GOP fault lines deepen as Boehner says tea party seeks ‘chaos’ in debt deal

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Kase Wickman

The longer the nation's debt crisis goes unsolved, it seems, the deeper and uglier the fault lines within the Republican Party grow.

Paul Teller, the executive director of the Republican Study Committee, a large policy group made up of House Republicans, came under fire from a group of Republicans who support House Speaker John Boehner's plan for the debt ceiling. Teller and other RSC members had circulated emails speaking against Boehner's plan Tuesday.

In a closed-door meeting Wednesday, Teller stood silently while House Republicans chanted "fire him, fire him," Politico reported.

“It was an unbelievable moment," someone at the meeting told Politico. "I’ve never seen anything like it.”

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/27/gop-fault-lines-deepen-as-boehner-says-tea-party-seeks-chaos-in-debt-deal/

[kenny blankenship]

1. This doesn't bode well.

Unless Obama can find it in himself to reverse what he said about the legality of using the 14th Amendment - or some other emergency power- it looks like the USA is going to default.

[originalpckelly]

5. That's not going to help.

Our nation might as well be a dictatorship if the Congress loses the power of the purse, and lord knows some dickhead will use that precedent once again in the future.

[C_U_L8R]

2. for a moment there

I almost felt sympathetic for the drunken orange

but then i remembered his lying-ass mean-spirited
speech the other night and was overwhelmed
with a happy glow of schadenfreude

[KansDem]

3. "Teller stood silently while House Republicans chanted 'fire him, fire him,'"

Sounds like a scene from a Monty Python movie!

[gratuitous]

4. One of Chairman Mao's sayings seems appropriate

"There is chaos under heaven, and the situation is excellent."

Who knew the Tea Baggers were Maoists?

[originalpckelly]

6. If this shit is going on, we are most assuredly fucked.

[randr]

7. It is about time the Patriotic Republicans, if there are any left,

stand up the those who would destroy our nation for their own gain.
Enough is enough!

[DefenseLawyer]

8. Chanting?

While this entire political landscape is fucked up, the idea that members of Congress are gathered in a mob CHANTING anything is just disturbing. I've been in a lot of closed door meetings and I have never had the idea to pull my contingent to one side and chant slogans. And it's a closed door meeting so they can't even say it was theatre for the Fox News camera. They are just a mob of idiots.

[housewolf]

9. Past few days I've been having the thought that this thing will end with mayhem in the streets

As tension, differences, passion, refusal to compromise and recalcitrance build, people's tolerance diminishes

[emulatorloo]

10. Recommend - CALL YOUR TEABAG REPS. And if you have a "sane" republican

Call them too.