The Republicans seem to have forgotten just how much of the candy store Obama has already given away. He faces revolts within his own party if he gives an inch more on the draconian plans the right wants such as ending Social Security and Medicare. If you don't believe me, you haven't been paying any attention to their party platforms which say quite clearly they want to do just that. And why would Obama negotiate at all when everyday, the GOP poll numbers fall further and further. I've got bad news for the Tea Party and other right wing loons out there, WE DON'T WANT TO NEGOTIATE ANYMORE. If you really want to deal, then cave on raising taxes on the rich and corporations because until that becomes part of the plan, NO DEAL. That's how negotiations work assholes. You have to give and take, not just take, take, take. That's why you're a terrorist group right now.
Mind you, the democrats, as always, have found a novel new way to screw up any victory. So far, their Healthcare.gov website has been a glitch ridden mess that is not just solely the GOP's to blame for. You had four years and over half a billion dollars to get it right and instead, the US citizens get a website designed by someone like me. Where did that all money go because it certainly didn't go for testing or pseudo-rollouts, because if you had, the fucking thing would work? The Tea Party says government doesn't work and then you have tenacity to actually prove their point? Unbelievable.
Here's what should happen: Make no negotiations until the debt ceiling is raised until past 2014 and the government re-opened. Then, delay implication of Obamacare for one year, mainly to fix the fucking web site you guys royally screwed up on. This crap is inexcusable people. Get the bugs out and have it up and running already. If this drags on for months, which there is no reason for it to unless you really want to demonstrate rank incompetence on a global level, then this will be all the ammunition the right will need to gain back all the loses they have suffered these past few weeks. Talk about giant boobery all around in Washington.
No one is looking good here, except perhaps Democrat Congresspeople who are suffering the least amount of shrapnel from this self made Armageddon we have manufactured. The longer this goes on, the better they look. As Obama can't get elected again anyway, his poll numbers mean little in the long run. But if this website for health care doesn't get anyone to sign up, the whole process is doomed anyway. Republican governors are doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't work, they don't help from you Mr. President and the bargain basement idiots you hired to design the site. Where did you find them, Craigslist?
The funny part about all of this is that business leaders are having second thoughts about funding right wing candidates that are tanking the economy, and their portfolio in the process. Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein was at the White House yesterday talking with Obama about the current government shutdown and what it means to the stock market. Blankfein talked with reporters afterward about how disappointed he was with the House Republicans, suggesting his money, and others in the banking industry, may turn to the democrats next election, a huge shift in money and policy that could be a death blow for the right. If they start losing everyone but the Koch brothers and a few other die hard billionaires, the playing field may be much more even next election as money flows to the left instead, especially if they feel the right is no longer business friendly.
Here's what the top bankers gave to candidates in the last election:
Goldman Sachs: 105 current House Republicans have received a total of $856,000 from the Goldman Sachs Group’s political action committee. Additionally, company CEO Blankfein gave at least $5,000 to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) leadership PAC.
Morgan Stanley: 53 current House Republicans have received a total of more than $317,000 from the Morgan Stanley political action committee.
Fifth Third Bancorp: 37 current House Republicans have received a total of more than $100,000 from the Fifth Third Bancorp political action committee. CEO Isaac has also given at least $1,000 to Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), $6,800 to Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), and $11,000 to Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) leadership PAC.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: 39 current House Republicans have received a total of more than $103,675 from the U.S. Chamber PAC. The Chamber also made more than $1.4 million in combined independent expenditures attacking Democrats running against Reps. Chris Collins (R-NY), Rodney Davis (R-IL), and Jeff Denham (R-CA).
That adds up to $2.5 million in contributions, money that the right may not see as every one of the above groups has expressed disgust over the debt ceiling crisis and how it is being handled by the right. That's a lot of money to piss away to cowtow to the Tea Party and their extremist ways. They are the American Taliban, a religious, unreasonable group that is bent on world destruction. I dare you to say differently.
Nobody is coming away from this unscathed. The stock market went up today under the mere idea a deal could happen, but I think this is a dead cat bounce, and stocks will plummet again tomorrow as any deal is still miles apart. Obama better not give in like he has in the past and act like JFK during the Cuba Missile Crisis. He told Khrushchev he was willing to end the world if the Russians crossed a red line and sent missles into Cuba. Obama better mean it this time or he will be fodder for the greedy right wingers who want it all, even if the Amercan people don't. Do. Not. Blink. First.
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