Cartoon: GOP on how to solve the crisis

politico: They've made a bad bill worse

Afterwards Boehner decried the reduction of tax cuts.

From John Cole

If you are losing badly the worst thing you can do is go all in on one last gasp, one final spin of the wheel. It is a sign of desperation, of gambling it all on one last throw of the dice in a hope for the big win.

These people are not just crazy, they are dangerous. Their economic models and theories have all proven worthless, as bankrupt as the system they ravaged in the name of corporate profits and pay, and now they are stumbing around, zombie-like, moaning taaaxxxxx cutttsssss… taaaxxxxx cutttsssss…

I was joking with our daughter about how stupid these wingnuts are. She made the usual observation that it seems like everything they do is exactly the opposite of whatever the Democrats do. If the Democrats are for it then they are against it. Musing, I wondered what would happen if the Democrats decided to sponsor a bill that outlaws the specific act of putting a bullet in your head. Do you think that the wingnuts would start arguing that everyone has the right to put a bullet in their head if they want to?

I would pay anything to see their protests. I could imagine the (crossed out:casualties) martyrs lying everywhere, dying for their cause. I would hope that it would be on pay-per-view.