If Angle and McDonald are Middle Earth Hobbits, John McCain is a surley pigheaded Dwarf (and not the funny one). 

Crazy cousin John is right on this. Obama has pretty much every media outlet except Fox and the WSJ to spin for him. We will get the blame. Sorry.

I don’t know about that, Dave. You heard the grumbles from the White House press corps yesterday — they’re getting sick of this ridiculous kabuki dance, too.

And people believe Palin was the reason he lost.

Why? Because a bunch of worthless hired backstabbers on Maverick’s staff went out and badmouthed Palin to any reporter who would listen.

The Senator is the Buddha of Backstabbing.

With apologies to actual buddhists.

They say things come in threes. The first time I agree with John McCain was when he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. I wonder what the third time will be.

McCain took Soros money. That’s close enough for me…

Look, TPT: These Tea Party-backed House members ran campaigns, during which they made promises to the people who voted for them. I’m not going to badmouth them for voting the way they promised they’d vote. That’s what we call “democracy.”

If Nancy Pelosi can’t deliver a few dozen Democrat votes to support a “bipartisan compromise” deal, that’s Nancy’s problem.

But for that backstabbing bastard John McCain to throw these House Republicans under the bus . . .?

FUCK HIM!

We (all of us, including RSM) are either players or pawns.

We can’t have it both ways, although it might seem tempting to cop different attitudes or stances for purposes of convenience and trying to make ourselves feel better about our situation and the circumstances in which we  live.

We can’t control the outer environment, and if it completely crashes and burns, then that’s what happens. Cataclysms of all types have happened before and it would pretty naive to think that there’s not more on the way, whether economic, social, or physical.

There’s no way of controlling that. That would be the domain of Almighty, Intelligence, Nature, or That, give it whatever name that suits your fancy. 

But that’s not say we’re all mere pawns in the evolving game.

We can be players too, if we want to, and all it takes is a simple choice. And that choice is simply to recognize our own freedom in the moment, in every here-and-now, to simply relax in the ease of our being and let things be AS THEY ARE.

That’s not to say we don’t act in whatever way we are sincerely inspired to act to do this, that, or the other thing, either for our own benefit or for the benefit of all, according to what lights up our life….

It simply means that in each and every here-and-now we instinctively recognize an intelligence, an awareness, greater than our own paltry, limited, totally biased and conditioned, egoic sense of self, and simply rest AS that. 

It may take a little faith in the beginning, but once the ball gets rolling, so to speak, there ain’t no stoppin’ us now, as the saying and the song goes. 

–If they solve the debt crisis, they solve the debt crisis. If they don’t, they don’t. 

–If the Big One hits southern California, then the Big One hits southern California.

–If the whole society and environment goes belly up, then that’s what happens.

And it won’t be pretty, of that there’s not too much debate.

But having taken charge of your own consciousness, your own mind, no matter what appears in it, you will be fundamentally OK, no matter what happens. Even if you die in the process.

Are you a mere pawn or are you a real player?

Or don’t you think you have any control over that, then I guess your only choice is to HOPE that God or some white knight from some fairy fantasy land will come along and save you somehow and make things right somehow.

Well good luck with that plan of action. Cause that one, I think it’s fairly safe to say, just ain’t about to happen.

Really, at this point I almost think the best thing to do would be to pass something that raised the debt ceiling enough to get by until January 2013 at current (I know, insanely high) spending levels and did nothing else. It’s clear neither Obama nor 20-ish senate Dems and 60-ish house Dems (i.e. enough to override Obama’s veto) will vote for anything that would address the long-term spending issues, so that pretty much has to be kicked down the road till the next congress (and with any luck, the next President).

Anything more comprehensive at this point is going to be crazy last-minute stuff that we won’t know what’s really in it until after it passes, and won’t actually be binding beyond this year anyway.

Fuck John McCain.

“get the word out to them?”  Sorry, but that’s the reason we’re in this mess.  It is time to stop spending, not try to explain why it isn’t.

Translation: It must be an excellent comment, too bad it’s too long for my bird brain. Birds get distracted so easy, they forget, fly away. Best to feed them crumbs, they tend to ignore baguettes. )

They went out and backstabbed EVERYONE who questioned John McCain as GOP nominee.  That was my experience, after reading weeks of psychotic accusations from the McCain campers last election.  Directed at me.  Unfortunately, some among today’s Palin supporters learned their lessons from the McCain campaigners and are doing exactly the same thing.   After all this, I determined I’d continue to vote per my individual conscience as a Republican, even when it goes against the maniacs among both sides of the coin.

Angela, do you think we’re going to just abruptly stop all spending, just like that, with a Democrat Senate and President? That’s not going to happen.

Can we get a non-corrupt tea party guy to replace him?  It would be awesome to have another Mike Lee or Rand Paul take his spot.

Well you’re not too far off, maybe as much as two-thirds of them are, only they’re not all Republicans. I guess that’s my problem with all this, I’m not an idealist, or an ideologist. I don’t see adhering to the constitution as an ideology, I just see it as sticking to the contract that is our basic founding documents. The more it is adhered to, the better off we are. But ideology? No, small, limited government and liberty is just common sense. I leave ideology to the utopians.

Good Policy is supposed to be good politics.

Funny, I never heard that from a leftie when John McCain was running for President.  He was too old, crippled, married to a (gasp!) beer heiress, had no executive experience, and on and on and on.   The war hero side was dissed, including lefties laughing about his torture. 

How do I know this?  I supported McCain in 2008.  Doubly so after he selected Sarah Palin.  I had lots of arguments with lefties who were in love with Obama.  “McSame” was a common jeer, as lefties felt he was just Bush reincarnate.

(Which makes the “They said if I voted for McCain, things wouldn’t change….and they were right!” joke all that more ironic!)

Now, he’s saying things that you like, and you want to respect him?  Please.  I was born at night, but not last night.  That you support him now is easily sufficient evidence to convince me he’s a mindless twit, and that I really I had actually voted for Sarah Palin, not John McCain.

Fuck John McCain.  And fuck you, you sanctimonious, sneering, leftie troll.  Go check up on Anthony Weiner’s rehab — maybe he really is free of his peculiar issues.

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Well now there’s a poll, and I don’t know who it’s by or how accurate it is, I just now heard it on Fox News. What it says is the GOP is being blamed for this mess more than Democrats by a THREE-TO-ONE margin?

But naw, to hell with it, you all are right-even if we lose the people and Obama gets re-elected, with more Democrats in both houses, we lose our chance to regain the Senate and also lose the House in the bargain, what does that matter.  we should do “the right thing”. After all, we have our principles.

Too long; Didn’t read. 

Benedict Arnold started out as an American war hero too.