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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 05:56 PM Mar 2013

Dance, Monkey, Dance


Found on the Obamadiary

Charles Pierce: So Sequestration Day is here …. And it seems that the House Republicans are dancing in the streets of Pottersville…..

…. The country’s going to hell, but the Republicans now have a fully functioning marionette in the Speaker’s chair. They want him to be a vandal. He’s a vandal. They want him to be butch. He’ll be butch. If they told him to sprawl across a sofa in the Rotunda dressed as Scarlett O’Hara, well, who the hell knows? Maybe he’s got the legs for it. At least he can sleep with both eyes closed for a while.

Full post here: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/john-boehners-sequestration-030113
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