Hey John Boehner my balls are dry again!

[Torakus]

It looks like October 14th or 15th the Tea Party will have to figure out a new way to screw America.

I just received an e-mail from my rep. George Miller describing what the House Democrats are currently doing. On October 4th they submitted a bill (H. Res 372) to the House Rules Committee to bring the Senate CR to the floor for a vote. On the 11th they intend (if the committee and Boehner take no action on the bill) to submit a discharge petition. There are 200 Democrats who will sign immediately, leaving only 17 Republican signatures required, which should not be a stretch considering 22 have publicly stated they support a clean CR and 4 more stating that they are trending yes. And none of it goes through the Speaker or Majority leader, apparently they cannot stop it. The earliest it can happen is Oct. 14th, but once a majority have signed the bill is discharged from committee for a floor vote. Once adopted the bill forces the debate on the clean CR from the Senate. Assuming those 22 - 26 Republicans stay on-board, the CR gets sent back to the Senate and the government is back in business, for a couple weeks.

Embar,

Ya I get them all the time as well. I was actually in private industry in San Diego, but went gov. and moved to the bay area. I am not looking in California though. With the boom on the Bakken I am looking to go support the raping of the environment up in Montana and the Dakotas. What can I say, I am always looking for reasons for people to hate me.

[Arathena]

The Russian Pirate Party has now offered to host NASA's website for free until the government re-opens.

Nice try, guys.

[Harlowe]

How is this not sedition?

I know Robert Reich feels it's almost a coup d'etat, but to me it seems more like sedition.

Suppose a relatively small group financed by a handful of billionaires (1) takes over state governments in order to redistrict, gerrymander, require voter IDs, purge voter rolls, and otherwise suppress the votes of the majority; (2) secretly bankrolls candidates for these safe seats who pledge to shrink and dismember the government; (3) then, once these candidates are elected, has them shut down the government in order to repeal or amend laws the plotters dislike; (4) then forces the nation to default on its debts and thereby throws the economy into a tailspin in order to get their way; and (5) runs a vast PR campaign to convince the American public of big lies about laws the plotters dislike or policies they seek. Would you call this an attempted coup d’etat? If not, what would you call it? And what would you do about it?

Like one of the responses said to Reich

SCOTUS and the Citizens United decision are the root cause of all you describe, Professor Reich. Unless and until we overturn the two ludicrous ideas that nebulous legal constructs (corporations) have rights equal to natural born human beings and that money is equal to (and in most cases superior to...) free speech, we are doomed!

I agree, without dealing with those shitty legal constructs, we're screwed.

[Arathena]

How is this not sedition?

I know Robert Reich feels it's almost a coup d'etat, but to me it seems more like sedition.

Suppose a relatively small group financed by a handful of billionaires (1) takes over state governments in order to redistrict, gerrymander, require voter IDs, purge voter rolls, and otherwise suppress the votes of the majority; (2) secretly bankrolls candidates for these safe seats who pledge to shrink and dismember the government; (3) then, once these candidates are elected, has them shut down the government in order to repeal or amend laws the plotters dislike; (4) then forces the nation to default on its debts and thereby throws the economy into a tailspin in order to get their way; and (5) runs a vast PR campaign to convince the American public of big lies about laws the plotters dislike or policies they seek. Would you call this an attempted coup d’etat? If not, what would you call it? And what would you do about it?

Like one of the responses said to Reich

SCOTUS and the Citizens United decision are the root cause of all you describe, Professor Reich. Unless and until we overturn the two ludicrous ideas that nebulous legal constructs (corporations) have rights equal to natural born human beings and that money is equal to (and in most cases superior to...) free speech, we are doomed!

I agree, without dealing with those shitty legal constructs, we're screwed.

The neo-confederates currently have too much political power to be prosecuted in the courts.

[Kulaf]