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Congress At Work: Reid On Boehner: "He's A Coward", Boehner Responds: "Bullshit"
If one wants to see what it looks like when the Federal Reserve has enabled the US government to become completely irrelevant in a world in which fiscal policy is completely meaningless and all that matters is how high the S&P500 is on any given day courtesy of trillions in monetary policy injections stimulating "confidence" and the wealth effect, then look no further than this article by Politico recapping the bad blood in Congress among the four feuding leaders.
First Reid:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid privately told fellow Democratic senators this week what he really thought of Speaker John Boehner.
“He’s a coward,” Reid angrily said, referring to Boehner’s private push for federal health care contributions for lawmakers and their staff. Boehner later backed legislation to end those subsidies in order to win points with House GOP conservatives. “He’s a coward!” Reid exclaimed.
Next Boehner:
Asked to respond to Reid’s remarks calling the speaker a “coward,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said: “We have to work together if we’re going to get anything done, and all this bullshit — the name-calling, leaking private emails — just makes it harder to do the work the American people sent us here to do.”
On the "hurt feelings" between the two:
"Some recent stories have even suggested the speaker’s keeping government shut because I hurt his feelings,” Reid told reporters Thursday. “If that’s true, I’m sorry that I hurt your feelings."
Then their aides:
Mike Sommers, Boehner’s chief of staff, described David Krone, Reid’s top aide, as “a snake” after Sommers’ emails were leaked detailing how the speaker secretly sought to protect federal contributions to staffers’ and lawmakers’ health insurance coverage. POLITICO reported the emails just as Boehner was pushing a House GOP bill to keep the government running in exchange for slashing those very same subsidies.
There is much more on the teenage girl convention in the full Politico article but the gist is beyond simple: just like the Fed hinted it will not taper because of a dysfunctional Congress (and was proven right), the Congress has been increasingly more dysfunctional because it knew the Fed would not Taper (and was proven right), and Mr. Chairman "could get to work."
Perhaps instead of the petty childish squabbels between the politicians which make for great primetime melodrama by partisan TV echo-chambers, the country could finally address the main issue at play: the more the Fed intervenes by centrally planning the US, and global, economy, the more irrelevant the stooges shown below become.
Or rather, the more irrelevant they are exposed as having been all along.
Because in a world of Dow Jones 36,000, who needs any fiscal policy?
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Now if they were calling each other treasonous scumbags, I might just agree with them.
Is it time for the guillotines yet?!
Infinite money enables infinite government. A government that has managed to give itself approval to print/borrow all the money it needs has no need to ask the voters for permission to do anything. The Governing Class views itself as separate from the remainder of the citizens and thinks its natural right to govern as above the ability of the little people to grasp let alone to stop.
Economist Milton Friedman once observed that the tax rate, nor the level of federal budget deficit does not matter because what counts in the end is what government spends. The only remaining throttle that remains in the hands of the little people is the ability of the House to origninate all spending bills. This is what this battle is about, and if the House caves in, the progressives have effectively secured the ability to fund any spending they want.
America's current version of "democracy" is deliberately designed to ensure that the very worst obtain and hold power. Just look at the Whore House for a classic example.
Instead of qualifying leadership and vision, democracy is an infantile popularity contest where slippery snakes and the most adept liars win the prize.
There are alternatives. MUCH better alternatives. But most Americans have been duped into believing they are racist and evil. Therefore they will continue to suffer and be screwed forever.
I'd like to see Boehner and McConnell go UFC on Pelosi and Reid.
Boehner on top of Reid just pounding his head with elbows - that would be fun to watch.
"Roid" Reid is melting down... I would love to see "Boner" throw that craven old fuck a SAVAGE beating... this is the clown that won by a few votes over the meltdown Engle... Christ!! By the looks of her, Polyp Pelosi has already taken several vicious beatings...
I think they should duel with thermonuclear weapons.
You know, just in case one of those idots missed the other idiot.
Harry would look much better with a strategically placed 30-06 lobotomy.
Fuck all four of them. To call them Stooges is to dishonor the name Stooge.
A picture of four clowns.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Henry Ford
Those 4 "leaders" are the best argument going for anarchy......
"Boehner is a pussy, Sir" think Sam Elliott to Mel Gibson in 'We were soldiers".
Boehner so pathically surrendered during the last debt ceiling; history says he will CAVE once more.
Hmm. somebody's switched to single malt...... but It's still a fucking bad joke on the citizens.
Do something, Drunky..the world is watching now.