Sucker got me square in the face!

Jumping in here; I have to say that I don't think an increase in military spending is a partisan victory; there are plenty of hawkish Dems who support increased military buildup; HRC among the most prominent.

Odds are, either way the election went, the DoD was going to get a funding increase.

This is an issue where the Dems NEED to make a stand; we could afford Medicare for all or free college with a 10% cut to the DoD, afterall.

The Freedom Cock-us refuses to do anything unless they get the ball every 1, 2, 3, and 4 downs.

Now that's funny... Free-dumb Cock-us. *LOL* :)

Kick, LIz-
Neverless, I persist.

*LOL* Great answer.

Okay, Don... I totally forgot to place my ;) *wink* at the end of my lame attempt at teasing you for giving CW so much attitude about your "One Demand." In my defense, I am back on pain meds, but thanks for being a good sport about it.

I will try to cease trying to be funny, but I can't make any promises because... full disclosure/disclaimer... *meds* ! :)

Answer: "Third and Long" finger!

And just to clarify, I totally forgot to put my ;) or *wink*. That was meant to be a joke... and, yes, I already know I suck at jokes. :)

Lemme take a wild guess... the 49ers?

Sigh... as a die-hard fan keeps telling me, "it's a rebuilding year..."

Go Ravens!

:-)

Don Harris [16] -

Hold the mayo? Inquiring minds want to know...

-CW

Gimme a hint, at least. What sport was it?

:-)

dsws [4] -

OK, touché! Good point!

Heh. I actually heard a newscaster use the word "genuflect" about the football players today, too.

How about "pause for Republicans to fully prostrate themselves in front of their personal Reagan altar"? Better?

Heh.

Balthasar [6] -

OK, nice Fizzbin cite, there. Just had to say that.

But to me, the "game" is the current Congress. Halftime would either be November (election time, when it'll be halfway between House elections), or the end of this calendar year (since they don't get sworn in until Jan.).

But hey, it's all metaphorical, so you can move the goalpoasts (so to speak) at will!

:-)

altohone [10] -

Valid points, all, except that Obama kept all the Bush tax cuts except the ones at the very tippy-top. Even that was hard to get through Congress, as I recall. You're right about Dems being almost as bad, though, that's for sure...

ListenWhenYouHear [11] -

I thought about the scene from M*A*S*H (the movie, I believe, not the TV show) where they injected a guy on the other team with happy juice and he ran a touchdown in the wrong direction. Seemed to fit, with the way the GOP in Congress is behaving these days...

It's hard to count how many "own goals" (to borrow a soccer term) the Tea Party is now responsible for, in fact...

-CW

Despite the criticism, another ugly reality should be kept in mind.

Those who cross the establishment by goring their sacred cows face consequences.

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Republicans scored with the massive new military spending.
I say they did.
You say they did, but may have lost some unnamed player in a yet to be announced trade.
CW says they didn't.

My perspective is factual.

I'll give your perspective the same credit if you can substantiate your claim that Dems got something in return.
But until then, it sounds like wishful thinking, making excuses or just denial.
Horse trading usually occurs BEFORE the vote.

CW's perspective is just wrong.

A 13% increase in military spending is huge, it's all going to add to the deficit since no new revenue was included, it's contrary to the wishes and interests of the majority and Democratic voters particularly, and with most Dems supporting it they can't gain any political advantage from it, and the Dem supporting punditocracy seem to have all been off getting nachos or something.

The bipartisan support for militarism which exposes the lie behind the Dems supposed resistance to Trump is a sacred cow for the establishment.
Pundits ignoring that ugly reality are indeed doing the bidding of the establishment.

And it certainly doesn't help that the historical role the corporatist Dems played in cutting taxes on the rich is being swept under the rug as well.
Despite their new gimmicky motto, not only do their prior actions not match the current rhetoric, they also just gave away an extra $80 billion dollars worth of pennies per year too.

At some point, acknowledgement and criticism are necessary.

Do you personally support the massive increase in military spending?

Do you think it has been and will be spent wisely?

Are you happy that Dems helped Trump fulfill his campaign pledge?

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Make mine a double!

Or seeing the same games with different 'color' commentary. Just last week, the local football team lost, but the local sports press played it as a 'near win' and 'team improvement'. If I'm rooting for the other team, it's either a 'solid win' or a near loss.

Depends on perspective. You've been reading about some horsetrading on the budget, and say, "Look, they're giving something away". But someone else could look at that same deal and say, "Pelosi and Schumer are obviously cleverly trading something the GOP plans to pass anyway for something else that they want."

You don't really think the Democrats are going to fatten up the Pentagon without getting something in return, do you? Don't you know these people?

If there are topics you or Altohone want to see addressed, address them. Get your own blogs if you feel so srongly and do the slogging it takes to attract readers. CW puts out 5 columns a week -- hard work, unpaid. When you do that you write about what you want to write about, you don't take orders from readers.

It doesn't help that the Republicans have no idea how to work as a team to get anything accomplished -- most of them having spent the entirety of their careers focused on preventing their own quarterback from running a single play successfully! The Freedom Cock-us refuses to do anything unless they get the ball every 1, 2, 3, and 4 downs.

Everyone wants to be a running back; no one wants to work together and block to protect the QB.

Trump asked for an extra $46 billion for the military budget, and Senate Dems joined with Repubs to give him an extra $80 billion per year.

I don't understand how you can pretend like that didn't just happen.

Dems helped Trump fulfill a major campaign promise which will be nothing short of a massive legislative victory. It's a done deal.

And, for the record, for the last 30 years Dems have been supporting tax cuts for the rich... even Obama made the Bush tax cuts permanent... so the whole premise that Dems are good on this issue and the GOP bad is fantasy football.

We seem to be watching different games.

Also for the record, "unicorns and rainbows" is the exact same language the Hillary campaign used to describe Bernie's plan for free public college... which was an unattainable, unaffordable promise he couldn't possibly deliver on... and would only have cost about half as much as the new annual increase in the military budget... which Dems helped pass without any questions about how we could afford it.

Go team!

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Persistency and resilience will be rewarded here, I am sure of that.

The analogy requires one fizzbin-ish tweak however, and that is, if Trump wins in 2020, the clock is then reset back to the end of the half, and a new 'second half' would then be played with two two-year quarters.

To repeat a previous comment that is football related, why could Jason Pierre Paul count the number of times you have mentioned One Demand using just the index finger on his right hand?

Unnecessary Roughness!

Being that it's CW's stadium, he undeniably and without question should be the one to decide what plays are going to be called. Since he's already given a hint in the title -- and I will add that it doesn't matter whether the hand he chooses is right or left -- anyone here have a guess which finger CW is likely to use to count the number of times he's mentioned One Demand on his own turf?

No! No no no no no! Genuflecting is GOP-bad now. Bad bad bad bad bad bad. Only GOP-bad people genuflect now. GOP-good people don't even know the meaning of the word.

If we ever get a chance to meet up over a beer I'll tell you of my disastrous and HR-escalated time I once tried to use an American sports analogy in a presentation in NY to our sales department and then went on to expound on my other challenges with American sports analogies.