About this “hostage” business...
These are FUNDING BILLS, not people! THIS is EXACTLY what congress is SUPPOSED to do!! -Weed out the good stuff from the bad.
NOBODY on the right should allow this to be called “hostage taking”.
I agree. My point was simply that the Democrat senator’s position was irrational. He called it hostage taking and said they couldn’t free individual hostages. Well, that’s a terrible analogy. Do police really hold out for all or nothing in a hostage situation. I mean, if the police have a chance to peacefully save even a single hostage without preconditions, why wouldn’t they?
In other words, if I really cared about cancer treatments for children, why in the world wouldn’t I vote to fund them? So maybe I couldn’t get everything I wanted, but I’d save what I could, right?
The hostage taking analogy in this case actually applies much better to Democrats. They are the ones who are sending hostages back until all are freed. They keep returning hostages A, B, and C until hostage O (Obamacare) is also released. That’s irrational from a hostage taking perspective, and it implies Democrats have a different goal than simply saving individual hostages (that they claim to care about).