The media making lemonade out of lemons

“…He bet $1000 a hand instead of his usual $30,000 a hand. But I knew. The trick with whales like Ichikawa was they can’t bet small for long, he didn’t think of it as win­ning $10,000 he thought of it as los­ing $90,000. So he upped his bets. Until he dropped his win­ning back and a mil­lion of his own cash. In a Casino the car­di­nal rule is to keep them play­ing, and keep them com­ing back, the longer they play, the more they lose. In the end we get it all.” Casino 1995

This story at the Wash­ing­ton Post is…interesting:

The mod­er­ate mid­dle wins the day

…really? The “Mod­er­ate Mid­dle” were anx­ious to pass actual tax increases, the mod­er­ate mid­dle didn’t want the deal that they finally voted for. The Estab­lish­ment voted for this bill (par­tic­u­larly the Democ­rats) voted for this Bill because their lead­er­ship had pushed it.

Rush made a lot of the White House Web site tout­ing the deal, but what else could they do? They cer­tainly couldn’t put up, “Vote for this deal because I got rolled and I need to be bailed out Stat!”

The mid­dle lost, the pres­i­dent lost and the media needs to turn this into a win for some­one other than the tea party. What else can they do? Admit they lost? HA!

The GOP needed 42 votes, and democ­rats en-​mass hung back until the num­ber was estab­lished and then jumped on board because they didn’t want to keep the lead­er­ship along and wanted the demo­c­ra­tic party credit for being “responsible”.

Tea Party Repub­li­cans were split, just as tea party sup­port­ers on-​line were split. I think that a vote either way was jus­ti­fi­able and I also think that if the bill didn’t pass you would have seen the 14^th amend­ment card played by Obama and the debt ceil­ing would be gone…per­ma­nently.

This was like a pair of friends at a Crap game, after 8 straight points one friend decides to get off the bus and take their win­nings. The other friend doesn’t want to stop, they are on a roll, but the first friend is the ride so they have to go. The sec­ond guy will be mad all the way home until when he gets home and find his bills paid and money to pave the dri­ve­way and replace that dryer that is held closed by a base­ball bat and a hunk of wood.

This is deal or no deal, the tea party came home with a $50,000 case. I would have liked the mil­lion but for now $50,000 will be just fine.

This was and always has been a polit­i­cal bat­tle, and we won, BIG.

And next year we will win bigger.

Update: If you won’t believe me will you believe Sarah Palin ?

“We shall take this vic­tory and make sure our politi­cians in office today are learn­ing from this vic­tory,” Ms. Palin said Mon­day night on Fox News, where she is a paid con­trib­u­tor. “It’s not a 100% pure gen­uine vic­tory. We just handed the most lib­eral pres­i­dent, I believe, in U.S. his­tory a $2.4 bil­lion debt increase.” …

The full clip is here:

what a RINO.