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RE :”Now Congress and President Barack Obama are sending this message to the 800,000 sidelined government employees: We don't know when the impasses will end but you will get reimbursed for lost pay once the government reopens.
With the partial shutdown entering its fifth day, the GOP-run House passed a bill Saturday that would make sure the furloughed workers get paid for not working. The White House backs the bill and the Senate was expected to OK it, too, but the timing was unclear.
The 407-0 vote in the House was uniquely bipartisan, even as lawmakers continued their partisan rhetoric.”

, Reid and Obama already agreed to this. Typical shutdown fiasco.
GOP did the same thing when they caved to Clinton in 1996, something I been reminding freepers for years, but lost in those romantic tellings of the story on talk radio.

Parks are closed but we taxpayers must pay them ANYWAY as if they were working, etc with other agencies. Hell, dont they get eight paid weeks vacation anyway? Why do they need this?

What kind of principle is this Lou Gomert (TX) ??? You keep on lecturing us on doing the right thing.ON principle. Now you vote for this.

RIGHT ON Lou , cost the taxpayers even more ....than if you did nothing.

[sickoflibs]

Lets see, Obama-care is still funded moving forward,
GS (Federal) employees now get off even more paid vacation off until the GOP caves when they have to go back to work.
(and its October too)

So what was the point?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

RIGHT ON Lou , cost the taxpayers even more ....than if you did nothing.

Maybe the GOP should make the focus the Dem lie that Obamacare will cost less etc. What's the root cause of all this?

Poor planning on the part of the GOP? Unintended consequences?

How about "I want a 30 second sound byte or one paragraph on my facebook page that says I did something about spending/obamacare."