re: #405 HappyWarrior

This is a party in disarray.

It may be a party in disarray, but unfortunately all this means that they’re going to be only more likely to take the debt ceiling hostage.

I wish that Obama and the Dems had gone for the gold and gotten a debt ceiling hike tied into the taxation bill, I think that the GOP would have folded, but if I was wrong that would have been kind of shitty. However, now we just have the debt ceiling fight all the fuck over again and they may be crazy and stupid enough to hostage take.

As someone pointed out yesterday, the redistricting that happened means most of the hardcore lunatics are sitting in safe places. Michelle Bachmann has been elected four times to congress despite being an obvious nutjob.

Much of the political work that needs to be done is at the state level. Things are not going to get better until the congressional redistricts are made less partisan.