Timothy Birdnow

McCarthy thanks our mugger.

Let me give a good analogy about McCarthy's debt ceiling deal.

Many, many years ago I got mugged. I had been out (drinking beer, I might add) and went to a gas station. I had to go to the bathroom (I had been at a bar after all) and went to where this gas station had had the bathrooms (on the side of the building). I turned to find a large, muscular man blocking my way - and holding up a knife.

Now I was young and stupid and mad as a wet hen. I had to think about my situation; I was facing a larger opponent, nowhere to run, and he was armed with a deadly weapon. He knew what I was thinking and just stood there with the knife plainly visible. (A real pro.) Then he told me to open my wallet.

I did. I had sixty bucks inside.

He didn't take it all; he took forty and left me twenty. He let me keep my wallet.

And at the time I was grateful. I was grateful for his benevolence in not robbing me of everything - including my life.

I was also enraged but understood it could have been worse.

But that was the immediate reaction. Later I was furious at the sheer gall of this vile man to take that which was not his and threaten to KILL me if I didn't hand over a few measly dollars!

The fact is he was entitled to none of my money. Not one red cent. I was the victim of a crime.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly what occurred with the whole debt-ceiling fiasco. We were victims of a crime. But Kevin McCarthy, too chicken to resist, took a deal that left him with one twenty dollar bill. Biden walked away with the rest, money he had no right to in the first place.

The thing is, McCarthy was not in peril of his life. All he feared was some political backlash.

I would say he sold us out. He got a few meager crumbs, scraps fed to a dog under the table.

And we are told we should be grateful, that this is the best deal he could get. Like me with the mugger, by the time we all get our backs up over this it will be too late.

Of course the police never did catch that mugger. But in this case we know exactly where that mugger resides; on Pennsylvania avenue in the District of Columbia. If I knew where the man who mugged me lived I would have taken action against him. But the GOP will cravenly crawl to the man who stole our lunch money.

This is a habit with the GOP.

Saul Alinsky, the author of Rules for Radicals, the playbook for all of the modern Left, observed "the fear of a thing is worse than that thing itself" and the media and the Democrats have instilled fear of blame in the GOP. They shiver with terror at a government shutdown. Now, they have gone forward with that in the past, but always they are the first to cave based on media polling. Why, pray tell, does the GOP always get the blame from the American People? Well, yes, the media frames it so, but is it really an accurate picture? Biden was the guy who was refusing to negotiate in any real way. Interestingly enough I didn't see any polls one way or the other over this. That tells me the GOP was probably winning the p.r. battle.

Alinsky also said "if you push a negative long and hard enough it will break through and become a positive". The GOP never does that. They dip a toe in the water and finding it a bit chill run back to their mommies.

Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military philosopher, admonished generals to not go half-way "penetration (into enemy territory) but a short way leads to dispersion (of forces)." Tzu believed dipping a toe in the water was worse than useless. You go all in or don't go at all. Now McCarthy has shown weakness, that he can be maneuvered out of political fear. The GOP did what they always do - caved. They pulled out their wallets and handed over the money when Biden demanded, and are telling us we should be thankful we didn't lose our shirts along with the contents of our wallet. In politics strength is everything. The PERCETPION of strength is what matters. Now the sharks smell blood in the water.

Chuck Schumer touted this deal. And Biden was all smiles. Why? They won. They showed our side was as cowardly and foolish as John Boehner or Paul Ryan used to be. And why not? We put Ryan's bestie in charge (Ryan, Eric Cantor, and McCarthy were three amigos, the so-called Young Guns.) McCarthy is cut from the same pucillanimous cloth.

So now McCarthy has handed over the one tool he had to keep the Biden Administration honest. Biden no longer faces any debt ceiling issues. He can spend as he pleases without House oversight.

He mugged the GOP and America. And the one man we relied on to stop this robbery is thanking him for not taking more.

This is much like hiring the Hells Angels to work security at a Rolling Stone concert. The security is worse than the threat.

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