Thursday, October 17, 2013

Travis Gettys — Emerging right-wing theme: Obama planned shutdown with Valerie Jarrett as trap for Republicans (via Raw Story )

Emerging right-wing theme: Obama planned shutdown with Valerie Jarrett as trap for Republicans (via Raw Story )
Less than a month after engineering a deeply unpopular government shutdown in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to derail the Affordable Care Act, Republicans are already trying to shift the blame. Various right-wing media outlets are picking up the…


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

“Valerie also came with the idea of using the words ‘hostage’, and ‘ransom’ and ‘terrorists’ against the Republicans,” Klein said.

What boneheads. If they could actually read, they would know that these terms were used all over the internets quite spontaneously. You think people don't know they are being held up unless Valerie Jarrett tells them?

For all their whining about freedom, liberty and self-reliance, the Tea Party has an amazingly difficult time with the concept of "responsibility for one's own actions." From the start, they have emitted a bunch of laughable attempts to shift blame, starting with the side-splitting routine, "Why did Obama close down the parks I just voted to close?" Now it's "Valerie Jarrett tricked me into the dumb shutdown."

As I have been saying for a few years now, the Tea Party is the biggest collection of spoiled, narcissistic titty babies American society has ever germinated. They are a bunch of tantrum-throwing Peter Pans who never made the successful transition to the world of adult responsibility, and have been crying to their mommies about their lost "freedom" since 2008.