Posted on 10/21/2013 2:13:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So now that our government is open and able to pay its bills, what soon-to-be-forgotten lessons have we learned from this sorry fiasco?
Perhaps most important is the reminder that political temper tantrums in Washington exact a toll that goes far beyond unfavorable headlines and worse-than-dog-poo poll numbers. This decision hurt people. Some families couldn’t pay their bills. Others had nowhere safe to send their children while they worked. Poor women lost vouchers that helped buy food and formula for their newborns. Cancer treatments were put on hold for patients who didn’t have much time to waste.
All told, the shutdown and flirtation with default cost America north of $20 billion. The countries that weren’t busy mocking us were frightened by our behavior, wondering if the world’s wealthiest nation would become the world’s deadbeat nation, taking everyone else down with us in a global collapse worse than 2008.
And for what? For what purpose was this pain and humiliation inflicted upon the American people?
Yes, you, Rep. Marlin Stutzman from Indiana. Do you have an answer?
“We’re not going to be disrespected. We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
Oh.
Which brings me to the second shutdown lesson. As a country, we may never get a more revealing, disturbing look at the true source of Washington’s dysfunction than we did over the last few weeks. Together, we endured a 21-hour non-filibuster speech from White Castle enthusiast Ted Cruz that was so devoid of self-awareness I’m not even sure he knew he was giving it. We saw Sarah Palin come all the way back from the small town of Irrelevancy, Alaska, to lead the charge against an open-air memorial that was blocked by a 3-foot barricade.....
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I rather think it’s good Washington has a problem.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Blaming the TEA Party?
NO, blame the rigid POTUS who refused to negotiate if anyone thinks that the shutdown, etc has cause us any real harm.
Yeah... **** him!
Well, first they figured out that they could give themselves raises......................
Gay.
It’s like the Country song says, “I ain’t as good as I once was... but once... I’m as good as I ever was”. :-)
If one gets in over their head with credit card debt... barry says to just open more credit card accounts and spend your way out of debt. He also says that this will not add to your debt. The guy is simply... a conniving communist liar.
A twisted view from a communist F*ck.
Who is this uneducated, ignorant, pathetically ill informed squawking point parrot head, and why should I give a flying RATZ A what he thinks?
An Orwellian “barking dog” is he? Or an Orwellian “bleating sheep?”
I like squawking point parrot head better. BeeHO should throw him a cracker! (Oops, no pun intended, but just damn I’ll get hammered for racism now fo sho!)
But in the end, they are all the same. Shove a frozen pea in his left ear, violently shake his head, you will hear that pea roll for at least two days. It won’t even thaw out cause the vacuum will keep it frozen.
Lotsa fun, you should try it on a commie pig liberal near you. I swear, it really does work.
Therefore, I question his knowledge, his prejudices,and his motives. His marxist sympathizer worldview causes him to hate the good for being the good,and to have mistaken notions of what is really destructive to the country and what is not.
Steaming pile alert!
The Tea Party is destroying the dream of a one party state.
Tea Party is not the problem. It is a solution. DC operates on crisis management. Tea party operates at a solutions orientation to prevent a crisis. No wonder the Tea Party is attacked.
Of course - the Tea Party is a problem for sub-human filth like socialists.
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