This gimmick – passing a defunding measure for ObamaCare that is not linked to the proposed continuing resolution – is not only a hollow gesture, but one that is so hollow that it is insulting. It’s like the Republican establishment’s equivalent of Obama’s “red line”.
Boehner, Cantor and the other so-called pragmatists apparently believe that we are all bound to honor this national suicide pact, enacted by a previous Congress in the teeth of public opposition, and now so unpopular that major union organizations, as well as hundreds of businesses, both large and small, are attacking it.
I think it was Jonah Goldberg who first referred to the French as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”. Boehner and Cantor seem to have adopted this epithet as their emblem.
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Jonah lifted "cheese eating surrender monkeys" from a Simpsons episode. Groundskeeper Willie was filling in teaching French due to a teacher's strike.
ReplyDeleteThe entire line was "Bonjouuuuuuur, ye cheese eating surrrrrrendurrrr monkeys!"
It was a lot funner when he said than when I typed it, though.
Boehner likes Obamacare, Amnesty, Raising the Debt Limit, War with Syria. It's hard to tell him apart from Obama. He looks very much to be a government for government's sake man.
ReplyDeleteSteve: Thanks for the original sourcing.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the backside of Speaker Orangeface McButtbuddy.
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