So, no government shutdown. Millions of Americans will receive their tax refunds, the economy won't be crippled just as it's starting to improve, and the Cherry Blossom Festival Parade will march its original route today after all.
Normal people are relieved. But to the folks who hang out at Free Republic, our favorite online corner of teabagger rage, last night's budget agreement means that the country is doomed. And that the Republicans are traitors.
Yep, traitors. That was the word used right out of the box by Eric T., a Freeper whose moniker includes the unsettling parenthetical question, "Can we start hanging them yet?" This charming lad's profile includes the harrowing tale of his escape from the horribly Democratic state of "Khalifornistan" to the friendlier, teabaggier confines of Nashville, Tennessee.
Which means we're wondering how our Freeper friend Eric feels about Tennessee Senator Bob Corker's recent characterization of the budget battle as a waste of time over "powder puffs." (We're not sure what Senator Corker is saying here. Is he telling the teabaggers that their beliefs are insubstantial and unimportant? Or does he mean that only women — the predominant users, as far as we know, of powder puffs — benefit from environmental regulations, use Planned Parenthood, or listen to National Public Radio? If the latter, Corker could be agreeing with Majority Leader Harry Reid, who likened teabagger intransigence to "throw[ing] women under the bus.")
But back to the Freeper comments. Hours before yesterday's budget deal was done, they were already venting. Here are some of the choicer excerpts. Our glee at their anger — and at John Boehner's certain discomfiture — is tempered only by the fact that we'll have to go through this all over again in six months.
"If the GOP doesn’t have the guts for a shutdown now... they won’t have the guts for one later. If they can’t stick to their principles now, they won’t stick to them later."
"If you aren’t willing to dig in the heels over some things as tiny as this, how can you ever lead on the saving of the nation?
"Why is that it's our side that always caves and compromises?"
"They want the Tea Party to become the 'Blacks' of the Republican Party....No thanks!"
"Boehner is a Bowel Movement."
And here's our personal favorite. Watch out on the road for this guy:
"Sorry for the spelling I’m driving while typing"
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