Mark., on 06 October 2013 - 02:51 PM, said:
Republicans did not shut down the government. They passed a bill funding ALL government spending except for Obamacare. Democrats in the senate refused to touch it so the partial shutdown started.
All those memorials have never been closed during a shutdown except by Obama who has ordered all sorts of closings not based on cost to the government, but strictly to cause anger and frustration so he and the media can inflict maximum damage by blaming only Republicans for the mess. He has the authority to choose to keep those opened but he won't. He is actually spending lots of extra money for parks workers to install barriers and have police monitor those places. What an ass.
AND, this whole continuing resolution mess would probably never happened if the Democrat controlled Senate would pass a budget as the constitution requires them to. This is year number 5 that they have refused to pass one.
While both parties share the blame IMO the Democrats have the most of it.
No way. Those guys continually sent bills to the Senate they knew had no chance of passing. That's not doing your job, that's scoring points.
The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress, signed by The President, upheld by the Supreme court, and is now going into effect.
These Tea Party guys knew the dynamics of the whole system and chose to crash it because they didn't get their way. The establishment Republicans are livid, and rightfully so, this boneheaded move puts their jobs at stake.
This is the hallmark legislation of the Democratic party. It's nearly five years in the making and is going into effect now. The Supreme Court upheld it - narrowly, but it happened. The Tea Party basically pointed guns to their heads and said "kill it."
That's not negotiation, that's terrorism. I absolutely hate the Democrats, the Republicans even more, and there's very little I like about the Affordable Care Act.
It's a shitty law, but this is not how the system works. These fucking hillbillies don't know their place, it's The South cutting off their nose to spite their face once more. This political move backfired, and outside of The South it's hurting the party. It doesn't even do anything positive for the party because those Southern Tea Party districts are so heavily gerrymandered. On top of all that, there's no way the power brokers who actually run the country will allow a default, and they know that. Obama is being a fucking dick about the whole thing, but these guys really shot themselves in the foot on this one, and now he's capitalizing on it.
This isn't a negotiation, it's a temper tantrum. Even if the Democrats did their job and passed budgets they'd still be pulling this bullshit. A political party's job is to uphold their own ideals and legislation, if they didn't do that the two parties would be even more similar than they are now. If the Republicans gave a shit, they'd be trying to repair what's broken in the law at this point, instead of destroying it. After all, the insurance mandate idea has been their baby for the past three decades.