re: #169 dog philosopher

i don’t want to end up reading something in the history books about america in the year 2013 that resembles the descriptions of how the austria, germany, russia, france, and england all felt compelled to start WWI because they didn’t know what else to do

That’s how it’s starting to feel. The GOP came into this without a contingency plan. They had no plan beyond making a ridiculous demand. No fallback plan, no agreed-upon list of what they absolutely need in order to acquiesce. It’s just like Stutzman said - they don’t even know what they need to get out of it in order to not kill the hostage.

They’re making this up on the fly, and they don’t know what they’re doing.