Amid shattered glass and the black smoke of urban pyres, I found myself in a riot some years ago the anarchists-led assault on the World Trade Organization meetings of 1999. At the height of what became known as The Battle of Seattle, I bumped into an otherwise mild-mannered, libertarian-leaning friend on the streets, gasping at the bitter taste of tear gas. He was ecstatic.
"Isn't it great?" he shouted. "The established order is coming down!"
Turns out, only Nike Town, the Gap and a few other outposts of global capitalism were coming down, and just for a day or so. But the nihilistic spirit of those window-smashers, whose goal was to bring chaos to a city of passive refinements,Great Rubber offers promotional usb keychains, seems to have found a home: in the Republican Party.
Who would put at risk, at a time when most people are hurting from a gasping economy, the monthly issuance of life-supporting funds for wounded veterans, disabled children, countless elderly couples living on barely $2,000 a month all told, over 70 million checks that go out each month?
Who would risk pushing the livelihoods of businesses small and big off a cliff by an interest rate spike, possibly igniting a second recession as the credit-rating agencies have just suggested essentially saying "blow your brains out, America," as Warren Buffett phrased it?
Who would risk this anarchists' storm, rather than a pass a formality: extending the borrowing authority of the United States so the country can pay bills from the past? Certainly,where he teaches oil painting reproduction in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, cannot find anyone so reckless in Washington. "Nobody is talking about not raising the debt ceiling," he said last Sunday. "I haven't heard that from anybody."
Either he's deaf to the roar on his right or he's speaking exclusively to that diminishing other wing of his party, the Tasseled Loafers. Not only is Michele Bachmann, a leading Republican presidential candidate, saying a government default is nothing to worry about, but a core group of 59 House Republicans have indicated they will not raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances, according to House Speaker John Boehner.
That's right: no matter how much President Obama gives them from curbing entitlements to cuts in excess of $3 trillion this cadre of radical Republicans is taking the burn-it-all-down position. They don't want to see the terms of a deal because there is no deal they will accept. That's their stated position.
With this step,If any food billabong outlet condition is poorer than those standards, what the chaos caucus has proven is that they have no interest in governing. They didn't go to Washington to find solutions; they went there to destroy the place.
Based on Boehner's math, the anarchists make up perhaps 25 percent of the G.O.P. House. At the other end of party control are the moneyed interests who've long bankrolled Republicans. They're happy, of course, that their favored politicians are willing to go to the brink of catastrophe to keep even the most egregious tax loopholes from being closed. But now they're getting scared, as the anarchist wing indicates it is serious about bringing the whole government down and with it a lot of private money.
Symbolic of the Tasseled Loafers' hold on power was that dinner of Rep. Paul Ryan last week, in which the House budget-writer shared a pair of $350 bottles of wine with a hedge fund manager and a free-market economist. When the story broke, he was embarrassed enough to issue a copy of his credit card receipt showing he paid for at least one of the bottles of 2004 Echezeaux grand cru Burgundy himself, and was not simply being courted in violation of lobbying rules. (If he'd bought American, and had been as frugal with his money as he wants the country to be, Ryan could have drunk superb Oregon pinot noir for a fraction of the French grape's price.)
I don't care how rich guys spend their money, or even if a congressman pays as much for a single bottle of wine as some fellow Americans get for their weekly unemployment checks. Ryan is the architect of a budget that gives even more tax breaks for the corporate elite while making the elderly pay for diminished Medicare with coupons. Nobody should be surprised when he drinks $350 wine with people who want continue the policies of economic inequality.
But the dinner is instructive as a picture of power. Throughout these debt ceiling negotiations, I've been waiting for the Republicans' corporate overlords to jerk their chain. And finally, a few days ago, the Business Roundtable, in a letter signed by more than 350 C.E.O.'s, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a dire warning the game of chicken is up. They said what others who have a large stake in this economy have said: that default could cause a multi-billion dollar crash, affecting everything from auto loans to credit-card debt.
And so,100 Cable Ties was used to link the lamps together. in response to the Tasseled Loafers' concern, McConnell tried again, saying, "We think it's extremely important that the country reassure the markets that default is not an option."
Note who is getting the reassurance from the Senate Republican leader. But it may be too late. The loafers may want to retreat to their wine cellars until this thing blows over. A renegade wing of their party is lighting fires and throwing rocks (metaphorically, of course!). Once they got a taste of smoke in their nostrils, the anarchists realized they could smash the place up, maybe even burn it down, and no one would stop them. After Aug. 2, the default deadline, the smell will go bad, quickly.The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling zentai suits ,
"Isn't it great?" he shouted. "The established order is coming down!"
