Stephen Colbert explains ‘septegenarian ninja turtle’ Mitch McConnell’s ‘backup’ plan

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I told you about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's "backup" plan the other day, The crazy train has left the station and we are headed for a train wreck:

Shorter version of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today: "F**k the Constitution! F**k my constitutional duty! The GOP's Gimmicks-R-Us shop has produced a new gimmick that will get us out of this box and allow us to play the blame game of 'it's all Obama's fault!' Bwaahahaha!"

Stephen Colbert wrapped up this segment on our debt ceiling kabuki theater by explaining "septegenarian ninja turtle" Mitch McConnell's "backup" plan.

Transcript h/t crooksandliars.com Colbert Report: Republicans Choose None of the Above:

brilliant strategy for putting an end to the negotiations.

COLBERT: Coincidentally, none of the above is the leading Republican presidential candidate. But McConnell… none of the above looks good. None of the above looks good to me. But, McConnell has a simple way out of this whole mess. To keep the Republicans from being blamed for raising taxes or defaulting, all they have to do is ask the President to submit a request to Congress to raise the debt ceiling. Then vote yes on a resolution disapproving of the thing they just asked the President to do.

Then Obama would veto the disapproval and since the Republicans don't have the two thirds majority to override a veto, the debt ceiling gets raised and the Republicans get to say they voted against it, twice.

Just like in the classic Jimmy Stewart movie, Mr. Smith gives up and starts shooting people. It's brilliant!

It's brilliant. The GOP gets everything they want, except everything they asked for, and Obama gets stuck with what he wanted to begin with. And McConnell has got their nuts out of that vice… by cutting their nuts off and leaving them behind for Obama to hang from his rear view mirror as an air freshener.