From Boehner, some really creative bullshit

Otherworldly is probably more accurate, but I'll just say welcome to John Boehner's Orwellian world of GOPSpeak, as blithered on a conference call yesterday to his membership: "The president's threat to shut down the government if we implement his sequester is not a defensible position. The American people won't stand for it, and we're not going to be swayed by it."

One can almost hear the tee-heeing ruptures rippling from throughout RadicalLand to Boehner's ear. Good one, John, we are amused.

Of course it goes without blithering that no one believes it; not Boehner, not his rank-and-file membership, not even the base. But that's entirely OK, since GOP politics has been reduced to self-anacondizing maneuvers of slow party strangulation. 

This "strategy" is baffling only to those whose calenders extend beyond early November '14.  

However I think, for now, Boehner thinks he has dodged the '13 shutdown bullet. In hustling a temporary CR he can avert his membership's apocalyptic slaverings toward the debt ceiling, which--and this makes it the perfect promise to the average GOP Houser--is even dumber and more destructive than a shutdown.

Boehner's calendar does extend beyond November '14. For now, though, he's just trying to avert one colossally clusterfucked-up mistake at a time. And every little bit of Orwellian raw meat--such as "the president's threat to shut down the government"--helps him. Or at least it can't hurt him.

Comments

[Robert Lipscomb]

The corporatists are in charge of the GOP. The decision has already been made to cut a deal with Obama to get that $2 trillion. Now they are biding their time until they finally have to pick straws to see who tells the Tea Party that they are in charge of nothing.

So, Boehner is in the mode of the phillanderig married man telling his girlfriend, "I promise I will marry you; as soon as my wife gives a divorce; just after the kids leave home; and after ..."

[Peter G]

I disagree somewhat Robert. They wish they were in charge of the GOP. But they can hear the drums in the night. The nativists are restless.

[Robert Lipscomb]

Fair enough, PeterG, but the Golden Rule (them that's got the gold rules) is in force and has been with the GOP since the Civil War.

The $2 trillion in off-shore accounts is just part of the money story. And the private sector (albeit under-reported) of the economy is already growing gangbusters. (Did you know that the consensus forecast for the economy is 2% 3Q and 3% 4Q after 1.1% and 1.6% in 1/2Q?)

It's time to go make some real money. they can rent all the friends they need in DC for a fraction of that $2 trillion (times a 15-20 multiplier).

They didn't blink an eye in throwing the religious right under the bus and they shoved Romney down the Tea Party's throat.

They are already in full control.

[shsavage]

If Boehner does manage to pull a CR out of his caucus, you can pretty well bet the farm that it will be timed to expire on the same day that the debt ceiling is surpassed. Only an attempt to create maximum disruption and put maximum pressure on POTUS will suit the nihilists on the right.

[Jim Milstein]

". . . self-anacondizing maneuvers of slow party strangulation."

PM, are you by any chance alluding to the auto-erotic asphyxiation of the GOP?

If they gotta go, let them go out in a terrible swift climax.