Maybe I should register SavingSpeakerRyan.us eh?? :D

Michale

In all seriousness, try to see things from MY perspective..

On July 15, 1976, twenty-six children and their bus driver were kidnapped in Chowchilla, California, by armed men who blocked the highway around 4:00 PM. The students, who were attending Dairyland Elementary School for summer school, were being dropped off on their way back from a field trip at the Chowchilla fairgrounds' swimming pool. The kidnappers hid the bus in a drainage slough and drove the children and bus driver around in two vans for 11 hours, eventually taking them to a quarry in Livermore, California. There, the kidnappers imprisoned the victims inside a buried moving van with a small amount of food and water, and a number of mattresses.

*THAT* is "hostage taking"....

Is it really necessary to compare simple partisan opposition to THAT!??

I mean, The GODWIN Principle is a very sound a valid principle for a reason..

Surely, comparing abhorrent and heinous acts like terrorism and hostage-taking to simple Partisan Opposition is, at the VERY least, Godwin-esque...

I'm just sayin'....

Michale

You are so FN right about that! The funny thing is, those period Koch soaking miners weren't all that profane by modern US standards. If the writers had used authentic speech, the characters would have, according to the studio, "sounded like Yosemite Sam." The audience would have laughed their Howard Johnsons' off. The script had to be translated to get the right impact....into something like a dialect of Army Creole. I have a hankering for bourbon now.....and I don't even like bourbon.

Oh, break a leg, as those theatrical "cats" say.

Think I can get paid?? :D

Well done! [applause]

Thank you VERY much.. :D

I would like to thank all the little people I stepped on, on my way to the top... :D

Michale

[ignoring your intro blather...]

OK, "Saving Speaker Ryan" is pretty damn funny! I think you're onto something -- I bet this line gets used in headlines all over the place the first time he stumbles.

Well done! [applause]

:-)

TheStig -

I'm amazed you were able to write that entire comment without using profanity. I loved Deadwood, but man, the language is such that you start to think certain words are commonplace. After binge-watching, it'd be hard not to call certain people... no, wait, I've gone too far...

Heh.

-CW

My first thought was: I did not see this coming!

My second was: Congress can actually keep a secret!!

Which segued into my third: The political fallout resulting from the 95-96 gov. shutdown has not been completely forgotten.

That was enough mental closure to allow me to sleep on the news.

This AM, have confirmed the basic narrative from multiple news sources, I have a few questions.

Did Ryan really not know about this, or was it a secret codicil to the "more time for family" prenupt that allowed Ryan to accept the apparently thankless task of being Speaker?

Could this deal be an attempt by the Republican Establishment to reign in, or even purge, the Tea Party Wing? Resistance is not useless?

Or, is it just the usual game of Congressional Chicken, played out more discretely than usual?

So, when Democrats and Obama are not allowing the Defense spending authorization legislation to pass, they are taking "hostages" too, right??

No??

Didna think so.. :^/

It's only criminal if the GOP opposes and holds up legislation that Democrats want...

For Democrats to hold up and delay defense spending to push their unpopular agenda, it's perfectly acceptable..

Gotcha {{wink, wink}}

Michale

{{sssiiiighhhhhh}}

Most of the inside-the-Beltway punditocracy focused on the "this process stinks" quote, and many didn't even bother to provide the rest of what Ryan had to say. This is because the punditocracy loves the shiny, shiny object of "conflict" (which they report on to the exclusion of all else at times).

Let's face the facts..

The punditocracy only loves the "shiny shiny object of conflict" of the opposing Party..

Republican pundits love the conflict of the Democrat Party and ignores the conflict within their own Party...

And versie vicie...

Ryan's not going to come out and publicly admit it, but he knows that the deal Boehner just struck could mean the difference between a short and disastrous term as speaker and a longer and more successful term for Speaker Ryan.

SAVING SPEAKER RYAN?? :D

Michale