Congress threatening to shutdown unless ACA is defunded/repealed immediately.

[ringthree]

Senate vote passed, House will take up the bill for debate at 3. Cruz saying right now that he won't filibuster, going on about how this bill is bad because it does nothing to help the millions suffering under the savage yoke of Obamacare.

I hate that. I just hate it. I mean, come on, Obamacare isn't that great and it doesn't even go that far. Like 85% of people are pretty much completely unaffected by it. If you want to say it's annoying and the roll out sucked, then sure have a field day, but treating everything like the end of days (quite literally) just gets old. Cruz is doneskis, I would be surprised if he gets reelected. The Houston Chronicle came out today and basically "unendorced" him and said he needs to learn from Kay Hutchinson.

The Tea Party movement is kinda like that night in college where you got perfectly drunk for a while, and were on the top of the world, and then someone was like dude, Tequila shots! And you were like fuck yeah, son, and then the next morning you wake up on your front lawn.

[ringthree]

Another real question is "Did Mitch McConnell just save his job or lose it?"

[ringthree]

I can't tell you how many calls I get from people screaming about how we've gotten away from the Constitution, Obama is a tyrant, the Affordable Care Act is awful, etc etc, and the first time I ask them to explain why they think or give an example they yell at me and hang up.

People calling for impeachment are the best. They have no idea it has to deal with real provable crimes. They think its like a recall election or something.

[ronin sparthos]

I can't tell you how many calls I get from people screaming about how we've gotten away from the Constitution, Obama is a tyrant, the Affordable Care Act is awful, etc etc, and the first time I ask them to explain why they think or give an example they yell at me and hang up.

Woah, backing my shit up with facts isn't American. You are American, aren't you?

[octopus]

Senate vote passed, House will take up the bill for debate at 3. Cruz saying right now that he won't filibuster, going on about how this bill is bad because it does nothing to help the millions suffering under the savage yoke of Obamacare.

I don't think the Senate actually passed it yet, has it? Just that a deal with both parties has been reached and it will be up for vote later.

[Niiro]

I disagree. /shrug It's an appeal to populism.

If I want "reasonable Republican" I will go back to watching Morning Joe.

Don't want to keep going off topic about Ratigan himself but you should read some stuff about him, because the impression you're getting from that video is way off.

[Gokku]

I got another special Olympics white person frothing at the mouth on Facebook

[ringthree]

I got another special Olympics white person frothing at the mouth on Facebook

POIDH.

[archibaldcrane]

I got another special Olympics white person frothing at the mouth on Facebook

Reply with this:

[Qalbert]

[Headspace]

GOP to start Josh Freeman at Speaker this weekend.

[Callisto]

Another real question is "Did Mitch McConnell just save his job or lose it?"

I can't imagine things will be any different for him, Senate GOP seems much tamer and I don't think there's enough Tea Partiers to really execute some sort of coup like in the House.

[ringthree]

I can't imagine things will be any different for him, Senate GOP seems much tamer and I don't think there's enough Tea Partiers to really execute some sort of coup like in the House.

I was specifically referring to his Senate seat. He has competition from both the right and the left in 2014.

[Callisto]

Ah...it looks like his primary opponent is running on a 'McConnell isn't conservative enough' platform so it's a definite possibility since he committed the grave sin of compromise.

[Churchill]

you're really trying to let us know who you work for lol

[Churchill]

He looks like a guy who has killed a lot of hookers.

Do you carry heavy "rugs" from odd places late at night for him?

[Guyverarmor]

He does look like he would choke a bitch, not gonna lie.

[ringthree]

It's Charlie Rangel, just so no one thinks I'm being obtuse.

Rangel, that's pretty cool.

Were you working for him during the scandal/ethics probe?

[Xno Kappa]

Have you blown him yet?

[Cantih]

The bill passed the house, shutdown's over.

Now the fallout

87 Repubs voted Yes, 144 Repubs voted No, 197 Dems voted yes 0 Dems voted no.

That's about three times more GOP votes to end this than I expected. But it does look like the middle of the party has gone to the tea side.
The question is, is 90 large enough to halt a full blown GOP internal witch hunt?
If only 30, yeah, those reps would have had bounties on them for sure. If it had been 130 to end it, the tea side would have weaker ground to stand on. But how it is, I just don't know.