re: #538 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That base is fruit loops crazy, and the party leadership needs to wake up and take over the damned asylum.

They can’t “take over the damned asylum” because right now they couldn’t recruit enough people to do the job. That’s why someone like Ted Cruz is needed as leader: The party’s supporters need to know that their leader isn’t someone who is going to roll over and play footsie with the Democrats. Republicans need someone who will force the Dems to go their voters and explain why they had to a bad deal as opposed to no deal at all, someone who will hold the line of spending and will work hard to make sure Democrats take the blame for any resulting government shutdown and won’t roll over and give away the store when the pressure gets too high.

And if that sounds like something Mark Levine or Dennis Prager would say, that’s because that’s what the those men have made clear as being what their listeners want.
If you need to downding that, feel free to do so. But I’m not trying to piss folks here off, what I’m trying to say is that for Republicans to confirm a Obama appointee to the Supreme Court this year would be an utter disaster for the party. So they aren’t going to do it.

What the rest of America decides to do about that is what they decide to do. Sometimes loyalty needs to be blind to its consequences.

That’s all for now. BBT