The GOPe is making it sound like the choice was between a government shutdown or this deal. In fact, the other choice was to pass a clean CR, which would have kept the sequester intact and not increase spending.
at the minimum...or demand a 5% cut and let Obama pick the cuts...
When the government shuts down...I am 100% sure that the sun will still come up in the morning...
The more people understand that simple concept, the more of these absolute wastes of air we can get to learn a new word...
It’s called “unemployment”...
If we could manage to insert into the rules that if the government doies shutdown, either in total, or partial, like this last time, the entire delegation to D.C. needs to be fired...And a special election be held within 3 months to get folks back in there with a little more spark than the back holes we have in there now...
No matter if you like your elected official or not...
That goes for the House and the Senate...
As far as the executive branch goes...Well, that is basically a figurehead organization anyway, they are only as effective as the legislative branch (when it is actually working, within the confines of that pesky document called the Constitution) balances it out to be...
When your elected officials do not possess the simplest of virtues, the “simple” knowledge of what is right and what is wrong, you will have problems like this...
Look at it this way, I would rather have a Senate and House full of FReepers who have never worked a day in an elected office taking care of the country within those confines of that document, than what we have now...
Maybe even throw in a few reps from the Democrat Underground for comedy relief...
Got to have something funny to laugh at...