Is The Wingularity Nigh?
Erick Erickson gives a hint that the wingularity is nigh:
Then, because Harry Reid denied CCB a vote through a procedural motion, John Boehner produces a crackpot plan that rips the conservative movement apart at the seams and after taking two stabs at it, still can’t get to the promised $1.2 trillion in cuts he initially claimed it would have.
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But Boehner believes that it is strategically smarter to die on this hill and force it down Senate Dems throats rather than try to do that on a bill in which he has the support of all his members, all the movement, and 66 percent of the American people.
These people need to be put in a mental ward.
Wingularity, the- the point at which the insanity from the far right and those controlling the Republican Party [continues] to grow exponentially until it reaches an unsustainable weight and collapses upon itself. This is also known as the Purity Spiral, wherein the density of wingnut increases compared to mainstream conservatives to the point of pure wingnut. As the ratio rises, this creates a phenomenon wherein no logic or sanity can penetrate or escape. When rightwing argument has become completely inaccessible to the uninitiated, it has reached the Wingularity. Coined by commenters JM and Joe K.
We will find out today, a vote is planned in the House on the Boehner plan at 5:30 tonight. Personally I can’t wait to see what wingnut emerges from the wingularity as the most pure and perfect wingnut. I’m thinking Paul Broun – the guy who thinks we should lower the debt ceiling but there is a lot of competition.
Tags: Debt Ceiling, Republican Crazy, Wingnuts
As it collapses the wingnut mass is rotating rightward and dragging Democrats rightward into its frame of reference.
Boehner is expending all his remaining political capital to pass his doomed plan. When the Senate plan comes before the House, Boehner won’t have any control left at all.
Of course, if Reid wants to help Boehner out there is also the “magic” option (from AP):
I guess Reid’s theory is he needs to combine TWO bills Republicans can’t pass.
I just realized that what Congress is actually doing is debating a budget, but outside of the normal framework for budget debates.
The impasse we are seeing is why rules for budget debates eliminate the filibuster, and provide a reconciliation committee. Without those tools available, when you try to negotiate a budget you get a clusterf**k.
With hindsight Obama made a mistake by going along with Republican demands to link the debt ceiling with spending cuts, or anything else for that matter. Obama should have said “Hell no, we don’t negotiate with terrorists – the debt debate is the debt debate, and the budget debate is the budget debate. ”
Linking the debt vote with anything is a horrible precedent. It gives Repubs yet another annual platform for grandstanding.
Could be much more than annual. Reagan did it 18 times in 8 years.
Reagan knew how to do it.
Yes, addicts usually do.
“With hindsight Obama made a mistake…”
It only looks that way to you because you don’t understand the 11th dimensional chess board that Obama is playing on. Or something…
“Reagan knew how to do it.”
yup. Be a white “real” christian republican with a ‘merican sounding name.