’s Day vote, Boehner faced a coup attempt from a clutch of renegade conservatives. The cabal quickly fell apart when several Republicans, after a night of prayer, said God told them to spare the speaker. Still, Boehner came within a few votes of failing to secure his speakership on the initial vote, an outcome that would have forced a second ballot for the first time in nearly a century.”
You know, I pray. But I have never received an answer to those prayers from God. I may discern God’s intentions and will myself from subsequent events, but that is my own deduction and analysis, based on my knowledge of God and myself. But I never heard God’s voice, either disembodied in the air somewhere or in my own head, answer my prayer. So I think we need some clarification here from our wonderful Republican congressman. Did they hear a voice? Or instead, did they estimate what God’s probable answer would be from their own reflections and knowledge? I would respect them if the answer is the latter. If the answer is the former, they are psychotic and must be institutionalized as soon as possible.
Dear Dem, hear the siren call of Atheism and banish all fear of the “almighty”. Those that do not exist speak or reply to no one, it ain’t just you. As for the house Republicans their just bidding their time , god told them nada and never will, their knifes are still sharp for Boehner. Corporate hack just ain’t what it used to be.
Anyone know how the Colonial referendum went?
Results should be in around 9pm, AQC.
Did anyone notice or hear that Charlie Copeland will be running for chair of the GOP at the convention they have to have to replace Seigler?
I hope he owns an asbestos suit
pandora……get the popcorn out!
I’m seeing unofficial results for the Colonial referendum, and boy, is it close.
For: 3005
Against: 2938
It would be fitting for the De GOP to pick the one person in Delaware that has worse political instincts than Mike Protack.