They were called "purity trolls" or something.

Now you can just call them "right".

on the horizon.

book. They never pushed back the way a dem would and when you give the impression you are a pushover, you can't complain about tire treads on your face.

Most of it centered around huge paychecks on the other side of the revolving door.

politics. Of course, the focus for Obama and team is to clearly provide information about Obama's previous negotiations and even hint they "gave away the store" as a way to refute their idiotic claim he's not willing to negotiate.

At least now they seem to get it

That the Right was allowed far too much play since 2008...and somehow that didn't happen now?

Actually, in retrospect that may be an admission- if it was considered mission accomplished, the "compromising" with the GOP would be trumpeted from the highest towers.

a lot of things you might normally not do.

In any case this is the perfect time for no accommodation and no face saving.

Make them eat crow.

You never get rid of the Dane.

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_danegeld.htm

I've known some Danes and I'd rather have them around than most Republicans I know. Just sayin.

Funny how some people believe Boner when it fits their needs.

NO "probably" about it.

More like - Definitely.
Absolutely. (And its sister-term: Abso-fuckin'-lutely.)
Positively.
Utterly.
Incontrovertibly.
Undeniably.
Totally.
Completely.
Categorically.
Precisely.
Exactly.
Unquestionably.
Conclusively.
Decidedly.
Really.
Truly.
Entirely.
Unconditionally.
Solidly.
Undoubtedly.
Easily.
And then some...
http://thesaurus.com/browse/absolutely

AGAIN?!?!? You'd think somebody would get a clue.

They get to be the cassandra over and over again.

To pre bush rates

Idjits.

In a sense, this particular shutdown is entirely the fault of the Obama administration, in that they always caved before, and thereby taught the pukes that they always would.

I am proud and heartened by the fact that Democrats and the White House are standing strong today, but it would have been far better if they did it 4 years ago.

Remember, we'd had the 2010 elections where the repubs picked up seats and Obama was facing re-election. I think he did what he had to do, if he'd fought the repubs in 2011, they would have drawn it out so far, that it would have damaged Obama and hurt is re-election chances. He got reelected and now he is a strong position because no matter what, this is his last term in office.