{"id":6083,"date":"2011-07-14T00:41:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2011-07-14T00:41:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:41:37","slug":"thank-you-boehner-mcconnell-lets-do-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/thank-you-boehner-mcconnell-lets-do-some-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Boehner, McConnell; Let's Do Some More"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update: \u00a0I don’t know what Leader McConnell’s cockamamie scheme is supposed to accomplish, but for now I’ll simply assume it’s a delaying tactic, and on that basis not argue about it too much.]<\/em><\/p>\n

GOOD SHOW, Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell, in telling the President to find more revenues where the sun don’t shine! \u00a0I am officially off the war path of abandoned-by-my-party indignation (as promised), and I think that if you message this right, you can win back a lot of Tea Party support, so foolishly squandered in the Continuing Resolution debacle–bygones. \u00a0You’ve already done the hard work–now get the word out. \u00a0I’ll help.<\/p>\n

[pullquote]Call the President’s bluff on the August second doomsday[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n

Here’s what else I’ll help with: Call the President’s bluff on the August second doomsday. \u00a0When have ANY of their economic ideas, pronouncements, dire warnings, or hasty actions ever turned out as they were supposed to? \u00a0If we present a united front, and defend that which we very well know to be true (the world will not end without a debt ceiling increase on the second of August), we will win. \u00a0 The 111th Congress should have raised the ceiling to accommodate their ugly expensive baby ObamaCare, but they did not want to be seen admitting the true cost of the disaster. \u00a0Make them pay for that hubris, rather than allowing them to make us pay twice.<\/p>\n

STAND FIRM, and do not allow the debt ceiling panic to sweep us along. \u00a0We will be fine. \u00a0Do not be swayed by the lurid and divisive tactics of Marxist agitprop. \u00a0We will help you make your case, but we can only do it alongside you.<\/p>\n

You gentlemen are going to have to get out in front of some cameras and microphones, even if it’s all conservative outlets, and get the soundbites into circulation. \u00a0We who hate Communism and who bitterly oppose the policies of the President will lift you up in discourse and float you across the debt ceiling deadline.<\/p>\n

Give us the rhetorical ammo, and let us lay down covering fire for your run across the valley. \u00a0You will like it on this side–we have cookies.<\/p>\n

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[Update: \u00a0I don’t know what Leader McConnell’s cockamamie scheme is supposed to accomplish, but for now I’ll simply assume it’s a delaying tactic, and on that basis not argue about it too much.]<\/em><\/p>\n

GOOD SHOW, Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell, in telling the President to find more revenues where the sun don’t shine! \u00a0I am officially off the war path of abandoned-by-my-party indignation (as promised), and I think that if you message this right, you can win back a lot of Tea Party support, so foolishly squandered in the Continuing Resolution debacle–bygones. \u00a0You’ve already done the hard work–now get the word out. \u00a0I’ll help.<\/p>\n

[pullquote]Call the President’s bluff on the August second doomsday[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n

Here’s what else I’ll help with: Call the President’s bluff on the August second doomsday. … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-conservative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}