What the grownups in congress do on a Tuesday night.

[sad sally]

Tuesday evening DC was buzzing that Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy played a short clip from the Ben Affleck film The Town to try to rally support for Boehner's widely-- bipartisanly-- panned debt plan. Watch it... it's a prelude to the characters donning hockey masks bludgeoning two men with hockey sticks and then shooting one. That's the Republican austerity plan they're trying to shove down the nation's throat while holding the full faith and credit of the U.S. government-- and the economy itself-- hostage.

But Boehner limped back to his office to cut more out of Medicare benefits-- I guess that's what they meant by hurting someone... it was granny-- after dozens of Republicans, fearful of the huffing and puffing Tea Party coalition that runs the show over there now, said they wouldn't vote for it. Short of abolishing Medicare, Social Security and the whole social safety net, extremist sociopaths like Bachmann and Broun are never going to vote for anything that solves any problems. But it's just a matter of how many more Republicans can be cajoled into voting for something by taking away a few billion from society's most vulnerable here and a few billion there.

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By the way, when told Cantor and McCarthy had shown his film to get the teabaggers whipped up into a frenzy, Ben Affleck suggested the rightists use a more appropriate film next time they have to whip votes to benefit their wealthy patrons. "If they're going to be watching movies, I think "The Company Men" is more appropriate," said Affleck, referring to a tragic movie that focuses on the plight of middle age men who have been laid off during the recession.

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