I smell blood in the water. (A forced Senate vote on the Ryan Budget is a-coming!)

Finally the Senate and Harry Reid is going to force a vote on Ryan's budget. I only wish they had done it sooner before some of the republican idiots had a chance to think about it and change their vote to no.

Regardless...the Republicans have a choice: vote yes and get eaten alive by the Democrats. Vote no and get cannibalized by the Tea Party. Either way, I personally want to make a big bowl of popcorn and sit back and watch the show. Either way...I smell blood in the water and I like it.

Munch munch munch.

(edited for some really really poor grammar!)

Sorry, I just don't trust Harry any more to do either the right thing, or the aggressive thing. Forcing a vote on this is both of those.

I don't dispute that. I just don't believe Reid has the biting political instinct to actually go through with forcing them to vote.

This was a no brainer. Now hopefully they use it effectively.

But...the sooner they vote, the sooner the Tea Party has a chance to put up candidates against the people who vote against it. If they are busy infighting they might be too busy to be bugging the Democratic candidate. :0) many ways to win in this situation.

Republican leadership already stated they want concessions on these ideas to raise the ceiling meaning they apparently want the beating to continue all summer long.

with cuts. It is like saying, "Sleep on the ground and eat garbage til we find a tax cut for the rich and a cut to the poor to pay for help."

They went ahead and used the Joplin disaster as a way to provide another gift to Big Oil by taking $1.5 billion away from loans to develop fuel efficient vehicles.

http://www.examiner.com/economic-policy-in-national/cantor-holds-disaster-relief-hostage-political-maneuver-to-kill-green-energy

but, dang...every republican voted for it...they can all be hurt by it!

Even the ones who manage to keep their seats, i'll bet, are going to lose a LOT of votes.

Vote for the Ryan budget you are in favor of insurance vouchers which for those I have spoken too is clear even among the low information voters. Repukes who vote against the Ryan budget create the possibility of a tea party candidate in their next election and alienate the most radical idiot vote in their State.

I think the timing is about right.

They seem incapable of capitalizing on these blunders by the Republicans. They don't seem able to press the advantage.

It's just a bit frustrating to hear news like this:

"http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/25/978910/-Hoyer:-Medicare-cuts-are-on-the-debt-limit-negotiating-table?via=blog_1">Hoyer: Medicare cuts are on the debt limit negotiating table"

Sometimes, it seems like the Democrats don't want to be in charge.

They (Dems) don't want to do any of the actual hard work.

They want to sit around and wait for the Republicans to screw up themselves. But even when that happens (as in this case), they just want to go "O.K. so they did this. Now let's move on."

Unless they are willing to run ad after ad after ad that says point blank "Republicans voted to abolish medicare", and not get scared or not apologize when people in the media accuse them of being mean or not entirely accurate, then none of it will mean anything.

And also instead of seeing how unpopular this vote was for Republicans, and how succesful opposing it was for Dems and just deciding "We've got to dig in even harder on proetcting medicare!", what they'll do is go "Well we'll still keep medicare on the table for negotiating, only we'll be less bad about it than Republicans."

Would they still get eaten by the teabaggers?