I do not like Speaker Boehner’s bill, although I thank him for much of what he has accomplished so far. \u00a0But we need not bother to fight and make gains if our effort is to be thrown away with lousy, worse-than-status-quo bills like the one currently under consideration. \u00a0Among its problems are several assumptions baked into it:<\/p>\n
I could go on about those, but everybody is doing that, and I’m sure there are more which I will simply have to forego. \u00a0Suffice it to say that these were all mistakes.<\/p>\n
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I do not know what will happen with this “Boehner bill”, the Reid bill, CCB (one skinny last chance remaining, I believe), and the debt ceiling itself. \u00a0There are nonetheless several lessons that I hope the GOP will take away. \u00a0Here you go GOP; I’m talking to you.<\/p>\n
The Tea Party is not dead, and is not sleeping. <\/strong> We are waiting, and watching, and we remember things you assume we have forgotten. Your current difficulty is partly due to your shameful and craven performance in the continuing resolution (CR) fiasco. \u00a0You lied to us in such a transparent, brazen way that assumes we are either too stupid to realize or too weak to act. \u00a0Witness your predicament now. \u00a0We are not the union-hippie left, and have neither the time nor the inclination to vandalize government buildings while intimidating lawmakers. \u00a0No, if you insist on making enemies of us, we’ll get you through politics. \u00a0Like this. \u00a0Stand by.<\/p>\n The Tea Party means what it says<\/strong>, and when the message is poorly focused, that represents intellectual diversity, not confusion, not weakness, not apathy. \u00a0We are evangelicals and objectivists, military officers and isolation-pacifists, rich \u00a0anti-communists and blue-collar Reagan democrats. \u00a0Expect to have to sort through our messages, but do not mistake that for a lack of conviction. \u00a0Each of us believes passionately in a particular subset of the Tea Party set of platform planks, and will fight for those beliefs. \u00a0Every single one of us knows very well that the course the government is on is high-speed rails to Hell. \u00a0Big-spending Republican business-as-usual lukewarm efforts at accomplishing nothing while avoiding political risk will simply not be allowed.<\/p>\n [pullquote]We have no more patience with losing so that maybe we can win later. \u00a0You cured us of that with the tawdriness of the CR debacle.[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n If we don’t change or defeat you in this battle, then fine, it will be the next. \u00a0You screwed us on CR and tried to smooth it over by telling us that after all, we had the debt ceiling battle, and that was where we would really put the thumbscrews to big spending. \u00a0That’s the same way ObamaCare was passed, by the way. \u00a0Senator Snowe had a chance to prevent cloture on ObamaCare, which would have killed it dead, dead, dead, but she said not to worry, that we would certainly defeat it in a “fair” fight on the floor. \u00a0We have no more patience with losing so that maybe we can win later. \u00a0You cured us of that with the tawdriness of the CR debacle. \u00a0Victory-by-defeat is patent nonsense.<\/p>\n You have allowed the Marxist economic proclamations of the Obama administration to scare you because you wanted<\/em> to be convinced, and you now try to stampede Republicans into believing it. \u00a0Shame. \u00a0The date has moved three times, and even if it were exact, the fact is that there is roughly a trillion dollars floating in accounts which are simply not accounted for in deficit\/debt projections, because they are clawbacks, reconciliations of multi-year appropriations, or other successor merged\u00a0appropriation accounts. \u00a0 That is enough to float us for months, even in the complete absence of monthly accounted (real-time) revenue.<\/p>\n I will pause to express my gratitude for Speaker Boehner’s performance in some of the recent fight. \u00a0Things could be much worse, and I appreciate that fact in my bones. \u00a0However, in a fogged mirror of my attitude toward John McCain, great American, crap Republican, I am certainly able to maintain my gratitude for Boehner’s not-yet-surrendered stance right alongside a fiery focus on victory and not excuses.<\/p>\n We may not win this fight. \u00a0But we don’t believe the bullshit about the debt ceiling, and the real risks therein are certainly worth running compared to the existing hazard to our whole country. \u00a0If you had a testicle to share between all of the leadership, you would get out in front and defend this. \u00a0Maybe you can borrow one of Nancy Pelosi’s. \u00a0Say what you wish about that screeching harpy, but she has balls.<\/p>\n And that’s why we are in this mess, and why you are not enjoying the full support that we otherwise want to give you. \u00a0The democrats keep fooling you, and you do not seem to mind. \u00a0We do. \u00a0Greatly.<\/p>\n We will accept no substitute for victory. \u00a0Deliver or be replaced.<\/p>\n I do not like Speaker Boehner’s bill, although I thank him for much of what he has accomplished so far. \u00a0But we need not bother to fight and make gains if our effort is to be thrown away with lousy, worse-than-status-quo bills like the one currently under consideration. \u00a0Among its problems are several assumptions baked into it:<\/p>\n\n