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In case you ignored the Sunday shows, congratulations: you could be in the GOP leadership. The Adults within the Room, such as they are, were nowhere to be viewed the previous day morning, leaving the Sunday presentations to what might charitably be referred to as the Republican Party’s Brat Punk division. John McCain joked that Republican membership used to be right down to “blood spouse and children and paid team of workers.” The prestigious gentlemen from Planet Defund did what they might to winnow that moderate caucus down.
What’d I Omit?
Patience is wearing mighty thin over the small band of lawmakers who have engineered a government shutdown and made breaching the debt ceiling a definite chance, particularly as 13 days of their technique has done nothing however hurt the GOP’s model whereas so obscuring the issues with Obamacare’s implementation that this system has in fact gotten extra popular despite its worrisome rollout. The conservative response to this—”comparable thing however louder”—just isn’t impressing any person, an perspective best expressed by way of Chris Wallace’s sigh at three:26 of the following video:
Wallace was interrogating Consultant Jim Jordan (R-Tea Birthday Party Categorical Luggage Compartment) on what he and his pals in fact concept they could accomplish thru a strategy that literally might no longer be successful. Jordan recited a list of semi-discredited Obamacare talking points about the (non-existent) benefits of congressional staffers. “Equal remedy underneath the regulation!” he exclaimed, though the Vitter Modification he’s pushing would in fact enact unequal advantages, but he doesn’t know that…for some motive.
“But you’re never going to get that via!” Wallace stated, having a look like he wanted to smack the jejune lawmaker on his mind-roof.
“We just need to make a better argument,” Jordan replied. At that time, Wallace sighed for all of us.
Face the Nation’s Bob Schieffer had a an identical run-in with Consultant Nelson Muntz Tim Huelskamp (R-Cease Hitting Yourself), who refused to even believe the truth that petulantly traumatic the delay of the individual mandate may now not, like, work. Huelskamp doubled-down by means of announcing the debt ceiling was no large thing so we would possibly as well tie Obamacare to that, too, which is form of like hitting on twenty-two. Scheiffer did the whole thing short of accusing him of not figuring out how a bill becomes a law.
What Didn’t I Pass over?
Ted Cruz (R-Cease It). The whole purpose we’re throwing this birthday party was conspicuously absent unless he arrived on the “Million Vets March” later within the afternoon. It undoubtedly took the smugness quotient down some.
Oh, and Rand Paul as soon as once more learn himself into the historical past of the civil rights motion. He’ll do it once more, don’t worry.
Did Time and House Collapse on Itself in One Image?
Behold the Meta Panetta (TM):
It’d be funny, excluding for the truth that history is actually repeating itself.
Laziest, I’m-Now Not-Even-Making an attempt Spin:
After Schieffer advised him that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had predicted dire penalties for default, Huelskamp shrugged: “He mentioned quite a few things.” Just right call, GOP, on putting all your 2013 eggs in this guy’s basket.
Biggest Winner of the 2013 Shutdown:
Field canyons, which bought their 15,000th point out on Sunday when Schieffer invoked it in an interview with McCain. Is there a box canyon Twitter account but? What are you folks even doing on the web?
[Image by the use of screengrab]