Turns out, only Nike Town, the Gap and a few other outposts of global capitalism were coming down, and just for a day or so. But the nihilistic spirit of those window-smashers, whose goal was to bring chaos to a city of passive refinements,Great Rubber offers promotional usb keychains, seems to have found a home: in the Republican Party.
Who would put at risk, at a time when most people are hurting from a gasping economy, the monthly issuance of life-supporting funds for wounded veterans, disabled children, countless elderly couples living on barely $2,000 a month all told, over 70 million checks that go out each month?
Who would risk pushing the livelihoods of businesses small and big off a cliff by an interest rate spike, possibly igniting a second recession as the credit-rating agencies have just suggested essentially saying "blow your brains out, America," as Warren Buffett phrased it?
Who would risk this anarchists' storm, rather than a pass a formality: extending the borrowing authority of the United States so the country can pay bills from the past? Certainly,where he teaches oil painting reproduction in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, cannot find anyone so reckless in Washington. "Nobody is talking about not raising the debt ceiling," he said last Sunday. "I haven't heard that from anybody."
Either he's deaf to the roar on his right or he's speaking exclusively to that diminishing other wing of his party, the Tasseled Loafers. Not only is Michele Bachmann, a leading Republican presidential candidate, saying a government default is nothing to worry about, but a core group of 59 House Republicans have indicated they will not raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances, according to House Speaker John Boehner.
That's right: no matter how much President Obama gives them from curbing entitlements to cuts in excess of $3 trillion this cadre of radical Republicans is taking the burn-it-all-down position. They don't want to see the terms of a deal because there is no deal they will accept. That's their stated position.
With this step,If any food billabong outlet condition is poorer than those standards, what the chaos caucus has proven is that they have no interest in governing. They didn't go to Washington to find solutions; they went there to destroy the place.
Based on Boehner's math, the anarchists make up perhaps 25 percent of the G.O.P. House. At the other end of party control are the moneyed interests who've long bankrolled Republicans. They're happy, of course, that their favored politicians are willing to go to the brink of catastrophe to keep even the most egregious tax loopholes from being closed. But now they're getting scared, as the anarchist wing indicates it is serious about bringing the whole government down and with it a lot of private money.
Symbolic of the Tasseled Loafers' hold on power was that dinner of Rep. Paul Ryan last week, in which the House budget-writer shared a pair of $350 bottles of wine with a hedge fund manager and a free-market economist. When the story broke, he was embarrassed enough to issue a copy of his credit card receipt showing he paid for at least one of the bottles of 2004 Echezeaux grand cru Burgundy himself, and was not simply being courted in violation of lobbying rules. (If he'd bought American, and had been as frugal with his money as he wants the country to be, Ryan could have drunk superb Oregon pinot noir for a fraction of the French grape's price.)
I don't care how rich guys spend their money, or even if a congressman pays as much for a single bottle of wine as some fellow Americans get for their weekly unemployment checks. Ryan is the architect of a budget that gives even more tax breaks for the corporate elite while making the elderly pay for diminished Medicare with coupons. Nobody should be surprised when he drinks $350 wine with people who want continue the policies of economic inequality.
But the dinner is instructive as a picture of power. Throughout these debt ceiling negotiations, I've been waiting for the Republicans' corporate overlords to jerk their chain. And finally, a few days ago, the Business Roundtable, in a letter signed by more than 350 C.E.O.'s, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a dire warning the game of chicken is up. They said what others who have a large stake in this economy have said: that default could cause a multi-billion dollar crash, affecting everything from auto loans to credit-card debt.
And so,100 Cable Ties was used to link the lamps together. in response to the Tasseled Loafers' concern, McConnell tried again, saying, "We think it's extremely important that the country reassure the markets that default is not an option."
Note who is getting the reassurance from the Senate Republican leader. But it may be too late. The loafers may want to retreat to their wine cellars until this thing blows over. A renegade wing of their party is lighting fires and throwing rocks (metaphorically, of course!). Once they got a taste of smoke in their nostrils, the anarchists realized they could smash the place up, maybe even burn it down, and no one would stop them. After Aug. 2, the default deadline, the smell will go bad, quickly.The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling zentai suits ,
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